HSUS cat herder Nancy Peterson announces retirement
Nancy Peterson (HSUS photo) “The time has come,” Humane Society of the U.S. cat program manager Nancy Peterson announced in a July 6, 2015 e-mail to friends, colleagues, and ANIMALS 24-7. “I will be...
View ArticleLast Chance Mustang, by Mitchell Bornstein
St. Martin’s Press (175 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010), 2015. 300 pages, hardcover. $26.99. Reviewed by Debra J. White Chicago attorney and horse trainer Mitchell Bornstein has a history of...
View ArticleWhat to call cats, & why their name matters
M at the rat crossing. (Beth Clifton photo) by Merritt Clifton Yesterday, August 1, 2015, at the AR 2015 national animal rights conference in Alexandria, Virginia, I remarked in passing during a...
View Article27 ways to avoid hitting animals that may save your life too!
by Merritt Clifton We have reached midsummer, when the baby animals born in spring begin to leave their mothers and start to seek food on their own. For the next three months young and inexperienced...
View ArticleBarred owls on the hit list
Barred owl or spotted owl? (Beth Clifton photo) Feds say they compete with endangered northern spotted owls PORTLAND, Oregon––Barred owls are on the federal hit list at 100 West Coast locations, from...
View ArticleFeds resume killing cormorants despite admitting “nesting population targets...
Double-crested cormorant.(Beth Clifton photo) by Bob Sallinger, conservation director, Audubon Society of Portland Last week the federal government resumed killing double-crested cormorants on East...
View ArticleCormorant massacre underway
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...
View ArticleVultures at play keep ghouls away
A vulture has to be on the ball to snatch meat from the tigers at Big Cat Rescue.(Beth Clifton photo) Loss of vultures haunts the Indian subcontinent CHANDIGARH, NAIROBI, LITTLE...
View ArticleCoyotes: nature’s animal control officers
(Mona Lefebvre photo) by Merritt Clifton To fully appreciate coyotes may require getting to know them––not taming them, not trying to interact with them as wild cousins of domestic dogs, just...
View ArticleControlling deer the natural way
(Beth Clifton photo) A New Deer Advocacy Paradigm Guest columnist Lee Hall makes the case for government to quit hunting deer and start respecting natural predators (See also Coyotes: nature’s animal...
View ArticleShould all feral cats go to heaven? Or hell?
Sebastian stalks a sandhill crane.(Beth Clifton photo) Purges pursued with religious fervor (See also What to call cats, & why their name matters.) WORCESTER, Massachusetts––Named Australia’s...
View ArticleEight times as many wild horses Down Under as in U.S., plus camels
(American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign photo) Contraception considered but more culling expected SYDNEY, Australia; DENVER, Colorado––The brumby issue in Australia and the mustang issue...
View ArticleStreet dogs in the U.S.? Nathan Winograd has gone barking mad.
Former Indian street dogs found prosperity at the Visakha SPCA.(Visakha SPCA photo) by Merritt Clifton ‘There are communities in the U.S., like Dallas,” wrote No Kill Advocacy Center founder Nathan...
View ArticleWildlife contraceptive researcher Jay Kirkpatrick, 75
Developed PZP for use in 85 species Jay Kirkpatrick, 75, for more than 40 years a leading developer of contraceptive vaccines for wild horses, deer, elk, and other wildlife, died on...
View ArticleScreaming for the dragon slayer
(Beth Clifton photos) by Merritt Clifton Chained to fast-falling hunting license sales, with agency revenue and careers at stake, wildlife managers from Florida to Texas are looking toward modestly...
View ArticleWho eats the most Floridians––pythons, pit bulls, bears, or alligators?
(Beth Clifton collage) Feral species challenge understanding of predator/prey relationships MIAMI––Florida hosts 1.3 million alligators, about a quarter of a million pit bulls, a few billion...
View ArticlePigeon shooters in the Baseball Hall of Fame
Lefty Grove: An American Original by Jim Kaplan Society for American Baseball Research, 2000. 315 pages, paperback. $16.00. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton “I have come to know, in a manner of...
View Article“Coon hunt” fundraiser may be seen as racist, frets St. Jude hospital
Raccoon. (Beth Clifton photo) Wants to change name but not disassociate from “World’s Largest Coon Hunt” MEMPHIS, Tennessee––Unfazed by 28 years of protest against the cruelty to animals...
View ArticleHow adaptive species became “invasive”
Or, Donald Trump’s place in U.S. cultural ecology Xenophobia, the fear of foreigners, has thus far all but dominated the 2016 U.S. presidential primary season. Among the most obvious xenophobic...
View ArticleChasing Doctor Doolittle: Learning the Language of Animals
by Con Slobodchikoff, Ph.D. St. Martin’s Press (c/o MacMillan, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010), 2012. 308 pages, hardcover, $25.99. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton “My parents left Russia...
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