Sanctuary at Angel Canyon: Animal rescue mission settles in the desert

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1995:

ANGEL CANYON, Utah––As The Outlaw Josie Wales,
Kansas/Missouri border country farmer Clint Eastwood came home
to find his wife and family massacred by Jayhawkers, picked up a
gun, and swore bloody vengeance. The Civil War was over, but not
the fighting. Killing whoever crossed him, Eastwood fought his
way west, reluctantly gathering misfit sidekicks as he went––a
horse, a dog, an Indian, an abused woman, a child. Struggling to
stay focused on murder, he found himself sidetracked by the effort
of keeping them all sheltered and fed.
The bounty hunter sent to kill Eastwood or drag him back
for a public hanging caught up with him at Angel Canyon, scoping
out the situation before Eastwood knew he was there. Rather than
risk involving his newfound second family in a shootout, Eastwood
rode to Kanab, five miles south, to meet the bounty hunter in the
town saloon.

OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1995:

Edward Lowe, 75, inventor of
Kitty Litter, died October 4 in Sarasota,
Florida, from complications of surgery to
relieve pressure from a cerebral hemorrhage.
In January 1947, Lowe, a 27-year-old Navy
veteran, was working at his father’s sawdust
business in Cassopolis, Michigan. Their
customers were mostly factories and garages
that used sawdust to sop up oil and grease
spills. As oil-soaked sawdust could become a
fire hazard, they had also begun to sell kilndried
granulated clay as a more costly alternative.

Obituaries

BOOKS: Tracking the vanishing frogs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1995:

Tracking the vanishing frogs
by Kathryn Phillips
Penguin Books USA Inc. (375 Hudson
St., New York, NY 10014), 1994. 244
pages, paperback. $11.95.

Stanford University, of Palo Alto,
California, in late September gave up hope
of completing on schedule a new graduate
student housing complex near Lake
Lagunita, a usually dry mudflat where football
rallies were held almost every fall from
1897 to 1992. The student spirit committee
moved the rallies when someone found
California tiger salamanders, supposedly
extirpated from the region, trekking to the
remnants of the lake across a busy highway.
Stanford has now rescheduled construction
to avoid building the parking lot during the
three-month salamander migration season.

BOOKS: Purring In The Light: Near-death Experiences of Cats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1995:

Purring In The Light: Near-death Experiences of Cats
by Stephanie Samek, illustrated by Larry Ross
Plume Books (375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014), 1995.
128 pages, paperback, $7.95.

I made room for this gem by
sweeping a number of quasi-religious New
Age best sellers, classics, and so forth off
my shelves, because I think I have found a
system here that could comfort and sustain
me along with my innocent and surely mystical
cat. The view of transition and realms-tocome
contained in the chapter called
Burmese Book of the Dead, together with the
Credo For Cats, sounds quite appealing.

Alleged sportsmen

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1995:

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court
ruled 6-0 on September 27 that hunting is
not a constitutionally protected right. Two
duck hunters cited for exceeding bag limits
had contended that the Pennsylvania Game
Commission unconstitutionally links prosecutorial
and judicial functions in the appeals
process for accused game law violators.
Judge Wilhelm Hart of Hardin
County Municipal Court in Ohio ruled
recently that since religion does not compel
the Amish to hunt deer, the Ohio requirement
that hunters must wear blaze orange does not
violate the Amish taboo against wearing
bright colors. Brothers Samuel and Joas
Bontrager of Kenton, Ohio, held that their
faith exempted them from wearing orange.

Humane enforcement

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1995:

Alan Roberts, 29, of
Westminster, California, was on October
16 aquitted of a cruelty charge for beating an
eight-month-old Akita/chow mix to death with
a baseball bat last July, an hour after the freeroaming
dog mauled his 19-month-old son
Andrew in a Huntington Beach parking lot as
the boy waited for his mother, Stacy Morton,
32, to unlock the family car. The jury deliberated
for three hours. Andrew, who had done
modeling work, required 60 stiches, plastic
surgery, and psychological counseling. The
dog’s owner, April Wyld, 28, leashed the
dog to a nearby fence afterward, and again left
him unattended. Wyld, charged with negligence,
has rallied Orange County People for
Animals in her support. ANIMAL PEOPLE
has received no response to inquiries as to why
animal control didn’t impound the dog for
rabies observation in the hour between the
attack on Andrew and Alan Roberts’ return to
the scene after rushing Andrew to a hospital.

Watson gets 30 days

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1995:

ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND––
A jury on October 9 found Captain
Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society innocent of endangering the lives of
the crews of the Cuban trawler Rio Las Casas
and his own vessel, the Cleveland Amory,
during a high seas encounter on July 28, 1993,
but convicted him of simple mischief for
enabling members of OrcaForce to throw noxious
buteric acid from the Cleveland Amory to
the desk of the Rio Las Casas. Watson was
thus cleared of counts that could have brought
him a double life sentence, but drew a felony
conviction, a fine of $35, 30 days in prison in
addition to the six days he served after his
arrest, and most significant, a “prior”––his
first in 22 years of frontline activism––in the
event he should again be arrested.

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1995:

Collector suits plague humane groups
LOS ANGELES––The July 3,
1993 seizure of nearly 100 animals from
alleged Los Angeles animal collectors Wayne
and Barbara Chronister continues to have
ramifications, as the Chronisters on July 30
of this year sued the Humane Task Force, the
Pet Assistance Foundation, Last Chance for
Animals, and 13 individual rescuers for purportedly
defaming them and illegally depriving
them of property.
At least one defendant, realtor
Carole Ellis, promptly countersued for
defamation and libel.

Fur notes

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1995:

Depressed global fur markets have reportedly kept a large percentage
of Russian pelt production on the domestic market, bringing a
domestic fur boom. Russian fur exports dropped last year from $62 million
in 1992 and $64 million in 1993, to just $30 million worth in 1994.
IBAMA. the Brazilian wildlife protection agency, intercepted
an average of 26,000 poached pelts per year on Amazon tributaries, 1975-
1979, but just 184 in 1992 and none this year, says enforcement chief Jose
Leland Barroso, whose staff boards and inspects 1,300 boats a month.
FoA sent a rubber backbone to John Kennedy Jr., publisher of
the fashion magazine George, after he vetoed publication of the same antifur
ad, “How fur looks before the gassing, clubbing, and electrocution,” that
appeared in the October ANIMAL PEOPLE. “We have to wonder why
compassion for animals is too controversial for a magazine which features
cigarette ads, Cindy Crawford in male drag, and an article on Madonna as
president,” wrote FoA president Priscilla Feral. “While this backbone is
only made of rubber, we thought it would be better than none at all.”

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