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Gadhi Mai 2019: more animals killed than in 2014, but fewer people watched

December 7, 2019 by Merritt Clifton 2 Comments

But drone videos show––again––that the body count was vastly lower than is often claimed BARIYARPUR,  Nepal––More animals were slain at the 2019 Gadhi Mai sacrificial massacre in Bariyarpur,  Nepal,  than in 2014––a deeply disappointing discovery,  after 15 years of international efforts to stop the every-five-years bloodbath held in honor of a local goddess. Drone video […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Buddhism, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Top, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Gadhi Mai, Kitty Block, Manoj Gautam, Merritt Clifton, Uttam G.P. Dahal

HSUS, Donald Trump, & the PACT Act: The Art of the Deal

November 29, 2019 by Merritt Clifton 6 Comments

Good publicity for Trump,  fundraising photo-op for HSUS & friends,  but not much in it for animals WASHINGTON D.C.––One could almost suspect a quid-pro-quo deal––Latin for “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine”––among U.S. President Donald Trump and major U.S. animal charities,  especially the Humane Society of the United States,   in arranging the heavily […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Screen industry, USA Tagged With: David Wills, Donald Trump, Hillary Hanson, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Michael Vick, Sara Amundson, Vikki Lynn Kittles

More cockfighters than stars in Doris Day/Clint Eastwood country?

October 20, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Cock-breeding explodes around Carmel-by-the-Sea             MONTEREY,  California––By the look of it,  more might have been done in Monterey County to enforce legislation against breeding gamecocks if California had remained a U.S. territory in 1850 instead of becoming a state,  four years after overthrowing Spanish rule.             Exulted Humane Society of the U.S. president Kitty Block […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Top, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Brad Miller, Doris Day, John Ramirez, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Royal Calkins, Steve Hindi

David Wills, ex-humane exec, convicted; may get life in child sex case

October 8, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

17-count conviction follows two-week trial; sentence pending             ROCKPORT,  Texas––David Keith Wills,  a former executive of four humane  organizations including the Humane  Society of the United States,  faces a potential sentence of life in prison,  following his conviction on October 8,  2019  by a U.S. federal court jury in Rockport,  Texas on 17 counts pertaining […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Animal organizations, Crustaceans, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Marine life, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: David Wills, Hugo Martinez, Kitty Block, Maria Candelaria Losoya, Merritt Clifton, Michael Gibson, Rick Bennett, Ryan K. Patrick, Stephanie BaumanNelva Gonzales Ramos, Wayne Pacelle, Zahra Fenelon

“National Pit Bull Awareness Month” opens with two pit bull fatalities

October 1, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

But HSUS and the ASPCA mark the occasion by pushing pit bulls for families Rottweiler kills a child,  too             NEW YORK CITY,  WASHINGTON D.C.––October 2019,  designated the thirteenth annual “National Pit Bull Awareness Month” by pit bull advocates,  opened with a blood-red sunrise. Only 24 hours earlier police in Bryan County,  Oklahoma,  and Hampton, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Allen "Hooty" Bruce, Kitty Block, Melissa Lemons, Merritt Clifton, Michael Don Wright, Morgan Crayton, Talina Ramsey

Covance beagle breeding kennels: they are not Snoopy’s doghouse

July 19, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

SHARK’s flying machines expose the alleged Bloody Red Baron of animal testing             CUMBERLAND, Virginia––Labcorp,  parent company of Covance Research Products,  has yet to respond to SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) drone video exposing how thousands of beagles live at the Covance company puppy mill in Cumberland, Virginia,  according to SHARK president Steve Hindi. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Religion & philosophy, Science Tagged With: David Fleshler, Friedrich Mulln, Kitty Block, Lisa Leiten, Mary Beth Sweetland, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Steve Hindi

Secrets of Doris Day’s life & work for animals

May 15, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Publicity added much spin & gloss to what was already a positive record             CARMEL,  California––Doris Day,  97,  died from pneumonia on May 13,  2019. Day was remembered worldwide as a singer who recorded more than 650 songs between 1939 and 1967;  an actress who starred in more than 40 films between 1947 and 1968,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Laws & politics, Morocco, North Africa, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Screen industry, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Alfred Hitchcock, Bill Wewer, Charles Manson, Cleveland Amory, Doris Kappelhoff, Earl Holliman, Holly Hazard, Kitty Block, Lindsay Pollard, Merritt Clifton, Nick Thomas, Richard Bonner, Rick Spill, Shirley Temple, Terry Melcher

Four schemes to save 70,000 wild horses from a BLM Apocalypse

April 27, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

What the Trump administration plans & what wild horse advocates hope to do about it             WASHINGTON D.C.––The infamous Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,  riding a white horse,  red horse,  black horse,  and pale horse to sow Pestilence,  War,  Famine,  and Death,  are prophesied to come galloping at wild horses in the guise of Oil,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Sheep & goats, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife Tagged With: Anthony Marr, Chris Stewart, Donald Trump, Kitty Block, Laura Leigh, Merritt Clifton, Priscilla Feral, Sara Amundson, Suzanne Roy

Killing contests: culture war losers flip the bird

February 20, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

The whole point is to be part of a gang doing the socially unacceptable To non-hunters,  little could present a worse advertisement for hunting than the photographs,  widely distributed via social media,  of the 149 corpses of coyotes hung by their tails from a barbed wire-topped chain link fence outside American Legion Post 76 in […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Feature Home Top, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Marine life, Predators, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ann Landers, Cleveland Amory, Dave Pauli, Fred C. Coleman, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Roberrt Norton, Robert Jackson, Sam Schipani

Ex-HSUS vp David Wills child sex trial reset again, to Feb. 2019

November 23, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

Trial delayed since 2015 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Already postponed many times,  the long awaited trial of former humane society executive David Keith Wills on a federal charge of allegedly trafficking a minor for sexual purposes has again been rescheduled. Previous delays have been attributed to the Wills defense team allegedly stalling for time.  The current […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, USA Tagged With: David Keith Wills, David Wills, Kitty Block, Maria Losoya Candelaria, Merritt Clifton, Wayne Pacelle

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