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Advocate for shooting seals turns to pushing hunt for Sasquatch

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But seals are still getting shot GREENBANK, Washington––The hunt for whoever is shooting harbor seals,  apparently from a boat,  along the west side of Whidbey Island,  Washington,  intertwines with the hunt for the mythical Sasquatch,  but no,  Sasquatch is not shooting seals,  nor is Sasquatch in any danger of being shot. Yet another young female […]

Who shot pregnant harbor seals? Thomas Sewid encouraged it.

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Seal hater even buys ammo for seal killers             DINES POINT, Washington––Who apparently cruised along the east shore of Whidbey Island,  Washington,  shotgunning pregnant harbor seals on or about January 24,  2023 is as yet officially unknown. ANIMALS 24-7 spent much of January 26,  2023 examining the bloated,  eagle-pecked remains of harbor seal victims,  and […]

Caribbean tax shelter wants to kill 450 tiny vervet monkeys––why?

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Technically not a banana republic,  Sint Maarten acts like one PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten––Suddenly globally infamous for a scheme to exterminate an estimated 450 feral vervet monkeys,  who have colonized the 16-square-mile Caribbean island nation for nearly 400 years,  the former Dutch colony of Sint Maarten might be considered a banana republic. Sint Maarten does have […]

Did a deer hunter murder Goldie Smith? By accident, or was it a hit?

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Killed by arrow in deer hunting stronghold,  but in mid-town STEELTON,  Pennsylvania––Imagine an avid archery deer hunter,  a poacher actually,  who spots a big buck in rut just before dawn on Chambers Hill,  overlooking Steelton,  Pennsylvania. Leaving his pickup truck,  the archer follows the buck down into town through several cemeteries and/or the Dauphin Highlands […]

Dogs killed 62 Americans & three Canadians in 2022; pit bulls killed 41

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Deaths due to dog eclipse previous records.  Deaths by pit bull might;  it’s all in how you count them. Dogs caused the deaths of a record 62 Americans and three Canadians in 2022,  the fortieth consecutive year that ANIMALS 24-7 has logged fatal and disfiguring dog attacks occurring throughout the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. […]

International animal advocacy influencer Brian Davies dies at 87

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Founded IFAW to fight the Atlantic Canada seal hunt             CAPE COD,  Massachusetts––Brian Davies,  87,  founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare,  Network for Animals,  the Political Animal Lobby,  and Animal Survival International,  died after a prolonged illness on December 27,  2022. Born on February 4,  1935 in Tonyrefail,  Wales,  an impoverished mining village,  […]

Shooting cats to save lizards, or to please billionaire birders?

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The Cayman Islands may have more billionaires’ mansions than rock iguanas,  but cats are not to blame             GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands––If free-roaming cats were really a significant threat to iguanas––of any subspecies––one might expect most of Florida to be devoid of iguanas. Florida,  after all,  has reputedly the most optimal habitat for feral cats […]

Sea pen fish farming ordered to cease along entire U.S. west coast

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Washington forced shutdown follows bans in California,  Oregon,  & Alaska OLYMPIA,  Washington––Sea pen fish farming––if Cooke Aquaculture complies with a November 18,  2022 order from Washington state public lands commissioner Hilary Franz––is within two weeks of abolition along the entire west coast of the United States. The Franz order,  unfortunately,  may not be a win […]

Georgia pit bull owner hit with rare criminal charges in mother’s death

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Fewer than 15% of fatal dog attacks bring prosecutions of dog owners LaGRANGE, Georgia––Rosetta Marian Russell Gesselman, 81,  of La Grange,  Georgia,  on October 7,  2022 became the 56th dog attack fatality of the year in the U.S. and Canada. Forty-three of the 56 dog attack victims thus far in 2022 were not the actual […]