Facebook “is failing to protect innocent animals from abuse and possible death” because it refuses to block and remove pages promoting dog fighting on its platform. Over 450 animals find homes in Harris County, TX, when it asks the community for help. Dogs identified as “pit bulls” are welcome again in Kansas City, KS. The New York City pound killed Austin, an emaciated and blind dog, who bit someone’s hand that he could not see approaching. Meet Sam Orgill, the most famous dog you never heard of. An article in Conservation Biology says blaming and killing cats for environmental harm done by humans is wrong and unscientific. Courts declare Will provisions mandating the death of healthy animal illegal by ruling that they violate public policy against wickedness. And 20 dogs died at the hands of the ASPCA this month after it transported them in an “inhumane” manner.
In case you missed it:
- Facebook “is failing to protect innocent animals from abuse and possible death. By not enforcing its own policies against animal cruelty, Facebook is complicit in perpetuating criminal acts against dogs.” That is the conclusion of a new report that shows Facebook is refusing to block and remove pages promoting dog fighting on its platform.
- Rather than kill the animals due to what they claimed was “overcrowding,” Harris County, TX, put out a call to the community to assist and over 450 animals left the building out the front door in the arms of adopters, rescuers, and foster parents; rather than out the back door in garbage bags, leaving the facility with plenty of empty cages.
- Dogs identified as “pit bulls” are welcome again in Kansas City, KS and Wyandotte Co. “The Unified Government’s Board of Commissioners voted 6-3 to repeal the pit bull restriction. The ban had been in place for nearly 30 years.”
- The New York City pound killed Austin, an emaciated and blind dog, who bit someone’s hand that he could not see approaching. No effort was made to rehabilitate him. It’s time to make it illegal for them to continue doing so.
- Meet Sam Orgill, the most famous dog you never heard of. His spirit resides in your smartphone, your laptop, your PC, and every other digital device that contains a microprocessor.
- An article in Conservation Biology says blaming and killing cats for environmental harm done by humans is wrong and unscientific – “free-ranging cats should be accepted as legitimate members of their ecosystems.”
- Emma is dead. She was killed because the woman she lived with died and declared in her Will that Emma should also be killed and buried with her. But courts are declaring such practices illegal by ruling that they violate public policy against wickedness.
And finally, 20 dogs died at the hands of the ASPCA this month. The “dogs died while the nonprofit was transporting them from a site in Mississippi to one in Wisconsin…” The ASPCA does not know “where along the trip the dogs died.” That means no one checked on the dogs on the 1,000-mile trip between the time they left Mississippi and arrived, dead, in Wisconsin, roughly 14 hours later assuming no delays and no “pit stops.” While we wait for the results of the ASPCA’s internal investigation, one thing is certain according to experts. Given that the ASPCA does not know where the dogs died along the route, it is clear that they were not afforded minimal protections during the roughly 14 hour drive. “It’s inhumane,” says a transporter who has carried 6,000 dogs without incident. If he is right, it should also be criminal.
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