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Jaripeo Baile rodeo participants don’t know a downed bull from a piñata

August 4, 2026 By Merritt Clifton

The mayhem at the rented home of the California Rodeo Salinas was not bull-riding,  steer-tailing,  or even bullfighting as done by the rules             SALINAS,  California––If the Jaripeo Baile held on August 1,  2026 at the Salinas Sports Complex in Salinas,  California had been an authentic exhibition of Mexican culture,  the participants who kicked and […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Bullfighting, Bullfighting, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Mexico, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sports, The Americas, USA Tagged With: Angelo Ortiz, Chris Cerney, Merritt Clifton, Mike Kobliska, Steve Hindi

200 to 300 cockfighters flee Athens, Texas bust, leaving 29 cars behind

July 15, 2025 By Merritt Clifton

Showing Animals Respect & Kindness relays tip––and local cops act ATHENS,  Texas––“Showing Animals Respect & Kindness got a tip this morning of a cockfight in progress near Athens,  Texas.  We called it into the Henderson County sheriff,”  SHARK investigator Mike Kobliska emailed to ANIMALS 24-7 on July 13  2025. “They seem to have done a good job,”  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Botie Hillhouse, Jose Miguel Alicea-Reyes, Linda Robertson, Merritt Clifton, Mike Kobliska, Zak Wellerman

Jack Link’s beef jerky CEO pigeon massacre jeopardizes bald eagles too

February 27, 2024 By Merritt Clifton

What stinks most at Okeechobee is the atmosphere of sadistic privilege OKEECHOBEE, Florida––Turkey vultures circling over the Quail Creek Sporting Ranch in Okeechobee,  Florida,  shown swooping on wounded and abandoned pigeons in Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] drone video,  dramatized only a small part of what stinks there. Most of the stench comes from […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Laws, Laws & politics, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Jack Link, Merritt Clifton, Mike Kobliska, Steve Hindi, Troy Link, Wayne Pacelle

“Here they came to snuff the rooster” in Cantrell country, but SHARK saved him

June 29, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Showing Animals Respect & Kindness stops yet another big cockfight STRINGTOWN, Oklahoma––”Here they came to snuff the rooster,”  to paraphrase the best known song by “Alice In Chains” guitarist Jerry Cantrell,  the most famous of the 410 residents of Stringtown,  Oklahoma. Yet more than 60 carloads of cockfighting enthusiasts barely saw any roosters snuffed on […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Alice In Chains, Bonnie & Clyde, Jerry Cantrell, Mike Kobliska, Miranda Lambert, Reba McIntire, Rob Baughman, Steve Hindi, Stringtown

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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