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Six recent animal advocate deaths of note

March 9, 2026 By Merritt Clifton

New York City veterinarian Ashraf Hussein,  Alabama humane officer Mary Stanley Mosely Mansour,  California broadcaster Jerry Cesak,  sanctuary founder JP Novic,  and eagle advocate Sandy Steers,  as well as Canadian bee expert Sheila Rafaela Colla Vet died on the job Ashraf Hussein,  DVM,  56,  died from carbon monoxide poisoning inside the Low Cost Vet Mobile […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Bees, Birds, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & politics, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Shelters, Spay/neuter, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ashraf Hussein, Garo Alexanian, Jerry Cesak, JP Novic, Mary Stanley Mosely Mansour, Sandy Steers, Sheila Colla, Sunset Sam, Wayne Pacelle

Animal & human heroes, Charlie Kirk, & the most overlooked lesson of 9/11

September 11, 2025 By Merritt Clifton

Remembering & revisiting national trauma The September 10,  2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder,  evangelist,  and conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University for many Americans upstaged the twenty-fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11,  2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Understandably so;  a third of all Americans were […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Islam, Police & military, Religion & philosophy, Service dogs, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: David Charlebois, Flight 77, Flight 93, Garo Alexanian, Merritt Clifton, North Shore Animal League, Osama bi Laden, Perry Fina, Suffolk County SPCA

Animal & human heroes, Charlie Kirk, & the most overlooked lesson of 9/11

September 11, 2025 By Merritt Clifton

Remembering & revisiting national trauma The September 10,  2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder,  evangelist,  and conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University for many Americans upstaged the twenty-fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11,  2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Understandably so;  a third of all Americans were […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top, Humane history, Islam, Police & military, Religion & philosophy, Service dogs, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: David Charlebois, Flight 77, Flight 93, Garo Alexanian, Merritt Clifton, North Shore Animal League, Osama bi Laden, Perry Fina, Suffolk County SPCA

New York City transition succeeding, says longtime ASPCA critic

March 2, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Early in 2014 I was interviewed by The New York Times and the New York Post about my opinion on the ASPCA transferring humane law enforcement duties to the New York City Police Department (see ASPCA cedes lead role in New York City humane law enforcement to police.)   I told both reporters that “Sometimes […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Letters, Opinions & Letters, USA Tagged With: ASPCA, Garo Alexanian

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