Who is this Leo Grillo?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1998:

ACTON, Calif.––Halfway from the Dedication and
Everlasting Love To Animals Rescue shelter to actress Tippi
Hedren’s Shambala sanctuary for exotic cats and elephants,
located six miles west on the same road, D.E.L.T.A. Rescue
founder Leo Grillo hit his brakes, swerved his four-wheel
drive vehicle off the pavement, and made a quick U-turn.
Instant hypothesis #1: Grillo missed a turnoff. But
there wasn’t supposed to be one.
Hypothesis #2: Grillo forgot something. That notion
was dashed when he cut to his right, down a steep dirt road
that was almost a washout, toward a railway crossing.
Hypothesis #3: Grillo lost his mind, four-wheel
drive or not.

Little Rock Zoo cleans house

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1998:

LITTLE ROCK––David Westbrook,
49, director of the Little Rock Zoo since
1984, and a staff member since 1977,
resigned on May 15 after a week on paid
leave, “possibly avoiding a suspension or dismissal,”
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporter
Jake Sandlin speculated.
Westbrook was to remain on the
payroll through June 30. Westbrook was previously
suspended at least twice for failing to
promptly remedy problems at the zoo.
Westbrook’s wife Kelli, a zoo nursery keeper,
reportedly also missed some work time during
Westbrook’s week on leave, but was retained.
Interim zoo director Carroll Hargrove confirmed
almost a month later that the zoo was
being investigated by the USDA for operating
without a federal exhibitor’s license. The zoo
was eventually given until July 20 to pass
USDA inspection.

WHY GREYHOUNDS RUN

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1998:

Finishing last in a race at Poole,
England, for the second time in four starts, a
greyhound named Wilma on June 2 may have
sensed the usual fate of dogs who lose, and
instead of stopping when the other dogs did,
bolted the track, still in her colors and muzzle.
She remained at large for five days,
while owner Kate Sheppard and trainer J o
Burridge insisted she would not be harmed.
Pressured by the National Canine Defense
League, Royal SPCA, Blue Cross, and
Battersea Dogs Home, the National
Greyhound Association announced within
days that it would make constitutional amendments
to clarify rules for the humane disposition
of retired racing greyhounds.

BULLFIGHTING & RODEO

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1998:

CHARC on June 1 disclosed 30
hours of the most intensely revealing undercover
video of bullfighting ever produced,
obtained during a three-month close-focus surveillance
of a variety of corridas in Mexico.
Included are the intentionally prolonged torture-killings
of 27 bulls, systematic torment of
bulls before they are ever released into the
ring, children crying as their parents compel
them to watch, wounded bulls who repeatedly
turn away from opportunities to gore and trample
clumsy matadors, and prominent backdrops
advertising Pepsi-Cola and Kentucky
Fried Chicken––apparently the biggest sponsors
of Mexican bullfighting. Many of the
downed Mexican victims are plainly still alive
and conscious when their ears are hacked off
to present to their killers. CHARC undertook
the bullfighting surveillance in hopes of dissuading
U.S. television executives who see

WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1998:

BROWNSVILLE , Texas– – T h e
U.S. Customs Service and Fish and Wildlife
Service on May 29 wrapped up Operation
Jungle Trade, a three-year undercover sting,
with the arrests of 37 alleged wildlife traffickers
in Texas, Colorado, Tennessee, and
Missouri, issuance of warrants against several
others, and simultaneous press conferences
at the Gladys Porter Zoo in
Brownsville and the San Antonio Zoo.
The sting apprehended 654 animals
in all, including 635 tropical birds, among
whom were macaws, yellow-headed Amazon
parrots, Mexican red-headed parrots,
conures, and toucans.
Among the mammals were 14 spider
monkeys, a kinkajou, a Mexican lynx,
and a puma.

Liability

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1998:

Carolyn Pollock, widowed
when Bill Pollock, DVM, of
Kingsville, Texas, died on October
30, 1991 after suffering for two weeks
from the herpes B virus, was on May
19 awarded $515,000 in settlement of
a lawsuit alleging that the Texas
Primate Center insufficiently warned
Bill Pollock of the risks of working
with macaques and inadequately
responded when he fell ill. Her juvenile
daughter, Elizabeth Grace
Pollock, born on January 1, 1992,
received $26,780 in trust, The Texas
Primate Center supplies nonhuman primates
to research institutions. Codefendants
included Spohn Health
System Inc., Spohn Kleberg
Hospital, Hazleton Laboratories,
Metpath Inc., and Corning Lab
Services, as well as four individuals.

HUMANE ENFORCEMENT

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1998:

Reinforcing previous verdicts, the
Kentucky Court of Appeals on May 29 ruled that
cockfighting remains illegal in Kentucky despite the
1980 state assembly ratification of a bill that exempted
birds from the definition of animals protected by the
Kentucky anti-cruelty law. Then-Kentucky governor
John Y. Brown Jr. vetoed the 1980 bill, and the prevailing
legal interpretation remained that cockfighting
was illegal, until Montgomery County cockfight promoter
Marvin Watkins and four other individuals
argued in a lawsuit that the veto was invalid because
according to a deputy state senate clerk’s affidavit it was
issued a day too late. The Kentucky Court of Appeals
previously upheld the 1980 veto in 1994. At least three
major cockfighting arrests followed the 1994 verdict.

AV activism

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1998:

Allegedly abusive animal experiments have
occasionally been halted by protest, professional
review, political intervention, and/or legal action, but
Radley Hirsch, founder and owner of San Francisco
Audio, may be the first supplier of research equipment
to delay or even stop an experiment by turning down a
customer. University of California at San Francisco
researchers Marshal Fong and Stephen Cheung want
to deafen six squirrel monkeys, then cut into their
brains to see the damage. Receiving the Fong/Cheung
order on February 11, Hirsch started to build a sound
system to their specifications, then balked upon discovering
what it was for. “It all comes back to you,”
Hirsch told Keay Davidson of the San Francisco
Examiner. “If you’re an evil person, bad things happen
to you. If you’re a good person, nice things happen.”

Shocked, shocked to find some macaques hurt young!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1998:

ATLANTA––Thirty-five years of records
pertaining to the sooty mangeby and pigtail macaque
colonies at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research
Center show that about 5% of their newborns are abandoned
by their mothers, who tend to be the least experienced
mothers, while another 5% to 10% are actively
abused by mothers who range in age and tend to repeat
the abuse with successive offspring.
This parallels the rates of infant neglect and
child abuse in humans, and is reason, argued
researchers Dario Maestripieri and Kelly A. Carroll in
the May 1998 edition of Psychological Bulletin, that
the use of nonhuman primates in researching neglect
and abuse should be stepped up.

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