California wolves eat seven times more cattle than wolves in other states DAVIS, California––Are recently self-reintroduced wolves in California targeting cattle due to a scarcity of their natural wild prey, or just as easy prey? Wolves on their way into California, raising their first surviving litter in 2016, followed mule deer and elk herds through […]
Mowing down great birds, a guest column by Susan Russell
No wisdom, grace, or beauty in massacring either barred owls or mute swans [Susan Russell, wildlife policy director for the Animal Protection League, based in New Jersey, was formerly national vice president of Friends of Animals, in Darien, Connecticut, and a legislative liaison for the Animal Welfare Institute, in Washington D.C.] Wildlife agencies captured by […]
California starts open season on mute swans, who will be “sitting ducks”
Shooting mute swans may be a little harder than shooting fish in a barrel, but not much SACRAMENTO, California––Open season on mute swans begins in California for five years, at least, on January 1, 2026. A bill establishing the open season was introduced by California state assembly member Jeff Gonzalez, a Republican from Indio, a […]
California bans declawing cats without seceding from the United States
42 nations have now banned declawing cats, & nine of the ten Canadian provinces, but only four U.S. states SACRAMENTO, California––California governor Gavin Newsom on October 9, 2025 endorsed into law AB 867 by state assembly member Alex Lee, a Democrat from Milpitas, “which bans the practice of declawing cats when not medically necessary,” […]
Live markets torture animals & perhaps poison people in your city too
by Eric Mills, coordinator, Action for Animals, Oakland, California. The San Francisco Commission of Animal Care & Control met on February 13, 2025. On the agenda: animal cruelty in the city’s many live markets, presented by the Washington, D.C.-based organization, Animal Outlook, replete with videos of the abuses and violations. The involvement of Animal Outlook, […]
Dog blood donors wanted; California ends canine blood bank monopoly
Count Dracula meets the Greyhound of the Baskervilles SACRAMENTO, California––California, the only U.S. state that closely regulates the veterinary blood product industry, as of January 1, 2022 will have a new regulatory regime for sourcing canine blood products for the third time in 20 years. California governor Gavin Newsom on October 9, 2021 endorsed […]
The price of defiance: COVID-19 vs. the Cottondale Mother’s Day Rodeo
Whoever that masked man was, he was not in the rodeo arena COTTONWOOD, California––There are sound epidemiological arguments against outdoor mask-wearing to fight the spread of COVID-19, and in favor of getting more people out into the spring sunshine, but those arguments were not much in evidence at the 58th annual Mother’s Day Rodeo […]
Why U.S. furriers don’t advertise much any more
Mink coat ads vanish from newsprint SACRAMENTO, California––A furrier somewhere in the U.S. may yet buy a page of advertising, in what little remains of 2019, in one of the thousands of newspapers that are electronically searchable at www.NewspaperArchive.com. As of December 29, 2019, however, the year appeared to be ending without a single NewspaperArchive […]
Fur sales, wildlife acts, & hiding dog bite history banned in California
Fur-bearing animals & adopters of shelter/rescue dogs win protections SACRAMENTO, California––The new animal-related law in California that Governor Gavin Newsom and mass media said least about, to help protect Californians against recklessly rehomed dogs with bite history, may in the end become the most emulated among the raft of bills sent to Newsom’s desk […]
More Election 2018 results––& where the pit bulls lurked
Michigan attorney general Nessel & California governor Newsom kept their pit bull history behind closed doors LANSING, SACRAMENTO––Pit bull attacks, as ANIMALS 24-7 pointed out on November 6, 2018, were the “divisive” issue that was omitted from the Election Day 2018 political discussion, but not because pit bull advocates had not hoped to reinforce […]