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Who invented no-kill? (It wasn’t Nathan Winograd)

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  Many pioneers contributed to developing the methods of today The origins of no-kill dog and cat sheltering may be traced back as far as 1858,  when Elizabeth Morris and Anne Waln cofounded the first animal shelter in the U.S. on the outskirts of Philadelphia. The Morris/Waln collaboration has two surviving direct descendants,  the Women’s Humane Society and […]

Will new Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau be “Justin other bad guy” for animals?

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Stephen Harper government,  notorious for defense of Atlantic Canada seal hunt,  ousted after 10 years OTTAWA,  VANCOUVER––“The reign of the Stephen Harper government has collapsed,” exulted Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals executive director Lesley Fox on October 20,  2015,  the morning after Harper’s 10-year Conservative Party of Canada regime collapsed in the 2015 […]

Cecil-the-lion killer Walter James Palmer walks

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But photo safari guide killed by lion in destabilized population paid the ultimate price HARARE,  Zimbabwe––Zimbabwe environment minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri on October 12,  2015 announced that Minneapolis dentist Walter James Palmer,  55,  will not be charged for killing Cecil the lion during an early July 2015 trophy hunt. Cecil had been perhaps the most photographed […]

“Pit Bull Awareness” day & month mark 33 years of exponentially accelerating pit bull mayhem

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Miami,  Albuquerque,  and Charleston incidents illustrate the cost of pro-pit mendacity Pit bull advocates will on October 24, 2015 celebrate the ninth annual “Pit Bull Awareness Day,” founded in 2007 by Jody Preis of the Tennessee pit bull rescue Bless the Bullies, and subsequently expanded by many pit bull advocates into an entire “Pit Bull […]

What is the Austin Animal Center doing to dogs in the name of “play”?

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It isn’t “play” when a dog is terrorized or hurt Seasoned humane volunteer Delwin Goss  on September 28,  2015 reported witnessing “playgroup” behavioral assessment at the Austin Animal Center using methods which repeatedly subjected one dog to the threat of attack and sometimes actual attack.  This activity,  in his view and that of ANIMALS 24-7, […]

U.C. Berkeley study associates breast cancer with milk & dairy products

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Linked by bovine leukemia virus antibodies          BERKELEY,  California––A University of California at Berkeley cancer research team on September 15,  2015 released data tentatively linking the ubiquitous presence of bovine leukemia virus (BLV) among U.S. dairy and beef cattle herds to the incidence of breast cancer in women. The findings,  published in the peer-reviewed online […]

Whole Foods Market to quit selling rabbit parts

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Jumped into rabbits in 2014          CHARLOTTE,  North Carolina––Whole Foods Market’s year-long effort to sell skinned and dismembered rabbits as a “whole” food is near an ignominious end. The rabbit promotion “ultimately revealed the sales volume did not justify the continuation or expansion of the pilot to a national program,”  according to an undated and […]

Shot hits SHARK drone during Senator James Inhofe pigeon shoot

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Sheriff & state police refuse to investigate          ALTUS,  Oklahoma––An alleged participant in the 11th annual fundraising pigeon shoot hosted by U.S. Senator James Inhofe marked September 11,  2015 by shooting one of the engine covers off of an eight-engine drone helicopter operated by Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi. “Senator Inhofe was […]

McDonald’s to phase out using eggs from caged hens

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Phase-out to be completed 30 years after McDonald’s accepted statement of humane principles          OAK BROOK,  Illinois––The McDonald’s restaurant chain,  buyer of more than two billion eggs per year,  4% of total U.S. egg production,  on September 9,  2015 announced that it will phase out use of eggs from caged hens over the next 10 […]

Idaho ag-gag falls, AETA does nothing, & Will Potter’s drone allegedly flew away

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Drone expert Steve Hindi asks Potter to account for $90,000          BOISE,  CHICAGO,  WASHINGTON D.C.––Which is the greater threat to animal advocacy:  so-called ag-gag laws that seek to prevent animal advocates from videotaping routine cruelty in agribusiness,  the much decried federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act of 2006 (AETA),  or lack of transparency and accountability on […]