“The question is not ‘Can they count?’, but ‘Can they reason with the data?’” ATLANTA, Georgia––Since Shelter Animals Count was formed in 2011 largely out of denial by several national animal advocacy organizations that pit bull overpopulation cannot be successfully addressed in a non-breed-specific manner, it is no surprise that the Shelter Animals Count […]
Why did the ASPCA pres get $966,004, while we got $9.70 an hour?
We are NOT the ASPCA!!! This is an exposé (and appeal) that Beth & I really did not want to have to write, but one of our faithful & reliable donors of $8.00 per month persuaded us that we had to –– because donors like her, for the most part, are paying not only for […]
Killing contests: culture war losers flip the bird
The whole point is to be part of a gang doing the socially unacceptable To non-hunters, little could present a worse advertisement for hunting than the photographs, widely distributed via social media, of the 149 corpses of coyotes hung by their tails from a barbed wire-topped chain link fence outside American Legion Post 76 in […]
Pit bulls, “outliers” & Humane Society of the U.S. prez Wayne Pacelle
Pits kill four people in five years within 15 minutes of Pacelle’s family home, but he calls us insanely aggressive A 10-year-old girl in Bridgeport, Connecticut will require multiple surgeries over the next several years to repair damage inflicted on July 18, 2017 by a family member’s pit bull. The pit bull first attacked a […]
Did Cleveland Amory write to Ann Landers? Yes!
Part II of The five muckrakes whose ideas built the Humane Society of the U.S. (See also Fierce critics Ann Cottrell Free & Henry Spira goaded HSUS to mature.) Did longtime society columnist, man-about-town, and rake turned curmudgeon and animal advocate Cleveland Amory ever write to the advice columnist Ann Landers? He did at least once, enlisting […]
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. […]
Pit bulls, Ann Landers, & Dr. Laura
by Barbara Kay My first, and arguably most influential, journalistic role model was advice columnist Ann Landers. I discovered her in 1955, when I was a teenager. I liked her crisp, dryly humorous “voice” that radiated moral clarity and common sense in equal measure. Our culture changed dramatically over the years, but Ann remained faithful […]