But the Columbian white-tailed deer came off the U.S. endangered species list before the refuge even began to recover from 45 years of cattle grazing CATHLAMET, Washington––Thanks to wetland restoration, the Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge for the Columbian white-tailed deer now looks more like protected habitat than a feedlot. Fifty years after […]
Dog blood donors wanted; California ends canine blood bank monopoly
Count Dracula meets the Greyhound of the Baskervilles SACRAMENTO, California––California, the only U.S. state that closely regulates the veterinary blood product industry, as of January 1, 2022 will have a new regulatory regime for sourcing canine blood products for the third time in 20 years. California governor Gavin Newsom on October 9, 2021 endorsed […]
Will captive lions caught in wildfire light a fire under South African legislators?
Promised bill to ban breeding lions for cub-petting, trophy shoots, & bone commerce awaits introduction––and action BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa––Five months after South African minister of forestry, fisheries & the environment Barbara Creecy announced that she would pursue legislation to ban breeding captive lions for cub-petting, trophy shoots, and exports of lion bones for use […]
Jack Hanna shenanigans get Columbus Zoo the boot from the AZA––again
Previous “one year” suspension lasted just seven months––& many other AZA zoos then did what Jack Hanna had done COLUMBUS, Ohio––Forty-plus years of Jack Hanna shenanigans finally caught up to the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium on October 1, 2021. The Association of Zoos & Aquariums [AZA] for the second time yanked the Columbus Zoo’s […]
Soon-to-retire NIH chief Francis Collins went both ways on lab animals
“We are not rats and we are not even other primates,” Collins said, but NIH is now using more of both WASHINGTON D.C.–– Francis S. Collins, who both de-emphasized animal research and presided over expanded animal research during his 12 years as director of the National Institutes of Health [NIH], on October 5, 2021 disclosed […]
19 dead puppies & $12,000 in fines, but shelter director says he’d do it again?
301 code violations & losing newly transported pups to parvovirus wasn’t bad enough? CAMDEN, Delaware––That the First State Animal Center & SPCA in Camden, Delaware recently lost 19 puppies to parvovirus is no great shock to veterans of animal care and rescue: sometimes bloody diarrhea happens among stressed puppies brought or transported to shelters, no […]
The best news of 2021 for North Atlantic seals, whales, & dolphins
Young Newfoundlanders rescue seven stranded pilot whales near scene of “A Whale For The Killing” EMBREE, Newfoundland––The best news in 2021 both for harp seals and gray seals in Atlantic Canada and for pilot whales and Atlantic white-sided dolphins in the Faroe Islands, 2,000 miles east across the North Atlantic, might in the long run […]
Six pit bull-related deaths linked to “The Wickedest City in America”
Phenix City goes to the dogs (& transfers dogs to laboratories) PHENIX CITY, Alabama––Frank Jerome “Red” Cobb, 70, killed by a pit bull on September 21, 2021, was at least the sixth pit bull-related fatality linked to Phenix City, Alabama, population 36,000, since 1988. Only three of the deaths, including Cobb’s. actually occurred within […]
“Victories” that are not, & other views of big animal groups from “The Eejit”
“Promises, promises,” to the skirl of bagpipes Soon-to-retire longtime Animal Concern campaign director John Robins, being a Scot who may never have seen a baseball game, is not known to have ever used a metaphor borrowed from baseball. (See “Eejit” John Robins shuffles off after 41 years fighting for animals in Scotland.) Robins is known, […]
Courts reject suing landlords for attacks by dogs kept by indigent tenants
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” exempts landlords from risk MONTPELIER, Vermont––A newly published Vermont Supreme Court decision, rendered on September 3, 2021, affirms previous jurisprudence weakening the ability of dog attack victims and survivors to sue landlords in cases involving tenants’ dogs. The verdict in Katherine Higgins v. Shawn Bailey & Suzan Bailey appears to give […]
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