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Trump appointee cut deal with NRA to boost hunting on the way out the door

January 19, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

But National Rifle Association declared bankruptcy two days later             WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service director Aurelia Skipwith on January 13,  2021,  a week from the end of the Donald Trump presidential administration and probably not much longer from her own replacement,  signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Rifle Association “to assist […]

Filed Under: Feature Home Top, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Aurelia Skipwith, Clare Duffy, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, John Frazer, Josh Powell, Karl Racine, Leo Giacometto, Letitia James, Merritt Clifton, Wayne LaPierre, Wilson Phillips

Aurora repeals pit bull ban; pit bull advocates in trouble in three states

January 15, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

$2 million payout to family of Janet D’Aleo,  95,  killed on November 6,  2019 by “rescue” pit bull belonging to Humane Society of the U.S. state representative Annie Hornish AURORA, Colorado––Overturning an ordinance banning pit bulls that was endorsed by 64% of the electorate as recently as 2014,  four of the seven members of the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Amber Rickles, Anne Hornish, Apryl Steele, Cesar Millan, Cleveratta Gordon-Waldroup, Janet D'Aleo, Jennifer Romano, Marsha Berzins, Ronin Waldroup

Siegfried Fischbacher, 81, follows tiger act partner Roy Horn, 75, in death

January 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Illusionist Fischbacher, of Siegfried & Roy, created image of partner Horn as “positive reinforcement” trainer & conservationist Both were role models for “Joe Exotic” et al             LAS VEGAS––Entertainer Siegfried Fischbacher,  81,  died of pancreatic cancer on January 14,  2021,  at the Las Vegas home he had shared with Roy Horn,  his partner in life […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Circuses, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Laws & politics, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Obituaries (human), Sanctuaries, Spectacles, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Carole Baskin, Chris Lawrence, Doc Antle, Joe Exotic, Merritt Clifton, Robert McFadden, Roy Horn, Siegfried Fischbacher

Trump allies in the animal world squirm after U.S. Capitol storming

January 12, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 13 Comments

From “Joe Exotic” to Wayne Pacelle             WASHINGTON D.C.––Soon-to-be-former U.S. President Donald Trump and his die-hard defenders who are now facing criminal charges for storming the U.S. National Capitol building on January 6,  2021 were scarcely the only big losers from the events of the day. Former U.S. Air Force security dog handler Ashli Babbitt,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Cats, China, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Greyhound racing, Greyhounds, Habitat, Laws, Laws & politics, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Ashli Babbitt, Blair Brandt, Bradley Lane Croft, Brian Sweeney, Donald Trump, Jake Angeli Chansley, Joe Arpaio, Joe Exotic, Lara Trump, Pinky Cole, Raphael Warnock, Slutty Vegan, Stacy Abrams, Wayne Pacelle

Congress rejects immediate repeal of dog breed bans in military housing

January 5, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

U.S. Army,  U.S. Marine Corps, & U.S. Air Force bans on pit bulls,  Rottweilers,  & wolf hybrids stand,  at least until uniform military policy is adopted             WASHINGTON D.C.––The first U.S. Senate action of the New Year,  on the morning of January 1,  2021,  quietly affirmed for at least 90 days and perhaps indefinitely the […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Police & military, Service dogs, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Alaska Airines, base housing, Lara Trump, Merritt Clifton, National Defense Authorization Act, Schofield Barracks, Section 2884, Wounded Warrior

Trump signs anti-race horse doping bill & $60 million gift to horse industry

December 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Tax break for Paycheck Protection Program loan/grant recipients appears to have been the dangling carrot that brought horse racing industry support for omnibus funding bill             WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. President Donald Trump on December 27,  2020 “signed H.R. 133,  an Act making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021,  providing coronavirus emergency response […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Racing, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Bill Shanklin, Clant Seay, Joseph D. Tydings, Keith Dane, Lamar Alexander, Merritt Clifton, Wayne Pacelle

L.A. city council approves TNR: “project does not encourage feeding”

December 10, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Not encouraging feeding sidesteps most objections to new Los Angeles neuter/return cat control program             LOS ANGELES, California––The long-awaited Los Angeles Citywide Cat Program on December 10,  2020 won unanimous approval from the Los Angeles City Council. “The Council vote clears the way for the city to use municipal funds to operate the Citywide Cat […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Feral animals, Feral cats, Laws & politics, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Spay/neuter, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Judge Thomas McKnew., Kate Hurley, Merritt Clifton, Paul Koretz, Phyllis Daugherty

Cat studies shortchange disabled U.S. veterans & vanishing Aussie wildlife

December 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

White Coat Waste Project challenges Veterans’ Administration studies, while Aussie scientists question value of their own cat-killing experiment          WASHINGTON D.C.,  PERTH, Australia––Cat experiments conducted by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Cleveland,  Louisville,  and Los Angeles,  and by Australian researchers at the Charles Darwin Reserve,  225 miles north of Perth,  might be said […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Population control, Science, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Anthony Bellotti, Brian Mast, Charles Darwin, Dina Titus, Eradicat, Felixer, Merritt Clifton, Tim S. Doherty, White Coat Waste Project

Will anti-show horse soring bill pull up lame through last-hurdle compromise?

December 8, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

What would Marty Irby,  Wayne Pacelle & Lamar Alexander think if weighted shoes were on their feet? UPDATE received on December 18,  2020,  from Bernard Unti,  senior policy advisor,  Humane Society of the U.S.:   “I’m pleased to share the news that the reckless attempt by an embittered faction within animal protection to swap in a […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Behavior, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Billy Goboy, Clant Seay, Joseph Tydings, Keith Dane, Lamar Alexander, Marty Irby, Merritt Clifton, Roy Exum, Wayne Pacelle

Trump administration obliges airlines to carry “service” pit bulls

December 3, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

But only pit bulls who “fit within handler’s foot space on the aircraft”          WASHINGTON D.C.––Elaine Lan Chao,  U.S. Secretary of Transportation throughout the Donald Trump presidential administration and almost certain to soon leave office,  on November 30,  2020 introduced a revised Air Carrier Access Act regulation on the transportation of service animals by air […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Central Europe, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Germany, Laws & politics, Mediterranean, Service dogs, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Airlines for America, Donald Trump, Elaine Chao, Lara Trump, Lufthansa, Marlin Tremaine Jackson, Merritt Clifton, Victoria Knight

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