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Secrets of Doris Day’s life & work for animals
Doris Day & friend. (Beth Clifton collage) Publicity added much spin & gloss to what was already a positive record CARMEL, California––Doris Day, 97, died from pneumonia on May...
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Recurring nightmare: my escape from a serial no-killer, by Beth Clifton
(Beth Clifton collage) Six years later it seems to be happening again PORT RICHEY, Florida––Pasco County Animal Services and Suncoast Animal League personnel on May 3, 2019 removed...
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Do you eat dolphins? Does your cat?
(Beth Clifton collage) Don’t believe everything you read on can labels, say class action lawsuits Do you eat dolphins? Does your cat? Not likely, and certainly not knowingly––but three class action...
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How to tell a “bait dog” from “click bait”
(Beth Clifton collage) “Bait dogs” are docile victims to some pit bull advocates, but “urban legend” to others What is a “bait dog”? First of all, learn to distinguish a bona fide “bait dog” from a...
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Why Nathan Winograd disciple Doug Rae won’t be Canonized
Doug Rae. (Beth Clifton collage) Humane Society of Fremont County director Rae was would-be savior of Pueblo no-kill experiment while his own shelter allegedly went to hell CANON CITY,...
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Cockfighters “win” from delay of hurricane aid to Puerto Rico
(Beth Clifton collage) Frustration at lack of help fuels defense of cockfighting against U.S. federal “meddling” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico––Puerto Rican cockfighters and politicians who boast...
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Akita mauling: “Tux wants to know if you have a kid he can play with?”
(Beth Clifton collage) “Or, are you a big kid?” LOS ANGELES––“Tux wants to know if you have a kid he can play with? Or, are you a big kid? Meet him at #AkitaRanch, 28930 Ellis Ave,...
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Mouse studies often don’t work, NIH admits after landmark 10-year study
(Beth Clifton collage) National Institutes of Health finding in 2013 presaged Wellcome Foundation decision to close the Sanger Institute genetically modified mouse lab by 2022 WASHINGTON D.C. (March...
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Why is the ASPCA stonewalling about the deaths of 20 dogs in transport?
(Beth Clifton collage) Three-week silence howls for answers NEW YORK CITY––Twenty dogs died on May 15, 2019 aboard an American SPCA vehicle that was hauling them from one or more...
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Exposé of “Dairy Disneyland” horrors gives agribiz the runs
(Beth Clifton collage) Fair Oaks Farms’ Dairy Adventure was recently profiled as “One Farm’s Quest to Save Industrial Agriculture” FAIR OAKS, Indiana––Undercover video from Fair Oaks Farm...
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Fair Oaks Farms stepped in the same crap as the rest of the herd
Fair Oaks Farms chief executive Mike McCloskey.(Beth & Merritt Clifton collage) Cell phone videocams open factory farms to public view Ignoring 30 years of warnings by leading U.S. agribusiness...
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Drowning in pit bulls, HOPE Humane Society goes under
(Beth Clifton collage) No-kill failure leaves city without an animal shelter FORT SMITH, Arkansas––As of July 17, 2019, just over a month from now and maybe sooner, the second-biggest...
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Gorillas in solitary: Ndume wins parole. Now what about King?
Ndume. The Gorilla Foundation reluctantly returns Ndume to the Cincinnati Zoo. King still sits alone at Monkey Jungle. CINCINNATI, Ohio––Sprung from solitary confinement after 28 years at...
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Activist Mary Max, 52: maxed out as artist Peter Max, 81, peters out
Mary Max(Beth Clifton collage, based on Peter Max design) Suicide by nitrogen asphixiation NEW YORK, N.Y.––Animal advocate and philanthropist Mary Max, 52, wife of pop artist Peter Max,...
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Hero of pit bull attack paid much higher price than convicted owners
Duane Eddie “Wayne” Vanlanham & his Carnegie Medal for Civilian Valor. (Beth Clifton collage) Severely injured Duane Eddie Vanlanham won a medal & a lawsuit, but no payout...
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Whaling harpoons Icelandic tourism & the whole nation suffers (UPDATE!)
Kristjan Loftsson. (Beth Clifton collage) Iceland suspends whaling after ANIMALS 24-7 exposes how killing whales wounded a whale-watching industry that brings in twice as much money...
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Breed survey 2019: more puppies, yet fewer homes for pit bulls
(Beth Clifton collage) 54% of U.S. pit bulls are seeking homes, up from 41% in 2018 Americans seeking to add a dog to their families had 17.2 million dogs to choose from in the first week of July...
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Alabama mauling: “Emily’s Law” fails to protect public from pit bulls
(Beth Clifton collage) 2018 law raised penalties for dog attacks, but also raised bars to preventing them FORT MITCHELL, Alabama––“Vicious dog attack warrants misdemeanor charge,”...
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Do you feel you are fighting the same battles for animals over and over?
(Beth Clifton) Dear friends & readers: Do you ever feel as if you are fighting the same battles for animals over and over? Thirty years ago we celebrated a global ban on commercial whaling, a ban...
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White hats & black hats revisited, 25 years into the “no kill” era
(Beth Clifton collage) 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.,...
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