If a cat has nine lives, Wildlife Waystation had dozens SYLMAR, California––Wildlife Waystation, the often embattled prototype for dozens of other sanctuaries for former exotic pets and animals used in laboratories and entertainment, has closed, after 43 years, nearly four months after the reportedly forced retirement of founder Martine Colette. Colette continued to live […]
What you do when duck hunters start shooting up a county beach?
Dear friends & readers: Shotgun blasts boomed out across the Saratoga Passage, almost directly below our home three short blocks away as we started down toward Hidden Beach with our dogs, Teddy, a young Jack Russell/Shi tzu mix, and Bo, an old cattle dog mix. A startled flock of surf scoters hurried out across the […]
Deborah Sue Culwell gets a year in jail for Coachella puppy dumping
Unsympathetic suspect, but shelter policies may have been accessories to the alleged crime COACHELLA, California––Riverside County Superior Court Judge Harold Hopp on August 14, 2019 sentenced Deborah Sue Culwell, 59, to serve 365 days in custody for abandoning seven puppies in a trash bin on a hot day in April. Counting time already served […]
Will Nairobi shoot dogs, vaccinate them, or serve them for dinner?
Governor’s proposals confuse & alarm Kenya NAIROBI, Kenya––Does Nairobi County governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko want to shoot street dogs, vaccinate them against rabies, or serve them for dinner? Three and a half months after the Sonko administration began running the three proposals up the flagpole to see who might salute, neither Nairobi citizens, news […]
30-year ASPCA rep Julie Morris, 1955-2019: The paradox of “St. Julie”
Morris mostly told the humane community what it wanted to hear NEW YORK, N.Y.––Julie Morris, 63, an American SPCA staff member since 1990, and a 41-year veteran of humane work, died on August 3, 2019 after a multi-year battle with cancer. Among the best-liked and most recognized people in animal welfare, Morris was widely […]
Bali hotel dolphins rescued––but will they be freed?
10-year effort gets animals out of sub-par facility BALI, Indonesia––The Jakarta Animal Aid Network and Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project on August 7, 2019 celebrated the transfer of two dolphins and a menagerie of other animals from “deplorable conditions” at the Melka Excelsior Hotel in Lovina, North Bali, Indonesia to a variety of other Bali animal […]
Pit bulls win, victims lose in USDOT & South Dakota Supreme Court rulings
USDOT “guidance” to airlines follows letter of Americans with Disabilities Act WASHINGTON D.C., PIERRE, South Dakota––Public safety and pit bull victim advocates on August 8, 2019 suffered a double disappointment, as the U.S. Department of Transportation and the South Dakota Supreme Court each issued edicts against breed-specific public policy. Both the U.S. Department of […]
Dolphins in undersized tank to be moved (March 1995)
Amphitrite & Thetis are moving! SAN FRANCISCO––Amphitrite and Thetis are moving. Kept in an admittedly undersized tank at the Steinhart Aquarium since 1975 and 1978, respectively, the two female Pacific whitesided dolphins will join others of their kind at a state-of-the-art oceanarium elsewhere “within three to nine months,” new Steinhart director Robert Jenkins told ANIMALS […]
Did the Omak Suicide Race start with a horse massacre & the KKK?
Uncovering the nasty origins of an ugly event OMAK, Washington––The 86th annual edition of the bizarre and often deadly “World Famous Suicide Race” held annually in Omak, Washington, is to be held nightly, August 8-11, 2019. Bizarre as the race itself is, even more bizarre––and perplexing––is that the 12 Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation […]
Galveston mock lynching may hasten police horse era to an end
Incident “makes me want to cry,” says former mounted police officer Beth Clifton GALVESTON, Texas––Two Galveston mounted police officers clipped a handcuffed homeless and reportedly bipolar black man to a rope, with a noose at the other end of the rope, and walked the man between their horses eight blocks through the city streets […]
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