Combating the Brutality of Dog Fighting
Interview with Greg Norred The scourge of dog fighting is still running rampant in the U.S. The appalling fact is that heartless people train dogs of various breeds to fight, maim, and kill each other…
Hooray for Pinellas County, Florida
This county officially views coyotes as a worthy part of the environment! They wisely advise the public to take simple steps that will reduce or eliminate any possible conflict. We applaud their common sense and…
Prejudice and Abuse
In another instance of the prejudice and abuse that coyotes are subjected to: Amber was brought to Indiana Coyote Rescue Center (ICRC) too socialized for possible release as a confiscated pet in 2001. She was…
Brutalizing Wildlife is Fine
According to a Causes petition of April 16, 2013…. This exhausted and wounded coyote ran into a plaza in Rochester, New York, looking for refuge from a vicious hunter and his pack of dogs who…
Honoring and Caring for Our Noble Canine Soldiers
By E.M Fay Humans have involved horses, dogs, and even elephants in their land wars for millennia, and in recent times have made use of dolphins and sea lions to detect underwater mines. These non-human…
Needed: A New Golden Rule
Anyone who cares about wildlife will see the connections to our articles about dogs. If our closest animal companion, the domestic dog, can be perceived as “equipment,” or brutalized beyond comprehension by dog fighters, you…
Watching Wildlife Products
REI, the company founded and presided over by our new Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, has an online catalog www.rei.com/outlet of outdoor wear and equipment that is good-looking, practical, and without the mandatory, pseudo-macho,…
Is There a Wildlife Watching Venture that Could be Established?
Our lead article in this newsletter is Monetizing Animal Protection. Stalktech is one example of how hunter activity is monetized. When we think of “recreational spotlighting” (please see Merle Wilson’s letter on page 9) we…
What We’ve Been Up To
Wildlife Watch and LOHV actively and successfully lobbied against bills that would have permitted the trapping of snapping turtles, and another that would have permitted snare trapping in NYS. LOHV and C.A.S.H. presented at the…
Letter from the Pressident – Summer 2013
Joe’s Journal 5/30/13 Traveling is a pleasure for some, a chore for others, and a necessary part of the job for many people. For me, hopping on a plane allows me to talk about C.A.S.H.…