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COVID-19 skins fur trade: Ireland bans fur farming; Finland vaccinates mink

October 27, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Ireland becomes 15th European Union nation to ban or phase out the mink industry             DUBLIN, HELSINKI––Responding to continuing discoveries of the COVID-19 coronavirus in factory-farmed mink,  the government of the Republic of Ireland has elected to ban fur faming. The Finnish Food Authority,  by contrast,  is experimentally vaccinating farmed mink in hopes fur demand […]

Filed Under: Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Scandinavia Tagged With: Charlie McConalogue, John Carmody, Merritt Clifton

Second Finn dog study conflates defensive behavior with aggression

May 5, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

But the Finn study does not discount the influence of genetics on aggression             HELSINKI, Finland––The same Finn researchers who in March 2020 published a study strongly affirming the importance of breeding in dog behavior have in May 2020 published a second analysis of the same data which––at a glance––argues just the opposite. The second […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Scandinavia, Training Tagged With: César Araujo, Emma Hakanen, Hannes Lohi, Jenni Puurunen, Katriina Tiira, Merritt Clifton, Milla Salonen, Salla Mikkola, Sini Sulkama

Mink ranching survives in Denmark despite risky COVID-19 mutation

November 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Danish mink industry was to be liquidated from fear that COVID-19 mutation could neutralize vaccines in development             COPENHAGEN, Denmark––The Danish mink industry,  on the verge of liquidation as of November 4,  2020 to control a COVID-19 coronavirus mutation,  appears to have politically mobilized to win a reprieve––for the mink ranchers,  however,  not the mink […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Sweden, Wildlife, World Tagged With: Allan Randrup Thomsen, Arnon Shimshony, Francois Balloux, Kare Molbak, Karl Stahl, Merritt Clifton, Mette Frederiksen

Iconic animal use events fall to COVID-19: “Running of the bulls” is latest

April 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Social distancing” also shuts down SeaWorld, seal hunt, fur auctions, Kentucky Derby,  & the carriage horses in Central Park             PAMPLONA,  Spain ––The 700-year-old Festival of San Fermin, featuring bullfights and the “running of the bulls” through the cobbled streets of the oldest part of Pamplona, Spain, was on April 21, 2020 indefinitely postponed due […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal racing, Bullfighting, Bullfighting, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur trapping, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Marine mammals, Mediterranean, Racing, Scandinavia, Spain, Spectacles, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Working horses Tagged With: Ana Elizalde, Ernest Hemingway, Kentucky Derby, Kopenhagen Fur, Merritt Clifton, Saga Furs

Dog study let pit bull owners lie & still found behavior is breed-specific

March 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Finn study is third in six months to refute the saw that “It’s all in how you raise them.” HELSINKI, Finland––For the third time in six months a major new study of the heritability of dog behavior,  published by a leading peer-reviewed scientific journal,  has refuted the shibboleth of pit bull advocacy that “It’s all […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Bridgett M. von Holdt, César Araujo, Emma Hakanen, Erin Hecht, Evan L. MacLean, Hannes Lohi, James A. Serpell, Jenni Puurunen, Katriina Tiira, Merritt Clifton, Milla Salonen, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Salla Mikkola, Sini Sulkama

Why U.S. furriers don’t advertise much any more

December 30, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Mink coat ads vanish from newsprint  SACRAMENTO,  California––A furrier somewhere in the U.S. may yet buy a page of advertising,  in what little remains of 2019,  in one of the thousands of newspapers that are electronically searchable at www.NewspaperArchive.com. As of December 29,  2019,  however,  the year appeared to be ending without a single NewspaperArchive […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Austria, Belgium, Central Europe, China, Cultural, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Fur trapping, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Ireland, Isles, Netherlands, Norway, Scandinavia, Scotland, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: Douglas Lawson, Gavin Newsom, Karl Lagerfeld, Merritt Clifton, Queen Elizabeth II, Richard Carroll

Drove out the snakes? What did St. Patrick do with the Irish wolves?

March 16, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

He made friends with them!             DUBLIN, TEL AVIV,  ROME––As of St. Patrick’s Day 2019,  there are still no wild snakes in Ireland,  more than 1,660 years after the patron saint of Ireland allegedly drove them all out. Paleontologists say there were never any wild snakes in Ireland in the first place. But there were […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Central Europe, Christianity, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, France, Germany, Habitat, Hunting, Ireland, Isles, Italy, Laws, Mediterranean, Norway, Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, Switzerland, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Brendan the Navigator, Kieran Hickey, Merritt Clifton, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Patrick, Veriticus, Zafir Rinat

A few words about fur from Finland

December 20, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Hi! I notice you do not have any news from Finland. Here is some: the Finn politician Jörn Donner arrived at a party with his wife Bitte Westerlund, whose red dress was made of sealskin. He said, “This is a political statement. It is for the fishermen, because seals eat fish. I think men must […]

Filed Under: Europe, Finland, Letters, Opinions & Letters, Scandinavia Tagged With: Elise Kissa-Oberg, John Donner

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