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The Envigo beagle case: loose ends & lessons for animal advocates

July 11, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Breeding, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Religion & philosophy, Science, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Covance, Humane Society of the U.S., Jill Cheshire, Merritt Clifton, PETA, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi

4,500+ beagles freed from laboratory use by judge’s order

July 3, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Breeding, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, USA Tagged With: Humane Society of the U.S., Judge Norman Moon, Merritt Clifton, National Geographic, PETA, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Stop Animal Exploitation Now

Weary (and wary) rescuers decry dangerous dogs, yet never say “pit bull”

March 17, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Breeding, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: ASPCA, Best Friends Animal Society, Diane Orenchuk, Humane Society of the U.S., Kristine Millman-Rinaldi, Maddie's Fund, Mark Kumpf, Merritt Clifton

Talk can’t stop pigeon-shooting psychopaths, by Steve Hindi

November 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Heidi Prescott, HSUS, Humane Society of the U.S., Philadelphia Gun Club, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

Pit bulls & the humane community

September 15, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Asheville Humane Society, ASPCA, Best Friends Animal Society, Humane Society of the U.S., Merritt Clifton, Wayne Pacelle

HSUS cat herder Nancy Peterson announces retirement

July 8, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top, Feral animals, Feral cats, Population control, Shelters, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Cat Writers Association, HSUS, Humane Society of the U.S., Nancy Peterson, Wayne Pacelle

HSUS vp Wills sued for alleged bad debts

July 1, 1995 By Merritt Clifton

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, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA Tagged With: David Wills, Humane Society of the U.S., National Society for Animal Protection, Sandra LeBost

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