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Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

July 20, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Edited with Introduction,  Afterword,  & Notes by Shelley Fisher Fishkin University of California Press https://www.ucpress.edu/ 325 pages,  hardcover.  $27.50. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Wrote Ed Duvin,  whose 1989 Animalines newsletter essay “In The Name of Mercy” prophesying  “no kill” animal sheltering is widely considered a classic of humane literature,  to ANIMALS 24-7 a few days […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Donkeys, Egypt, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Morocco, North Africa, Religion & philosophy, Street dogs Tagged With: Charles Dickens, Chuck Jones, Ed Duvin, Henry Bergh, Mark Twain, Merritt Clifton, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Walt Disney

Rare Aussie animals save themselves, no thanks to Compound 1080

July 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Brush-tailed rock wallabies & long-nosed potoroos need habitat,  poison drops CANBERRA,  ADELAIDE,  MELBOURNE,  Australia––Investigators are finding,  in the wake of bushfires that ravaged protected habitat right around the forested coastal perimeter of Australia,  that many rare Australian animals apparently know how to save themselves,  with or without human help. More than a billion animals are […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Habitat, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Land turtles, Reptiles, Turtles, Wild horses, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Brooke Jarvis, Dana Mitchell, Emma Siossan, Jill Pickering, Jim Flannagan, Konrad Marshall, Merritt Clifton, Mhairi Roberts, Miki Perkins, Sarah Marshall, Susan Fowler

Girl, 11, & father killed over a bull mastiff? Race horses involved too?

July 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Former thoroughbred owner shot son & granddaughter of renowned jockey & racing judge PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida—Why did Ronald John Delserro,  82,  on July 6,  2020 fatally shoot two of his longtime Port St. Lucie neighbors,  11-year-old Harper Hansman and her father Guy Alexander Hansman,  55? Was Delserro’s grievance only because the Hansman family brought […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing Tagged With: Guy Hansman, Harper Hansman, Larry Hansman, Merritt Clifton, Mike Burgwin, Monique Hansman, Ronald Delserro, Will Greenlee

Horse racing fails to win, place, or show in Georgia, despite HSUS support

July 5, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Why is the Humane Society of the U.S. helping horse racing to expand into new territory? ATLANTA, Georgia––Again the perennial horse racing industry attempt to legalize pari-mutuel betting and introduce thoroughbred racing to Georgia failed during the 2020 state legislative session,  closed on July 3. Opposition to legalizing pari-mutuel betting came chiefly from religious groups […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Racing, USA Tagged With: Kitty Block, Natalie Voss, Patrick Battuello, Rick Bernthal, Valerie Pringle, Wayne Pacelle

“Animals & thugs”: horses, dogs, police & the George Floyd protests

June 11, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Horses & dogs used and misused by both cops & demonstrators              NEW YORK, N.Y.–– “Stop treating us like animals and thugs,  and start treating us with some respect!” fumed New York Police Benevolent Association president Mike O’Meara to a June 9,  2020 media conference. That was all O’Meara had to say about animals. The passing mention,  however,  raised […]

Filed Under: Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Police & military, United Kingdom, Uses of dogs, Working horses Tagged With: Abené Clayton, Art Acevedo, Brianna Noble, Daniel Bornstein, Derek Chauvin, Emily Somers, George Floyd, Joseph Malott, Mike O’Meara, Sarah Emrick, Sydney Trent, Tom Symonds, Tyler D. Parry

Why Europe will not eat U.S. & Australian wild horses

May 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Dutch & Danish seizures of illegally trafficked German horse meat do not mean revived demand             WASHINGTON D.C.,  BRUSSELS––Yes,  the Bureau of Land Management under Donald Trump appointee William Perry Pendley is desperately eager to dispose of as many as 45,000 wild horses in holding pens,  plus about 68,000 of the estimated 95,000 wild horses […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Germany, Global, Hooved stock, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Live transport, Meat issues, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Scandinavia, Slaughter, Slaughter, United Kingdom, Wild horses Tagged With: Jan Fasen, Manuel Coto, Merritt Clifton, Toby Sterling, William Perry Pendley, Willy Selten

The price of defiance: COVID-19 vs. the Cottondale Mother’s Day Rodeo

May 13, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Whoever that masked man was, he was not in the rodeo arena             COTTONWOOD,  California––There are sound epidemiological arguments against outdoor mask-wearing to fight the spread of COVID-19,  and in favor of getting more people out into the spring sunshine,  but those arguments were not much in evidence at the 58th annual Mother’s Day Rodeo […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Entertainment, Feature Home Top, Hooved stock, Horses, Laws & politics, Opinions & Letters, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA, Working horses Tagged With: Alayna Shulman, Doni Chamberlain, Eric Magrini, Gavin Newsom, Karen Ramstrom, Merritt Clifton, Stu Chaifetz

Gabriel Wortman & Tara Reade: what would animals testify?

May 6, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Animals might have had quite a bit to say about both rampage killer & alleged character assassin––if they could talk PORTAPIQUE, Nova Scotia;  FRANKFORT, Kentucky;  SANTA CRUZ, California––Denturist and hunter Gabriel Wortman,  51,  of Portapique,  Nova Scotia,  on April 18 and 19,  2020 shot 13 people to death with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle,  including a […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Alexandra McCabe, Delmar Partin, Gabriel Wortman, Lynn Hammer, Merritt Clifton, Seth Ator, Tara McCabe

Pit bull or hunting hounds? Who killed Elisa Pilarski & unborn child Enzo?

April 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

DNA data may decide which dog did the killing,  but maybe not who was at fault SOISSONS,  France––Pack hunters and pit bull enthusiasts are pitted against each other in a melodrama gripping French media since November 16,  2019,  when someone’s dog or dogs killed Elisa Pilarski,  29,  six months pregnant. Anxiously awaited DNA test results […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Central Europe, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mediterranean, Show, Training Tagged With: Antoine Gallon, Brigitte Bardot, Christophe Ellul, Elisa Pilarski, Frédéric Trinh, Merritt Clifton

“Whoa!” shouts Chicago to horse-drawn carriages

April 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Last ten horse-drawn carriage licenses will not be renewed             CHICAGO––150 years of horse-drawn carriages plying downtown Chicago––interrupted by a 17-year suspension,  1962-1979––are to end by January 1,  2021,  the Chicago City Council resolved on April 24,  2020. The 46-4 vote ratified a March 2020 decision by the Chicago Committee on License & Consumer Protection […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, USA, Welfare, Working horses Tagged With: Abdel Jimenez, Fran Spielberg, Gerald Weisberg, Jodie Wiederkehr, Merritt Clifton, Richard Daley, Richard M. Daley

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