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Rodeo “wild cow milking”: living legacy of rich alleged child molester

March 21, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

One-time rodeo promoter Dr. Dan C. Trigg was not a man anyone wanted for a neighbor             CASTRO VALLEY, California;  TUCUMCARI, New Mexico––The Rowell Ranch Rodeo in Castro Valley,  California,  scheduled for May 20-22 ,  2022,  is “likely planning again to feature the brutal,  sometimes fatal,  and blatantly sexist ‘wild cow milking contest,’”  Action for […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Rodeo, Spectacles, Wild horses Tagged With: Dan C. Trigg, Donald Lee Mason, Dr. Ross Trigg, Eloise McFarland Trigg, Faye Mason Arries, Merritt Clifton, Rancho La Bamba, Steve L. Trigg, Steve T. Trigg, Tucumcari

Did the Omak Suicide Race start with a horse massacre & the KKK?

August 10, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Uncovering the nasty origins of an ugly event             OMAK, Washington––The 87th edition of the bizarre and often deadly “World Famous Suicide Race” held annually in Omak,  Washington,  is to be held nightly,  August 12-15,  2021,  after a year’s hiatus due to COVID-19 social distancing requirements. Bizarre as the race itself is,  even more bizarre––and […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Canada, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Native American beliefs, Racing, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sports, The Americas, USA, Welfare, Wild horses Tagged With: Alex Dick, Allison Williams, Claire Pentz, Karen West, Larry Lansburgh, Lillian A. Ackerman, Merritt Clifton, Nick Timiraos, Roger Harnack, Warren Cox, Will Anderson

Why are some Fort Polk horse rescuers celebrating the births of surplus foals?

February 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Another Fort Polk “rescuer” faces charges in Florida horse deaths             FORT POLK,  Louisiana––Why are some wild horse rescuers in Louisiana celebrating the births of multiple foals who have nowhere to go except from sanctuary to sanctuary,  if they are lucky? Why were alleged dealers in horses for slaughter Crystal LeBron,  Gary Thompson,  Jacob Thompson,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Sanctuaries, Slaughter, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife Tagged With: Amy Hanchey, Crystal LeBron, Jacob Thompson, Merritt Clifton, Panhandle Animal Welfare Society, Shandi Lebron, Shandy LeBron, Todd Ahlman

Ice age rock art find exposes nearly 200 years of horse manure

December 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

The discovery does not improve  the case for horses having survived the Ice Ages in the Americas CHIRIBIQUETTE NATIONAL PARK, Colombia––Images of ice age horses,  among thousands of other animals painted along an eight-mile mural of rock art recently found in southern Colombia,  have revived hopes among wild horse advocates––and Mormon literalists––that horses somehow remained […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Beliefs, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mexico, Native American beliefs, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, The Americas, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife

Judge boots wild horse foe William Perry Pendley from top office at BLM

September 27, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Federal judge finds Pendley illegally headed the BLM for nearly half of his tenure HELENA, Montana––Wild horse nemesis William Perry Pendley was on September 25,  2020 removed from his position as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management by Chief District Judge Brian Morris of the U.S. District of Montana. Morris ruled that Pendley has served […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Habitat, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife Tagged With: Andy Rose, Conner Swanson, David Bernhardt, Judge Brian MOrris, Kyle Feldscher, Matthew Brown, Merritt Clifton

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

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

Fire & ice puts Australian koalas and Icelandic horses at urgent risk

December 22, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1982 recommended “50/50 fire and ice” as the best response to a crisis.  That isn’t working for either Icelandic horses or koalas.              REYKJAVIK, Iceland;  SYDNEY, Australia––Eco-disasters afflicting Icelandic horses and Australian koalas starkly illustrate extreme and contrasting effects of global warming as 2019 comes to an end. Hundreds of Icelandic […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Iceland, Scandinavia, Slaughter, Wild horses, Wildlife, Working horses Tagged With: Ingunn Reynisdótttir, Magnús Ásgeir Elíasson, Merritt Clifton, Ragnar Tómas, Sigríður Björnsdóttir

Wild horse problem needs 15 years, $5 billion, says acting BLM chief

October 22, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“I’m not going to speculate on what Congress is going to do about money,”  Pendley adds.             FORT COLLINS,   Colorado;  CALGARY,  Alberta––Returning the U.S. wild horse population to the officially estimated sustainable level of about 27,000,  without mass roundups for  slaughter,  will take 15 years and $5 billion of investment,  acting Bureau of Land Management […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, USA, Wild horses Tagged With: Anthony Marr, Astrid Kodric-Brown, Erick Lundgren, Erik Molvar, Merritt Clifton, Monty Irby, Priscilla Feral, Scott Sonner, Wayne Pacelle, William Perry Pendley

Obits: defenders of cats, dogs, wild horses, bees, crabs, & elephants

October 22, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Elaine Adair, Dayton Hyde, Susan Rudnicki,  Alana Cutland,  & Matthew Talbot had in common service to animals Elaine Adair Elaine Adair,  cofounder of the Mississippi Spay & Neuter Alliance (MS-SPAN),  born Elaine Girton on October 15, 1950 in Bloomsburg,  Pennsylvania,   died after a long struggle against cancer on October 14, 2019,  one day before what would […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Bees, Book & film reviews, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Isles, Madagascar, Malawi, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife Tagged With: Alana Cutland, Dayton Hyde, Elaine Adair, Gerda Hyde, Matthew Talbot, Merritt Clifton, Susan Rudnicki

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