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10-year totals: pit bulls kill 81% of pets & livestock animals killed by dogs

January 4, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

The numbers & how ANIMALS 24-7 derives them A decade ago,  in January 2013,  ANIMALS 24-7 embarked on what is now a 10-year voyage to boldly go where no statistician had gone before,  to find not only how many other pets and livestock animals are killed by dogs each year,  but also to establish which […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, pit-bulls, USDA Wildlife Services

Garbled stories show why wolverines need a defense lawyer

April 4, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Rare 28-pound scavenger accused of killing a ton of sheep RICH COUNTY, Utah––A wolverine alleged to have killed 18 sheep six miles west of Randolph,  Utah was briefly jailed on March 11,  2022,  but––instead of a lynching––got off with a warning,  an escort out of the county,  and a radio collar to follow his whereabouts. […]

Filed Under: Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Fur trapping, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Predators, Sheep & goats, Wildlife Tagged With: Dakota Pray, Ellen Fike, Jim Christensen, Kyne Pyatt, Merritt Clifton, Ted Chu, USDA Wildlife Services, Vance Broadbent

What Wildlife Services did not say about the newly released 2021 body count

March 23, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Only 4% of the toll of 1.76 million animals were “livestock predators,”  but 44% were “invasive” starlings             RIVERDALE,  Maryland––Released on March 22,  2022,  the USDA Wildlife Services program activity report for 2021 tells a different story from the sunny spin put on it by the accompanying media release from USDA Animal & Plant Health […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Fur trapping, Hooved stock, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Reptiles, Sheep & goats, Snakes, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: APHIS, Merritt Clifton, starlings, USDA Wildlife Services

How the Twin Towers fell on animals too

September 25, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

  The impact of 9/11 (Part 3 of a four-part series.  See also The animal issue that made Donald Trump a presidential candidate;  How an ant doctor came to be driving public policy;   and Questioning the claims of “crisis.”) Discussion of “invasive species,”  a term practically invisible in mainstream print before 1988,  rose in 1993 coincidental with […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Religion & philosophy, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Al Gore, George W. Bush, Merritt Clifton, Peter DeFazio, Ronald Reagan, USDA Wildlife Services

Cormorant massacre underway

September 25, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

by Bob Sallinger,  Audubon Society of Portland Further to my ANIMALS 24-7 posting of September 14,  2015,  Feds resume killing cormorants despite admitting “nesting population targets were met,  for the past two weeks, federal government employees from the Wildlife Services office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture have been shooting double-crested cormorants from a boat […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Conservation, Endangered species, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Fish, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Letters, Marine life, Opinions & Letters, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Bob Sallinger, cormorants, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USDA Wildlife Services

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