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The Six Million Dollar Chimps

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Will $6 million be enough to provide lifetime care to as many as 66 chimps abandoned in Liberia by the New York Blood Center?             NEW YORK CITY,  WASHINGTON D.C.––Response from animal advocates was mixed after Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne Pacelle on May 30,  2017 announced a $6 million commitment from the […]

How multi-state effort to save the pit bull Blue led to Code Blue for Margaret Colvin

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Reportedly surrendered for biting a child,  Blue was routed through five rescue programs in six months before killing 90-year-old          VIRGINIA BEACH,  Virginia––Fatally mauled by a pit bull named Blue just six hours after Forever Home Rescue & Rehabilitation delivered him to her daughter Linda Colvin Patterson at their home in Virginia Beach,  Virginia,  Margaret […]

“Ban white tigers & lion/tiger hybrids,” sanctuarians beg feds

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Petition seeks rulemaking under Animal Health Protection Act & Animal Welfare Act             WASHINGTON D.C.––Nearly 200 years of entrepreneurs speculatively breeding white tigers and lion/tiger hybrids are enough,  say a coalition of animal advocacy organizations and several leading sanctuaries where “tigons,”  “ligers,”  and “liligers” have lived out their days after proving no longer profitable for […]

Child gives an arm to pet a wolf hybrid

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Wolf hybrids are still as deadly as ever––and maybe more so          OLYMPIA,  Washington––A three-year-old boy lost an arm on April 3,  2017,  after apparently trying to pet a wolf hybrid through a fence at a breeding compound belonging to family members in rural Thurston County,  Washington. The attack was a vivid reminder that attacks […]

One million readers!

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(Beth Clifton collage) What making our first million means ANIMALS 24-7,  in the wee hours of the morning on Sunday,  March 26,  2017,  reached our one millionth reader,  three weeks short of the third anniversary of our online debut on April 12,  2014. We have no idea who our millionth reader was,  or where,  or […]

“Rescue hoarding” cases horrify Iowa

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Iowa cases exemplify national trend          DES MOINES,  Iowa––Arrested on February 13,  2017,  Bully Breed Miracle Networking & Rescue founder Lindsey Morrow,  41,  is awaiting trial in Warren County,  Iowa,  on five counts of animal torture,  five counts of animal neglect,  second-degree theft,  second-degree fraudulent practice and ongoing criminal conduct. Alerted to conditions of severe […]

Settlement of alleged neglect case at ISPMB could set up a repeat

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International Society for the Protection of Mustangs & Burros is allowed to keep & breed horses          LANTRY,  South Dakota––The fate of the remaining horses at the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs & Burros ranch straddling the Dewey and Ziebach county lines in north-central South Dakota was on January 27,  2017 “settled” on […]

No Kill Conference & No-Kill Directory founder Lynda Foro, 74

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Foro was instrumental in turning the no-kill goal into a movement By Merritt Clifton          KNOXVILLE,  Tennessee––Lynda J. Foro,  74,  organizer of the first six annual No Kill Conferences,  1995-2001,  died on December 27,  2016 in Jefferson City,  Tennessee,  her home of the past several years during a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. Early years […]

Auction date set for survivors of ISPMB wild horse sanctuary meltdown

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Victorious Dakota Access protesters unlikely to ride to the rescue          LANTRY,  South Dakota––If just one Dakota Access pipeline protester in 10 could stop at the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs & Burros premises en route home from the multi-month vigil that kept the pipeline from crossing the Missouri River by passing under Lake […]