1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1800+ words) Few if any dogs or cats killed for meat or gamefowl pitted against each other have ever died a quicker, less painful death than even most of the estimated 70 to 80 billion chickens per year slaughtered for human consumption. In South…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1341+ words) MADISON, Wisconsin––Only in the warped minds of pack hunters could using dogs to roust bears from quietly feeding in the backwoods, making the bears hungrier, grouchier, and more reactively defensive, and then accustoming them to consume bait piles of…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1114+ words) The data from the 2026 edition of the most comprehensive annual survey of the U.S. dog population done anywhere by anyone is in––and what it shows is not good news for the shelter and rescue community. Once again the numbers clearly…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1847+ words) July 19, 2026 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment DUBLIN, Ireland; NEW YORK CITY––Horse-drawn carriages as New York City knows them arrived in the immediate wake of the passage of the Dublin Carriages Act of 1853. That, 173 years later, has much to do with…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1594+ words) HILLSBORO, Oregon––Hopes that the Oregon National Primate Research Center might become a sanctuary for the almost 5,000 resident monkeys and baboons appear to have been dashed by Oregon Health & Science University president Shereef Elnahal. Elnahal reportedly cited fiscal concerns about…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1718+ words) WASHINGTON D.C.––Northern spotted owls on July 10, 2026 came home to roost for the U.S. conservation movement. While hired guns employed by government agencies massacred barred owls in northern California, in the name of protecting northern spotted owls from habitat competition,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1175+ words) ROCHELLE, Illinois––Steer-tailers in the habit of converging on Rancho La Esperanza will have to jerk something else, somewhere else, after the property owners on July 10, 2026 relinquished the Ogle County conditional use permit, held since 2012, that allowed them to hold…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1351+ words) DAVIS, California––Are recently self-reintroduced wolves in California targeting cattle due to a scarcity of their natural wild prey, or just as easy prey? Wolves on their way into California, raising their first surviving litter in 2016, followed mule deer and…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1581+ words) QUEENS, New York––The ongoing FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, from which Team USA was eliminated on July 6, 2026 in Seattle, and the June 28, 2026 last race at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York City, may mark turning points in human…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1878+ words) Let us count just some of the ways: killing the owner in his yard, killing the pet sitter, being deliberately set on someone, mauling a housekeeper, charging a visitor, provoking gunfire, repeatedly biting children, and attacking a lone pedestrian, all…...