Month: September 2002

Sanctuarians respond to July/August features

Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2002:

Dharma donks

Thank you for including an item about our Dharma Donkey
Sanctuary activities in Sagroli village, south Maharashtra, India,
in your July/August 2002 edition.
On June 28, the day before our third annual donkey health
care and education camp, the police of nearby Biloli village
apprehended and jailed six men who were allegedly stealing donkeys
for slaughter at an infamous slaughterhouse just across the state
border in Andra Pradesh. As soon as we heard the news, we went to
meet the police. They were very excited that we came, and I took
lots of photos of the police captain, his staff, and the two
policemen who actually caught the donkey-nappers.

Read more

U.K. Mammals Trust says “Yankee animals, go home!”

Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2002:

LONDON–Great Britain from the time of Queen Elizabeth I
through the reign of Queen Victoria energetically exported favored
livestock and wildlife species throughout the British Empire.
Rabbits and foxes were sent to Australia and New Zealand,
starlings and house sparrows to the U.S.–but now Britain is on the
receiving end of introductions,   especially from the U.S.,  and some
conservationists view the new arrivals as threats to the national
character.
David Macdonald and Fran Tatter-sall of the Mammals Trust
reported in May 2002 that the population of native English water
voles fell by 90% during the 20th century,  due to habitat
competition and predation by introduced American mink.
Macdonald and Tattersall also blamed the recent decline of
native red squirrels on the success of introduced American grey
squirrels,  and lamented that DNA analysis of native British pine
martens showed the presence of at least two American pine martens in
their gene pool.

Read more

LETTERS [September 2002]

Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2002:
 
Education

It occurred to me that math should be
part of the humane education curriculum.
For example, if there are 500 female and
500 male dogs in a town whose mayor kills 499 of
the females and 499 of the males, and the
surviving female and her female offspring have
two female and two male puppies twice a year,
who survive disease, accidents and the mayor’s
death squads to reproduce at the same rate, how
many dogs will there be after five years,
assuming that there is plenty of edible rubbish
for the dogs to eat and plenty of water to drink?
If the carrying capacity of the habitat
is 3,000 stray dogs and the mayor hires someone
to kill 2,500 of them each winter, how many dogs
will there be within six months?
Another question could be on rabies: if
70% of the dogs in town are vaccinated against
rabies, and a rabid dog is dumped on the edge of
the town, will rabies spread throughout the town?
If we can communicate to the next
generation the basic math of animal population
control and disease control, we will have much
less difficulty in advancing sterilization and
vaccination in the future, in place of the
present endless cycle of cruel and ineffective
killing.
–Robert Smith
<Robert.Smith@TangoFashions.com>

Read more

No-kill success and fiscal reality collide in Reno

Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2002:

Succeeding the No-Kill Conference, after seven annual events
that transformed the ambitions of the global animal care and control
community, will be the much less provocatively named Conference on
Homeless Animal Management and Policy, convening in Reno on August
22, 2002.
Retiring the term “no-kill” in deference to the sensitivities
of conventional shelter directors, CHAMP hopes to attract a broader
constituency to learn new approaches, and join the worldwide trend
away from accepting high-volume killing of homeless animals as an
inevitable part of animal control and humane work.

Read more

1 2 3