A Michael Broad Blog
This is a further report thanks to Nathan Winograd who keeps an eye on the state of play regarding animal shelters in America. Thank God for that. It needs to happen. He says, in general terms, that “animal shelters are returning to old practices, including more killing, despite declining intakes”. He believes that the …
White Coat Waste Project (WCW) is a non-profit organisation of around 20+ staffers making dramatic inroads into the immoral and unjustifiable funding of cruel and wasteful experiments on dogs and other animals at home and overseas by inter alia the National Institutes of Health (NIH), American’s single largest fund of animal testing. WCW is …
Here are 25 facts on why dog and cat abuse occurs. Obviously there will be an overlap with the abuse of animals generally but I would like to focus of dogs (and cats) in this instance for the obvious reason that they are the normal companion animal. I also look at the circumstances surrounding …
In the USA, Nathan Winograd, the founder and manager of The No Kill Advocacy Center has model legislation, a guide on how to get it introduced and NKAC attorneys standing by ready to help if you live in a state that does not ban dog chaining! How about that for an introduction? I don’t …
NEWS AND OPINION: The news today from the Daily Express is that Kremlin officials had plans to strap explosives to stray dogs and train them to run at Ukraine tanks. In short, they wanted stray dogs to be suicide dogs in what appears to be another desperate measure by the tyrant Putin. The idea …
NEWS AND OPINION: This may interest people as it provides an insight into the behaviour of perhaps the world’s best-known, now deceased, terrorist, Osama bin Laden. He had 20-26 children! Omar bin Laden is the fourth eldest son, I am told. He is a painter and apparently, he sells is works for $8,500 a …
NEWS AND OPINION – UK: Can you see the irony in the title? A young, baby-faced man, Matthew Hurst (yes, I can name him as he has been successfully prosecuted) was seen to stamp on this dog, Congo, 15 times because his dog had defecated and urinated inappropriately. Ironically, inappropriate elimination as it is …
NEWS AND COMMENT-BUCHA, UKRAINE: I have just read the report by Catherine Philp of The Times who compiled a war diary while she was out reporting on the Ukraine war. Her article covers the period March 27 to April 17, 2022. On a Saturday she reports that she “finally penetrated Irpin and the scale …
