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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

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

Why the Second Amendment does not protect either hunting animals or self-defense

July 4, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The only form of either “hunting” or “self defense” that concerned the 2nd Amendment authors was catching fugitive slaves & quelling slave revolts No part of the U.S. Constitution seems better known to hunters and other gun owners,  or is more vehemently defended by pro-hunting and pro-gun organizations,  than the single sentence that is the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Captive animals, Culture & Animals, Dog use, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Sports, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Burton Newman, Carl T. Bogus, Franklin Orth, Henry David Thoreau, John Paul Stevens, Karl T. Frederick, Merritt Clifton, Patrick Henry, Thom Hartmann, Wayne Pacelle

Donald Trump Jr., client of alleged bear poacher, is no Teddy Roosevelt

May 25, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

But Trump Jr.,  though not charged with poaching,  may be an idol of other bear poachers “No one in this world, so far as I know,”  observed journalist H. L. Mencken (1880-1956),  “has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” For that reason,  it is not assured […]

Filed Under: Bears, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Top, Hunted species, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laws, Laws & politics, Poaching & trafficking, Predators, U.S., USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Eric Peterson, H. L. Mencken, Jared Baum, Merritt Clifton, Mike Fowlks, Rex Baum, Theodore Roosevelt, Wade Lemon

“Eejit” John Robins shuffles off after 41 years fighting for animals in Scotland

September 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Transformed sleepy Scottish Anti-Vivisection Society into butt-kicking Animal Concern DUMBARTON, Scotland––John Frederick Robins,  64,  probably the most colorful and dynamic animal advocate in Scottish history,  despite his self-conferred title “The Eejit,”  has announced his impending retirement after 41 years of directing pro-animal campaigns initially for Friends of the Earth,  but chiefly as campaigns manager and […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Captive animals, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Dog use, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Fish, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Isles, Laws, Religion & philosophy, Scotland, Sheep & goats, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: Andrew Morton, Don Staniford, Elena Edwards, John Robins, Merritt Clifton, Operation Dark Harvest, Phyllis Walker, Thomas Hamilton

Bad Hare Days,  by John Fitzgerald

May 19, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Olympia Publishers (60 Cannon St.,  London, U.K.  EC4N 6NP),  2008. 397 pages,  paperback.  $14.45 U.S.,  £9.99,  12.99 euros. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Northern Ireland banned hare coursing on June 23,  2010,  six years after the rest of the United Kingdom.  Ireland banned hounding deer on June 29,  2010. The Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission banned […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Ireland, Isles, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Helen Jones, Irish Council Against Blood Sports, Merritt Clifton, Vito Torelli

Wolves,  bison,  grizzly bears,  and pumas: Montana moving backward

April 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Big wildlife persecuted as surrogates for change             HELENA, Montana––Wolves,  bison,  grizzly bears,  and pumas scare the staunchly Republican ranching,  hunting,  logging,  oil,  gas,  and mining establishments of Montana,  but what scares them the most appears to be the prospect of becoming more like Colorado and New Mexico,  where Democratic-leaning Hispanic and Native American voters […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Dog use, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laws, Laws & politics, Predators, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Andrea Zaccardi, Greg Gianforte, Jason Blevins, Jim Robbins, Marcia Krieger, Merritt Clifton, Michael Robinson, Michelle Lujan Grisham

Wisconsin hunters overkill the wolf bag limit by half in just 72 hours

February 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

But Spain,  with twice as many wolves in about the same amount of habitat,  puts wolves off limits to hunters             MADISON, Wisconsin;  MADRID,  Spain––Wisconsin hunters and trappers killed 216 wolves in under 72 hours during the last week of February 2021,  97 more than the “management target” of 119,  obliging the state Department of […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Culture & Animals, Dog use, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Laws, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Predators, Sheep & goats, Spain, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: James Badcock, Merritt Clifton, Paul A. Smith, Todd Richmond, Vincent West

DNA & vets agree: pit bull Curtis, not hunting hounds, killed Elisa Pilarski

November 3, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Findings could lead to prosecution of fiancé of pregnant victim, who found her body, has denied both that Curtis did it and that he is a pit bull             PARIS, France––DNA test results released on November 3,  2020 by Eric Boussuge,  prosecutor for the district of Amiens,  support the finding of two court-appointed veterinarians that […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Deer & other horned species, Dog attacks, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Mediterranean, Wildlife Tagged With: Alexandre Novion, Caty Richard, Christian Diaz, Christophe Ellul, Elisa Pilarski, Guillaume Demarcq, Merritt Clifton, Soumya Berkane

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

February 27, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Animal racing, Animal rights & welfare, Captive animals, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Greyhound racing, Humane history, Hunted species, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Isles, Killing contests, Predators, Religion & philosophy, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: John Bryant, Judy Paulsen, Merritt Clifton, Rae Nell Domingues, Randy Carothers, Susan Weingartner

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