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USDA-APHIS wants your 2¢ on animal-related federal law enforcement––NOW!!!

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“Come on,  animal advocates,  let’s move fast!  Your big chance has come at last!  Want a chance to have your say?  Tell it to the USDA!”             WASHINGTON D.C.––The USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service [APHIS] is,  until the end of July 2022,  offering the public a unique chance to kibbitz on an “APHIS […]

How humility can help animal advocates to change the world, by Ed Duvin

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Perspective of an old warrior Spending over a half-century in social justice movements, much of it consulting, I have formed some conclusions that did not come down from the mountaintop,  but merely represent the perspective of an old warrior. Were I to identify the most pernicious characteristics I have encountered among justice-seeking activists,  regardless of […]

How to protect yourself, others, & your dog from a pit bull attack (2022)

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Tips based on 40 years’ worth of data by Merritt & Beth Clifton The Collier County Sheriff’s Office,  in East Naples,  Florida,  recently honored school bus driver Fabian Golac for heroism in saving a woman and her poodle from a January 2022 pit bull attack that could easily have been fatal. “I picked up the kids, […]

Why was there “a long lull in KY law enforcement against cockfighting?”

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by Steve Hindi,  founder,  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness “Another long lull in Kentucky law enforcement against cockfighting followed,  until the SHARK campaign debuted in 2020,”  ended the January 26,  2022 ANIMALS 24-7 article entitled Two cockfights stopped; Steve Hindi credits local opposition.             That sentence referenced the scarcity of cockfighting busts in Kentucky between a […]

“We are fine;  the problem is with everyone else,” by Steve Hindi

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The animal cause needs an oil change & new spark plugs When I first read the title of Does guilt have a place in animal rights activism?,  the most recent ANIMALS 24-7 guest column by United Poultry Concerns founder Karen Davis,  I hoped it referenced the faults and failures of our side. Then I started […]

International Primate Protection League founder Shirley McGreal, 87

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Animal advocate,  teacher, conservationist,  investigative journalist,  and beloved friend to primates,  both human and nonhuman              SUMMERVILLE,  South Carolina––“With heavy hearts,  we are informing Shirley’s many friends that she died Saturday morning,”   the International Primate Protection League posted to founder Shirley McGreal’s Facebook page on November 21,  2021. McGreal,  87,  “had been in declining health […]

Assault on SHARK investigators brings felony & misdemeanor convictions

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Sentencing for attack on Steve Hindi & Adam Fahnestock by alleged cockfighters is set for November 10             IRONTON, Ohio––James V. “Bub” Newcomb II,  54,  of Waterloo,  Ohio,  was on November 5,  2021 convicted of two felonies and one misdemeanor resulting from his January 3,  2021 attack on Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] founder […]

The Rottweilers in my life: that could have been me

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by Beth Clifton Listening to our friend Ann Marie Rogers describe how two family Rottweilers on September 2, 2021 killed her mother,  Sally Fredrica Rogers, 91,  was among my most emotionally troubling hours in a lifetime as former police officer,  animal control officer,  and vet tech;  animal rescuer;  and now as ANIMALS 24-7 co-editor whose […]

Cockfights: Laurel County, KY Sheriff John Root avows he won’t do his job

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Sheriff Root’s bizarre 56th birthday Facebook posting suggests he is ready for retirement             LONDON, Kentucky––In what parallel universe does a county sheriff run for re-election by boasting of non-enforcement of state laws,  pledging to continue not enforcing them,  slandering critics with demonstrably false allegations from criminal suspects facing trial, endorsing abuse of the injured […]