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British King Charles III adopts hens, quits pigeon racing

August 25, 2024 By Merritt Clifton

But will Charles,  patron of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds,  give up recreationally shooting birds by the thousands?          LONDON, U.K.––King Charles III of the United Kingdom,  75,  perhaps in partial atonement for a lifetime of recreationally massacring birds,  has adopted 31 retired laying hens from the British Hen Welfare Trust and […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Belgium, Birds, Birds, Captive animals, Central Europe, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Isles, Killing contests, Poultry, United Kingdom, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: British Hen Welfare Trust, Jane Howorth, Merritt Clifton, Queen Elizabeth II, Royal Pigeon Racing Association

Pigeon racing is animal abandonment! 

May 11, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

by Elizabeth Young,  founder,  Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions with afterword,  How pigeon flying lost the way,  by ANIMALS 24-7 Every day hundreds of domesticated pigeons are transported miles from their homes and “released” to try and fly back for human entertainment. These domestic birds have no survival skills:  no ability to find food or water or […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Belgium, Central Europe, China, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Pigeon flying, South Africa, USA Tagged With: Elizabeth Young, Merritt Clifton, Palomacy, pigeon flying, pigeon racing, Queen Elizabeth II, roller pigeons

“Bloody hell!” Elizabeth II set poor example on hunting, but loved her dogs

September 10, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Corgis were almost certainly first to mourn LONDON,  U.K.–– Queen Elizabeth II,  96,  who ceremonially ruled the United Kingdom for 70 years and 214 days,  died on September 8, 2022 at Balmoral Castle,  Aberdeenshire,  Scotland,  one of the three royal hunting estates. The others are the 20,000-acre Sandringham estate,  in Norfolk,  England,   and Dalnadamph,  a 6,700-acre […]

Filed Under: African species, Bears, Breeding, Captive animals, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur trapping, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Isles, Killing contests, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Scotland, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Prince Harry, Prince Philip, Prince William, Princess Anne, Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II, Sandringham

Why U.S. furriers don’t advertise much any more

December 30, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Mink coat ads vanish from newsprint  SACRAMENTO,  California––A furrier somewhere in the U.S. may yet buy a page of advertising,  in what little remains of 2019,  in one of the thousands of newspapers that are electronically searchable at www.NewspaperArchive.com. As of December 29,  2019,  however,  the year appeared to be ending without a single NewspaperArchive […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Austria, Belgium, Central Europe, China, Cultural, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Fur trapping, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Ireland, Isles, Netherlands, Norway, Scandinavia, Scotland, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: Douglas Lawson, Gavin Newsom, Karl Lagerfeld, Merritt Clifton, Queen Elizabeth II, Richard Carroll

Bird bloodbath over Britain & Scotland: regulatory failures, royal hypocrisy

October 7, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“General licenses” mean open season on 22 non-game species LONDON,  Edinburgh––Birds are in steep decline over Europe,  as they are over the U.S. and Canada,  reports the British-based organization BirdLife International,  monitoring bird populations since 1922––but the chief cause of the European bird crash appears to be simply that hunters,  including the British royal family,  […]

Filed Under: Birds, Birds, Conservation, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Isles, Laws, Mediterranean, Scotland, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: Chris Packham, Jason Endfield, John Robins, Merritt Clifton, Prince Harry, Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II

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