Dog attack deaths & maimings

November 1, 2000 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

Dog attack deaths & maimings
(most commonly involved breeds and mixes)
U.S. & Canada, 9/1982 to 10/ 2000

Compiled by the editor of ANIMAL PEOPLE
from a log of press accounts since 1982, this table
covers only attacks by dogs who have been kept as pets
and are of clearly identified breed type or ancestry.
Attacks by police dogs, guard dogs, and dogs trained
specifically to fight are also excluded. The “Attacks”
column includes all fatalities, maimings, and other
injuries requiring extensive hospital treatment.
“Maimings” includes permanent disfigurement or loss
of a limb. Listed are all of the breeds and clearly identified
mixes accounting for an average of more than one
human fatality or maiming per year.

CALIFORNIA “HAYDEN LAW” DEBATE CENTERS ON PIT BULLS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

SACRAMENTO, Calif.––As fighting
dogs proliferate, what to do with any dog
of a reputed fighting breed is a growing
headache for animal shelters. Such dogs may
never attack anyone. Then again, they may be
surrendered or dumped to run at large because
they have bitten someone. Or, they may be
surrendered or dumped because they didn’t
attack on command.
If the history of a pit bull terrier,
Rottweiler, or similar dog is at all uncertain,
most shelters opt for quick dispatch to minimize
risk. Many opt for quick dispatch of any
“fighting breed” dog––if legally permitted.
Under the 1998 “Hayden Law,”
however, California shelters must hold all
impounded dogs and cats for at least five days,
if they are not suffering from painful illness or
injury, just in case an owner comes looking.

CARTOONIST FITZSIMMONS DRAWS ON GUN NUTS AT TUCSON SHOWDOWN

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

TUCSON––Nearly 650 animal
defenders and thousands of gun nuts converged
on September 17 at the Tucson
Convention Center. The last day of the 6th
annual No-Kill Conference had been booked,
unknown to conference organizer Lynda Foro
of Doing Things For Animals, just a glass
wall away from the first day of a weekend gun
show and rallying event for supporters of
Arizona ballot Proposition 102.
Backed by the Tucson-based Safari
Club International and the National Rifle
Association, Proposition 102 would require
that future state initiatives regarding wildlife
management must get a two-thirds majority.
As the crowds gathered, SHARK
founder Hindi and ANIMAL PEOPLE editor
Merritt Clifton strode through the lines awaiting
admission to the gun show to the NRA
membership recruiting table and delivered to
the man who seemed to be in charge a written
challenge to debate at one hour past high noon.

HUNTING OPS STOPPED

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

Under pressure from Republican
governor Christie Whitman, 26 outraged
municipalities, and the threat of a
lawsuit from the New Jersey Animal Rights
Alliance, the New Jersey Fish and Game
Council on September 11 reversed its own
June decision to open the first bear hunting
season in the state since 1972––just nine
days before it was to start. The Fish and
Game Council instead agreed to give
Whitman’s own $1 million five-point plan to
discourage nuisance bears time to work.
There were an estimated 100 bears in New
Jersey in 1972, but are now about 1,200,
who are blamed for breaking into 29 homes,
attacking 25 farm animals, and attacking
40 pets during 1999.

USDA agrees––finally––that rats, mice, and birds are animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

WASHINGTON D.C. – –
U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle
on October 4 agreed to hear arguments
from Johns Hopkins University
and the National Association for
Biomedical Research against a
precedent-setting agreement under
which the USDA Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service would settle
a lawsuit brought by the
Alternatives Research & Development
Foundation by bringing rats,
mice, and birds under the protection
of the federal Animal Welfare Act.
The proposed agreement
requires the USDA to amend the
definition of “animal” in the Animal
Welfare Act enforcement regulations
so as to remove the exclusion of rats,
mice, and birds which has been in
effect since 1970.

Maddie’s update

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

Maddie’s Fund on September 21
awarded a start-up grant of $61,000 to the
Lodi Pet Saving Connection, a coalition
formed to achieve no-kill animal control in
Lodi, California, by the end of 2005. The nokill
rescue group Animal Friends Connection
heads the project, which also includes L o d i
Animal Services, all eight Lodi veterinary
hospitals, and four veterinary clinics in the surrounding
area. If the coalition meets each of
the neutering and adoption goals set by agreement
with Maddie’s, it will get $500,000 over
the next five years, during which it must cut
the number of dogs and cats killed in community
shelters by about 1,500.

ANTI-CRUELTY ENFORCEMENT, REHOMING, AND RESCUE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

“For the first time, in a country
where human rights are routinely violated,
someone has been convicted of cruelty to
an animal,” London Observer Service correspondent
Martin Dayani recently reported
from Bogota, Colombia. District Judge
Elsa Lucia Romero, of Suba, a northern
Bogota suburb, jailed two men for three
months and fined them each the value of 35
grams of gold for allegedly setting a street
dog named L u c a s on fire with a blowtorch
and then leaving him to suffer for 24 hours
with the burns that eventually killed him.
“Legally this was a watershed,” Romero told
Dayani. “What was important in this case
was that people had reported the incident. I
considered that the death of the dog caused
upset among the local residents,” who
demanded justice even though the 10-year-old
Colombian cruelty law was so obscure that
Romero had difficulty finding a copy of it.
Continued Romero, “This case appears to
have given publicity to the wide-scale abuse
of animals in our society, which is important,
as ignorance surrounding the legal rights of
animals encourages impunity.” Added animal
advocate Emiliano Castro, “Colombians will
never achieve a peaceful society based on
human dignity and respect for one another if
we can’t first learn to respect the rights of our
brothers in the animal kingdom.”

Case vs. ALF flak dropped

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

VANCOUVER, B.C.– – The
Royal Canadian Mounted Police on
September 25 withdrew charges that frequent
Animal Liberation Front spokesperson
David Barbarash, 36, and his
longtime associate Darren Todd
Thurston, 30, sent more than 20 razor
blade-rigged letters to hunters, furriers,
and a newspaper columnist.
R C M P spokespersons told
media that they remain confident that
Barbarash and Thurston were rightly
accused, but felt an order from British
Columbia Supreme Court Justice
Kenneth Lysyk to fully disclose the evidence
against them would jeopardize
confidential sources and agreements
with other law enforcement agencies to
protect the other agencies’ sources.

New anti-live market abuse, rodeo shocking, and animal testing laws in Calif.––and more!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

SACRAMENTO––”After five years of
failed agreements, undercover investigations, and
heated public hearings,” San Francisco SPCA
Department of Law and Advocacy chief Nathan
Winograd announced on October 3, “animal welfare
advocates have passed a law protecting live
animals sold for food in California. Governor Gray
Davis has signed AB 2479, introduced by assembly
member Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica).
“The new law prohibits stores from skinning
and dismembering live animals, as well as
storing and displaying animals in ways likely to
result in injury, starvation, or suffocation. The law
applies to frogs, turtles, and birds sold for food,”
whom antiquated legal language previously
exempted from coverage by the California anti-cruelty
statutes.

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