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MLK assassin ex-wife Anna Ray busted for dog hoarding––again!

June 28, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

1996 Anna Sandhu Ray case history was often cited by hoarding expert Vicky Crosetti JACKSON, Tennessee––Anna Sandhu Ray,  74,  ex-wife of James Earl Ray,  the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.,  was on June 21,  2021 arrested in Jackson,  Tennessee and booked into the Madison County jail on 44 counts of animal cruelty for extreme […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, USA Tagged With: Anna Sandhu Ray, James Earl Ray, James Warren McBee Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., Merritt Clifton, Vicky Crosetti

Handling hoarders

January 31, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

by Vicky Crosetti Editor’s note:  Vicky Crosetti,  1953-2020,  for 19 years executive director of the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley in Knoxville,  Tennessee,  and a founding ANIMALS 24-7 board member,  was for more than 25 years a first responder in animal hoarding cases,  becoming a nationally recognized expert and frequent conference speaker on handling […]

Filed Under: Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top Tagged With: Vicky Crosetti

White hats & black hats revisited,  25 years into the “no kill” era

July 18, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

The 1994 San Francisco “Adoption Pact” recast the roles of animal control & humane societies––but not as intended Again,  in hundreds of cities and towns across the U.S.,  and indeed around the world,  factions are polarized in furious conflict over what their local animal control agencies,  humane societies and shelterless,  volunteer-run “rescues” should be doing. […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Carl Friedman, Marty Kurtz, Merritt Clifton, Richard Avanzino, Vicky Crosetti

Aftershocks ripple from SF/SPCA (December 2000)

December 27, 2000 By Merritt Clifton

And are still rippling,  20 years later SAN FRANCISCO,  PHILADELPHIA, KNOXVILLE––The San Francisco SPCA and San Francisco Animal Care & Control in calendar year 2000 together killed fewer than 2,000 cats and dogs. That was under 2.6 cats and dogs per 1,000 human residents,  15.6% of the national average,  1,001 fewer than the 1999 previous […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Brenda Barnette, Ed Sayres, Emma Clifford, Eric Hendricks, Mark Goldstein, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, Richard Avanzino, Tom Hayden, Vicky Crosetti

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