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Bestiality & child porn bust in Bossier City, Louisiana: Terry Yetman deja vu

March 27, 2023 By Merritt Clifton Leave a Comment

Suspect Nathan Mann held on 3,248 counts of sexual abuse of an animal             BOSSIER CITY, Louisiana––Nathan T. Mann,  35,  of Bossier,  Louisiana,  was on March 23,  2023 charged with 106 counts of possession of pornography involving juveniles and 3,248 counts of sexual abuse of an animal,  the Bossier County Sheriff’s Office announced. Mann was […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top, Police & military, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Humane Society of Louisiana, Jeff Dorson, Merritt Clifton, Noah Tomlin, Terry Yetman

Soi Dog Foundation shuts down a Vietnamese cat slaughterhouse

March 24, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Slaughterhouse operated in open defiance of 1998 cat meat ban             HO CHI MINH CITY,  Vietnam––“In a ground-breaking victory against the dog and cat meat trade in Vietnam,  a cat slaughterhouse has been forced to cease operations,”  announced Soi Dog Foundation director of international advocacy Rahul Sehgal in a March 23,  2022 appeal to potential donors. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Cambodia, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Meat issues, Southeast Asia, Thailand, USA, Uses of dogs, Vietnam Tagged With: Four Paws, John Dalley, Merritt Clifton, Rahul Sehgal, Vier Pfoten

Why didn’t Jasper County, Texas sheriff bust a big alleged cockfight?

March 23, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Alleged host of cockfight previously characterized by law enforcement as a “career criminal” BUNA,  Texas––“On March 12, 2023,”  disclosed Showing Animals Respect & Kindness in a video posted to Facebook ten days later,  “a SHARK drone located an active cockfight in Buna,  Texas,  in Jasper County. “The cockfight pit,”  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Buna, Christopher Glenn Stimits, Cristi Ruso, Merritt Clifton, Mitchel Newman, Steve Hindi, Steve Stewart

Did stranded macaques come from Cambodia, or from Thai temples?

March 19, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

1,200 monkeys stuck at Charles River Labs have reason to signify             HOUSTON, Texas––Twelve hundred illegally imported wild-caught long-tailed macaques at last report were still waiting at a Charles River Laboratory warehouse near Houston for Charles River Laboratories,  the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service,  and potential sanctuary caretakers to decide what will become of them. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Cambodia, Chimps & other primates, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Lab animals, Laws, Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Science, Southeast Asia, Thailand, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Anna Schecter, Born Free USA, Charles River Laboratories, Edwin Wiek, Merritt Clifton, PETA, Primarily Primates

One African-American journalist’s view of John James Audubon

March 19, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

by Roger Witherspoon (Roger Witherspoon,  a member of the ANIMALS 24-7 board of directors,  has reported about environmental issues for more than 50 years;  developed the global Save The Tiger program for the Exxon Corporation;  and cofounded the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists,   the first chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.) John James […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Beliefs, Birds, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Laws, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forest, National Audubon Society, Roger Witherspoon, Sugar Ray Robinson, Walker Elliot Smith

Audubon: brand recognition trumps what J.J. Audubon actually did

March 17, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 2 Comments

National Audubon Society squirms against truth that J.J. Audubon bought & sold slaves,  robbed graves,  shot birds with no thought of conservation,  & was a scientific fraud NEW YORK CITY––The National Audubon Society board of directors on March 15,  2023 voted to retain the Audubon name,  but the vote scarcely ends nearly two years of […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: abolitionists, Ann Fabian, George Bird Grinnell, Gregory Nobles, Merritt Clifton, National Audubon Society, Peter Matthiessen

Charles River Labs sending bootlegged macaques back to traffickers

March 16, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals & Born Free USA sanctuary offer snubbed HOUSTON, Texas––If 1,000 juvenile long-tailed macaques held in Houston at this writing by Charles River Laboratories had the rights of humans,  they would either be returned to their homes in the wild in Cambodia or be granted asylum as refugees. If […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Chimps & other primates, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Japan, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Pacific rim, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Science, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Born Free USA, Kathy Guillermo, Lou Griffin, Merritt Clifton, PETA, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Kangaroo leather soccer shoes get the boot from Puma & Nike

March 15, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 2 Comments

Pumas do not hunt kangaroos anyhow BEAVERTON,  Oregon––Pumas,  native to almost all of the Americas,  do not hunt kangaroos,  native only to Australia. Neither will kangaroos be hunted any longer to supply the German sportswear manufacturer Puma with their hides,  the Puma company has announced. Nor will kangaroo hides be impaled on Nike spikes,  the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Sports, USA, Wildlife, World Tagged With: Adidas, Al Spalding, Merritt Clifton, Mizuno, Nike, Pele, Puma

“Greatest anti-soring advocate of all time” Clant Seay dies at 76

March 14, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 5 Comments

Walking horse defender BillyGoboy never slowed down in fight against the “Big Lickers”             OXFORD,  Mississippi––Citizens Committee Against Big Lick Animal Cruelty founder Clant Seay,  76,  remembered by fellow campaigner Marty Irby as “quite a character and in my opinion the greatest anti-soring advocate of all time,”  died on March 6,  2023 in Oxford,  Mississippi. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Behavior, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Show, USA Tagged With: Gen's Ice Glimmer, James Meredith, Keith Dane, Marty Irby, Merritt Clifton, Ole Miss, Roy Exum, Tawny Preisner

Beagler fined $10,000––for wildlife trafficking, not for torturing hares

March 11, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Allegedly hired Maine trappers to supply Massachusetts field trials             PORTLAND,  Maine––Jon Thomas Rioux,  36,  a landscaper in Attleboro,  Massachusetts,  entertained himself and friends for years by setting beagles on snowshoe hares,  until,  apparently running out of rabbits locally,  he ventured more than 150 miles north into Maine to find more. Jon Thomas Rioux might […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Captive animals, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laws & politics, Sports, Training, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: coonhunting, coursing, field trials, foxhounds, hog-dog, Jon Thomas Rioux, St. Jude

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