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TNR boomed before COVID-19 hit, Alley Cat Rescue survey shows

April 24, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Feral cat sterilizations were up 23% in seven years;  what is happening now?            MOUNT RANIER,  Maryland––Feral cat control by trap-neuter-return [TNR] was accomplishing more than ever before through 2019,  including a 23% increase in the numbers of cats sterilized over the annual average in 2012,  suggests newly released data from the Alley Cat Rescue […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Population control, Shelters, Spay/neuter, USA Tagged With: Alley Cat Rescue, Becky Robinson, Gavin Ehringer, Louise Holton, Merritt Clifton, Walt Disney

Increasing the survival rates of kittens

March 29, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

by Nancy Peterson & the National Kitten Coalition (with some kibbitzing from ANIMALS 24-7) Five years ago––six years ago in July 2021––I retired after 18 years as first and still only national cat program manager for the Humane Society of the United States. Having a national and even sometimes international platform to help animals,  especially […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Population control, Shelters, Spay/neuter, USA Tagged With: Esther Mechler, Louise Holton, Merritt Clifton, Nancy Peterson, Rebecca Robinson, Rosemarie Crawford, Susan Spaulding

Predation is nature’s disease control, including for Tweety & Sylvester

March 16, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Too few cats around bird feeders means pine siskins die by thousands          SACRAMENTO, California––When are free-roaming cats watching a bird feeder the birds’ best friend? When infectious disease is at large among common bird feeder species,  spreading rapidly from bird to bird in the absence of predators to kill and consume the sick and […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Birds, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Shelters, Spay/neuter, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Becky Robinson, Edward Howe Forbush, Krysta Rogers, Louise Holton, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Beldomenico, Phil Arkow

Secrets of Marion Island: what NatGeo didn’t tell you

December 18, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Seabird recovery project haunted by ghosts of cats, in the form of voracious mice             CAPE TOWN––National Geographic writer Leslie Nemo omitted two of the most ecologically significant facts about the Marion Island Special Nature Reserve from her December 14,  2018 online feature “Saving a remote island’s birds—by getting rid of its mice.”              Lauding […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Population control, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Ben Dilley, Leslie Nemo, Louise Holton, Merritt Clifton, Otto Whitehead, Peter Wolf, Ross Wanless

Marking territory: photographers vs. Alley Cat Allies

November 11, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Pissing match hits the Chronicle of Philanthropy             ARLINGTON,  Virginia––Founded almost literally in a Washington D.C. alley to advocate on behalf for one of the most contentious of species,  Alley Cat Allies has for 28 years been embroiled in controversy on a daily basis,  but without––until mid-November 2018––itself becoming controversial over management issues. That was […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Becky Robinson, Donna Wilcox, Elizabeth Putsche, Jason Putsche, Judge Paul W. Grimm, Louise Holton, Marc Gunther, Merritt Clifton, Robin Ganzert

TNR protects African wildcats from “genetic pollution” & ferals from cruelty

October 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Alley Cat Rescue begins project at Kruger National Park             KRUGER NATIONAL PARK,  South Africa––Alley Cat Rescue,  of Mount Ranier,  Maryland,   is now “working to implement trap-neuter-return programs for stray/feral cats around Kruger National Park,”  according to founder Louise Holton,  to keep African wildcats from hybridizing with their domestic descendants. Having “advocated for the humane […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Botswana, Cats, China, Conservation, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Namibia, Population control, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Becky Robinson, Charles Darwin, Jaclyn Tennant, Llewellyn Foxcroft, Louise Holton, Marna Herbst, Merritt Clifton, Rita Brock

$1.5 million DC Cat Count: useful, make-work, or compiling a hit list?

July 27, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Counting cats in Washington D.C. & how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall             WASHINGTON D.C.––For $1.5 million,  one could catch,  sterilize,  and microchip all of the approximately 7,000 free-roaming,  not-yet-fixed cats who may be at large in the 68.34 square miles of Washington D.C.,  at an average cost per cat of […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Humane history, Hunting & trapping, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, Becky Robinson, Edward Howe Forbush, George Fenwick, Howard & Clara Trumbull, John Marbanks, Louise Holton, Merritt Clifton, Nico Dauphine, Peter Marra, Tyler Flockhart

Which Hurricane Harvey animal relief charity took the Labor Day weekend off?

September 1, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

How far north will torrential rains and flooding be felt?          HOUSTON,  TEXAS––Having scourged the length of the Texas coast,  inundating more than a third of Houston,  soaking western Louisiana as well,  Hurricane-turned-tropical-storm Harvey is expected to drench Tennessee next,  from Memphis to Nashville,  before blowing out over Washington D.C. over the Labor Day weekend. […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Anthony Mitchell, Brian C. Hawthorne, Brian Davies, Desiree Stapley, Louise Holton, Merritt Clifton, Paul Seigel

Cat rescuer & advocate AnnaBell Washburn, 90, had global influence

August 22, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Pioneer of neuter/return transformed & healed wounds within the animal advocacy community AnnaBell Leinbach Washburn, 90,  “seen as the matriarch of an entirely new way of thinking within the animal rights movement” in the words of longtime friend and Alley Cat Allies founder Becky Robinson,  died on August 12,  2017 in New York City. More […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Shelters, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: AnnaBell Leinbach, AnnaBell Washburn, Becky Robinson, Ellen Perry Berkeley, Joe Sanchez, Leontyne Price, Louise Holton, Merritt Clifton, Mike Phillips DVM, Stanley Washburn

Pit bulls, “outliers” & Humane Society of the U.S. prez Wayne Pacelle

July 23, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Pits kill four people in five years within 15 minutes of Pacelle’s family home,  but he calls us insanely aggressive A 10-year-old girl in Bridgeport,  Connecticut will require multiple surgeries over the next several years to repair damage inflicted on July 18,  2017 by a family member’s pit bull.  The pit bull first attacked a […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Breeding, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Feral animals, Feral cats, Food & agriculture, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Urban wildlife, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, Ann Landers, Becky Robinson, Brody Mullins, David Wills, Henry Bergh, Jocelyn Winfrey, Louise Holton, Marritt Clifton, Mary Lou Sappone, Rebecca Carey, Wayne Pacelle

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