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 […]
Garbled stories show why wolverines need a defense lawyer
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. […]
What Wildlife Services did not say about the newly released 2021 body count
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 […]
How the Twin Towers fell on animals too
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 […]
Cormorant massacre underway
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 […]