Cleveland killing follows killings of dog attack victims who complained in Port St. Lucie and Indianapolis CLEVELAND, Ohio––Irate pit bull owner Johnny Hogue, 80, on September 16, 2020 pleaded “not guilty” to aggravated murder in Cuyahoga County Court, not quite two full days after killing neighbor Barbara “B.J.” Rogers, 68, with multiple close-range gunshots to […]
“We’re not just the family who got murdered over the dog.”
Monique Hansman & surviving children try to rebuild their lives PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida––Behind every story of a fatal or disfiguring dog attack is a story of injustice that will be suffered by the victims and survivors for the rest of their lives even if the physical scars heal. Usually the attacks occur because […]
Cockfighter Cozad missed chance to hide behind U.N. “Agenda 21”
BL Cozad garbled Bible & U.S. Constitution MORGANTOWN, Kentucky––If cockfighting advocate BL “Billy” Cozad had ever actually read the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit Agenda 21, instead of blindly denouncing it, he might have found that certain passages in it better support his arguments than anything he misquoted and misrepresented from the Bible and […]
A challenge to Mike Pence, Kamala Harris, & “A chicken in every pot”
70 Members of Congress & United Poultry Concerns ask VP candidates to address global warming & meat SALT LAKE CITY, Utah––Will the October 7, 2020 debate between Republican vice president Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential challenger Kamala Harris bring the first direct challenge in 92 years to the political promise of putting a […]
ANIMALS 24-7 resigns from the Society of Environmental Journalists
Our commitment to environmental journalism continues Upon posting our resignation letter to the Society of Environmental Journalists listserv earlier tonight, September 4, 2020, Beth & I became aware that ANIMALS 24-7 appears to reach more environmental journalists, especially on animal-related news beats, than does the SEJ listserv itself. ANIMALS 24-7 certainly reaches a much more […]
Pit bull moonshine claims another life in the “Sunshine State”
Similar “rescuer” rhetoric takes toll in South Africa, too MARGATE, Florida; EDENVALE, South Africa––Joseph Varanese, 57, of Margate, Florida, just plain Joe to friends and family, believed the pit bull moonshine. On August 7, 2020, Joe Varanese adopted a pit bull reportedly picked up by Miami Dade Animal Services as an injured stray on […]
Will “monkey shortage” due to COVID-19 bring new research methods?
Researchers scrape the bottom of the barrel DAVIS, California––Will a purported national monkey shortage force COVID-19 researchers to develop new non-animal testing methods? Or is the alleged monkey shortage really just a ploy by the seven National Primate Research Centers to perpetuate their own existence, taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to win more federal […]
Hurricane Laura: mouse takes the spotlight while 10 dogs die on truck
Marine life are major wildlife casualties COOKEVILLE, Tennessee––Pipsqueak the three-legged mouse, a cow dead for perhaps 160 years, ten dogs succumbing to heat exhaustion aboard a rescue transport, and acres of decomposing marine life scattered across beaches more than 300 miles from where Hurricane Laura made landfall at Cameron Parish, Louisiana, appear to be […]
Wildfires, COVID-19, & cockfighting besiege Monterey County
Cockfighting may be accelerant behind COVID-19 explosion MONTEREY, California––The 50,000-acre River wildfire, destroying at least 13 homes, and the 7,000-acre Carmel wildfire, razing 50 homes, reportedly forced the evacuation of more than 500 animals to the SPCA for Monterey County shelter during the fourth week of August 2020––and then forced the animals’ re-evacuation to the […]
Animal losses low after Hurricane Laura––but worst may be ahead
Little animal agriculture where storm made landfall CAMERON PARISH, Louisiana––From the animal safety perspective, Hurricane Laura could scarcely have hit in a less vulnerable location. Reportedly the most powerful hurricane to hit coastal Louisiana since the Last Island hurricane of 1856, Hurricane Laura whirled into the coastal bayous of sparsely populated Cameron Parish in […]
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