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Puppies & kittens everywhere, but none in shelters to adopt

May 17, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Suspension of spay/neuter & intake services due to COVID-19 cuts adoptions by a third from 2019             NEW YORK CITY––Celebrating rehoming every dog and cat in custody soon after COVID-19 shutdowns began,  animal shelters from coast to coast are suddenly––and predictably––weeping,  wailing,  and tearing hair about having no adoptable animals to offer in response to […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Behavior & health, Breeding, Cats, China, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, India, Indian subcontinent, Population control, Population control, Shelters, Spay/neuter, Street dogs, USA Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Bryan Kortis, Katherine Ellen Foley, Matt Bershadker, Merritt Clifton, Ruth Steinberger

$5 for a cat head: True stories of animal welfare,  with hands-on tips for helping animals

April 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

by Linda Chitwood Director,  The Homeless Animals Relief Project 200 pages,  $29.00,  c/o HARP, POB 371, Senatobia, MS  38668;  https://homelessanimalsreliefproject.org/index.html. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Describing herself as “eighty percent of the way to dead,”  longtime Memphis nurse anesthetist Linda Chitwood relocated forty miles south to Senatobia,  Mississippi in 1996,  apparently expecting to spend a lot […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Population control, Spay/neuter, USA Tagged With: Esther Mechler, Linda Chitwood, Matt Bershadker, Merritt Clifton

How the ASPCA cooked 26 dogs in a truck: source comes forward

February 6, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Driver coming from Mississippi left the heat on?!             LITTLE ROCK,  Arkansas––Eight months after 26 dogs reportedly died aboard an American SPCA vehicle said to have been hauling them from one or more Mississippi shelters to Wisconsin to be offered for adoption,  an informed source has come forward to tell ANIMALS 24-7 what he understands […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Ben Feuerherd, Emily Jacobs, Gabrielle Fonrouge, Kate Murphy, Matt Bershadker, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, Skip Lunders

Why is the ASPCA stonewalling about the deaths of 20 dogs in transport?

June 6, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Three-week silence howls for answers             NEW YORK CITY––Twenty dogs died on May 15,  2019 aboard an American SPCA vehicle that was hauling them from one or more Mississippi shelters to Wisconsin to be offered for adoption. That could be called just a really bad accident,  except that three weeks after Emily Jacobs and Ben […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Angel Hueca, Ben Feuerherd, Beth Clifton, Ed Sayres, Elisabeth Lewyt, Emily Jacobs, John Kullberg, Larry Hawk, Matt Bershadker, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, Perry Fina, Roger Caras

Pit bull advocates owe Michael Vick bigtime, at victims’ expense

April 27, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Can victim advocacy restore integrity to the humane cause?          WASHINGTON,  D.C.––The 2007 conviction of football star Michael Vick for dogfighting helped hundreds of animal welfare executives and their minions to get filthy rich,  yet the animal advocacy groups pocketing the money did little,  if anything,  to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the April 20,  2007 drug […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Editorials, Humane history, Laws & politics, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, Beth Clifton, Cheryl Duffield, Dave Duffield, Emily Weiss, Matt Bershadker, Merritt Clifton, Michael Vick, Wayne Pacelle

Did ASPCA discover certifying SAFER dog screening might be dangerous?

December 4, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Or at least cost them a lot of money?          NEW YORK CITY–– “Effective immediately,  the ASPCA will be discontinuing the certification process for SAFER (Safety Assessment to Evaluate Re-homing),”  the American SPCA announced on December 2,  2015 via the ASPCApro blog distributed to shelter workers. The abrupt end to certifying SAFER test-givers appears to […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA Tagged With: ASPCA, Emily Weiss, Matt Bershadker, Merritt Clifton, SAFER test

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