Cockroaches & rats named after ex-spouses to be fed to snakes SAN ANTONIO, Texas––San Antonio Zoo executive director Tim Morrow and staff appear to be going full speed ahead with a Valentine’s Day “Cry Me A Cockroach” event, despite complaints from around the world that it is mean-spirited, sadistic, and misleading, promotes a hostile […]
Tim Stark: 120-count conviction, yet roadside zoo remains open
Features animal-handling sessions CHARLESTOWN, Indiana––Wildlife In Need (WIN) roadside zoo operator Tim Stark on February 7, 2020 told WDRB reporter Chad Mills that he intends to appeal the February 3, 2020 permanent revocation of his USDA license to exhibit animals by chief administrative law judge Channing D. Strother and remain in business. The Wildlife […]
Are conservationists becoming an endangered species?
Three alleged murders among five recent deaths of note The butterfly guys OCAMPO, Mexico––Monarch butterfly conservationists Homero Gómez González, 50, and Raúl Hernández Romero, 44, were found dead on January 29, 2020 and February 1, 2020, respectively, at the El Rosario butterfly preserve that they helped to found and develop […]
How the ASPCA cooked 26 dogs in a truck: source comes forward
Driver coming from Mississippi left the heat on?! LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas––Eight months after 26 dogs reportedly died aboard an American SPCA vehicle said to have been hauling them from one or more Mississippi shelters to Wisconsin to be offered for adoption, an informed source has come forward to tell ANIMALS 24-7 what he understands […]
Pit bulls on aircraft: ANIMALS 24-7 responds to federal proposal
To: DOT-OST-2018-0068 Docket Management Facility U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140 Washington, DC 20590-0001 In response to: RIN No. 2105–AE63 Traveling by Air with Service Animals AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). From: Merritt & […]
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 […]
Pit bull suspected of killing Elisa Pilarski struck twice more in five days
French fatality, still under investigation, echoes & contrasts with U.S. cases BEAUVAIS, OISE, France; CLEARCREEK TOWNSHIP, Ohio; PORTSMOUTH, Virginia; ASHEVILLE, North Carolina––Curtis, the pit bull suspected of killing Elisa Pilarski in the Retz Forest near Soissons, France, on November 16, 2019, also injured her fiancé Christopher Ellul at the police station on the evening of […]
“Joe Exotic” tried to kill me: Carole Baskin tells her own story
by Carole Baskin, founder, Big Cat Rescue In “Joe Exotic” gets 22 years in a cage for murder plot, reporting how Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, also known as Joe Exotic and formerly known as Joseph Schreibvogel, age 57, came to be serving a possible life sentence in federal prison for plotting to kill me, ANIMALS 24-7 […]
Feds crack door to banning pit bulls from airliners
But rulemakers lean the other way. Pit bull advocates celebrate “victory” while the fight has just begun. WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. federal Department of Transportation secretary Elaine L. Chao on January 22, 2020 cracked the door open to allowing airlines to ban pit bulls and other dangerous dog breeds from passenger cabins, even if those dogs […]
“Joe Exotic” gets 22 years in a cage for murder plot
Sentenced on 17 counts, including soliciting murder of Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma––U.S. District Court Judge Scott Palk on January 23, 2020 sentenced self-styled entertainer “Joe Exotic” Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, 57, formerly known as Joe Schreibvogel, to serve 22 years in prison for having solicited the murder of Big Cat […]
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