Myth that “We can save them all” without contracepting problematic populations both dumps dead dogs in ditches & feeds wild horses to the meat trade FORTUNA, California; POTEAU, Oklahoma & WAUSEON, Ohio––One might observe that the Miranda’s Rescue saga playing since April 2026 in northern California and the Bureau of Land Management equines-sold-to-slaughter horse opera […]
“Where’s the beef?” California wolves ask. “It’s what’s for dinner.”
California wolves eat seven times more cattle than wolves in other states DAVIS, California––Are recently self-reintroduced wolves in California targeting cattle due to a scarcity of their natural wild prey, or just as easy prey? Wolves on their way into California, raising their first surviving litter in 2016, followed mule deer and elk herds through […]
Risk of horse slaughter resuming in U.S. offsets Bouvry closure in Alberta
Canadian horse slaughterhouse may have closed in anticipation of U.S. competition FORT MacLEOD, Alberta; WASHINGTON D.C.––Animal advocates celebrating the recent closure of the Bouvry Exports horse slaughterhouse in Fort MacLeod, Alberta, once the biggest in Canada, may be celebrating prematurely. The real reason for the Bouvry Exports slaughterhouse closing may be anticipation that horse slaughter […]
Wild Burro Rescue cofounder Gene Chontos dead at age 87
Chontos spent his last 24 years as a quasi-hermit TOLEDO, Washington––Gene Lee Chontos, 87, cofounder of Wild Burro Rescue and a former board member of several associations of animal sanctuaries, died on September 25, 2025, but ANIMALS 24-7 only learned of his passing on January 20, 2026. “I was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on December […]
Did the Omak Suicide Race start with a horse massacre & the KKK?
Uncovering the nasty origins of an ugly event OMAK, Washington––The 91st edition of the bizarre and often deadly “World Famous Suicide Race” held annually in Omak, Washington, is to conclude on August 10, 2025, as the final event of the annual Omak Stampede Rodeo. Checking to see how many horses died at Omak this […]
Don Molde, 87, long led the fight for pumas, bears, & bobcats in Nevada
“Public attitudes are trending in the right direction,” Molde said. “Just way too slow for my comfort.” RENO, Nevada––“It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of long-time Project Coyote supporter, dear friend, and fierce wild carnivore defender, Donald (Don) Molde,” Project Coyote founder Camilla Fox announced on July 24, 2025. Molde, […]
Can more deer, goats, cows, elk, or wild horses really prevent wildfires?
Did the Grand Canyon Lodge burn because the Grand Canyon lacked hungry herbivores? GRAND CANYON, Arizona––A well-placed and well-timed bucket of water or the sudden, unexpected arrival of Smokey Bear can stop a wildfire before it gets started. Likely neither a bucket of water nor a bear, with or without hat and shovel, directed at […]
BLM to oust wild horses forever from “checkerboard” part of Wyoming
Bureau of Land Management moves to boot wild horses from public land to keep them from straying into private property ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming—The Bureau of Land Management [BLM] on March 31, 2025 opened a 30-day public comment period on a plan to permanently remove wild horses from “newly converted herd areas of the former Great […]
First round KO: great Trump administration veggie hope Ramaswamy
Ramaswamy offered the chance, albeit slim, of cuts in subsidies for animal agribusiness and animal-based biomedical research & testing WASHINGTON D.C.––Vivek Ramaswamy, the “Great Veggie Hope” of animal advocates in the second Donald Trump presidential administration, suffered a first-round knockout from the administration on Trump’s first day in office. Resigning as co-chair with fellow billionaire […]
Wild horses: reintroduced in Kazakhstan, shot Down Under, gathered here
A horse is a horse is a horse of course, except in public policy PRAGUE, SYDNEY, WASHINGTON D.C.––Conservationists on June 7, 2024 paradoxically cheered the simultaneous reintroduction of wild horses to Kazakhstan and Mongolia, and the ongoing massacre of 8,000 wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales, Australia, with another 5,000 slated to […]