Oct 31
Much to my dismay, the results of the survey I asked everyone to take (in September) about the treatment of alligators in Florida, show, according to the Fish & Wildlife Commission, that we need to be “empowered” to kill more…
I’m torn about bans on black cat adoptions around Halloween. It’s such a Gray Matter for me that I didn’t want to blog about it. But, by popular demand, here are my thoughts for all you Animal People who’ve e-mailed…
Oct 29
If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s not getting emotional when it comes to animal issues that make me want to strangle someone. Enter Bob Richardson of West Texas, who is known as “Barefoot Bob” because as a child…
Al Neuharth, the 82-year old founder of USA TODAY, published “Why I won’t join the ‘Eat No Meat Club'” yesterday, and let me tell you the short answer for why he eats meat: Because he chooses to. He is married…
Earlier this week, I mentioned that last Saturday I was at a fundraiser for Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine at the spectacular home of Nanci Alexander, founder of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida. The founder and president of PCRM…
Is “addendum to update” redundant? For more facts on the auction of the animals from Catskill, go to the Humane Society’s press release. They were on the scene and have all the bad news, including the less-than-stellar condition of the…
In Research Mice Leaving NYC for Suburbs (AP), Jim Fitzgerald reports that “A group of hospitals and medical schools in the New York metropolitan area have decided to relocate their research mouse-breeding and mouse-holding operations” to Yonkers. Scientists use mice…
Yesterday I got an alert from The Petition Site about bats being sold on eBay. Companies are snagging them from the wild and killing them, then selling them in glass frames. They are calling them “art,” which as we know…
In Meat Labels Hope to Lure the Sensitive Carnivore, in the business section of today’s New York Times, Andrew Martin (no relation) reports that Whole Foods Market will soon be carrying labels that read: “animal compassionate,” which means that animals…
Why do shrimp and elephants need treadmills? They don’t. Ever. But let’s get to two recent justifications for making animals run on treadmills. 1. Probably using tax dollars of some kind, David Scholnick, a biologist from Pacific University, put shrimp…
I never thought I’d be promoting YouTube, but please send anyone you know who watches Greyhound racing to view a race from August 19, at the Mardi Gras Racetrack, which is formerly the Hollywood Greyhound track, where the exquisite Violet…
First, my position on horse racing: it should be banned. But dog racing needs to be banned immediately. Please read the attached editorial by Twig Mowatt from Bark magazine. If you’re feeling really lazy, here are the highlights: “Imagine an…
You may recall the good news/bad news situation regarding Catskill Game Farm. The good news: it’s owner, Kathie Schulz, decided to close it. The bad news: she was so attached to the animals she cared (?) for that she was…
This is one of those topics I have way more information on than the average person, as one of my dearest friends had a wolf-hybrid, Luna, for nearly a decade (Luna’s entire life). In Couple Tries to Save Wolf-Dogs, Lisa…
In Dog Saves Owner, Dies Trying to Save Cat (Elkhart Lake, Wis., AP) we learn that Jesse, the 13-year old service dog saved her owner, a disabled woman, by bringing the woman her artificial leg and a phone so she…
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