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Brother Wolf: “Warehousing is not working,” says director of no-kill experiment
(Beth Clifton collage) “Keeping aggressive animals isn’t the solution for lifesaving” ASHEVILLE, North Carolina––“We are warehousing aggressive animals at Brother Wolf when we know this isn’t the...
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California Equine Retirement Foundation runs into deep muck
CERF founder Grace Belcoure & retired thoroughbred. (Beth Clifton collage) Current leadership allegedly squandered assets & 27-year positive track record under ousted founder SAN JACINTO,...
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Former HSUS vp David Wills’ co-defendant gets 15 years for sex trafficking minor
(Beth Clifton collage) Wills, facing multiple life terms, is yet to be sentenced CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas––The likelihood that former Michigan Humane Society president and Humane Society of...
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Race track deaths upstage notice of horses “retired” due to injury
45 horses dead on three Southern California tracks during 2019 seasons––and 39 at Belmont alone LOS ALAMITOS, California––Two horse deaths in the first race of the next-to-last-day of the Los Alamitos...
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Pit bulls kill four in eight days approaching Christmas 2019
(Beth Clifton collage) 2019 pit bull fatalities & total dog attack deaths surpass 2018 with 10 days left in the year Hopes that the decline in U.S. pit bull-inflicted human fatalities from a record...
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Sidney Holt, 93, achieved goal that great whales would outlive him
Sydney J. Holt(Beth Clifton collage) 70-year scientific career focused on whale conservation PACIANO, Italy––Marine scientist Sidney J. Holt, 93, died on December 22, 2019 at his home in Paciano,...
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Krefeld Zoo fire killed 30+ animals due to poor design & preparation
The great apes who died at the Krefeld Zoo. (Beth Clifton collage) Candle-powered flying paper lanterns allegedly caused the fire. But inadequate attention to fire safety caused the deaths. KREFIELD,...
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Pit bulls killed 33 of 46 U.S. victims of fatal dog attacks in 2019
(Beth Clifton collage) Two pit bulls ended last victim’s troubled life in a Houston ditch HOUSTON, Texas––Medessa Jean Ragsdale, 44, the last identified dog attack fatality of 2019, had few other...
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Record pit bull attacks on other animals in 2019, pro football, & the Titanic
(Beth Clifton collage) Trent Williams case appears to exemplify national trend MISSOURI CITY, Texas––Pit bulls appear to have killed 50,541 other animals in 2019, the most ever, including...
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Deaths by pit bull: will new California law slow the mayhem?
(Beth Clifton collage) Prosecuting shelters for withholding bite history might be a start DAYTON, Ohio; CONWAY, Kentucky; LOS ANGELES, California––The first two U.S. dog attack...
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Four black leaders who built the humane movement
(Beth Clifton collage) More people recognized William Key, John W. Lemon, Richard Carroll, & F. Rivers Barnwell in their own time than would have recognized ASPCA founder Henry Bergh...
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Breakthrough may scratch horses from the Iditarod legend
(Beth Clifton collage) Yes, horses! ANCHORAGE, Alaska; Braunschweig, Germany–– A German immunologist, funded by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has reportedly made a scientific...
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A black-and-white issue that the humane community has yet to face
Lila Miller, DVM. (Beth Clifton collage) Editorial by Merritt & Beth Clifton Two nights ago, in advance of Martin Luther King Day, ANIMALS 24-7 posted as our lead feature Four black leaders who...
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Feds crack door to banning pit bulls from airliners
(Beth Clifton collage) But rulemakers lean the other way. Pit bull advocates celebrate “victory” while the fight has just begun. WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. federal Department of Transportation...
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“Joe Exotic” gets 22 years in a cage for murder plot
Tiger gets the last laugh on “Joe Exotic.” (Beth Clifton collage) Sentenced on 17 counts, including soliciting murder of Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin OKLAHOMA CITY,...
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“Joe Exotic” tried to kill me: Carole Baskin tells her own story
(Beth Clifton collage) by Carole Baskin, founder, Big Cat Rescue In “Joe Exotic” gets 22 years in a cage for murder plot, reporting how Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, also known as Joe Exotic and...
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Pit bull suspected of killing Elisa Pilarski struck twice more in five days
(Beth Clifton collage) French fatality, still under investigation, echoes & contrasts with U.S. cases BEAUVAIS, OISE, France; CLEARCREEK TOWNSHIP, Ohio; PORTSMOUTH, Virginia; ASHEVILLE,...
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Vicky Crosetti, 66: “She was a good friend,” to animals & humans
Vicky Crosetti. (Beth Clifton collage) ANIMALS 24-7 founding board member KNOXVILLE, Tennessee––Vicky Crosetti, for 19 years executive director of the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley and a...
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Pit bulls on aircraft: ANIMALS 24-7 responds to federal proposal
(Beth Clifton collage) To: DOT-OST-2018-0068 Docket Management Facility U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140 Washington, DC 20590-0001 In...
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