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“Rescue hoarding” cases horrify Iowa

March 7, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Iowa cases exemplify national trend          DES MOINES,  Iowa––Arrested on February 13,  2017,  Bully Breed Miracle Networking & Rescue founder Lindsey Morrow,  41,  is awaiting trial in Warren County,  Iowa,  on five counts of animal torture,  five counts of animal neglect,  second-degree theft,  second-degree fraudulent practice and ongoing criminal conduct. Alerted to conditions of severe […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Breeding, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Kim Norvell, Lindsey Morrow, Merritt Clifton, Natalie Finn, Nathan Winograd, Nicole Marie Finn, Richard Avanzino, Sarah Mervosh, Whitney Smither

Street dogs in the U.S.?  Nathan Winograd has gone barking mad.

February 6, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

by Merritt Clifton Among the most vociferous critics of ANIMALS 24-7 guest columnist Jeff Young’s essay We cannot adopt, warehouse or rescue our way out of dog & cat overpopulation! was No Kill Advocacy Center founder Nathan Winograd. Winograd’s own recommendations in response to the homeless dog and cat problem have long been a hodgepodge of wishful […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Beliefs, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Dogs & cats, Editorials, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Opinions & Letters, Pacific islands & other, Pacific rim, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, The Americas, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Blue Cross of India, F.X. Meslin, Friends of Fethye Animals, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd

Pit bull crime doubled in 2016

January 2, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Surging use of pit bulls as offensive weapons             WASHINGTON D.C.––Violent crime involving dogs approximately doubled in 2016,  almost all of it involving pit bulls,  according to the best available data. Rarely reported before 2013,  known arrests of perpetrators who used pit bulls as adjuncts to armed robbery,  rape,  kidnapping,  and murder,  exclusive of manslaughter […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Uses of dogs Tagged With: James Soto, Merritt Clifton, Michael Berry, Michael Vick, Nathan Winograd

No-kill pioneer Richard Avanzino to retire after dispensing $153 million in Maddie’s Fund grants

March 28, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Founding president of Maddie’s Fund after long tenure as president of the San Francisco SPCA          PLEASANTON, California––Maddie’s Fund on March 25, 2015 announced that founding president Richard Avanzino is to retire in June, at the end of the current fiscal year. Said David Duffield,   who cofounded Maddie’s Fund with his wife […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Middle Right, Feral cats, Population control, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Brenda Barnette, David Duffield, Emma Clifford, Maddie's Fund, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, Richard Avanzino

Former New York City animal control chief Julie Bank takes the reins in Oklahoma City

February 4, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Bank is expected to help Oklahoma City achieve further dramatic drops in shelter killing OKLAHOMA CITY––Former New York City Animal Care & Control chief Julie Bank on January 16, 2015 assumed direction of the Oklahoma City Animal Shelter and Animal Welfare Division. Succeeding acting director John Gary, who had replaced 14-year executive director Catherine English, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Middle Right, Population control, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Julie Bank, Nathan Winograd, Pat Claerbout, Phillip Zimmerman

Oakland hires former SF animal control chief Rebecca Katz to face Nathan Winograd and pit bull advocates in their lair

November 1, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

“To oversee the transition of Oakland Animal Services” OAKLAND––The City of Oakland on October 29, 2014 announced the hiring of former San Francisco Animal Care & Control director Rebecca Katz, 43, “to oversee the transition of Oakland Animal Services into a stand-alone department in the city administrator’s office.”  Katz is to begin work on November […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: BADRAP, Martha Cline, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, Oakland Animal Services, pit-bulls, Rebecca Katz

Don’t repeat our mistake of passing CAPA, say Delaware residents

October 16, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

“Horrible legislation” The State of Delaware passed the Companion Animal Protection Act in 2010, recommended by No Kill Advocacy Center founder Nathan Winograd and now under consideration in many other jurisdictions, and it has been horrible legislation for the taxpayers and for the animals of our state. We are a small state that has a […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Letters, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: CAPA, Delaware, J. Jacob Carter, Lisa Tanelian, Nathan Winograd, No Kill Advocacy Center

Doug Rae hired at HS of Fremont County, Colorado

October 11, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Doug Rae has been named executive director of the Humane Society of Fremont County, in Canon City, Colorado, following brief and often controversial animal shelter management stints in Phoenix, Maryland, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, and most recently as executive director of the Animal Rescue League of Southern Rhode Island in Warren, Rhode Island. Much of the controversy has been […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Doug Rae, Mike Speedy, Nathan Winograd

Nathan Winograd in perspective

July 31, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Why did Winograd dodge a challenge? On July 11,  2014 the AR-2014 conference hosted in Los Angeles by the Farm Animal Rights Movement was to feature a talk and video presentation by No Kill Advocacy Center founder Nathan Winograd,  who was allocated more than 90 minutes. When FARM offered me 15 minutes to speak in […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Editorials, Opinions & Letters, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd

Author of San Francisco ordinance requiring pit bull sterilization appears to be victim of militant advocates

July 29, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Rebecca Katz quietly dismissed             SAN FRANCISCO––San Francisco Department of Animal Care & Control director Rebecca Katz was quietly dismissed on July 25, 2014––but her exit did not remain quiet for long. “Rebecca Katz, San Francisco’s well-liked director of Animal Care and Control, is no longer with the city,” mourned Marisa Lagos of SFGate. “This […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Nathan Winograd, Rebecca Katz, San Francisco

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