Fur

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

The Animal Welfare Institute, the World Society

for the Protection of Animals, and the Nordic Animal

Welfare Council won an upset victory on February 11 at the

International Standards Organization Technical Committee 191

meeting held in Ottawa when the committee voted to delete the

word “humane” from the description of the standards the com-

mittee is developing for submission to the European

Community. If the word “humane” had been used, the effect

might have been to circumvent the EC ban on the import of furs

trapped by inhumane methods, including the leghold trap. The

committee also agreed to admit representatives from the

American SPCA and Humane Society of the U.S.; AWI had

been the only animal protection group included in the trapper-

dominated U.S. delegation. ANIMAL PEOPLE regrets that

this information was inexplicably received nearly two months

after our March issue went to press.

Horses

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

Wyeth-Ayerst spent $9.2 million to push the estro-

gen supplement Premarin in 1992, according to Advertising

Age, while Ciba-Geigy spent $4.7 million promoting Estrace,

the leading rival product. Both drugs are sold to treat symp-

toms of menopause. Premarin is based on urine from pregnant

mares, who spend winters strapped to collection apparatus

under conditions similar to those of dairy cattle. More than

80% of the foals are sold to the horsemeat trade. Estrace is by

contrast a synthetic product. The estrogen supplement market

is expected to grow fast: only 7.4 million women take them

now, of an estimated potential U.S. market of 26.2 million.

The American SPCA, a leading foe of the New

York City carriage horse trade, now has its own carriage,

a replica of the horsedrawn ambulance it used in rescue work

circa 1895, built by former board member LeRoy Swindell.

The carriage is to debut at the Steuben Day Parade in October .

Alaska mandates predator control: CONCERNED ABOUT KILLER RATS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

JUNEAU, Alaska––Alaska gov-

ernor Walter Hickel on April 15 signed into

law a bill that forces the Alaska Board of

Game and Department of Fish and Game to

kill predators before either reducing bag

limits or curtailing hunting seasons to pro-

tect game populations. The new law for-

malizes as state policy the approach taken

in Game Management Unit 20-A, where

131 wolves were massacred this past win-

ter so that human hunters could shoot more

moose and caribou. It also takes the deci-

sion-making authority away from the

Board of Game, which hunting interests

feared might be too susceptible to pressure

from environmentalists and animal rights

groups––much to the surprise of the envi-

ronmentalists and animal rights groups who

have tried to deal with the Board of Game

over the wolf issue since November 1992.

Said Alaska senate majority

leader Robin Taylor, “You don’t manage

game by sitting back and saying you wish

the wolf wouldn’t eat the caribou. It’s like

shooting rats in a dump. They’re a predator

you have to control.”

Ex-tourism head vindicated as Alaska loses suit vs. FoA

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

SEATTLE, Washington– – Why

was Connell Murray fired as Director of

Alaska tourism?

“I don’t know and I didn’t ask,”

Murray told ANIMAL PEOPLE on April

11, from his boat in Puget Sound, “because I

didn’t much care. I was retired when I was

appointed by the governor, I said I’d stay for

two years, I was there for two years and

three months, and I’m retired again.”

Murray was dismissed effective

January 1, while on a trip to Asia, shortly

after he testified in a deposition that the

tourism boycott called by Friends of Animals

in November 1992 to protest the Alaska

Board of Game’s plan to kill wolves south-

west of Fairbanks had not demonstrably done

any economic harm. The boycott was lifted

when the wolf-killing plan was suspended in

late December 1992, and not reimposed until

after the Board of Game adopted the current

wolf-killing strategy in late June 1993.

Alaska kills one wolf per 1,218 tries

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

FAIRBANKS, Alaska– – The

Alaska Department of Fish and Game on

April 7 ended the first phase of its wolf-

killing campaign in Game Management Unit

20-A, the sector southwest of Fairbanks.

State killers bagged 94 wolves, 80 in snares,

two in leghold traps, and 12 with rifles.

Private hunters and trappers killed 37 more.

The state declared the total of 131 met the

winter quota of 150.

The “predator management” pro-

gram, ostensibly undertaken to protect moose

and caribou, also killed by accident 12

moose, of 23 caught; two caribou, of eight

caught; six coyotes; 13 foxes; a protected

golden eagle; an endangered wolverine; and

a snowshoe hare. Two grizzly bears were

aught, but escaped alive. In all, 36% of

the victims were non-target species.

ANIMAL HEALTH

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

Zoonosis

The politics of rabies took a twist

on April 1 when in all seriousness Patricia

Munoz, public health director for

Washington County, New York, told the

county public health committee that she need-

ed an infectious disease control nurse on her

staff to handle the growing rabies-related

caseload. The Washington County public

health department handled about 500 more

cases of all types during the first three months

of 1994, including 16 cases of possible expo-

sure to rabid animals. Munoz got the com-

mittee to recommend the hiring, then dis-

closed that the nurse would also handle

hepatitis and salmonella cases, both of which

are far more numerous.

Animal control & rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

A DISMAL TUNE FROM DOWN BY THE BANKS OF THE OHIO

MANSFIELD, Ohio––A recent

survey of Ohio county animal control depart-

ments done by neutering advocate Diana

Nolen found that 64% consider their shelters

to be overcrowded, 58% see parvovirus as

their greatest health problem (a disease associ-

ated with overcrowding), and only 27%

expect to be able to expand or improve their

facilities soon. Two-thirds of the departments

depend wholly upon dog licensing, fines, and

redemption fees for their income.

Nolen’s survey forms were returned

by the animal control departments in 33 of the

88 Ohio counties, containing 47% of the

human population. The findings indicate that

Ohio animal control agencies took in about

197,000 dogs and cats in 1993; euthanized

135,000, or 69%; adopted out 37,000 (19%);

and returned 25,000 (13%) to their owners.

Thirty percent reported declining intake and

euthanasia figures, 42% reported no change,

and 24% reported increases.

The shelter is an art gallery

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

OAKLAND, California– –

Joining a national trend toward airy,

attractive buildings intended to compete

for traffic with shopping mall pet shops,

the Oakland SPCA on March 22

unveiled an extensively remodeled shel-

ter and the PeopleSoft Adoption and

Education Center, named for the

Walnut Creek software firm that provid-

ed $500,000 of the $1.9 million cost.

“The facility contains a central

atrium-style public area featuring adop-

tion areas for dogs and cats, educational

displays by exhibit designer Jane

Glickman, classrooms, an extensive

resource library, and original art works

by famed designer Laurel Burch depict-

ing the special relationships possible

between people and animals,” said

spokesperson Beverly Scottland.

OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

Actor Bill Travers, 72, who played

Kenyan game warden George Adamson in the 1966

film Born Free, died March 31 in Dorking,

England. Travers and Virginia McKenna, his wife of

37 years, endowed the Born Free Foundation, which

works to improve the care of captive wildlife.

Travers and McKenna also served as celebrity board

members for the Elsa Wild Animal Appeal, named

after the lioness featured in Born Free. “The animals

have lost a true friend,” said Elsa-USA president

Don Rolla.

Obituaries

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