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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

Why did the ASPCA pres get $852,231, while we got $9.70 an hour?

December 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

We are NOT the ASPCA!!! This is an exposé (and appeal) that Beth & I really did not want to have to write,  but one of our faithful & reliable donors of $8.00 per month persuaded us that we had to –– because donors like her,  for the most part,  are paying not only for […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Ann Landers, Beth Clifton, Cleveland Amory, Fred Myer, Henry Spira, Matthew Bershadker, Merritt Clifton

Solvang animal advocate “Hurricane” Hazel Mortensen dies at 85

December 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Mortensen was still on the job of helping animals in every way that she could             SOLVANG, California––“Hurricane” Hazel Mortensen,  85,  remembered for nearly 50 years of dynamic animal advocacy and her hearty laugh,  died at her home on September 26, 2020 from complications of heart disease. “Born on April 26,  1935 in England,  Hazel […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Isles, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Spay/neuter, United Kingdom, USA, Working horses Tagged With: Bob Mortensen, Daxton Borchardt, Fran Smith, Hazel Mortensen, Lisa Andre, Merritt Clifton, Quinn Spaulding, Rachelle Mueller

Alex Pacheco serves stale “Spay & Neuter Cookies” again for Christmas

December 18, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Pacheco says he eats them          POMPANO BEACH, Florida––600 Million Stray Dogs Need You founder Alex Pacheco,  who also cofounded People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in 1981,  is no longer distributing old photos of himself exchanging banter with soon-to-be-former-U.S. President Donald Trump. But predictably as Trump’s temper tantrums over losing the presidency to […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Population control, Spay/neuter, USA Tagged With: Alex Pacheco, ChemSpay, David Duchovny, Joyce Briggs, Merritt Clifton, Rayjay Kumar, SenesTech

Ice age rock art find exposes nearly 200 years of horse manure

December 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

The discovery does not improve  the case for horses having survived the Ice Ages in the Americas CHIRIBIQUETTE NATIONAL PARK, Colombia––Images of ice age horses,  among thousands of other animals painted along an eight-mile mural of rock art recently found in southern Colombia,  have revived hopes among wild horse advocates––and Mormon literalists––that horses somehow remained […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Beliefs, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mexico, Native American beliefs, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, The Americas, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife

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

How does anyone run a monkey through a washing machine by accident?

December 6, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Technicians at Oregon Health Sciences University,  Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories,  Harvard,  & Bristol-Myers Squibb have managed to do it HILLSBORO,  Oregon––An Oregon Health Sciences University internal investigation into the deaths of two rhesus macaques who were killed on August 13,  2020 when their cage was run through a cage-washing machine with the monkeys still inside […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Science, USA Tagged With: Jim Klassen, Max Egener, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Paula S. Gladue

Big Cat Public Safety Act clears House after Big Cat Rescue mauling

December 4, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Accident to volunteer emphasized need for the bill          TAMPA, Florida;  WASHINGTON D.C.–– December 3,  2020 began as a very bad day for Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin. But it was an even worse day for five-year volunteer Candy Couser,  69,  of Land O’Lakes,  Florida,  mauled by Kimba the tiger at the Big Cat […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, China, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Sanctuaries, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Brian Fitzpatrick, Candy Couser, Carole Baskin, Dan Bishop, Earl Blumenauer, Ed Case, Joe Exotic, Kevin Antle, Mike Quigley, Tim Stark

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