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Big Cat Rescue turns a corner, sending big cat residents to Arkansas

March 31, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Sanctuary property to be sold,  proceeds to go to wildcat conservation TAMPA, Florida––If Howard and Carole Baskin had hoped to make headlines with their March 27,  2023 announcement that the Big Cat Rescue large and exotic cats are soon to be relocated to the Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in Eureka Springs,  Arkansas,  they picked the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Top, Habitat, Laws, Laws & politics, Sanctuaries, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Carole Baskin, Howard Baskin, Joe Exotic, Merritt Clifton, Tanya Smith, Tiger King, Turpentine Creek Wildlife Rescue

Pollster: pro-cockfighting votes by Oklahoma lawmakers flout voter opinion

March 30, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

Bill to reduce cockfighting from felony to misdemeanor cleared the Oklahoma House & is now before the Oklahoma Senate  OKLAHOMA CITY,  Oklahoma––A bill to allow individual Oklahoma counties to reduce cockfighting from a felony to a misdemeanor is halfway to becoming law,  despite overwhelming opposition from Oklahoma voters. House Bill 2530,  by state representative Justin […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Top, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Cole Hargrave Snodgrass & Associates, Justin Humphrey, Merritt Clifton, Pat McFerron

Can the Horseracing Integrity & Safety Act save horse racing from itself?

March 29, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 2 Comments

Marty Irby leaves Animal Wellness Action on a high note,  but horses are not drugged just to get them high WASHINGTON D.C.––Former Animal Wellness Action executive director Marty Irby on March 23,  2023 spoke in Oxford,  Mississippi at the “Celebration of Life” for his friend and ally Clant Seay,  founder of the Citizens Committee Against […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Top, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Racing, Sports, USA Tagged With: Bob Baffert, Kitty Block, Marty Irby, Merritt Clifton, Santa Anita, Sara Amundson, Stewball

Why didn’t Jasper County, Texas sheriff bust a big alleged cockfight?

March 23, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Alleged host of cockfight previously characterized by law enforcement as a “career criminal” BUNA,  Texas––“On March 12, 2023,”  disclosed Showing Animals Respect & Kindness in a video posted to Facebook ten days later,  “a SHARK drone located an active cockfight in Buna,  Texas,  in Jasper County. “The cockfight pit,”  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Buna, Christopher Glenn Stimits, Cristi Ruso, Merritt Clifton, Mitchel Newman, Steve Hindi, Steve Stewart

Charles River Labs sending bootlegged macaques back to traffickers

March 16, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals & Born Free USA sanctuary offer snubbed HOUSTON, Texas––If 1,000 juvenile long-tailed macaques held in Houston at this writing by Charles River Laboratories had the rights of humans,  they would either be returned to their homes in the wild in Cambodia or be granted asylum as refugees. If […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Chimps & other primates, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Japan, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Pacific rim, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Science, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Born Free USA, Kathy Guillermo, Lou Griffin, Merritt Clifton, PETA, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

“Greatest anti-soring advocate of all time” Clant Seay dies at 76

March 14, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Walking horse defender BillyGoboy never slowed down in fight against the “Big Lickers”             OXFORD,  Mississippi––Citizens Committee Against Big Lick Animal Cruelty founder Clant Seay,  76,  remembered by fellow campaigner Marty Irby as “quite a character and in my opinion the greatest anti-soring advocate of all time,”  died on March 6,  2023 in Oxford,  Mississippi. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Behavior, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Show, USA Tagged With: Gen's Ice Glimmer, James Meredith, Keith Dane, Marty Irby, Merritt Clifton, Ole Miss, Roy Exum, Tawny Preisner

Beagler fined $10,000––for wildlife trafficking, not for torturing hares

March 11, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Allegedly hired Maine trappers to supply Massachusetts field trials             PORTLAND,  Maine––Jon Thomas Rioux,  36,  a landscaper in Attleboro,  Massachusetts,  entertained himself and friends for years by setting beagles on snowshoe hares,  until,  apparently running out of rabbits locally,  he ventured more than 150 miles north into Maine to find more. Jon Thomas Rioux might […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Captive animals, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laws & politics, Sports, Training, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: coonhunting, coursing, field trials, foxhounds, hog-dog, Jon Thomas Rioux, St. Jude

Death by Pit Bull: Bred to Kill, by Richard W. Morris, J.D., Ph.D.

March 8, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

$9.95 paperback,  $2.99 Kindle A 52-second video trailer is live on: YouTube https://youtu.be/mrE1-bM_tdk Rumble https://rumble.com/v2a7ztq-death-by-pit-bull.html Bit Chute https://www.bitchute.com/video/DzP2jI9g2OSu/ Reviewed by Merritt Clifton “My history with pit bulls goes back to 1990,”  retired San Diego and Tucson prosecutor Richard W. Morris opens in Death by Pit Bull. “That year, while my wife and I were out […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Arizona Humane Society, Hollace Dean Bennard, J. Thomas Beasley, Jesse Beasley, Kirstie Jane Bennard, Lilly Jane Bennard, Merritt Clifton, Tori Whitehurst

Can hounding help Wyoming pumas evade human hunters & wolves?

March 6, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

If pumas learn from the canine chase,  pursuit without being killed might make them more elusive prey CHEYENNE,  Wyoming––A new Wyoming state law meant to placate frustrated puma hunters who hunt with dogs might actually benefit pumas more. If,  that is,  the hunters and their dog packs obey the law. Wyoming governor Mark Gordon on […]

Filed Under: Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laws & politics, Predators, Training, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Mark Elbroch, Mark Gordon, Merritt Clifton, Mike Koshmrl, Spencer Cox

Starring Miyoko Schinner in “The Decline & Fall of the Dairy Empire”

March 5, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

The Romans imagine they are still in charge while the Visigoths & Ostrogoths fight over the spoils of conquest SAN FRANCISCO,  California––Imagine the U.S. dairy industry as the Roman empire,  Miyoko Schinner as Alaric the Visigoth,  who sacked Rome in 410 A.D.,  and the venture capitalists who ousted her from Miyoko’s Creamery in a recent […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Italy, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Mediterranean, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alaric the Visigoth, Anna Starostinetskaya, Dan Buckstaff, Lisa Bloom, Merritt Clifton, Miyoko's Creamery

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