Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department has been repeatedly spotlighted since circa 2010 for housing & rehoming high-risk dogs ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico––Yet again an Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department employee has suffered a severe dog attack on the job. Yet again observers who should know better are often looking in the wrong places for the reasons why. Reported […]
Fire, crime, shelter management & the wisdom of Warren Cox
“Fire is always a threat” ORLANDO, Florida; FRISCO, Texas––“We were able to save 45 cats and 26 dogs,” the Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando posted to Facebook after a late night fire on September 15, 2021. “We are heartbroken to report that we lost 13 cats and there are four still missing,” the posting […]
Audubon writer allegedly recommended poisoning cats
Editor-at-large Ted Williams suspended, then reinstated WASHINGTON D.C.––National Audubon Society president David Yarnold on March 26, 2013 announced that Audubon magazine editor-at-large Ted Williams had been reinstated after a 10-day suspension for allegedly urging the use of the over-the-counter pain reliever acetaminophen to poison feral cats. Though the alleged recommendation was later withdrawn, it received […]
Walking Horse National Celebration: don’t bet on the numbers
“Banned for life” trainer passed out a trophy SHELBYVILLE, Tennessee––Just what was celebrated at the 2021 Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration? It wasn’t certainly wasn’t either ethics or economic success. Attendance, participation, and prize money claims included in Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration publicity appear to distort reality at least as much as the […]
Kaporos chicken rescue brings New York City a smile on 9-11-2021
Rare good news on a grim anniversary NEW YORK, N.Y.––Twenty years after al Qaida terrorists on September 11, 2001 hijacked four airliners and crashed two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, killing 2,763 people, tens of thousands of New Yorkers awakened to a good news story. About […]
Food & Justice, veg history to be proud of, & chickenshit in Kentucky
What Brenda Sanders & Chinny Krishna don’t have in common with Sheriff John Root BALTIMORE, Maryland; CHENNAI, Tamil Nadu, India; London, Kentucky––Some people, like Food & Justice web video host Brenda Sanders of Baltimore, dedicate their lives to breaking down stereotypes and expanding the horizons of everyone around them. Some people, like longtime Blue Cross […]
Animal & human heroes & the most overlooked lesson of 9/11
Remembering national trauma September 11, 2021 marks the twentieth 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 […]
Who was Jim Phillips? Who is Steve Hindi? Biographer reveals both
The Fox Feats & Shark Tales of Pollution Fighter James F. Phillips & Animal Rights Warrior Steven O. Hindi by Pauline Marie Gambill Who Chains You Books, P.O. Box 581, Amissville, VA 20106 Amazon.com: $14.97 paperback; $4.27 Kindle Opens Pauline Marie Gambill in her introduction to The Fox Feats & Shark Tales, “While there are many […]
Lifelong safe dog advocate could not save mother from Rottweiler
Ann Marie Rogers tried, but family did not heed warnings BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan––Ben and probably Wren, two family Rottweilers, on September 2, 2021 fatally mauled Sally Fredrica Rogers, 91, on her daughter Susan Rogers’ back deck in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, an outlying Detroit suburb. Standing just 4’11”, suffering from memory impairment and other conditions […]
Why Rottweilers are as deadly as pit bulls (2021 update)
Neither Rotts nor pits should ever be considered “safe” FRESNO, California––Five fatal Rottweiler attacks in the U.S. during the first 242 days of 2021, four on toddlers and one on 91-year-old Sally Fredrica Rogers of Bloomfield Township, Michigan, followed essentially the same pattern of warnings, denial, and eventual tragedy as most of those that came […]