Animals 24-7

News on dogs, cats, horses, wildlife, zoonoses, & nature

Self-defined pit bull rescuer killed by pit bull in Moses Lake, Washington

By

Moses Lake rescinded restrictions on possession of pit bulls under advocacy pressure in 2011              MOSES LAKE, Washington––Zachary S. Willis,  27,  a self-proclaimed pit bull rescuer with little verifiable record of actual involvement with pit bulls,  was on October 9,  2020 identified to media by Grant County Sheriff’s Office public information officer Kyle Foreman as […]

Kamala Harris: long record on animal issues, including pit bull attacks

By

Prosecuted two dog attack fatalities, enforced pit bull sterilization ordinance, but favors adoptions of fighting dogs             SAN FRANCISCO––U.S. Senator Kamala Harris,  named vice presidential running mate to Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden on August 11,  2020,  brings to the election campaign both a strong record on animal protection and a mixed record in […]

Black man killed by police dog; white man threatened by cop caught at cockfight

By

Public records requests reveal how cops killed Joseph Lee Pettaway;  threatened Steve Hindi MANCHESTER, Kentucky;  MONTGOMERY, Alabama––“White privilege,”  in parts of the rural South,  could be defined as being able to find out through public records requests that corrupt and sadistic cops might want to kill you before they actually do it. This,  anyhow,  appears […]

Pit bull advocate involved in breeding killed in South Carolina

By

“All In The Family”:  more victims than ever killed by dogs they know well             GRAY COURT, South Carolina––Laurens County,  South Carolina sheriff’s deputies on October 2,  2020 arrested Jeffrey Kenneth Sullivan,  35,  for involuntary manslaughter and three counts of possession of a dangerous animal in connection with the September 28,  2020 pit bull mauling […]

Feds quit funding guns & ammo for “anti-poaching” militias

By

MacGregor throws the World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society & others out of the lettuce patch             WASHINGTON D.C.––Deputy Interior Secretary Katharine MacGregor on September 18,  2020 quietly ordered major reforms of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID] programs which have for decades routed millions of dollars in funding […]

Are animal charity donors at risk from the Blackbaud data security breach?

By

Consequences of the data security failure are still just coming to light CHARLESTON, South Carolina––How many animal charity donors’ personal information may be at risk from a four-month security breach at the fundraising,  data management,  and financial services firm Blackbaud? The number may be in the tens of thousands,  or even the millions,  but even […]

Judge boots wild horse foe William Perry Pendley from top office at BLM

By

Federal judge finds Pendley illegally headed the BLM for nearly half of his tenure HELENA, Montana––Wild horse nemesis William Perry Pendley was on September 25,  2020 removed from his position as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management by Chief District Judge Brian Morris of the U.S. District of Montana. Morris ruled that Pendley has served […]

Shoving tule elk & bison aside, National Park Service favors cattle ranchers

By

Point Reyes National Seashore & Yellowstone National Park allegedly managed for cows over native wildlife             POINT REYES, California;  BOZEMAN, Montana—Burning since an August 18,  2020 lightning strike,  the 4,900-acre Woodward Fire at Point Reyes National Seashore is reportedly contained at last. Issues rising with the smoke and cinders,  though,  smolder on,  including the National Park […]

HSUS-backed Project Chimps drops lawsuit vs. whistleblowers

By

Defamation case settled,  defendants vow to press on for sanctuary improvements             BLUE RIDGE, Georgia––In fewer than 20 terse words,  the Project Chimps sanctuary defamation lawsuit against former chimpanzee caregivers and whistleblowers Crystal Alba and Lindsay Vanderhooght ended on August 14,  2020: “Plaintiff Project Chimps Inc.,”  said the legal paperwork,  filed in the U.S. District […]

Cockfighter Cozad missed chance to hide behind U.N. “Agenda 21”

By

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 […]