University of Washington faculty lose three-year court battle to keep anonymity SEATTLE, Washington––Responding to March 2025 ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, members of the University of Washington Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee on May 28, 2025 agreed to drop a three-year legal effort to keep their identities […]
Dog-eating in China & Gadhi Mai mass sacrifice in Nepal both near an end
Decline of the activist & mass media exaggeration factors reflects the decline of the bloody realities BEIJING, KATHMANDU––Major good news out of China and Nepal on December 9 and December 11, 2024 came disguised to the point of invisibility for those unfamiliar with the details. Even as animal advocates wring hands and weep over sensational […]
PETA & Cruelty Free Europe are defending chicken fat seller Symrise?!!
Symrise AG processes the fat from multi-millions of chickens into cosmetics (among other things) but does not want to do animal testing SANTIAGO, Chile; BRUSSELS, Belgium––The Humane Society of the U.S., subsidiary Humane Society International, and the Chilean animal charity ONG Te Protejo, whose name translates “I Protect You,” celebrated the December 20, 2023 adoption […]
Has the U.S. already reached Peak Dog?
Demand for dogs––bought or adopted––likely to fall as Baby Boom generation ages CULLOWHEE, North Carolina––“Peak Oil,” explains Wikipedia, “is the moment at which extraction of petroleum reaches a rate greater than that at any time in the past and starts to permanently decrease.” The oil extraction and processing giant BP, formerly British Petroleum, projected in […]
15 years ago Michael Vick’s pit bulls killed the humane movement
And killed the no-kill movement too, but the deaths were by suicide WASHINGTON D.C.––National animal advocacy groups boosted by appeals playing off the 2007 arrest and conviction of former football star Michael Vick for dogfighting have so far made little mention of the 2022 fifteenth anniversary of the April 20, 2007 drug bust and […]
New NACA “Guideline” on shelter intake overlooks why animal control exists
Focus on keeping animals out of shelters means more dogs and cats will be left to run at large LINDSBORG, Kansas––The words “wildlife” and “rabies,” and the phrases “public health” and “running at large” never appear among the 1,688 words comprising the new National Animal Care & Control Association [NACA] “Guideline on Appointment-Based Pet […]
How to heal pets, heal the humane community, & heal the veterinary profession
Diagnosis by Dr. Jeff Young, Rocky Mountain Vet, & prescription by Bob Christiansen could provide a cure-all Drawing from a million to 1.7 million viewers per episode of his reality TV show Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet, Jeff Young might be considered the most influential veterinarian in the world. Certainly Young must be the most […]
Mystery marine toxo host kills sea mammals; cats wrongly blamed
Toxoplasma gondii finding in beluga whales points same way as sea otter and monk seal studies––& not toward cats MONTREAL––A new study widely publicized for allegedly linking domestic cats to losses of endangered beluga whales in the St. Lawrence River estuary actually shows almost the opposite, read in context––and contributes to a growing stack of […]
$1.5 million DC Cat Count: useful, make-work, or compiling a hit list?
Counting cats in Washington D.C. & how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall WASHINGTON D.C.––For $1.5 million, one could catch, sterilize, and microchip all of the approximately 7,000 free-roaming, not-yet-fixed cats who may be at large in the 68.34 square miles of Washington D.C., at an average cost per cat of […]
HSUS president Wayne Pacelle: more comes out
New allegations help to put anonymous communication into context WASHINGTON D.C.––Rescuers of lame ducks in the Washington D.C. region are on high alert after Washington Post national labor issues reporter Danielle Paquette on January 29, 2018 revealed alleged details of workplace misconduct claims made by at least three women against Humane Society of the U.S. president […]