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Why we didn’t send you a direct mail appeal to arrive on Black Friday

November 29, 2019 by Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Dear friends & readers: You may have noticed the absence of anything from ANIMALS 24-7 among the ever-increasing blizzard of direct mail appeals from charities of every kind that are timed each year to land in your box on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Very likely,  most of those appeals urged you to donate generously on […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Merritt Clifton

Someone said ANIMALS 24-7 should not exist. Help us prove him wrong!

September 30, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Dear friends & readers: Beth & I listen to you when you ask us to investigate and report about urgent animal issues, usually issues that no one else is covering in comparable depth. We stay up very late, very often, to make sure we live up to your expectations in a timely manner. Every now […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Laws & politics, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Merritt Clifton

Dog brain study refutes every major claim of pit bull advocacy

September 9, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Looking at normal dogs’ brains shows how “fighting breed” brains differ             BOSTON,  POMONA––There may already be weeping and gnashing of teeth among pit bull advocates,  and perhaps significant fundraising underway to trump up rebuttals,  too,  following the September 2,  2019 Journal of Neuroscience publication of “Significant neuroanatomical variation among domestic dog breeds,”  by Harvard […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal sentience & intelligence, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Police & military, Science, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Alexandra Semyonova, Beth Clifton, Erin Hecht, John D. Johnson, John P. Colby, Kristopher Irizarry, Laura Sanders, Merritt Clifton, Victoria Voith

What you do when duck hunters start shooting up a county beach?

August 15, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Dear friends & readers: Shotgun blasts boomed out across the Saratoga Passage,  almost directly below our home three short blocks away as we started down toward Hidden Beach with our dogs,  Teddy,  a young Jack Russell/Shi tzu mix,  and Bo,  an old cattle dog mix.  A startled flock of surf scoters hurried out across the […]

Filed Under: Birds, Birds, Feature Home Top, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Merritt Clifton

Galveston mock lynching may hasten police horse era to an end

August 7, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Incident “makes me want to cry,”  says former mounted police officer Beth Clifton             GALVESTON,  Texas––Two Galveston mounted police officers clipped a handcuffed homeless and reportedly bipolar black man to a rope,  with a noose at the other end of the rope,  and walked the man between their horses eight blocks through the city streets […]

Filed Under: Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, USA, Working horses Tagged With: A. Smith, Beth Clifton, Donald Neely, Merritt Clifton, P. Brosch, Vernon Hale III

Squee’s Great Escape

July 20, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

by Helene Hesselager O’Barry Illustrated by Cheryl de los Reyes Cruz Hardcover, 40 pages,  $19.78, from https://www.amazon.com/Squees-Escape-Helene-Hesselager-OBarry/dp/0998646008/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522071083&sr=8-1&keywords=Helene+Hesselager+O’Barry Reviewed by Beth Clifton Through a young dolphin’s eyes in the vast ocean world,   Helene Hesselager O’Barry,  wife of Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project founder Ric O’Barry and partner with him in freeing dolphins from captivity for more than 20 years,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Top, Marine life, Marine mammals, USA, Whales & dolphins Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Helene Hesselager O'Barry, Ric O'Barry

Do you feel you are fighting the same battles for animals over and over?

July 17, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Dear friends & readers: Do you ever feel as if you are fighting the same battles for animals over and over? Thirty years ago we celebrated a global ban on commercial whaling, a ban on international sales of elephant ivory and rhino horn, and a 10-year suspension of the Atlantic Canada seal hunt. U.S. retail […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Merritt Clifton

Pit bull advocate charged with hit-&-run killing of Holocaust survivor

July 13, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Alleged killer had her favorite pit cloned,  & was charged with trying to break into a pound to rescue pits who mauled a couple             LOS ANGELES, California––Joyce Bernann McKinney,  68,  once a globally prominent pit bull advocate,  was on July 3,  2019 formally charged with assault with a deadly weapon,  hit-and-run driving, and vehicular […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Breeding, Cloning & xenografts, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Pacific rim, Research & testing, Science, South Korea Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Gennady Bolotsky, Hwang Woo-suk, Joyce Bernann McKinney, Lee Byeong-chun, Merritt Clifton

Why is the ASPCA stonewalling about the deaths of 20 dogs in transport?

June 6, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Three-week silence howls for answers             NEW YORK CITY––Twenty dogs died on May 15,  2019 aboard an American SPCA vehicle that was hauling them from one or more Mississippi shelters to Wisconsin to be offered for adoption. That could be called just a really bad accident,  except that three weeks after Emily Jacobs and Ben […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Angel Hueca, Ben Feuerherd, Beth Clifton, Ed Sayres, Elisabeth Lewyt, Emily Jacobs, John Kullberg, Larry Hawk, Matt Bershadker, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, Perry Fina, Roger Caras

Recurring nightmare: my escape from a serial no-killer, by Beth Clifton

May 16, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Six years later it seems to be happening again             PORT RICHEY,  Florida––Pasco County Animal Services and Suncoast Animal League personnel on May 3,  2019 removed thirty-two dogs,  four cats  and a gerbil from the rented premises of the Humane Society of West Florida,  a dilapidated former self-storage building in […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cruelty & neglect, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, Uncategorized, USA Tagged With: Annette Dettloff, Beth Clifton, Greg Williams, Isabel Rosales, Jeff McReynolds, Rick Chaboudy, Robert Napper, Sharon McReynolds

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