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Nine lives running out at Serenity Springs Wildlife Center

July 1, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Has taken heat from PETA          COLORADO SPRINGS––If the Serenity Springs Wildlife Center,  of Calhan, Colorado, had only nine lives, it might have been closed already. But if big cats really had nine lives, the Serenity Springs Wildlife Center might still have the 138 animals it claimed to house circa 2010, instead of the 113 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Middle Left, Sanctuaries, USA, Zoos Tagged With: Big Cats of Serenity Springs, Karen Sculac, Merritt Clifton, Nick Sculac, PETA, Serenity Springs Wildlife Center

Judge marks “Dog Bite Prevention Week” with $100 million award to pit bull victim

May 20, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

But victim Steve Constantine is unlikely to ever see the money          DETROIT––Wayne County Circuit Judge Daphne Means Curtis on May 19, 2015 awarded $100 million to pit bull attack victim and care volunteer Steven Constantine, 50, sending a “Dog Bite Prevention Week” warning to animal shelters and rescues nationwide. The $100 million award, against […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA

Living the Farm Sanctuary Life

May 14, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

by Gene Baur & Gene Stone Rodale Press & Raincoast Books (33 East Minor Street,  Emmaus,  PA 18098),  2015.  320 pages,  hardcover.  $29.99. Reviewed by Beth Clifton                   “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” ––VICTOR HUGO (French novelist)  Living the Farm Sanctuary Life […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Ducks & geese, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Recipes, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Farm Sanctuary, Gene Baur, Gene Stone

Update: Elephants, high mountains, and snow still don’t mix, Woodland Park Zoo learns––2,233 years after Hannibal

May 13, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Bamboo & Chai to resume journey to Oklahoma City          SEATTLE, SAN DIEGO, OKLAHOMA CITY––The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle on May 8,  2015 denied Friends of the Woodland Park Zoo Elephants’ application for an injunction to keep the former Woodland Park Zoo elephants Bamboo and Chai in temporary […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Middle Left, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, USA, Zoos Tagged With: Hannibal Barca, Northwest Animal Rights Network, Oklahoma City Zoo, Sandi Daughton, Woodland Park Zoo

Big Cat Rescue: remembering every large & exotic cat

April 20, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Memorial Wall includes nearly every cat species TAMPA, Florida––Visitors to Big Cat Rescue will see almost every species of cat whom anyone has ever raised in captivity. The cats are without exception kept in exemplary conditions, displaying the relaxed ferocity in repose that most cats take as a birthright. But visitors will see no “Wall […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Other entertainment topics, Sanctuaries, Street performers, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Big Cat Rescue, Carole Baskin, Howard Baskin, Joe Schreibvogel

Chicago pioneered urban wildlife habitat conservation

March 16, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Forest Preserve District of Cook County was created in 1914 CHICAGO––Urban wildlife habitat conservation is often traced to the 1914 creation of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. Foresighted planning left Chicago and surrounding suburbs a protected greenbelt and wildlife migration corridors that today hosts an abundance of animals of most species common to the […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Sanctuaries, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Frederick Law Olmsted, John A. Kennicott, Merritt Clifton, Robert Kennicott

Casualties of the “save rate”: 40,000 animals at failed no-kill shelters & rescues

February 26, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

25,000 dogs and 15,000 cats At least 25,000 dogs and 15,000 cats found at failed no-kill shelters and rescues from 2005 through 2014 might be politely described as casualties of the “save rate,” also known as the “live release rate.” The numbers of dogs and cats impounded by law enforcement from failed shelters and rescues dropped […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Population control, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Napier's Log Cabin, No-kill, Richard Avanzino, Spindletop

South Carolina wildlife rehab center losing lease

December 12, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Keeper of the Wild is a non-profit, all volunteer organization that rehabilitates South Carolina wildlife;  we also provide wildlife education for students ages 6 and older. We rescue operate 100% from private donations,  which provide the medical care and facilities needed to rehab thousands of animals each year. Often our volunteers also contribute financially to […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Letters, Opinions & Letters, Sanctuaries, USA Tagged With: Beth Sparks, Keeper of the Wild

Record low shelter killing raises both hopes & questions

November 14, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Fewer dogs & cats are being killed––but are shelters simply relegating the killing to others? U.S. animal shelters are now killing fewer cats and dogs than at any time in the past 60 years––nearly 300,000 fewer in the most recent fiscal year than just one year earlier, and just 8.6 per 1,000 Americans, the lowest […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Population control, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA Tagged With: feral cats, Merritt Clifton, pit-bulls, shelter killing

Igor, 58, ex-laboratory gibbon

October 14, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Igor, 58, a male gibbon who had resided at the International Primate Protection League sanctuary in Summerville, South Carolina since 1987, was euthanized on October 13, 2014, three days after suffering a stroke that left his right side paralyzed and not responding to treatment. “Igor could not swing or climb,” IPPL founder Shirley McGreal told […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Lab animals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Sanctuaries, Science, USA Tagged With: Beanie, Igor, IPPL, Jan Moor-Jankowski, LEMSIP, Shirley McGreal

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