Animals 24-7

News & perspective for the humane community

Scotlund Haisley takes Subway to jail for alleged armed robbery

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Haisley formerly headed Animal Rescue Corps,  In Defense of Animals,  HSUS emergency services,  & Washington Animal Rescue League             WASHINGTON D.C.––“On Saturday,  January 26,  2019,  50-year-old Scotlund Thomas Haisley, of no fixed address,  was arrested and charged with two counts of Robbery of an Establishment,”  the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department announced to media in the early […]

Kumpf out, but new bill won’t undo harm he did to Ohio dog law

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“The evil men do lives after them,”  but pit bull victims are dead forever             DAYTON,  Ohio––Seven years after former Montgomery County dog warden Mark Kumpf led the campaign that effectively dismantled the Ohio dangerous dog law,  Montgomery County state representative Niraj Antani (R-Miamisburg) is on January 23,  2019 to introduce yet another of many […]

A black-and-white issue that the humane community has yet to face

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Editorial by Merritt & Beth Clifton Two nights ago,  in advance of Martin Luther King Day, ANIMALS 24-7 posted as our lead feature Four black leaders who built the humane movement,  profiling William Key,  John W. Lemon,  Richard Carroll,  and Frederick Barnwell Rivers. Those four forgotten black men between 1898 and 1945 probably reached more […]

Four black leaders who built the humane movement

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More people recognized William Key,  John W. Lemon,  Richard Carroll,  & F. Rivers Barnwell in their own time than would have recognized ASPCA founder Henry Bergh              INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana––“I am the only colored speaker on the program,  and in fact I have not seen a single colored visitor to it,”  wrote the Reverend Richard Carroll […]

U.S. & Canadian courts favor farmed animals five times in a week

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Jurisdictional issues guided four of the five decisions             WASHINGTON D.C.,  DES MOINES, Iowa,  TORONTO,  Ontario––A January 2019 blizzard of court decisions,  rendered in both the U.S. and Canada,  appear to have come down heavily in favor of improved animal welfare law enforcement on behalf of farmed animals. The effect of the U.S. decisions will […]

Why did the ASPCA pres get $852,231, while we got $9.70 an hour?

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An $8.00-a-month donor prompted us to ask the question This is an exposé (and appeal) that Beth & I really did not want to have to write,  but one of our faithful & reliable donors of $8.00 per month persuaded us that we had to –– because donors like her,  for the most part,  are […]

Last acts for animal circuses in Russia, India, New Jersey, & Hawaii

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Russian law protects Moscow State Circus monopoly             MOSCOW,  NEW DELHI––New legislation in Russia,  whose circuses have for almost a century been the most attended worldwide,  and in India,  where the circus tradition started,  appear to be among the final acts in several thousand years of traveling exhibitions of performing animals. The new Russian “Law […]

Japan hands whales a Christmas gift camouflaged as coal

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Withdrawal from IWC covers for decision to halt Antarctic whaling TOKYO––Handing whales a Christmas Day gift camouflaged as coal,  Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga on December 25,  2018 confirmed months of speculation and decades of threats that Japan would withdraw from membership in the International Whaling Commission,  which has maintained a global moratorium on […]

Pseudo-science & the Alex Pacheco “Spay & Neuter” Cookie

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No product,  no scientists,  nothing else that makes sense             POMPANO BEACH,  Florida––The pseudo-science in a “Spay and Neuter Cookie Science Update and Overview” fundraising appeal emailed by “600 Million Stray Dogs Need You” founder Alex Pacheco to potential donors on December 19,  2018 began in the first sentence beneath the headline.             Pacheco has […]