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COVID-19: India feeds stray dogs; ASPCA says “don’t fix them”

April 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

ASPCA advice to shelters could increase puppy & kitten litters by about half a million  While pet keepers in the developed world fret about the apparently infinitesimally small risk of pets and humans infecting and reinfecting each other,  following the discovery of COVID-19 infecting one cat in Liege,  Belgium,  and two dogs and a cat […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, China, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Isles, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Shelters, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Thailand, United Kingdom, USA Tagged With: David Semple, Emmanuel Andre, Janice Girardi, John Dalley, Marjorie Pollack, Merritt Clifton, Steven Van Gucht, Varda Mehrotra, William F. Harvey

Bali: fighting rabies & dolphin captivity amid mud & ashes of a live volcano

October 12, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Long uphill struggles pay off             DENPASSAR, Bali,  Indonesia––Fireballs and lava are no longer flying from Mount Agung,  the reputed Balinese home of the gods,  but smoke,  steam,  and noxious gases are still rising from thermal vents,  keeping most humans at a distance,  Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA) dog rescuers excepted. Rabies persists in three […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Indonesia, Japan, Marine life, Marine mammals, Pacific rim, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Helene O’Barry, Janice Girardi, Lincoln O’Barry, Made Mangku Pastika, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry, Wayan Koster

Dog rescue on the slopes of Agung, Bali’s erupting “Mount Doom”

November 29, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

BAWA rushes to save animals beneath clouds of hot ash             UBUD,  Bali,  Indonesia––More than 4.2 million people,  350,000 dogs,  and perhaps a million other animals from monkeys and chickens to goats and cattle,  plus wildlife,  are looking over their shoulders at a 30,000-foot column of steam,  smoke,  and ash boiling out of Mount Agung. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Hinduism, Indonesia, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Agung, BAWA, Janice Girardi, Merritt Clifton

Mad dogs and Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika

June 28, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Governor repeats mistake that touched off an island-wide rabies outbreak            DENPASAR, Bali, Indonesia––If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly, each time expecting a different result, Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika on June 26, 2014 fitted himself for a strait jacket. Disregarding four years of steady progress toward quelling a canine […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top, Indonesia, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs Tagged With: Bali, Janice Girardi, Lisa Warden, Made Magku Pastika, Merritt Clifton

Political foes close Bali Animal Welfare Association

September 1, 2013 By Merritt Clifton

Veterinarians complained UBUD,  Bali,  Indonesia––The Bali Animal Welfare Association was on September 30,  2013 closed by police for allegedly operating without permits,  apparently following complaints from veterinarians about competition from the BAWA street dog clinic. “Our ambulance and spay/neuter team are not allowed to work until we get the clinic permit,  which will take a […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Indonesia, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs Tagged With: Bali, BAWA, Janice Girardi, Merritt Clifton

BAWA achieves Bali rabies turnaround

May 1, 2011 By Merritt Clifton

  UBUD,  Bali,  Indonesia–Vaccinating 210,000 dogs in the six months ending on March 31,  2011,  the Bali Animal Welfare Association achieved a 48% reduction in human rabies deaths and a 45% decrease in dog rabies cases.  This was the fastest containment of a rabies outbreak in the history of Indonesia,  achieved even as a 13-year-old outbreak continues in Flores,  where […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Indonesia, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs Tagged With: Bali, BAWA, Janice Girardi, Merritt Clifton

U.S. issues rabies advisory for Bali visitors as control effort stumbles 

January 1, 2009 By Merritt Clifton

  JAKARTA,  DENPASAR––The U.S. embassy to Indonesia on January 12,  2009 issued the outbreak notice that the Bali tourism industry had feared would be coming since mid-November 2008,  when reports first circulated about four human rabies deaths resulting from dog bites in two villages on the peninsula south of the Denpasar airport. “Rabies has been […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Indonesia, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs Tagged With: Bali, Henry Wilde, Janice Girardi, Merritt Clifton, rabies

Bali animal welfare societies battle rabies outbreak 

December 1, 2008 By Merritt Clifton

  DENPASAR,  Bali––Someone brought a rabid dog to Bali.  Yachting,  fishing,  or trading goods,  the culprit apparently came by boat,  docking near Ungasan village,  where about 170 families live on a peninsula forming the southernmost part of Bali. The rabid dog arrived at about the same time that more than 200 animal advocates from nearly […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Indonesia, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs Tagged With: Bali, BAWA, Janice Girardi, ProMED-mail, rabies

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