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 […]
Hurricane Irma: first reports on animals in the Caribbean islands
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 […]
Fierce critics Ann Cottrell Free & Henry Spira goaded HSUS to mature
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 […]
The five muckrakes whose ideas built the Humane Society of the U.S.
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. […]
NIH discontinues funding studies on “random source” dogs
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 […]