Screwworm quarantines threaten adoption transport approach to achieving Best Friends’ “90% live release rate” threshold for “no kill” status AUSTIN, Texas––From agribusiness pundits to zoonotic disease researchers, online commentators were mystified on June 18, 2026 to see Best Friends Animal Society senior director of national programs Brent Toellner lined up to testify to the Texas […]
Feds bust Louisiana cop for allegedly retaliating against cockfighting witness
Cop apparently tried to forge documents to get witness deported as alleged illegal alien GULFPORT, Mississippi––Confirmation of probable collusion between cockfighters and elements of law enforcement surfaced in Gulfport, Mississippi on June 1, 2026, days after major cockfighting busts in Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. U.S. Federal Court magistrate judge Bradley Rath denied bond for Hammond, […]
Ex-West Coast Game Park Safari operator Brian Tenney cops a plea
Sloths meet the seven deadly sins of roadside zoo proprietors BANDON, Oregon; ORLANDO, Florida––The now defunct West Coast Game Park Safari operated for 56 years just outside Bandon, Oregon. Sloth World, on International Drive in Orlando, between University Studios and SeaWorld Orlando, has yet to open. Both, though, exemplify why privately owned and operated […]
All the news, good & bad, about vaquitas, jaguars, & hippos, oh my!
Vaquita porpoises & a clouded jaguar seen alive, but Colombian environment minister wants to see feral hippos dead SAN FELIPE, Mexico; TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras; BOGOTA, Colombia––Recently reported good news about vaquita porpoises and jaguars, among the most endangered species in Latin America, was offset by the April 1, 2026 announcement by Colombian environment minister Irene Vélez […]
What if your cat could kill 10 billion insects?
Allegation that cats are an existential threat to bugs is multi-magnitudes even more exaggerated than allegations of cats’ threat to birds SÅO PAULO, Brazil––Somehow a Brazilian undergraduate paper purportedly portraying domestic cats as an existential threat to insect life managed to buzz around the world and the web for six months before coming to […]
Are 2,853 heifers stranded at sea off Turkey victims of the Gaza/Israel war?
Or are the heifers just more casualties of business as usual in the livestock shipping racket? UPDATE: According to VesselFinder.com, the Spiridon II left port at Bandırma soon after the international news network SkyNews aired a report about it, approximately 16 hours after the following ANIMALS 24-7 coverage was posted. Reports VesselFinder.com, Spiridon II “is […]
Colombian top court upholds bans on bullfights, cockfights & steer-tailing
Judges extend premise of 2024 bullfighting ban to all forms of making animals fight for human entertainment BOGOTA, Colombia––Bullfighting, cockfighting, steer-tailing, and related activities are now illegal in Colombia. The Plenary Chamber of the Constitutional Court of Colombia on September 4, 2025 upheld a bullfighting ban, Law 2385, signed into law in July 2024 by […]
In the home of the dread Fila Brasileiro: pit bulls kill 35 times more people
Four-year-old boy is most recent victim TOUROS, Brazil––Even in Brazil, homeland of the much feared Fila Brasileiro, pit bulls kill at least 35 times more humans. That point was brought home––again––by the January 15, 2025 death of four-year-old Ravi Lucas Nascimento de Melo in Touros, the “corner of Brazil,” where the seacoast is closest to […]
Pit bull attacks, not bullfighting bans, are the talk of South America
Owner of Dogo Argentinos who killed 15-year-old girl to go to trial SANTIAGO, Chile; RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil; BUENOS AIRES, Argentina––The biggest cities in the biggest nations of South America are buzzing about fighting bulls, but of the canine order, not the bovine kind. One might imagine that the Colombian national ban on Spanish-style […]
Colombia bans bullfights
Anti-bullfighting president Gustavo Petro wins 12-year political battle BOGOTA, Colombia––Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia, on May 28, 2024 appeared to win a 12-year fight to ban Spanish-style arena bullfighting. The 166-member Colombian House of Representatives voted 93-2 to ban bullfighting by the start of 2028. The vote in the 102-member Colombian Senate was reportedly 96-2. […]