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Scientists: Curb the Endless Slaughter

By Nathan J. Winograd | June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

The Washington Post says the mass killing of wolves has led to a growth in the coyote population and despite a century of killing coyotes, the species “refuses to die.” It’s chilling. And obscene. For nearly a century, federal and state governments have been trying to exterminate coyotes, mostly to protect the profits of sheep-raising ranchers. But we’ve known that it doesn’t work. More importantly, a biologist hired by the federal government over 80 years…

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Conservation Biology: Blaming & Killing Cats is Wrong/Unscientific

By Nathan J. Winograd | May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

Proponents of cat slaughter try to legitimize the mass killing under the false mantel of “environmentalism.” There was a time when the environmental movement sought to protect animals and plants from chainsaws, traps, poisons, and guns. Fueled by biological xenophobia, it now uses those very things against animals and plants. Biologists, ecologists, and ethicists are calling out their own colleagues for launching a cruel, violent, dishonest, and I would argue criminal war on cats. They…

The Death of Austin

By Nathan J. Winograd | May 31, 2019March 23, 2020 by Nathan J. Winograd

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. Imagine what a dog pound is like for a scared dog. Imagine being caught on the street (often with a “catch-pole” or “control pole,” a hard-wired noose that is supposed to go around your upper torso, but is almost always misused to grab by the neck),…

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The ASPCA cut corners during transport. Did it cost 20 dogs their lives?

By Nathan J. Winograd | May 30, 2019January 2, 2020 by Nathan J. Winograd

The ASPCA took in roughly $263 million in 2017. That same year, ASPCA CEO Matt Bershadker had take home compensation totaling $852,231. Yet according to transporters, the ASPCA did not spend $15,000 to protect dogs by equipping each transport van with an HVAC system, a fraction of Bershadker’s salary and only 1/200th of 1% (0.006%) of total revenues. Twenty dogs died at the hands of the ASPCA this month. The agency, which refuses to provide…

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The “Wicked” Death of Emma

By Nathan J. Winograd | May 28, 2019March 23, 2020 by Nathan J. Winograd

Emma, a healthy little dog who looked like the photo here, 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. The Chesterfield, VA, shelter, where Emma was taken after her person’s death, said “finding Emma a new family wouldn’t have been a problem, but [that the executors] from the dead woman’s estate were determined to execute the…

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Lawsuit: Detroit Police Run “Dog Death Squad”

By Nathan J. Winograd | May 22, 2019March 23, 2020 by Nathan J. Winograd

Warning: Graphic Images. As I reported last week, a 9 year-old boy walking his dog flagged down an officer from the Detroit Police Department (DPD) because the dog slipped his leash. The boy asked the police officer to help him get his dog. “I said it was my dog, I said can you help me find my dog.” The officer shot the dog in front of the boy instead, leaving the dog with a shattered…

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New Study: Scared Dogs Are Not “Aggressive”

By Nathan J. Winograd | May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

Dog pounds are killing scared dogs by claiming they are “aggressive” because those dogs are failing their temperament evaluations. In one pound, as many as 82% of scared dogs failed their test and were therefore tagged for killing.* They shouldn’t fail and they shouldn’t be killed, according to a new study. The study found that just a small amount of enrichment — being spoken to softly, given treats, petted, and played with — can result…

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Back to the Future

By Nathan J. Winograd | May 7, 2019May 7, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

The Impossible Burger with fries available at all Red Robin locations. On Saturday night, Jennifer and I went to Red Robin, a nationwide chain, for the first time ever. Endless soda refills, bottomless fries, a roll of paper towels on every table, music playing, walls decorated with images that scream Americana (Einstein sticking out his tongue; a woman on the boardwalk rollerskating while holding a boombox), and families with children spilling their cokes and falling…

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Your Donation to PETA Was Used to Kill Healthy Kittens

By Nathan J. Winograd | May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

Among the dead are the young and healthy kittens pictured above. Donations to PETA are being used to round-up healthy kittens to be killed. Norfolk, VA, taxpayers subsidize the effort, paying for the barbiturates used to poison them through a fatal overdose. According to records obtained under the Public Records Act, the vast majority of kittens rounded up by PETA employees in 2018 and delivered to the Norfolk, VA, pound — nearly seven out of…

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The Death of P-47

By Nathan J. Winograd | May 2, 2019May 2, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

A few weeks ago, National Park Service biologists in the Santa Monica Mountains tracked a mountain lion’s GPS collar after it sent out “a mortality signal.” They found the mountain lion, dubbed P-47, dead. P-47 weighed 150 pounds, the largest and most robust of any in the region. He was only three years old. What killed him? Or more accurately, who killed him? According to a local ranger, A necropsy revealed that he may have…