Even if Donald Trump had not defeated Kamala Harris, the results for animals are dismal WASHINGTON D.C.––Factory farmers, cockfighters, hunters, trappers, furriers, and pit bull owners were among the big winners on national election night, November 5, 2024. Pigs, poultry, pumas, and bobcats were among the big losers. Animal advocates post-election have almost nothing […]
“Dark money” funds fight to keep hounding pumas & trapping bobcats
Trophy hunters & fur trappers rely on anonymous funding channelled by far right PACs DENVER––Amortized over the next four-year election cycle, Colorado Proposition 127, win or lose, will if nothing else have added about $500 to the price of hounding and shooting a puma, or of trapping a bobcat. Another way to put the effects […]
Cockfights hit, pumas on Colorado ballot, but no gains vs. steer-tailing
Cockfighters on the run in North Carolina, but only the steers are running––again and again––in Illinois coleaderos CREEDMOOR, North Carolina––Granville County, North Carolina sheriff’s deputies on July 27, 2024 busted their biggest cockfight in at least a dozen years. “After days of tips,” reported Carly Haynes for WRAL television news in Raleigh, “an undercover […]
Pumas, pit bulls, furriers & slaughterhouse all on 2024 Colorado ballot
Cats Aren’t Trophies statewide initiative gives hunters, ranchers, & trappers hiccups, but the meat industry, furriers, & pit bull advocates are also seething at the scratch line DENVER––Far more than just the 5.8 million Colorado residents, 715,000 of them in Denver and 393,000 in Aurora, a Denver suburb, will be watching the down ballot election […]
Will court unleash Colorado puma defenders to tree trophy hunters?
Petitioners for ballot initiative to ban hunting mountain lions, bobcats, & lynx await only Colorado Supreme Court go-ahead to get started DENVER, Colorado––Proponents of banning mountain lion [puma], bobcat, and lynx hunting in Colorado await only a Colorado Supreme Court verdict expected in February 2024 to hit the streets seeking at least 124,238 qualified signatures […]
Even the giant new Wild Horse Refuge can’t catch up to the mustang surplus
Sanctuaries & anti-slaughter legislation address the wrong end of the problem DENVER, Colorado––Wild horse advocates rejoiced on February 8, 2023 when the $29-million-a-year Wild Animal Sanctuary announced the purchase of 22,450 acres near Craig in northwest Colorado, to become The Wild Horse Refuge. “Spanning 29 square miles, a landmass larger than Manhattan, the refuge […]