by Ruth Steinberger, founder, Spay First (www.spayfirst.org) On July 24, 2015 a company called Calcium Chloride Castration, the brainchild of Canadian veterinarian Peter Denooij, will launch the sale of pharmaceutical grade calcium chloride dihydrate for the non-surgical castration of male dogs and cats at a daylong event in the Dominican Republic. Each premeasured dose will […]
Why San Antonio Animal Care Services did not promptly impound a gunshot-wounded mastiff found running in a pack
Prepared for flooding but not for gunfire SAN ANTONIO, Texas––It was no secret in San Antonio, Texas that Memorial Day 2015 weekend promised to be three days from hell. Predicted Accuweather meteorologist Brian Thompson on Friday, May 22, 2015, “Another round of downpours and thunderstorms will bring a renewed threat for flooding from Kansas to Texas…Cities […]
Judge marks “Dog Bite Prevention Week” with $100 million award to pit bull victim
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 […]
Blue Buffalo feels the heat from rendered poultry byproducts in dog food
Blue Buffalo admits to using dog food ingredients that it advertised it did not ST. LOUIS, Missouri; WILTON, Connecticut; RANCHO SANTA FE, California––Poultry byproducts are typically rendered into dog food at about 140 degrees Celsius, 284 degrees Fahrenheit. A year after Purina sued Blue Buffalo over alleged false advertising, Blue Buffalo and Blue Buffalo ingredients […]
Dog Bite Prevention Weak, 2015
Four criminal convictions for fatal pit bull attack Dog Bite Prevention Week 2015, May 17-23, was announced by the American Humane Association on May 14, 2015––the same day that former child care provider Jena Wright, 26, of Prairie City, Iowa, was convicted of four criminal offenses in connection with the April 2013 fatal pit bull mauling […]
Pit bull wisdom & dog pound foolishness
by Liz Marsden On April 29, 2015 I testified before the Rhode Island House Health, Education, and Welfare Committee against a bill, H. 5585, which if passed would require law enforcement agencies to transfer dogs impounded in raids on suspected dogfighters to “The SPCA” for adoption to the public or transfer to an “appropriate rescue […]
Shelter sued for rehoming pit bull who attacked woman
But NYC hires pit advocate as “community dogs program coordinator” MINEOLA, N.Y.; NEW YORK CITY––A lawsuit filed on April 23, 2015 against Ruff House Rescue of Rockville Centre, New York might reasonably cause New York City-area shelters to rethink doing anything which could be judicially construed as misrepresenting the risk of adopting pit bulls. […]
Calcium chloride chemosterilant tested successfully in tomcats
Parsemus Foundation announces progress SAN FRANCISCO––An injectable calcium chloride chemosterilant costing only pennies per dose has been tested successfully in male cats, following years of positive results in dogs, the San Francisco-based Parsemus Foundation on April 29, 2015 announced via the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s “Eureka Alerts” media release distribution system. […]
Canine influenza, dog meat, & the rescue connection
No evidence links disease outbreak to Asian dog meat markets CHICAGO––An outbreak of an Asian strain of canine influenza, H3N2, not before seen in the U.S., has hit more than 1,300 dogs in the Chicago area, spreading from Illinois into Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana. But contrary to widespread rumor, there is no hard data yet, […]
Misunderstood Nanny Dogs?
A Critical and Objective Analysis of the Facts and Myths Concerning Pit Bulls by J. Thomas Beasley $3.99, Kindle; $6.99 paperback. 140 pages. Order c/o http://www.amazon.com/Misunderstood-Nanny-Dogs-Objective-Concerning/dp/150872671X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427737549&sr=8-1&keywords=nanny+dogs Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Says the biographical statement on the PRWEB announcement of publication of Misunderstood Nanny Dogs?, “Jesse Thomas Beasley was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia but […]
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