And how IFAW founder Brian Davies’ $1.4 million winter home didn’t FORT MYERS, Florida––Forty-eight hours after Hurricane Ian first hit the southwest Florida coast on September 28, 2022, and minutes after it slammed into South Carolina two days later, after crossing the width of Florida and regaining momentum over the sea, animal rescuers were […]
“Tiger King” associate Karl Mitchell was Nye County animal control chief
From Animal Welfare Act violations to Las Vegas shoot-out, cases tend to link to Karl Mitchell’s tenure PAHRUMP, NEVADA––Nye County, Nevada, in 2000 hired as animal control director exotic animal trainer Karl Mitchell, 48, a man who might not have been elected dogcatcher anywhere else. The previous Nye County record on animal care and control issues […]
Pahrump dog breeders Platunov & Higgins allegedly starved 300 Ovarchkas
Having one of the worst-ever neglect cases in Nye County, Nevada, is not easy PAHRUMP, Nevada––Caucasian Ovcharka breeders Vasili Platunov and Oksana Higgins strung the authorities of Nye County, Nevada along for years with one excuse after another for failing to comply with some of the lightest and least enforced animal care and control ordinances in the […]
Animal & human heroes & the most overlooked lesson of 9/11
Remembering national trauma September 11, 2022 marks the twenty-first anniversary of the national trauma the U.S. experienced as result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The aftermath of those attacks brought global traumas including ongoing warfare in much of the Middle East, Central Asia, and […]
“Peak dog” means no homes left––especially not for “behavior dogs”
“Peak dog” also means “Fix the problem before it gets worse.” LOS ANGELES, AUSTIN, SAN ANTONIO––City of San Antonio Animal Care Services did not mention “peak dog,” pit bulls, nor even spay/neuter in a September 1, 2022 bulletin lamenting that “Just this week, 26 dogs have been humanely euthanized due to our shelter’s capacity restraints.” […]
Has the U.S. already reached Peak Dog?
Demand for dogs––bought or adopted––likely to fall as Baby Boom generation ages CULLOWHEE, North Carolina––“Peak Oil,” explains Wikipedia, “is the moment at which extraction of petroleum reaches a rate greater than that at any time in the past and starts to permanently decrease.” The oil extraction and processing giant BP, formerly British Petroleum, projected in […]
No-kill drive leaves TN county with no shelter & as many strays as ever
Not a fraction enough s/n done to be no-kill, deadly dogs running amok, & humane society near broke NEWPORT, Tennessee––Locally recognized as deficient for more than 50 years, animal control services in Cocke County, Tennessee are within a week of vanishing entirely. Effective on August 1, 2022, the nonprofit organization founded in 1993 as Friends […]
Pit bull attack death streak reaches nine in nine days
Each dog attack death on average represents 90 disfigurements, 900 other severe injuries, & 100,000 bites FRESNO, Texas; LUCKNOW, Uttar Pradesh, India––Just 24 hours after ANIMALS 24-7 headlined “Pit bull fatality streak reaches seven in eight days,” the global streak reached nine in nine days with the pit bull mauling deaths of Freddy Garcia, 71, […]
Five pit bull attack deaths in five days: these were the victims
Pit bulls killed more Americans & Canadians in past six weeks than in any year before 2003 Trena Ranee Peed, 46, of Greensboro, North Carolina, four-year-old Lea Freeman of Dallas, Texas, sixty-two-year-old Dennis Moore of St. Louis, and one-year-old Apollo Duplantis, of New Orleans had in common that all four were alive as recently as […]
The Envigo beagle case: loose ends & lessons for animal advocates
Bad as the Envigo kennels are, many animal shelter facilities are no better CUMBERLAND, Virginia––Much of the attention of the animal advocacy world, as this is written, is focused on the impending evacuation of 4,000-odd beagles from the Envigo kennels, formerly the LabCorp kennels, formerly the Covance Kennels. (See 4,500+ beagles freed from laboratory use […]
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