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Anna Briggs lived for animal rights & no-kill before the movements existed

August 5, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Quiet personality long set an example,  yet did not emerge as a leader of causes Anna Catherine Briggs,  101,  died on February 15,  2011 in Berryville,  Virginia,  21 years after publishing her autobiography,  For the Love of Animals. For the Love of Animals,  a 122-page paperback, was written essentially as a fundraising device,  distributed chiefly to […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top, Humane history, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Shelters, Spay/neuter, USA Tagged With: Alice Morgan Wright, Ann Cottrell Free, Anna C. Briggs, Edith J. Goode, James P. Briggs, Merritt Clifton, Ruby Brown, Virginia W. Sargent

Hurricane Irma: first reports on animals in the Caribbean islands

September 10, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Isolated facilities without electricity struggle to get information out          ANTIGUA & BARBUDA,  ST. CROIX,  VIEQUES,  SAN JUAN,  CIENFUEGOS––The first animal care facilities and storm shelters housing animals to post updates in the wake of Hurricane Irma reported that they had come through with few casualties and relatively minor damage. But those suffering the most […]

Filed Under: Caribbean, Cats, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Street dogs, The Americas Tagged With: Ann Cottrell Free, Karen Corbin, Kenny Chesney, Merritt Clifton

Fierce critics Ann Cottrell Free & Henry Spira goaded HSUS to mature

November 27, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Part III of The five muckrakes whose ideas built the Humane Society of the U.S.;  see also Did Cleveland Amory write to Ann Landers? Yes! Very likely no president of the Humane Society of the U.S. ever looked forward to telephone calls from either Ann Cottrell Free or Henry Spira,  nine years younger, who emerged as a […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Ann Cottrell Free, Henry Gitano, Henry Spira, James S. Free, Merritt Clifton, Peter Singer

The five muckrakes whose ideas built the Humane Society of the U.S.

November 24, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

  How five journalists helped to shape the world’s largest animal charity (First of a 3-part series.  See also Did Cleveland Amory write to Ann Landers?  Yes!  and Fierce critics Ann Cottrell Free & Henry Spira goaded HSUS to mature.)           WASHINGTON D.C.––Celebrating the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the Humane Society of the U.S. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Ann Cottrell Free, Ann Landers, Bernard Unti, Cleveland Amory, Fred Myers, Henry Spira, Mel Morse, Merritt Clifton, Wayne Pacelle

NIH discontinues funding studies on “random source” dogs

October 4, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Quit funding random source cat studies in 2012 WASHINGTON D.C.––The National Institutes of Health on October 1, 2014 discontinued funding experiments using dogs obtained from “random sources,” meaning pounds, other animal shelters, and bunchers commonly called “Class B dealers.” The NIH cessation of funding for research “is in response to a 2009 National Academy of […]

Filed Under: Dogs & cats lab animals, Lab animals, Regulation, Science Tagged With: Ann Cottrell Free, Christine Stevens, Helen Jones, NIH, pound seizure

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