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Noted in passing: Bryant, Paulsen, Carothers, Domingues, & Weingartner

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Activist legends in U.K., New Mexico,  Texas,  Louisiana,  & California Recently deceased longtime animal advocates John Bryant of Dorset,  U.K.,  Judy Paulsen of Corrales,  New Mexico,  Randy Carothers of Rockwell,  Texas,  Rae Nell Domingues of Lafayette,  Louisiana,  and Susan Weingartner of southern California most likely never crossed paths in person,  and may never even have […]

Meet Blake Fischer, baboon family killer & apostle of bowhunting

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Frequent model for his father’s bowhunting magazine             BOISE,  Idaho––The Blake Owen Fischer baboon family killing-and-display saga did not end on October 15,  2018,  when Idaho Governor Butch Otter announced that Fischer,  40,  had resigned from the Idaho Fish & Game Commission. Indeed,  the most influential part of the story has yet to transpire. What […]

“Shoot drones, not pigeons,” SHARK founder dares gun clubs

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Current drones have pigeon-like flight qualities             GENEVA,  Illinois––Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] founder Steve Hindi, gambling on video surveillance missions for more than a decade that he is a better drone pilot than pigeon shooters are anti-aircraft gunners,  on October 2,  2018 formalized the contest in a video entitled Drone Challenge for Cruel, […]

Trophy hunting scheme & Chinese-built railway fire debate in Kenya

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ANIMALS 24-7 reports from the scene             NAIROBI,  Kenya––Most of the delegates to the 2018 Africa Animal Welfare Conference,  opening on September 3 at the United Nations Complex in Nairobi,  will have already seen the second most controversial wildlife-related topic in Kenya,  a four-mile Chinese-built railway overpass crossing Nairobi National Park,  on their 20-mile ride […]

Biggest pigeon shoots in years follow Pennsylvania cruelty law exemption

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Showing Animals Respect & Kindness drone shot down while videotaping the killing HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania––Live pigeon shoots held at The Berm,  near Dalmatia,  Pennsylvania,  on June 3,  2018,  and on June 4,  2018,  at the nearby Erdman Sportsmen’s Club,  appear to have been the biggest since Libre’s Law,  pushed by the Humane Society of the U.S. […]

South African lion breeders hear whispers of doom

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Death at game reserve overshadows Parliamentary resolution that could kill the wildlife breeding,  viewing,  & hunting industries JOHANNESBURG,  South Africa––The fatal mauling of a 22-year-old female visitor to “lion whisperer” Kevin Richardson’s tented camp in the Dinoken Big 5 Game Reserve stole headlines on February 27,  2018 from Parliamentary action promising to turn the South […]

Why the Second Amendment does not protect hunting animals

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The only form of “hunting” that concerned the 2nd Amendment authors was catching fugitive slaves No part of the U.S. Constitution seems better known to hunters,  or is more vehemently defended by pro-hunting organizations,  than the single sentence that is the whole of the Second Amendment: “A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of […]

SHARK fights pigeon shooters where black man was hunted for sport

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Three drones shot down; pigeon shooters quit early EHRHARDT,  S.C. ––Losing three video drones to gunfire, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) nonetheless believes it won what might be termed the Third Battle of Broxton’s Bridge,  South Carolina. SHARK had apparently already delayed the start of a scheduled four-day,  six-station pigeon shoot by two days […]

HSUS president Wayne Pacelle responds to Maryland pigeon shoot

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Replies to “Pigeon shoots ––that HSUS said it stopped––continue in Maryland,”  by Steve Hindi,  president,  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness From Wayne Pacelle,  president & CEO,  The Humane Society of the United States: Last year, we were informed for the first time in my memory that there was a planned live pigeon shoot scheduled in Maryland.  We have […]

Did HSUS & Humane Pennsylvania sacrifice pigeons to NRA demand?

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“Libre’s Law,”  without prohibiting pigeon shoots, exempts “Shooting activities not otherwise prohibited” from criminal prosecution           HARRISBURG,  Pennsylvania––Why did the Humane Society of the U.S. and Humane Pennsylvania not tell the world that they won passage of a much touted new Pennsylvania state humane law at the cost of accepting language,  reportedly dictated by the […]