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Sheriff ignores cockfight, rails against "liberal green energy agendas"
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (1195+ words) BAILEYTON, Alabama'Showing Animals Respect & Kindness drone video on the morning of April 18," 2026 caught a steady stream of cockfighters carrying dead and dying roosters out of a metal-clad shed at 1951 County Road 1570, Baileyton, "in northeastern Cullman County," Alabama. One man threw…...
What if your cat could kill 10 billion insects?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1704+ words) April 8, 2026 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments " S'O PAULO, "Brazil'Somehow a Brazilian undergraduate paper purportedly portraying domestic cats as an existential threat to insect life managed to buzz around the world and the web for six months before coming to the notice…...
Warren Cox: Dean of U. S. humane work
4+ week, 14+ hour ago (1909+ words) March 23, 2026 By Merritt Clifton 2 Comments A few weeks ago Warren Cox called," while my wife Beth and I were putting up cat climbing ramps and resting boards in our new back porch "catio," and asked if we could put together…...
War is hell for cats in Lebanon, but brings reprieve for cattle & sheep at Eid
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (1717+ words) STRAIT OF HORMUZ," BEIRUT'Crisis situations involving animals and war were just behind the headlines in New York City's two most prestigious newspapers on the morning of Friday the 13th of March 2026," without animals ever being mentioned. Bombing in Lebanon brought disaster…...
New Zealand escalates war on feral cats, but H5 N1 is greater threat to birds
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1789+ words) News on dogs, cats, horses, wildlife, zoonoses, & nature November 30, 2025 By Merritt Clifton 5 Comments WELLINGTON, New Zealand'What most threatens the unique New Zealand bird ecology," an estimated 2. 5 million feral cats," or 124 million factory-farmed chickens? Calling feral cats "stone cold killers," "New…...