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U.S. Senate votes to repeal pit bull & Rottweiler bans in military housing

July 2, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: and Damayanti Samanta, Anya Ashley, Bruce B Horswell, Donald Trump, Khurram Khan, Merritt Clifton, Wyatt Herrington

Vicky Crosetti, 66: “She was a good friend,” to animals & humans

June 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Dog attacks, Dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Anna Sandhu Ray McBee, Dave Krishock, Debbie Clark, Franke Crosetti, Gladys Sargent, Jayne Vaughan, John Crosetti, Mark Siegel, Merritt Clifton, Nina L. Margetson, Tim Burchett, Victoria S. Krishock, Warren Cox

Feral cats, TNR, & what we could learn from the fall of Rome

May 24, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Shelters, Spay/neuter, USA Tagged With: Alaric the Visigoth, Beth Clifton, Edward Gibbon, G. Robert Weedon, Joyce Briggs, Merritt Clifton

Fatal truck crash spotlights lack of attention to safety in dog transport

May 21, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Canada, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Population control, Shelters, The Americas, USA Tagged With: "English" John Murray, Amanda Cevering, Ann Watson, Christopher Kracht, Merritt Clifton

Puppies & kittens everywhere, but none in shelters to adopt

May 17, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Behavior & health, Breeding, Cats, China, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, India, Indian subcontinent, Population control, Population control, Shelters, Spay/neuter, Street dogs, USA Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Bryan Kortis, Katherine Ellen Foley, Matt Bershadker, Merritt Clifton, Ruth Steinberger

Yes, ANIMALS 24-7 is an essential service to the humane community!

April 16, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Opinions & Letters, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Bryan Kortis, Jeff Young, Merritt Clifton

We need to open up spay/neuter – now!

April 15, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Laws & politics, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Shelters, Street dogs, USA Tagged With: Bryan Kortis, Jeff Young

COVID-19 suspensions of shelter intakes & spay/neuter: at what cost?

April 3, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Anna Weiss, Merritt Clifton, Tena Lundquist Faust

COVID-19: animal shelter “experts” circle back toward pet overpopulation

April 2, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Breeding, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Laws & politics, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Jeff Young, Patty Epstein

COVID-19: India feeds stray dogs; ASPCA says “don’t fix them”

April 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, China, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Isles, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Shelters, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Thailand, United Kingdom, USA Tagged With: David Semple, Emmanuel Andre, Janice Girardi, John Dalley, Marjorie Pollack, Merritt Clifton, Steven Van Gucht, Varda Mehrotra, William F. Harvey

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