Yes, ANIMALS 24-7 is an essential service to the humane community!
(Beth Clifton collage) You saw why just yesterday Two ANIMALS 24-7 headline articles posted just yesterday, We need to open up spay/neuter – now!, by Bryan Kortis, and Pit bull attack deaths only...
View Article“Dog Bite Awareness Week” 2020: it’s no longer about “prevention”
(Beth Clifton collage) 63 years of “Dog Bite Prevention Week” coincided with decades of denial of breed-specific realities & ever-rising mayhem NEW YORK CITY–– Insurance Information...
View ArticleKathi Travers, 69, vehemently non-“animal rights” animal advocate
Kathi Travers & friend.(Beth Clifton collage) Legendary for deeds with ASPCA & WSPA, but worked nearly twice as long for the British Columbia SPCA in St. George PRINCE GEORGE,...
View Article“Whoa!” shouts Chicago to horse-drawn carriages
(Beth Clifton collage) Last ten horse-drawn carriage licenses will not be renewed CHICAGO––150 years of horse-drawn carriages plying downtown Chicago––interrupted by a 17-year suspension,...
View Article$5 for a cat head: True stories of animal welfare, with hands-on tips for...
(Beth Clifton collage) by Linda Chitwood Director, The Homeless Animals Relief Project 200 pages, $29.00, c/o HARP, POB 371, Senatobia, MS 38668;...
View ArticleGabriel Wortman & Tara Reade: what would animals testify?
(Beth Clifton collage) Animals might have had quite a bit to say about both rampage killer & alleged character assassin––if they could talk PORTAPIQUE, Nova Scotia; FRANKFORT, Kentucky; SANTA...
View ArticleCOVID-19 kills Roy Horn, 75, of Siegfried & Roy, role model for “Joe Exotic”
Roy Horn & white tiger Mantecore.(Beth Clifton collage) Manicured image as “positive reinforcement” trainer & conservationist was, like the Siegfried & Roy show, largely illusory...
View ArticleThe price of defiance: COVID-19 vs. the Cottondale Mother’s Day Rodeo
(Beth Clifton collage) Whoever that masked man was, he was not in the rodeo arena COTTONWOOD, California––There are sound epidemiological arguments against outdoor mask-wearing to fight...
View Article“That touch of mink” & COVID-19: Dutch outbreak hints mink may be host
(Beth Clifton collage) Fur farming to end in The Netherlands by 2024 WAGENINGEN, The Netherlands––The discovery that ranched mink can become infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus may lend momentum to...
View ArticlePuppies & kittens everywhere, but none in shelters to adopt
(Beth Clifton collage) Suspension of spay/neuter & intake services due to COVID-19 cuts adoptions by a third from 2019 NEW YORK CITY––Celebrating rehoming every dog and cat in custody...
View ArticleFatal truck crash spotlights lack of attention to safety in dog transport
(Beth Clifton photo) Pit bull rescue was hauling 48 dogs to Canada SHELLEY, Idaho; PHOENIX, Arizona––Dog rescue-and-rehomers elsewhere around the U.S. on May 20, 2020 celebrated “National...
View ArticleVideo “Covid-19 & TNR for cats” vs. Alaric the Visigoth & the barbarian hordes
(Beth Clifton collage) Video “Covid-19 & TNR for cats” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_AWoreQQ_I&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3wEMorrwskWhz6am72-SEkUQYzEeFXynGOO9kQyNZ0_HbSS1alKlTfAd0...
View ArticleThe minks’ jinx: is COVID-19 an exploited species’ revenge?
(Beth Clifton collage) Dutch disclose second case of mink-to-human COVID-19 transmission WAGENINGEN, the Netherlands; WUHAN, China––“A second case has become known on one of the infected...
View ArticleThree-legged bears in the Great Smokies may be no accident
(Beth Clifton collage) U.S. bear hunters & Asian gangsters cut paws & deals ASHEVILLE, North Carolina––Jody Williams and his Facebook group Help Asheville Bears want to catch the...
View ArticleCarole Baskin & Big Cat Rescue win custody of “Tiger King” Joe Exotic’s tigers
Howard & Carole Baskin with Big Cat Rescue tiger. (Beth Clifton) Federal court ruling satisfies seven-year-old lien OKLAHOMA CITY, TAMPA–– U.S. District Court Judge Scott Palk on June...
View ArticleKilled for freeing parrot, young servant set example of compassion to the world
(Beth Clifton collage) Murder shocks Pakistan, but U.S. & other nations have much to learn as well KARACHI, Pakistan; PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad; JENKINTOWN, Pennsylvania–– Zohra Shah,...
View ArticleWrestler Megan Milner is first Canadian pit bull fatality of 2020
(Beth Clifton collage) Milner is fifth of six dog attack deaths in two weeks, four by pit bulls HALIFAX, Nova Scotia––Wrestler, martial arts expert, and experienced pit bull owner Megan...
View Article“I can’t breathe”: stealing slogan to use for animal causes is not fighting...
(Beth Clifton collage) Opportunistic use of phrases and imagery can come across as insensitive and insulting MINNEAPOLIS, PHOENIX, NEW YORK CITY––“It is striking to me,” wrote Mike...
View ArticleWhy has Project Chimps gone ape$#!T over ex-staff complaints?
(Beth Clifton collage) Humane Society of the U.S. affiliate moves to enforce “ag-gag” against whistleblowers BLUE RIDGE, Georgia––Former Project Chimps staff members Crystal Alba and...
View ArticleThree recent deaths of people who cared about animals in very different ways
(Beth Clifton collage) Conservation theorist Michael E. Soulé, 84; activist Linda Ann DeStefano, 76; Bill Jenkins, 53 Michael E. Soulé, 84, widely identified as the “father of...
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