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Four black leaders who built the humane movement

January 16, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

More people recognized William Key,  John W. Lemon,  Richard Carroll,  & F. Rivers Barnwell in their own time than would have recognized ASPCA founder Henry Bergh              INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana––“I am the only colored speaker on the program,  and in fact I have not seen a single colored visitor to it,”  wrote the Reverend Richard Carroll […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Show, USA, Working horses Tagged With: Beautiful Jim, Frederick Rivers Barnwell, Janet M. Davis, John W. Lemon, Merritt Clifton, Richard Carroll, William Key

Trump signs anti-race horse doping bill & $60 million gift to horse industry

December 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Tax break for Paycheck Protection Program loan/grant recipients appears to have been the dangling carrot that brought horse racing industry support for omnibus funding bill             WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. President Donald Trump on December 27,  2020 “signed H.R. 133,  an Act making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021,  providing coronavirus emergency response […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Racing, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Bill Shanklin, Clant Seay, Joseph D. Tydings, Keith Dane, Lamar Alexander, Merritt Clifton, Wayne Pacelle

Will anti-show horse soring bill pull up lame through last-hurdle compromise?

December 8, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

What would Marty Irby,  Wayne Pacelle & Lamar Alexander think if weighted shoes were on their feet? UPDATE received on December 18,  2020,  from Bernard Unti,  senior policy advisor,  Humane Society of the U.S.:   “I’m pleased to share the news that the reckless attempt by an embittered faction within animal protection to swap in a […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Behavior, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Billy Goboy, Clant Seay, Joseph Tydings, Keith Dane, Lamar Alexander, Marty Irby, Merritt Clifton, Roy Exum, Wayne Pacelle

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

Santa Anita deaths just a fraction of the toll in horse racing

October 31, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Breeding & slaughter drive the industry             SANTA ANITA,  California;  SYDNEY, Australia––A year-long nightmare string of fatal racehorse breakdowns continued at Santa Anita Park through October 2019 with the deaths of horses named Emtech,  Colonel,  Satchel Paige,  and C Q Covergirl,  the 35th fatality on the Santa Anita dirt,  turf,  and training tracks since December […]

Filed Under: Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Show, Slaughter, Sports Tagged With: Ariella Hayek, Caro Meldom-Hanna, Josh Peter, Merritt Clifton, Paul McGreevy, Unwanted Horse Coalition, wastage

Last acts for animal circuses in Russia, India, New Jersey, & Hawaii

January 2, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Russian law protects Moscow State Circus monopoly             MOSCOW,  NEW DELHI––New legislation in Russia,  whose circuses have for almost a century been the most attended worldwide,  and in India,  where the circus tradition started,  appear to be among the final acts in several thousand years of traveling exhibitions of performing animals. The new Russian “Law […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Circuses, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Elephants, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Mexico, Organizations, Russia, Show, South America, Spectacles, The Americas, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Jacob Croninshield, Merritt Clifton, Thomas Chipperfield, Varda Mehotra, Vladimir Putin

Wayne Pacelle & Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom celebrate returns from extinction

July 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Sagas of alleged giant predators turned animal rights stars             WASHINGTON D.C.––Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,  a saga of supposedly vanished giant predators,  reinvented as animal rights celebrities,  debuted to bad reviews on June 22,  2018,  yet proved to be a box office magnet,  grossing $1.2 billion in its first month. Animal Wellness Action,  a political action […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Anna West, Annie Harvilicz, David Harvilicz, Josh Balk, Kitty Block, Marc Gunther, Marty Irby, Merritt Clifton, Mike Markarian, Paul Shapiro, Wayne Pacelle

Driving at demonstrators costs “Big Lick” champ’s insurers $50,000

May 27, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Billygoboy wins again             TUNICA,  Mississippi––Having organized boycotts that have shut down “Big Lick” walking horse shows in at least 13 southern cities,  semi-retired attorney Clant Seay,  71,  better known as Billygoboy,  is now celebrating a victory of a different sort. This time Seay has collected $50,000 on behalf of four clients, plus himself,  in […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Show, USA Tagged With: Caitlin Glidden, Cathy Bickerstaff, Clant Seay, Frederick K. Campbell, Mario Chiozza, Merritt Clifton, Richard Mitch, Robert M. Boyd, Robert Olsen, Sandra Culbertson, Steve Hindi

Big win over the “big lick” walking horse industry in 2018 federal budget

March 30, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

“Big lickers” kicked,  but Congress kicked back             WASHINGTON D.C.––Winning increasingly often against initially steep odds,  BillyGoBoy and friends opposed to soring horses to make them step higher appear likely to enjoy the last horse laugh over the walking horse show industry. Walking horse shows have been infamously dominated for decades by trainers who––defying the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Behavior, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: BillyGoBoy, Clant Seay, Donald Trump, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton

Leaving The Wild:  The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Cows & Horses

December 5, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

by Gavin Ehringer Pegasus Books,  distributed by W.W. Norton & Co. 364 pages.  $27.95 hardcover.  In stores December 5,  2017. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Remember the most gripping and informative few books you ever read about dogs,  cats,  cows,  and/or horses,  by authors as thorough as the multi-time best sellers Desmond Morris,  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Book & film reviews, Breeding, Cats, Cattle & dairy, Central Asia, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Population control, Population control, Shelters, Show, Training, USA, Uses of dogs, Wild horses, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts, Working horses Tagged With: Charles Darwin, Desmond Morris, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Gavin Ehringer, Herodotus, Merritt Clifton, Sonia Faruqi, Stanley Coren, Walt Disney

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