Animals 24-7

News & perspective for the humane community

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

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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 […]

Dog brain study refutes every major claim of pit bull advocacy

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

Galveston mock lynching may hasten police horse era to an end

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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 […]

Squee’s Great Escape

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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,  […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]