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Why did the ASPCA pres get $966,004, while we got $9.70 an hour?

January 31, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Ann Landers, Beth Clifton, Cleveland Amory, Fred Myer, Henry Spira, Matthew Bershadker, Merritt Clifton

Killing contests: culture war losers flip the bird

February 20, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Feature Home Top, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Marine life, Predators, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ann Landers, Cleveland Amory, Dave Pauli, Fred C. Coleman, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Robert Jackson, Robert Norton, Sam Schipani

Pit bulls, “outliers” & Humane Society of the U.S. prez Wayne Pacelle

July 23, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Breeding, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Feral animals, Feral cats, Food & agriculture, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Urban wildlife, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, Ann Landers, Becky Robinson, Brody Mullins, David Wills, Henry Bergh, Jocelyn Winfrey, Louise Holton, Marritt Clifton, Mary Lou Sappone, Rebecca Carey, Wayne Pacelle

Did Cleveland Amory write to Ann Landers? Yes!

November 26, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Ann Landers, Cleveland Amory, Eppie Lederer, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Robert Amory Jr., Ruth Crowley

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

Pit bulls, Ann Landers, & Dr. Laura

December 24, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Ann Landers, Barbara Kay, Dr. Laura

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