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Has the Humane Society of Utah ever heard of adoption screening?

June 22, 2022 By Merritt Clifton 4 Comments

Repeated rehomings to cruelty suspect Kaiden Orie Graham squanders longtime Humane Society of Utah reputation for cruelty investigation MURRAY,  Utah––For the second time in 30 days a regionally significant humane society has some explaining to do about a serious cruelty case coming to light shortly after an executive director departed for apparently greener pastures. Former […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Bob Citrullo, Humane Society of Utah, Kaiden Orie Graham, Merritt Clifton, Stanislaus Animal Services Agency, Vaughn Maurice III

Why would a smart dog on the loose say, “Don’t rescue me!”? by Beth Clifton

June 11, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Fallen “rescue angels” & online enablers erode the whole concept of “rescue” There are no heroes or heroines in animal rescue.  The success stories tend to be people who manage to foster,  rehabilitate to whatever extent is necessary,  and responsibly rehome one or two dogs or cats at a time,  over and over through many […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Corinne DiLorenzo, Dawn Pennington, Heidi Lueders, Merritt Clifton, Rooster Featherton, Steffen Baldwin, Steven Woodington, Tiffany Woodington

Fallen “rescue angels”: Dawn Pennington, Tiffany Woodington, Corinne DiLorenzo

June 9, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Dawn Pennington just charged,  Tiffany Woodington beat the rap but husband faces trial,  Corinne DiLorenzo due for trial next COLUMBIA, South Carolina;  BENTON COUNTY, Missouri;  THAWVILLE,  Illinois––Charged with mass animal neglect after 28 dogs and two cats were found dead in their cages at her home on May 22,  2022,  fallen “rescue angel” Caroline Dawn […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Bob Citrullo, Go For Wand, Heidi Lueders, Jamie Woodington, Kershaw County Humane Society, Mark Anthony Trevino, Merritt Clifton, Steven Clark Woodington

Accused of starving caged dogs & cats to death, Caroline Dawn Pennington had priors

June 5, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Like Heidi Lueders,  but six times worse COLUMBIA, South Carolina––Caroline Dawn Pennington,  47,  charged with mass animal neglect after 28 dogs and two cats were found dead in their cages at her home on May 22,  2022,  held on bond of $75,000,  is not just a rescuer gone very bad. Pennington,  as well as heading […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Caroline Dawn Bolen, Dawndy Mercer Plank, Global Rescue Welfare League, Kershaw County Humane Society, Merritt Clifton, Nicole Chielleni

15 years ago Michael Vick’s pit bulls killed the humane movement

April 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

And killed the no-kill movement too,  but the deaths were by suicide             WASHINGTON D.C.––National animal advocacy groups boosted by appeals playing off the 2007 arrest and conviction of former football star Michael Vick for dogfighting have so far made little mention of the 2022 fifteenth anniversary of the April 20,  2007 drug bust and […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, Cyrus Talkington, Erin Beach, Maria Rachel Perez, Merritt Clifton, Shawna Jo Bell

“Rescue” hoarding: the “Nutmeg State” becomes the “Nut Case” state

March 30, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

“CT Pregnant Dog & Cat Rescue” bust is latest of a 20-year series             HEBRON,  Connecticut––The arrest of CT Pregnant Dog & Cat Rescue founder Joann M. Connelly,  59,  announced by the Connecticut State Police on March 26,  2022,  has disquieting echoes of previous alleged “rescue” hoarding cases that legislation passed almost a decade earlier […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Desmond's Army, Fred Acker, Heidi Lueders, Joann Connelly, Krystel Lopez, Merritt Clifton, Robbin D'Urso, Vincent D'Urso

New NACA “Guideline” on shelter intake overlooks why animal control exists

March 18, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Focus on keeping animals out of shelters means more dogs and cats will be left to run at large             LINDSBORG, Kansas––The words “wildlife” and “rabies,”  and the phrases “public health” and “running at large” never appear among the 1,688 words comprising the new National Animal Care & Control Association [NACA] “Guideline on Appointment-Based Pet […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Shelters, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, dogcatcher, Merritt Clifton, Mike Burgwin, National Animal Control Association

Weary (and wary) rescuers decry dangerous dogs, yet never say “pit bull”

March 17, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Statements otherwise echo decades of warnings from ANIMALS 24-7             DETROIT, Michigan––Kristina Millman-Rinaldi,  who in 2011 founded Detroit Dog Rescue, billed as “Detroit’s first no-kill shelter,”  rattled the overlapping “no kill” and “rescue” worlds on March 12,  2022 by posting to Facebook a critique of the prevailing “no kill” and “rescue” philosophy strikingly similar in […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Breeding, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: ASPCA, Best Friends Animal Society, Diane Orenchuk, Humane Society of the U.S., Kristine Millman-Rinaldi, Maddie's Fund, Mark Kumpf, Merritt Clifton

Russians kill Ukrainian animal rescue volunteers, bomb & starve shelters

March 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Anastasiia Yalanskaya & two others shot after delivering food to dog shelter near battle front             KYIV,  Ukraine––Anastasiia Yalanskaya,  26,  on March 4,  2022 became the second animal advocate known to have been killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yalanskaya,  26,  “was delivering food to a dog shelter in Bucha,”  18 miles northwest of Kyiv,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Russia, Sanctuaries, Shelters, Ukraine, USA, Zoos Tagged With: Aleksandra Polischuk, Anastasiia Yalanskaya, Kostiantyn Khudov, Merritt Clifton, Natasha Derkach, Siobhán O'Grady, Tamara Tarnawska, Victor Fingal

Was Gladys the killer Cane Corso witness to a previous human death?

February 28, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Behavior & evidence suggest Gladys was not just dumped in the Everglades MICCOSUKEE SERVICE PLAZA,  Florida––Was Gladys the Cane Corso or supersized pit bull witness to an earlier human fatality before killing rescue volunteer Pam Robb,  71,  on the morning of February 17,  2022? (See Pit bull star of 100+ Abandoned Dogs of Everglades Florida […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Crocodilians, Cruelty & neglect, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Reptiles, Shelters, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Amy Roman, Carol Daniello, Gladys, Jan Halas Stenger, Marritt Clifton, Pam Robb

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