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Cullman County, Alabama: combatting cockfighting in a KKK stronghold

May 3, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Showing Animals Respect & Kindness aims to see the sun set on one of the Ku Klux Klan’s biggest fundraising rackets in one of the most notorious of “Sundown” counties CULLMAN,  Alabama––Cockfighting,  the Ku Klux Klan,  and corruption of law enforcement came together from Georgia to Cullman County,  Alabama,  home of the Bug Tussle cockpit,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Bug Tussle, John G. Cullman, Ku Klux Klan, Merritt Clifton, Monroe Evans, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi, White Caps

One African-American journalist’s view of John James Audubon

March 19, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

by Roger Witherspoon (Roger Witherspoon,  a member of the ANIMALS 24-7 board of directors,  has reported about environmental issues for more than 50 years;  developed the global Save The Tiger program for the Exxon Corporation;  and cofounded the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists,   the first chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.) John James […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Beliefs, Birds, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Laws, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forest, National Audubon Society, Roger Witherspoon, Sugar Ray Robinson, Walker Elliot Smith

How to stop dogfighting the quick, easy way

November 27, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Avoid the damage;  fix the dogs Animal advocates cheered on November 19,  2015 when Judge Wayne Durden of Polk County,  Florida sentenced alleged dogfighter Hewitt Grant II,  48,  to serve 20 years in prison. Convicted on 84 counts of cruelty,  Grant is to serve at least 16 years before becoming eligible for parole,  and is […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Carey H. Falwell, Hewitt Grant II, John P. Colby, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Merritt Clifton, Michael Vick, pit bull, Queen Elizabeth I, skinheads

Echoes of the Old South in pigeon-shooting lawyer’s promotion to judge

July 8, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Shot pigeons in front of Confederate flag HARRISBURG––Neither the slave-owning South, shot-wounded pigeons, nor the practice of pigeon shooting in civilized societies are ever likely to rise again. Just the same,  the Pennsylvania State Senate Judiciary Committee on June 26, 2014 ratified the promotion of Berks County attorney Adolph Joseph Antanavage to a Court of […]

Filed Under: Birds, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Laws & politics, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Adolph Joseph Antanavage, Ku Klux Klan, Mike Kobliska, Steve Hindi, Wayne Pacelle

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