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And right on cue, here come the parasites, by Steve Hindi

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“Parasites will be parasites.” Everyone at Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] and the Humane Farming Association knew it would happen,  because parasites will be parasites. It wasn’t a matter of “if,”  it was just a matter of “when,”  and “when” did not take long.  But even though it was anticipated,  when it happened it […]

Feds indict 13 Kentucky cockfighters flushed out by SHARK; more busts likely

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Indictments do not mention February 25,  2022 FBI raid in Whitesburg,  Kentucky             LONDON, Kentucky––Eight alleged cockfight organizers and five alleged cockfighters were indicted for federal felonies in grand jury indictments issued on February 24,  2022 in London,  Kentucky,  unsealed on March 1,  2022. Citing more than a dozen alleged specific dates of cockfights held […]

FBI raids alleged Kentucky cockpit; 31 cockfighters “disappear” in Philippines

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But Oklahoma legislator moves to gut anti-cockfighting law WHITESBURG, Kentucky––Information is scarce about a February 25,  2022 raid by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on an alleged cockpit near Whitesburg,  Kentucky. Information is even scarcer about a rumored simultaneous raid on a second alleged cockpit west of Lexington,  Kentucky,  followed by additional raids elsewhere in […]

See the video exposé that sent Jack Hanna into demented retirement––free!

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The Conservation Game Directed by Michael Webber, featuring Tim Harrison,  founder,  Outreach for Animals If you have not yet seen The Conservation Game,  the acclaimed exposé of exotic cat exhibition and trafficking that sent longtime animal exhibitor Jack Hanna into retirement due to alleged dementia,  there will never be a better time to watch it––free––than […]

Red Alert,  the bull,  Schrödinger’s cat,  Mark Twain, Spartacus, & Steve Hindi

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Will anyone proclaim “I am Red Alert!”?             KNOXVILLE,  LOS ANGELES––One might imagine that even the Professional Bull Riders,  hostile as as they are to the humane values of mainstream society,  might shy away from thematic alignment with the disgraced Austrian-Irish Nobel Prize-winning physicist turned pederast Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961). On […]

Cane Corso:  A pit bull by any other name

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Cane Corso history is not what the “dog literature” says OAKLAND PARK, Florida––Was Gladys,  the star rescue dog who killed volunteer Pam Robb on February 17,  2022,  really a Cane Corso and not,  as ANIMALS 24-7 reported,  a “supersized pit bull”? Or is “Cane Corso” really just a sanitized and gentrified name for a common […]

Pit bull star of 100+ Abandoned Dogs of Everglades Florida kills volunteer

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125-pound pit bull who killed Pam Robb was featured in two online videos             OAKLAND PARK, Florida––Gladys,  the supersized star rescue pit bull at the Rescue House One shelter operated by 100+ Abandoned Dogs of Everglades Florida in Oakland Park,  Florida,   on the morning of February 17,  2022 killed volunteer Pamela W. Robb,  71,  of […]

Northern Rockies persecution plus verdict could send wolves our way & yours

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Will Yellowstone wolves follow Wile E. Coyote’s roadmap? SAN FRANCISCO, California––If gray wolves could read,  the gray wolves of Idaho,  Wyoming,  and Montana would already be on the run south and west from the Northern Rocky Mountains into every adjoining state with mountains,  elk,  deer,  and other wolf prey. In legal terms,  Judge Jeffrey S. […]

“Live lure training” likely to survive greyhound racing, for the sadism of it

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Few tracks left to run on,  but “trainers” continue setting greyhounds on rabbits             GREELEY, Colorado––Greyhound racing began as the bastard offspring of hare coursing,  whitewashed for public consumption by calling it “live lure training.” Because raw sadism appears to die even harder than the gambling habit,  so-called live lure training will likely also outlive […]

Iceland fisheries minister hints she may pull the plug on whaling

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But whaling baron Kristján Loftsson, 80,  will not go down without a fight REYKJAVIK, Iceland––Iceland minister of food,  agriculture,  and fisheries Svandis Svavarsdottir on February 4,  2022 indicated in a guest column for the newspaper and news web site Morgunblaðið that she may pull the plug on the nearly moribund Icelandic whaling industry. But Kristján Loftsson, […]