Soldiers & civilians protected by U.S. Army, Marine Corps, & Air Force orders now at risk WASHINGTON, D.C.; FORT POLK, Louisiana––The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate quietly bootlegged language into S.4049, the now Senate-approved National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, which would repeal the bans long in effect on keeping pit bulls, Rottweilers, and […]
Vicky Crosetti, 66: “She was a good friend,” to animals & humans
ANIMALS 24-7 founding board member KNOXVILLE, Tennessee––Vicky Crosetti, for 19 years executive director of the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley and a founding member of the ANIMALS 24-7 board of directors, died on January 22, 2020, after a multi-year fight against lung cancer and a variety of other serious health issues. Crosetti would have […]
Feral cats, TNR, & what we could learn from the fall of Rome
Video “Covid-19 & TNR for cats” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_AWoreQQ_I&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3wEMorrwskWhz6am72-SEkUQYzEeFXynGOO9kQyNZ0_HbSS1alKlTfAd0 Reviewed by Merritt & Beth Clifton Edward Gibbon, in authoring the 1776 six-volume tome The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, said nothing of feral cats, but a parallel plot outline may be developing––just out of sight and out of mind––in and around the […]
Fatal truck crash spotlights lack of attention to safety in dog transport
Pit bull rescue was hauling 48 dogs to Canada SHELLEY, Idaho; PHOENIX, Arizona––Dog rescue-and-rehomers elsewhere around the U.S. on May 20, 2020 celebrated “National Rescue Dog Day.” Many from Phoenix, Arizona, and southern Idaho, however, searched the hills and woods around U.S. Interstate 15 milepost 105, just south of Shelley, Idaho, for nine dogs––mostly […]
Puppies & kittens everywhere, but none in shelters to adopt
Suspension of spay/neuter & intake services due to COVID-19 cuts adoptions by a third from 2019 NEW YORK CITY––Celebrating rehoming every dog and cat in custody soon after COVID-19 shutdowns began, animal shelters from coast to coast are suddenly––and predictably––weeping, wailing, and tearing hair about having no adoptable animals to offer in response to […]
Yes, ANIMALS 24-7 is an essential service to the humane community!
You saw why just yesterday Two ANIMALS 24-7 headline articles posted just yesterday, We need to open up spay/neuter – now!, by Bryan Kortis, and Pit bull attack deaths only slightly slowed by COVID-19 stay-home orders, underscore why ANIMALS 24-7 remains on the job, as active as ever, through weeks of global shutdowns of all […]
We need to open up spay/neuter – now!
by Bryan Kortis, National Programs Director, Neighborhood Cats When the shutdowns in our country began due to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in early March 2020, the animal welfare field reacted quickly. Shelters were closed to the public, services were curtailed to the bare minimum, and cages were emptied through adoptions and recruitment […]
COVID-19 suspensions of shelter intakes & spay/neuter: at what cost?
ANIMALS 24-7 readers raise two critical questions: 1) How will this impact stray populations months down the road? Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, all the shelters in Houston have either shut down or have very limited intake. As you know, Houston has tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of stray dogs and cats […]
COVID-19: animal shelter “experts” circle back toward pet overpopulation
by Ruth Steinberger Founder, Spay FIRST A dear friend once shared the adage, attributed to Herman Wouk, “When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.” Never has a better example of this adage been seen than in the current movement by so-called shelter management experts to support a return to intact […]
COVID-19: India feeds stray dogs; ASPCA says “don’t fix them”
ASPCA advice to shelters could increase puppy & kitten litters by about half a million While pet keepers in the developed world fret about the apparently infinitesimally small risk of pets and humans infecting and reinfecting each other, following the discovery of COVID-19 infecting one cat in Liege, Belgium, and two dogs and a cat […]
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