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Enforcing anti-cruelty laws proves harder than passing them

February 9, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Who enforces “victories” won by the Humane Society of the United States?  Stop Animal Exploitation Now, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, & the Humane Farming Association are trying.             SALT LAKE CITY,  LEXINGTON,  BOSTON––Some animal advocacy organizations with multi-million-dollar-a-year-plus incomes attract donors by the hundreds of thousands through winning passage of laws that they then […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Chimps & other primates, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Science, USA Tagged With: Darren Stapleton, Karen Budkie, Maura Healey, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Paul Shapiro, Robert Gibbens, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

Talk can’t stop pigeon-shooting psychopaths, by Steve Hindi

November 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Why is Showing Animals Respect & Kindness alone in fighting pigeon shoots? [Guest columnist Steve Hindi founded Showing Animals Respect & Kindness,  https://sharkonline.org/,  in 1992.] The cowardly psychopaths of the Philadelphia Gun Club,  located in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, began their slaughter season on Friday the thirteenth of November 2020,  shooting emaciated,  dehydrated live pigeons tossed out […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Heidi Prescott, HSUS, Humane Society of the U.S., Philadelphia Gun Club, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

Cockfighter Cozad missed chance to hide behind U.N. “Agenda 21”

September 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

BL Cozad garbled Bible & U.S. Constitution             MORGANTOWN, Kentucky––If cockfighting advocate BL “Billy” Cozad had ever actually read the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit Agenda 21,  instead of blindly denouncing it,  he might have found that certain passages in it better support his arguments than anything he misquoted and misrepresented from the Bible and […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, USA Tagged With: BL Cozad Jr., Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

The price of defiance: COVID-19 vs. the Cottondale Mother’s Day Rodeo

May 13, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Whoever that masked man was, he was not in the rodeo arena             COTTONWOOD,  California––There are sound epidemiological arguments against outdoor mask-wearing to fight the spread of COVID-19,  and in favor of getting more people out into the spring sunshine,  but those arguments were not much in evidence at the 58th annual Mother’s Day Rodeo […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Entertainment, Feature Home Top, Hooved stock, Horses, Laws & politics, Opinions & Letters, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA, Working horses Tagged With: Alayna Shulman, Doni Chamberlain, Eric Magrini, Gavin Newsom, Karen Ramstrom, Merritt Clifton, Stu Chaifetz

Ducks Unlimited pledge to end pigeon shoot is again a cruel hoax in Minnesota

April 1, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

But Alabama Forestry Association pigeon shoot is ended, says Georgia-Pacific             MONTGOMERY,  Alabama;  PRIOR LAKE,  Minnesota––Having had four years of April Fools from Ducks Unlimited,  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) hopes the Alabama Forestry Association was not just pranking when it announced on March 30, 2018––via Georgia-Pacific vice president for sustainability Deborah Baker––that it […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Bill Urseth, Dale Hall, Hank Bauer, Janet Enoch, Matt Coffey, Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz, Tom Bradley III

SHARK fights pigeon shooters where black man was hunted for sport

February 16, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Three drones shot down; pigeon shooters quit early EHRHARDT,  S.C. ––Losing three video drones to gunfire, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) nonetheless believes it won what might be termed the Third Battle of Broxton’s Bridge,  South Carolina. SHARK had apparently already delayed the start of a scheduled four-day,  six-station pigeon shoot by two days […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Birds, Captive animals, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dog use, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Humane history, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Religion & philosophy, Sports, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Broxton Bridge, G.D. "Jerry" Varn, John Belton O'Neall, John Lawrence Manning, Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz, Thomas Motley, William Blackledge

Pigeon shoots––that HSUS said it stopped––continue in Maryland

January 23, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Why did HSUS misinform us––and you? by Steve Hindi,  president,  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (See also http://www.animals24-7.org/2018/01/24/hsus-president-wayne-pacelle-responds-to-maryland-pigeon-shoot/.) On Monday, January 15, 2018, I sent an email to Humane Society of the United States president Wayne Pacelle demanding a copy of all HSUS documentation regarding live pigeon shoots around the country. I copied Anna West and […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Laws & politics, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Anna West, Heidi Prescott, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz, Wayne Pacelle

Alex Pacheco of “600 Million” says he was gunner on a boat with no guns

June 4, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Produces no substance for claim to be developing “spay/neuter cookies”          POMPANO BEACH,  Florida––Alex Pacheco and his organization “600 Million Stray Dogs Need You” are apparently feeling the heat from recent exposés of aggressive fundraising tactics on purported behalf of research to develop a “spay/neuter cookie” which has no verifiable substance. Pacheco on April 26,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Population control, Science, USA Tagged With: Alex Pacheco, Jeff Young, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, SenesTech, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

SHARK circles Alex Pacheco & “600 Million Stray Dogs Need You”

April 25, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

“600 Million Stray Dogs Need You” exposed on YouTube          POMPANO BEACH,  Florida––Most folks in Florida know enough not to attract a SHARK’s notice.  Alex Pacheco,  founder of 600 Million Stray Dogs Need You,  apparently is not one of them. Indeed,  a person claiming to be “extremely close to Mr. Pacheco”  went out of her […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, China, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating dogs, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Street dogs, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Alex Pacheco, Linda Ducato, Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz, Will Potter

Charges against pigeon killer recall humane & labor movement landmarks

February 27, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Boys from Bridgeton were once in the movements’ vanguard          BRIDGETON,  NJ;  PHILADELPHIA,  PA––Cruelty charges have been filed against an unnamed 17-year-old Bridgeton,  New Jersey resident for allegedly torturing pigeons wounded in live pigeon shoots at the Philadelphia Gun Club by kicking the wounded birds and throwing rocks at them. Previous cases dismissed Filed by […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Birds, Captive animals, Cruelty & neglect, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife, Working horses Tagged With: Carolyn Earle White, Cumberland Glass Works, Merritt Clifton, Philadelphia Gun Club, Samuel Gompers, SHARK, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

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