Month: October 2012

Australian sheep export to Bahrain comes to "bloody & miserable end" in Pakistan

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.)

KARACHI,  Pakistan–The Livestock Department of the state government of Sindh, Pakistan on October 20,  2012 killed the last of 22,000 sheep who were shipped from Fremantle, Australia to Bahrain on August 4,  2012 aboard the Wellard Rural Exports transporter Ocean Drover,  Malir district deputy commissionr Kazi Jan Muhammad told Ghulam Abbas of the Karachi Business Recorder.  Intended to be sold for Ramadan ritual slaughter,  the sheep were rejected by Bahrain on August 21, purportedly due to scabby mouth disease,  a stress-related affliction similar to a human cold sore,  which often develops among sheep on shipboard.  The disease is also called “orf.” Read more

"Pigs Will Fly": Australian anti factory farming campaign

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.)

 

Photo [redacted] caption: Animals Australia on October 22,  2012 released “Pigs WILL fly,”  an anti-factory farming video produced for both television and cinema showing.  The video features a pig in a factory-type barn, singing “Somewhere,”  from the 1957 Broadway musical “West Side Story,”  with a backup chorus of other pigs,  battery-caged hens, and other poultry,  all daring to dream of freedom: www.animalsaustralia.org/appeal/make-it-possible/countdown.php

Biggest foie gras farm stopped

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.) 

 

BEIJING,  LONDON–A plan to build the world’s largest waterfowl farm and foie gras factory in Jiangxi province,  China,  appears to have been scuttled by global cooperation among animal advocates.  “China’s Central People’s Broadcasting Station,  quoting a local official,  confirmed an end to the planned project,”  Humane Society International China policy specialist Peter Li told ANIMAL PEOPLE on October 5,  2012.  The Chinese state radio network report affirmed months of rumors that a project suspension announced in April 2012 would be made permanent. Read more

Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre fights takeover attempt by zoo promoter

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.) 

HONG KONG,  HANOI–The Animals Asia Foundation is fighting an audacious scheme allegedly advanced by Tam Dao National Park director Do Dinh Tien to evict Animals Asia and 104 moon bears from the Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre,  on the edge of the park,  and turn the facilities built at Animals Asia donor expense into a zoo. The Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre,  modeled on a similar site operated by Animals Asia in Chengdu,  China,  rehabilitates bears rescued from bile farms.

California bans hunting black bears and bobcats with hounds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.)

SACRAMENTO–California Governor Jerry Brown on September 26, 2012 signed into law SB 1221,  a bill banning the use of hounds to hunt black bears and bobcats.  The new California law came amid increasing recognition that hunting with hounds is more like dogfighting and the medieval practice of “baiting” tethered animals than it resembles hunting with weapons which can effect a quick kill. There are few quick kills when dogs chase wildlife,  often for hours,   in hunts that often culminate in the prey making a frantic last stand against the pursuing dogs. Read more

LETTERS [Oct. 2012]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.)

Pit bulls & politics

Thank you for your September 2012 editorial feature,  “Pit bulls & political recklessness.”  I am so tired of the killing.  To stop the killing we must have breeding bans.  The statistics tossed about that we have a kazillion adoptive homes,  and just need to work to get dogs into these homes are just that:  statistics.  Amost no one wants the three year old pittie mix with facial scars.  When I first started work in rescue/sheltering,  pits and pit mixes were not common.  Now,  if I walk into a shelter,  they sit row after row, waiting for death being the common denominator. –Phyllis Lissa Fischer New Albany,  Ohio

InterNICHE introduces alternatives to animal use in education to Iran

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.)

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I visited Iran in April and June 2012 as an invited speaker at the 17th Iranian Veterinary Congress and to conduct outreach to universities.  A previous InterNICHE visit to Iran in 2011 had been the first alternatives outreach to the country.  The 2012 outreach was part of a wider project that included extended stays in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
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More about trials of calcium chloride as chemosterilant for male dogs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.)

 

Thank you for your September 2012 article “Trial of calcium chloride to fix dogs succeeds in Nepal,”  bringing attention to calcium chloride dihydrate nonsurgical sterilization,  which I believe has the potential to help dog welfare organizations make their funding go further,  and to spare dogs the trauma of transport and surgery.

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