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Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

July 20, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Edited with Introduction,  Afterword,  & Notes by Shelley Fisher Fishkin University of California Press https://www.ucpress.edu/ 325 pages,  hardcover.  $27.50. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Wrote Ed Duvin,  whose 1989 Animalines newsletter essay “In The Name of Mercy” prophesying  “no kill” animal sheltering is widely considered a classic of humane literature,  to ANIMALS 24-7 a few days […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Donkeys, Egypt, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Morocco, North Africa, Religion & philosophy, Street dogs Tagged With: Charles Dickens, Chuck Jones, Ed Duvin, Henry Bergh, Mark Twain, Merritt Clifton, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Walt Disney

Video helps nab alleged killer of “Rescue Ink” star Al “Alley Cat” Chernoff

November 17, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Surveillance video may accomplish something that the six episodes of “Rescue Ink” did not:  an arrest leading to the conviction of a suspect             PHILADELPHIA,  Pennsylvania––A decade after his brief heyday as one of the stars of the short-lived “reality TV” series Rescue Ink,  Al “Alley Cat” Chernoff  died on November 4,  2019 as the […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Al “Alley Cat” Chernoff, Eddie Lama, Eddie Rizzo, Henry Bergh, Joseph Panzarella, Mark Harrington, Merritt Clifton, Robert Misseri

“Dog Fighting Awareness”: what the ASPCA ignored

April 11, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Busts plummet as pit bull advocacy has all but legalized dogfighting             NEW YORK CITY,  N.Y.––Designated National Dog Fighting Awareness Day by the American SPCA,  April 8,  2019 and the next several days appear to have passed without a single dogfighting bust or other noteworthy event pertaining to dogfighting occurring anywhere in the United States. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Bill Cummings, Henry Bergh, Jessica Rubin, Merritt Clifton, Michael Vick, Victoria Stilwell

Who is the “outlier” now?

February 14, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Something changed on Groundhog Day Did you ever see the film Groundhog Day,  in which actor Bill Murray lived the same day over and over until he made some of the right ethical choices? We had already seen much of the humane cause leadership endlessly repeating unethical conduct,  at the expense of animals,  volunteers,  and […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Bill Murray, Henry Bergh, Merritt Clifton

Pit bulls, “outliers” & Humane Society of the U.S. prez Wayne Pacelle

July 23, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Pits kill four people in five years within 15 minutes of Pacelle’s family home,  but he calls us insanely aggressive A 10-year-old girl in Bridgeport,  Connecticut will require multiple surgeries over the next several years to repair damage inflicted on July 18,  2017 by a family member’s pit bull.  The pit bull first attacked a […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Breeding, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Feral animals, Feral cats, Food & agriculture, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Urban wildlife, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, Ann Landers, Becky Robinson, Brody Mullins, David Wills, Henry Bergh, Jocelyn Winfrey, Louise Holton, Marritt Clifton, Mary Lou Sappone, Rebecca Carey, Wayne Pacelle

“We face a humane education crisis!” says HSUS historian Unti

April 20, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Orphan cause was foundation of the animal advocacy movement (See also HSUS bails out of humane education; ASPCA & AHA already did.) SEATTLE,  Washington––To see overt cruelty to animals––and humans––today,  one need only go to Facebook or search on the Worldwide Web. No sort of cruelty or misery is far from view,  despite the efforts of […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Bernard Unti, Caroline Earle White, Diana Belais, George Angell, Henry Bergh, Merritt Clifton, William Alan Swallow

How “Quality of Mercy” Swallowed the humane movement (part 2)

December 19, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

1963 history sidestepped controversies that revitalized the cause (See also Quality of Mercy Part 1.) By the end of the era in humane work that William Alan Swallow most thoroughly chronicles in Quality of Mercy (1963),  an era coinciding with the 40-year career of Swallow’s longtime close associate Eric H. Hansen (1903-1965),  most mainstream U.S. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Bands of Mercy, Eric H. Hansen, George Thorndyke Angell, Henry Bergh, Merritt Clifton, Richard Avanzino, William Alan Swallow

New York Police Department eclipses ASPCA humane law enforcement stats in first full year on the beat

February 9, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Impoundments & arrests triple NEW YORK CITY––Rescues of New York City animals from cruelty and neglect and arrests of alleged offenders all soared in 2014, the first full year since the American SPCA began turning the lead role in humane law enforcement over to the New York Police Department. Impoundments of abused and neglected animals […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Middle Left, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: ASPCA, Henry Bergh, Matthew Bershadker, Merritt Clifton, NYPD

Review: Monsters & Miracles: Henry Bergh’s America, by Gary Kaskel

March 5, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Monsters & Miracles:  Henry Bergh’s America by Gary Kaskel Infinity Publishing (1094 New DeHaven St.,  Suite100,  W. Conshohocken, PA 19428),  2013. 383 pages,  electronic & paperback formats.  $10.95.   Henry Bergh,  who founded the American SPCA in 1866,  remains such an influential and legendary figure that a succinct biography of Bergh fills nearly half of […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, USA Tagged With: ASPCA, Gary Kaskel, Henry Bergh, Merritt Clifton

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