Month: November 2002

Grizzly mama mauls deadbeat dad

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November 2002:

WEST YELLOWSTONE,  Montana–Buffalo Field Campaign staff
protesting against round-ups and slaughters of bison who leave
Yellowstone National Park quickly disassociated themselves from
Jeffrey Scheu,  36,  who joined the campaign as a volunteer on August
26,  identifying himself as “Jesshua Amun,”  and suffered a broken
nose,  facial cuts,  and an injured knee two days later after he and
three other volunteers accidentally approached a grizzly bear sow
with two cubs.
The other volunteers either froze or dropped to the ground to
avoid posing a threatening appearance,  but said Scheu tried to run.
Airlifted to Idaho Falls for medical treatment,  Scheu turned
out to be wanted in Butler County,  Ohio,  for nonpayment of child
support.  The Buffalo Field Campaign learned his actual identity from
news media.

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Action Down Under on 20th World Farm Animals Day

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:

WASHINGTON D.C.–The 20th annual observance of World Farm
Animals Day was perhaps most effectively marked by Australian and
Philippine officials who probably never heard of it. The occasion
honors and mourns the 47 billion animals raised and killed for food
each year, 10 billion of them in the U.S.
Meant to be celebrated each year on Mohandas Gandhi’s
birthday, October 2, which this year fell on a Wednesday, World
Farm Animals Day was actually observed on both the preceding and
following weekend, as well as in midweek.

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Kabul Zoo gets two new lions from China and is stoned by British critics

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:

BEIJING, KABUL–Two lions and a brown bear, a wolf, and a
fallow deer arrived on October 2 at the Kabul Zoo in Kabul,
Afghanistan, after four days en route from the Beijing Badaling
Safari World in China.
The animals, including the three-year-old lions Zhuang
Zhuang and Canny, were donated by the China Wildlife Conservation
Association in memory of Marjan, the lion half-blinded by a 1993
grenade attack whose endurance through more than 20 years of warfare
made him a national symbol.

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California blood bank bill helps to relegate pound seizure to history

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:
 
SACRAMENTO, California–The once ubiquitous and unrestrained
biomedical use of homeless dogs and cats acquired from public pounds
receded farther into history on October 3, as California Governor
Gray Davis signed into law SB 1345, by state senator Sheila Kuehl.
“Establishing the first-ever protections for animal blood
donors used by commercial blood banks in California,” according to
United Animal Nations spokesperson Pat Runquist, SB 1345 “was
supported by a broad coalition of veterinary groups, animal
protection organizations, and more than 300 individuals, many of
whom live near blood bank kennels in Butter and Glenn counties in
Northern California,” Runquist continued.

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Bear drug rape case

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:

RESERVE, New Mexico– Former Hornocker Wildlife Institute
researcher Patrick Ryan, 51, convicted on July 23 of 36 criminal
charges including kidnapping, aggravated battery with a deadly
weapon, and 20 counts of rape, was due for sentencing as ANIMAL
PEOPLE went to press on October 8.
Ryan allegedly kept research assistant Jennifer Cashman (now
Lisignioli) heavily drugged for seven months in 1996-1997 by slipping
the animal tranquilizers ketamine and telazol into her food at a bear
research station in the Gila Wilderness. Both were assigned to the
station as part of a five-year study of the impact of hunting on
bears, commissioned by the New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish.

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