OBITUARIES
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1995:
Ed Piukowsky, 52, died of a heart
attack on July 9, 2005, at home in Johnstown,
Pennsylvania. The son of a police dog han-
dler, Piukowsky and his wife Bonnie Lanzen-
dorfer Piukowsky founded the Jollyman
Animal Sanctuary in 2002. Blairsville
Dispatch reporter Jeff Himler in April 2005
listed the residents as “16 dogs, 50 cats, six
chickens, three goats, a dozen each of geese
and ducks, two peafowl, a rabbit and a par-
rot.” Recalled Dogs Deserve Better anti-
chaining group founder Tammy Grimes, “Ed
was very supportive of me and my work, and
had me speak at their fundraisers each of the
past three years. The first time was my first
time ever speaking, and I was so nervous I
thought I’d die. I spoke for a whole 30 sec-
onds, but it was enough to get me past the
point of trying. He told me each year, ‘See, I
knew you were going to go far, didn’t I tell
you that?’ He was so proud of me and the
progress we have made.”