An $8.00-a-month donor prompted us to ask the question 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 […]
Pogo: the Porpoise with a Purpose
A Serious Appeal to Kids for Ocean Life, Conservation, & Climate Change by Lorie Givens Available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook formats from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other major online booksellers. 43 pages. Prices vary by seller and format. Reviewed by Beth Clifton Pogo, a harbor porpoise with a purpose and a message comes […]
“What can I do about it?”
Dear friends & readers: Among the questions Beth & I most often hear from occasional ANIMALS 24-7 readers, but not so much from longtime readers, after we expose yet another example of cruelty, corruption, incompetence, or institutional indifference toward an atrocity against animals, is “What can I do about it?” Some animal advocates seek links […]
Pit bulls on aircraft: ANIMALS 24-7 responds to federal proposal
To: DOT-OST-2018-0068 Docket Management Facility U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140 Washington, DC 20590-0001 In response to: RIN No. 2105–AE63 Traveling by Air with Service Animals AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). From: Merritt & […]
Dog attack deaths & maimings, U.S. & Canada, 1982-2019 log
Why we didn’t send you a direct mail appeal to arrive on Black Friday
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 […]
Someone said ANIMALS 24-7 should not exist. Help us prove him wrong!
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
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?
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
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 […]
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