Animal rights movement pioneer SAN RAFAEL, California–– In Defense of Animals founder Elliot Katz, DVM, “died peacefully on March 24th at the age of 86,” the organization announced via Facebook on April 9, 2021, after word of Katz’s death had percolated through the animal advocacy community for several days. “Dr. Katz was a trailblazer […]
Will Australia learn that “When the cat is away, the mice will play?”
“Be careful what you wish for” also pertains to mouse plague, floods, & infestations of snakes & spiders MELBOURNE, SYDNEY––What stops a mouse plague? Driving 40,000 Australians from their homes in Victoria and New South Wales states, while filling many of those homes with spiders and snakes seeking high ground, the worst flooding in decades […]
Predation is nature’s disease control, including for Tweety & Sylvester
Too few cats around bird feeders means pine siskins die by thousands SACRAMENTO, California––When are free-roaming cats watching a bird feeder the birds’ best friend? When infectious disease is at large among common bird feeder species, spreading rapidly from bird to bird in the absence of predators to kill and consume the sick and […]
Florida regulators “put foot down” amid venomous snakes & alligators
Breeding green iguanas, pythons, & tegu lizards will be banned after 2024 TALLAHASSEE, Florida––Trying to lock the Florida swamps decades after green iguanas, pythons, tegu lizards, and countless other reptiles well-adapted to the habitat slithered in, the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission on February 25, 2021 voted unanimously to add green iguanas, pythons, […]
Why are some Fort Polk horse rescuers celebrating the births of surplus foals?
Another Fort Polk “rescuer” faces charges in Florida horse deaths FORT POLK, Louisiana––Why are some wild horse rescuers in Louisiana celebrating the births of multiple foals who have nowhere to go except from sanctuary to sanctuary, if they are lucky? Why were alleged dealers in horses for slaughter Crystal LeBron, Gary Thompson, Jacob Thompson, […]
Ice age rock art find exposes nearly 200 years of horse manure
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 […]
L.A. city council approves TNR: “project does not encourage feeding”
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 […]
Cat studies shortchange disabled U.S. veterans & vanishing Aussie wildlife
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 […]
How Henry Bergh threw pigeons to the dogs for the next 150+ years
ASPCA founder Henry Bergh hated pigeon shooters, except when he wanted something from them Henry Bergh, who founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1866, might have perfectly understood Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi’s frustration, expressed on November 14, 2020 in his ANIMALS 24-7 guest column “Talk […]
Jan Salter, 82, mastered the arts of animal & human aid in Kathmandu
Founded leading Nepal humane organization past age when most people retire KATHMANDU, Nepal––Jan Salter, 82, artist, humanitarian, and founder of the Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre in Nepal in 2004, died in Lyme Regis, United Kingdom, on April 29, 2018. Word of her death did not reach ANIMALS 24-7 until nearly 90 days later. Born Janette […]
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