Bad as the Envigo kennels are, many animal shelter facilities are no better CUMBERLAND, Virginia––Much of the attention of the animal advocacy world, as this is written, is focused on the impending evacuation of 4,000-odd beagles from the Envigo kennels, formerly the LabCorp kennels, formerly the Covance Kennels. (See 4,500+ beagles freed from laboratory use […]
4,500+ beagles freed from laboratory use by judge’s order
Stop Animal Exploitation Now, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, PETA, National Geographic, & Humane Society of the U.S. all assist in bringing beagles to freedom and breeder to justice RICHMOND, Virginia––Running out of patience with the laboratory animal supply company Envigo, U.S. District Court Judge Norman K. Moon late on July 1, 2022 ordered Envigo […]
Weary (and wary) rescuers decry dangerous dogs, yet never say “pit bull”
Statements otherwise echo decades of warnings from ANIMALS 24-7 DETROIT, Michigan––Kristina Millman-Rinaldi, who in 2011 founded Detroit Dog Rescue, billed as “Detroit’s first no-kill shelter,” rattled the overlapping “no kill” and “rescue” worlds on March 12, 2022 by posting to Facebook a critique of the prevailing “no kill” and “rescue” philosophy strikingly similar in […]
Talk can’t stop pigeon-shooting psychopaths, by Steve Hindi
Why is Showing Animals Respect & Kindness alone in fighting pigeon shoots? [Guest columnist Steve Hindi founded Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, https://sharkonline.org/, in 1992.] The cowardly psychopaths of the Philadelphia Gun Club, located in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, began their slaughter season on Friday the thirteenth of November 2020, shooting emaciated, dehydrated live pigeons tossed out […]
Pit bulls & the humane community
Pit bulls & the humane community • No-kill drive leaves TN county with no shelter & as many strays as ever • 15 years ago Michael Vick’s pit bulls killed the humane movement • Pit bull star of 100+ Abandoned Dogs of Everglades Florida kills volunteer • “Rescuer” Heidi Lueders acquitted of allegedly starving five […]
HSUS cat herder Nancy Peterson announces retirement
The first HSUS cat program manager “The time has come,” Humane Society of the U.S. cat program manager Nancy Peterson announced in a July 6, 2015 e-mail to friends, colleagues, and ANIMALS 24-7. “I will be retiring on July 31, 2015,” Peterson said, “after seventeen and a half years with HSUS.” The first and to […]
HSUS vp Wills sued for alleged bad debts
by Merritt Clifton (July 1995) DETROIT––Humane Society of the U.S. vice president for investigations David Wills, founder of the short-lived National Society for Animal Protection before assuming his present post, is accused of failing to repay NSAP-related loans totaling $57,411 in cash and valuables in separate lawsuits filed by William and Judith McBride, of Ortonville, […]