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Montreal carriage horse trade ends, after 354 years

January 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Calèche” industry was long intertwined with defunct harness track,  start of the Premarin industry,  horse slaughter,  and a notorious glue factory              MONTREAL, Quebec––The last vehicle-pulling horses in Montreal,  Quebec,  are to be off the streets before sunset on December 31,  2019––an hour which,  as this article is posted,  has already come and gone. “Far […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Canada, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, PMU, Racing, The Americas, Working horses Tagged With: Christiane Vadnais, Denis Coderre, Denis Murray, Luc Desparois, Merritt Clifton, Valerie Plante

Don’t know pigeons from bowling balls? Among pigeon rollers, you’ll fit right in

November 17, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Local humane society says nothing             ESSEX,  Ontario––Why has the Harrow Fair,  the official fair of Essex County,  Ontario,  elected to become internationally notorious for promoting so-called “parlor pigeons” as “the bowling balls of the avian world?” Why has the county allowed it? Why did the Windsor/Essex County Humane Society say and do nothing about it […]

Filed Under: Birds, Canada, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Pigeon flying, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Akber Khan, Bob Salinger, Charles Darwin, Jo Blum, Luke Korcok, Merritt Clifton, Ted Foreman

Lost in translation: “personhood” verdict reportedly won for elephant

October 31, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Transfer-of-goods tax ruling followed precedent for nonprofit transactions             CHAPADA DOS GUIMARÅES, Mato Grosso,  Brazil––The retired Asian elephant Ramba,  52,  arrived late on October 18,  2019 at the Santuário de Elefantes do Brasil,  or Elephant Sanctuary Brazil,  after a 73-hour journey from Chile.   The transaction was completed after the elephant […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Circuses, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Sanctuaries, South America, Spectacles, The Americas, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Carol Buckley, Jaqueline B. Ramos, Judge Elena Liberatori, Judge Leonísio Salles de Abreu Jr., Kat Blais, Scott Blais

Why did chuckwagon racer Devin Matsuing dare a grizzly bear to fight?

September 16, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

The grizzly bear had better sense             BANFF, Alberta––Convicted on September 13,  2019 of disturbing a grizzly bear more than four years earlier,  professional chuckwagon racing driver Devin Mitsuing,  35,  was on September 13,  2019 fined $4,000 by Canmore Provincial Court Judge George Gaschler. Mitsuing was given until October 16,  2019 to pay the fine […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Canada, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, The Americas Tagged With: Devin Mitsuing, George Gaschler, Jenna Dulewich, Marritt Clifton, Ray Mitsuing, Thomas Murray O'Neill

Concern for rare birds of the Bahamas rises after Hurricane Dorian

September 6, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Little chance yet to assess the losses––but the Abaco parrot almost certainly survived              CAPE FEAR, North Carolina––Hurricane Dorian,  downgraded to Category 2,  with peak gust speed dropping by half to a still dangerous 110 miles per hour,  killed five people as it pushed north past the Carolinas,  but as of midnight on September 5,  […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Birds, Caribbean, Conservation, Disasters, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Sanctuaries, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Shirley McGreal, Stephen Pruett-Jones

Hurricane Dorian helps to solve the mystery of the extinct Abaco wild horses

September 5, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

But Dorian destroys remnants of a 50-year effort to save the herd             TREASURE CAY, Little Abaco,  Bahamas––“This is like listening to a cosmic version of Ravel’s Bolero.  Feeling nervous about when the brass kicks in,”  wrote would-be wild horse savior and local dog rescuer Milanne “Mimi” Rehor,  in her last posting to Facebook before […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Caribbean, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, The Americas, USA, Wild horses, Working horses Tagged With: Edison Key, Merritt Clifton, Milanne "Mimi" Rehor, Robert Smalls, Sharon Cregier, Stacey McKenna

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

August 7, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Uncovering the nasty origins of an ugly event             OMAK, Washington––The 86th annual edition of the bizarre and often deadly “World Famous Suicide Race” held annually in Omak,  Washington,  is to be held nightly,  August 8-11,  2019. Bizarre as the race itself is,  even more bizarre––and perplexing––is that the 12 Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation […]

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

Three more chuckwagon horses killed as Calgary Stampede 2019 ends

July 15, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Six horses killed in 10 days; most since 1986              CALGARY,  Alberta––The 2019 Calgary Stampede ended on the night of July 14,  2019 with reportedly the second-highest attendance in the history of the event,  and three more horses killed in the climactic last heat of the Rangeland Derby,  the chuckwagon races that for almost a […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Canada, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Rodeo, Spectacles, The Americas Tagged With: Bill McEwen, Chad Harden, Danny Ringuette, Emma McIntosh, Eugene Jackson, Evan Salmond, Guy Weadick, Lew Wallace, Merritt Clifton, Troy Dorchester

Finches found in hair curlers: trafficked to sing, or to fight?

June 29, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Singing said to be behind smuggling busts,  but the money may be in fights among caged finches NEW YORK, N.Y.––Circumstantial evidence hints that some or perhaps all of a parade of men caught in the act of allegedly bootlegging Guyanese seed finches into the U.S.,  purportedly to sell for use in high-stakes singing contests,  might […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Birds, Birds, Caribbean, Central Asia, China, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Indonesia, Other animal fighting, South America, Southeast Asia, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Francis Gurahoo, Gabriel Harper, Jurames Goulart, Merritt Clifton, Natalie Musumeci, Nonato Raimundo, Sebastian Andrade

Wild Kingdom star Jim Fowler, 89: the truth behind the legend

May 30, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Florida roadside zoo showman starred on TV for 50 years  NORWALK,  Connecticut––Few viewers of the NBC nature documentary television series Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom during the original run of the program,  1963-1971,  might have expected that host Jim Fowler would die quietly at home at age 89––but he did,  on May 8,  2019,  in […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Birds, Central America, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Other entertainment topics, Screen industry, The Americas, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: John Hamlet, Johnny Carson, Marlin Perkins, Mary Louise Grossman, Merritt Clifton, Shelly Grossman

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