Rottweiler raised from puppy by man who called himself “Nitemare” WAYNESBORO, Virginia––Waynesboro, Virginia police officers and Augusta County Sheriff’s deputies on May 13, 2022 arrested the parents and grandparents of seven-year-old Olivia Grace Floyd, killed by a four-year-old family Rottweiler named Ranger on January 29, 2022. The Rottweiler, acquired by adoptive grandfather Stephen Christoper Kachmar as […]
Vultures circling overhead are good news for Planet Earth
Both black vultures & turkey vultures are rapidly expanding U.S. range and numbers Feeling down about global warming, chemical pollution, and reports about loss of species? See the vultures circling overhead? Both black vultures and turkey vultures are rapidly expanding in numbers and range across the U.S. Turkey vultures have even appeared in southeastern Alaska […]
15 years ago Michael Vick’s pit bulls killed the humane movement
And killed the no-kill movement too, but the deaths were by suicide WASHINGTON D.C.––National animal advocacy groups boosted by appeals playing off the 2007 arrest and conviction of former football star Michael Vick for dogfighting have so far made little mention of the 2022 fifteenth anniversary of the April 20, 2007 drug bust and […]
Cockatoo Rescue collapse makes case for Animal Welfare Act inspection
Excessive secrecy hinted at deteriorating conditions for years STANWOOD, Washington––Lori Keene Rutledge, 66, for thirty years often among the go-to people in parrot rescue, was on March 14, 2022 removed from her Cockatoo Rescue & Sanctuary in a rural area southeast of Stanwood, Washington by emergency medical services. Animal control personnel who obtained a search-and-seizure […]
“Rescue” hoarding: the “Nutmeg State” becomes the “Nut Case” state
“CT Pregnant Dog & Cat Rescue” bust is latest of a 20-year series HEBRON, Connecticut––The arrest of CT Pregnant Dog & Cat Rescue founder Joann M. Connelly, 59, announced by the Connecticut State Police on March 26, 2022, has disquieting echoes of previous alleged “rescue” hoarding cases that legislation passed almost a decade earlier […]
HSUS rep Anne Hornish & husband fail to pay boarding fees for killer pit bull
Anne & Neil Hornish agreed to $2 million settlement for family of pit bull victim, but insurers contend they were not covered to keep pit bulls SUFFIELD, Connecticut––Anne and Neil J. Hornish, whose pit bull Dexter killed Janet D’Aleo, 95, in their home on November 6, 2019, have reportedly not paid Dexter’s boarding fees since […]
What Wildlife Services did not say about the newly released 2021 body count
Only 4% of the toll of 1.76 million animals were “livestock predators,” but 44% were “invasive” starlings RIVERDALE, Maryland––Released on March 22, 2022, the USDA Wildlife Services program activity report for 2021 tells a different story from the sunny spin put on it by the accompanying media release from USDA Animal & Plant Health […]
New NACA “Guideline” on shelter intake overlooks why animal control exists
Focus on keeping animals out of shelters means more dogs and cats will be left to run at large LINDSBORG, Kansas––The words “wildlife” and “rabies,” and the phrases “public health” and “running at large” never appear among the 1,688 words comprising the new National Animal Care & Control Association [NACA] “Guideline on Appointment-Based Pet […]
Weary (and wary) rescuers decry dangerous dogs, yet never say “pit bull”
Statements otherwise echo decades of warnings from ANIMALS 24-7 DETROIT, Michigan––Kristina Millman-Rinaldi, who in 2011 founded Detroit Dog Rescue, billed as “Detroit’s first no-kill shelter,” rattled the overlapping “no kill” and “rescue” worlds on March 12, 2022 by posting to Facebook a critique of the prevailing “no kill” and “rescue” philosophy strikingly similar in […]
Pit bull star of 100+ Abandoned Dogs of Everglades Florida kills volunteer
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 […]
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