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Rodeo: busting up the animals in Nativity scenes in the name of Jesus Christ

January 17, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

by Eric Mills,  coordinator,  Action for Animals,  Oakland,  California “Cowboys,  sensing—like gorillas—that their time has passed,  cling ever more desperately to anachronistic styles, not willing to admit that the myth has degenerated,  the traditions eroded to a point where attempting to sustain them falls somewhere between silliness and the outright ridiculous.” ––Larry McMurtry in the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Cowboys for Christ, Di Evans, Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence, Gavin Ehringer, Joan Burbick, Larry McMurtry, Louise Serpa, PRCA, T.K. Hardy

An Unnatural Order:  The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature by Jim Mason

April 27, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Reviewed by Merritt Clifton 193 pages,  paperback.  $20.00. Lantern Publishing & Media,  www.lanternpm.org The slimmed-and-trimmed 2021 edition of An Unnatural Order:  The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature,  published 28 years after the first edition,  is dated only by author Jim Mason’s new introduction,  in which he acknowledges the many changes in the world occurring […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Judaism, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Charles Darwin, Gavin Ehringer, Jim Mason, Merritt Clifton, misothery, Niles Eldridge, Peter Singer, Stephen Jay Gould

TNR boomed before COVID-19 hit, Alley Cat Rescue survey shows

April 24, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Feral cat sterilizations were up 23% in seven years;  what is happening now?            MOUNT RANIER,  Maryland––Feral cat control by trap-neuter-return [TNR] was accomplishing more than ever before through 2019,  including a 23% increase in the numbers of cats sterilized over the annual average in 2012,  suggests newly released data from the Alley Cat Rescue […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Population control, Shelters, Spay/neuter, USA Tagged With: Alley Cat Rescue, Becky Robinson, Gavin Ehringer, Louise Holton, Merritt Clifton, Walt Disney

Aloha Rodeo: animal advocates, Disney, & Cheyenne showdown

March 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Will forthcoming film “glorify steer roping” & help to revive rodeo,  or help to finish it? UPDATE:  The online entertainment periodical Deadline on May 18,  2021 announced that it had “learned that Disney is no longer moving forward with the [Aloha Rodeo] project.”   CHEYENNE,  Wyoming––Walt Disney Inc.,  Cheyenne Frontier Days,  and a coalition of animal […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Archie Kaaua, Chris Kekaniokalani Bright, David Wolman, Eben Parker “Ben” Low, Gavin Ehringer, Glenn Close, Ikua Purdy, Julian Smith, Lane Frost, Merritt Clifton, Roy Edward Disney, Walt Disney

Pit hags, rescue angels, crazy cat ladies,  dog men & chicken fighters:  what’s in a name?

May 6, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

The late linguist,  lexicographer,  and “crazy cat man” Reinhold Aman would have relished the question SONOMA,  California––Researching the etymology of the terms “pit hag,”  “rescue angel,” “crazy cat lady,”  “dog man” and “chicken fighter,”  absent from most dictionaries yet almost universally understood within the animal advocacy world,  would have fascinated Reinhold Aman,  82,   who died […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Adlai Stevenson, Ed Lowe, Gavin Ehringer, Jeff Borchardt, Jesse Sheidlower, Merritt Clifton, Reinhold Aman

England Goes to the Dogs, by Gavin Ehringer

February 11, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

The following is an excerpt from Leaving the Wild: The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Cows, and Horses by Gavin Ehringer, which explores the ever-evolving relationship between humans and domesticated animals. Preamble,  by Jessica Case,  deputy publisher,  Pegasus Books: The little-examined, yet omnipresent act of breeding lies at the core of Gavin Ehringer’s book.  You’ll meet cows cloned from […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Greyhounds, Hunting, Isles, United Kingdom, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Charles Lane, Gavin Ehringer, Mary Elizabeth Thurston, Queen Victoria, W.R. Pape

Cats: Life in the Great Indoors, by Gavin Ehringer

January 22, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

The following is an excerpt from Leaving the Wild: The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Cows, and Horses by Gavin Ehringer, which explores the ever-evolving relationship between humans and domesticated animals. Preamble,  by Jessica Case,  deputy publisher,  Pegasus Books: The domestication of animals changed the course of human history. But what about the animals who […]

Filed Under: Behavior & health, Book & film reviews, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top Tagged With: Ed Lowe, Gavin Ehringer, Jessica Case

Leaving The Wild:  The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Cows & Horses

December 5, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

by Gavin Ehringer Pegasus Books,  distributed by W.W. Norton & Co. 364 pages.  $27.95 hardcover.  In stores December 5,  2017. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Remember the most gripping and informative few books you ever read about dogs,  cats,  cows,  and/or horses,  by authors as thorough as the multi-time best sellers Desmond Morris,  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Book & film reviews, Breeding, Cats, Cattle & dairy, Central Asia, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Population control, Population control, Shelters, Show, Training, USA, Uses of dogs, Wild horses, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts, Working horses Tagged With: Charles Darwin, Desmond Morris, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Gavin Ehringer, Herodotus, Merritt Clifton, Sonia Faruqi, Stanley Coren, Walt Disney

Standing Rock: Who let the dogs out?

September 7, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

With suspects identified, will the injured Sioux sue?          FORT YATES,  North Dakota––Who let the dogs out? Confronting protesters near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation on September 3,  2016 with five to eight leashed but leaping,  lunging,  and biting dogs,  who injured at least six people and a horse,  the Dakota Access pipeline construction security […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top, Laws & politics, Native American beliefs, Police & military, Religion & philosophy, Training, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Amy Goodman, Ashley Nicole Welch, Bob Frost, David Archambault II, Gavin Ehringer, Jonni Joyce, Merritt Clifton

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