BOOKS FOR THE HOLIDAYS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

Wolves, by Nancy Gibson
Tigers, by John Seidensticker
Beluga Whales, by Tony Martin
Humpback Whales, by Phil Clapham
All from Voyageur Press (123 North 2nd St., Stillwater, MN 55082-5002), 1996.
Each 72 pages, 55 color photos, $14.95 paperback.
The World of the Wolf, by Candace Savage
The World of the Penguin, by Jonathan Chester
The World of the Shorebirds, by Harry Thurston
The World of the Orca, by Peter Knudtson
All from Sierra Club Books (85 2nd St., San Francisco, CA 94105-3441), 1996.
Each 128 pages, 52-57 color photos, $27.50 hardback.

Reviews

HUMANE ENFORCEMENT

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

Fellow tenants of the Townhouse Motel
in Billings, Montana, complained on August 27 to
animal control officer Mary Locke that eighty-year
resident Robert Dorton had two cat-sized rats in his
room, whom he kissed and called his brothers.
Dorton refused to admit Locke when she knocked
on his door, then shot at police and firefighters who
tried to chainsaw the door down. They returned fire
with pepper spray, tear gas, and finally a water
cannon. The siege ended––without injuries to anyone––when
Dorton was tricked into capture and
taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
Kansas City Chiefs running back Todd
McNair was on October 11 convicted of 17 counts
of cruelty to 22 pit bull terriers found chained on his
partially flooded property in Gloucester County,
New Jersey. McNair is to pay nearly $5,000 in fines
plus restitution of up to $15,000 to Gloucester
County Animal Control, and forfeits the dogs.

Steve Hindi’s rap sheet

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

CHICAGO––Charged on September 8
with three counts of hunter harassment and one
count of harassing wildlife, for using his paraglider
to turn a flock of wild geese away from the
Woodstock Hunt Club in Harvard, Illinois, and
jailed for refusing to pay $400 bond, Chicago
Animal Rights Coalition founder Steve Hindi was
released on his own recognisance after a four-day
hunger strike, got the paraglider back by judicial
order on September 27, and was busted again for
leading a ground-based protest outside the hunt club
on October 14.
Hindi claimed he had obeyed to the letter
a temporary restraining order to stay away from the
club, issued by Judge James Franz on October 12,
after the club sued Hindi and CHARC seeking
$100,000 in damages and $300,000 in penalties for
disrupting business.

IDA, FoA fight U.S. Surgical Corp.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

SAN FRANCISCO– – Twenty
activists including In Defense of Animals
president Eliot Katz were arrested at an
October 8 protest in San Francisco against
U.S. Surgical Corporation involvement in the
annual meeting of the American College of
Surgeons. Apparently the only significant
funder of the pro-animal research group
Americans for Medical Progress, U.S.
Surgical is prominent in transgenic research
using animals, and continues to do sales
demonstrations of surgical staples on live
dogs, the practice that incited Friends of
Animals to lead 27 protests at the U.S.
Surgical headquarters in Norwalk,
Connecticut, between 1983 and 1992.
FoA suspended the demonstrations
and other public comment about U.S.
Surgical for four years, 1992-1996, during
legal action resulting from the November
1988 attempted bombing of the U.S. Surgical
parking lot by New York City dog lover Fran
Trutt. U.S. Surgical president Leon Hirsch
blamed the deed on FoA, but Marc Mead,
an agent of the now defunct private security
firm Perceptions International, hired by U.S.
Surgical, revealed within days that he loaned
Trutt the money to buy the bomb and drove
her to the scene, on orders from fellow
Perceptions agent Mary Lou Sappone.

Did USDA inspector take bribe?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

In Defense of Animals on
October 21 published on the Internet an
alleged October 17 USDA internal
memo from Patrick Collins, acting
director for legislative and public
affairs, stating that, “An Animal Care
Inspector is currently under investigation
by the FBI for allegedly soliciting a
bribe. A licensed Class A animal dealer
in Missouri reported to the FBI that
she’d been approached by an Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service
employee regarding inspection. The
FBI arranged for agents to videotape the
transaction.”

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

Precedents

Texas state district judge Patricia
Hancock on October 14 jailed photographer
Beverly Brock, 45, of Houston, for violating the
state’s first lifelong injunction limiting possession of
animals by a convicted animal collector. Brock
accepted the injunction, recommended by the
Houston SPCA, in May 1995, after her third animal
collecting bust since 1992, but was found in
possession of 19 cats on February 5, 1996, with the
remains of 13 dogs and cats stashed in freezers in
her feces-strewn home.
The South Carolina Supreme Court
ruled September 23 that the city of Mount Pleasant
did not violate Jim and Nancy Saviano’s rights by
passing an ordinance against keeping any “vicious
or dangerous domesticated animal or any other animal
of wild, vicious or dangerous propensities.”

Children & animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

Scots law prevents animal and child protection
agencies from sharing case data, but veterinary pathologist
Helen Munro intends to change that. “Some of Britain’s most
notorious child murders reaffirm the link between animal cruelty
and child abuse,” she told The Daily Telegraph. “The two boys
who killed the Liverpool toddler James Bulger pulled the heads
off baby pigeons, double child-killer Mary Bell throttled
pigeons for fun, and Dunblane murderer Thomas Hamilton shot
birds from his bedroom window.”
The Eton College natural history museum scheduled
an October 23 auction to unload 460 taxidermic mounts,
mostly donated by graduates between 1850 and 1903. Proceeds
will be used for renovation, under retired biology teacher David
Smith. “In the past,” Smith said, “the emphasis of teaching was
on anatomy, classification, and the collecting of specimens.
Now biology means genetics, ecology, and evolution.”

Critics go for broke against cruel research

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

BOULDER, Colorado––Now under funding
review by the National Institutes of Health, University of
Colorado biomedical researcher Mark Laudenslager’s $3 million
study of “Behavioral and Physiological Consequences of
Loss” in 120 young macaques went virtually unnoticed for
almost 12 years. But the terms “maternal deprivation,” and
“AIDS” suggest that the Laudenslager study may never be
obscure again.
Explains Laudenslager, “What we’re trying to
determine is, all things being equal, why is one person at a
greater risk from AIDS than another? Why does one HIVpositive
person die after six months, as opposed to one who’s
living 15 years later?” His hypothesis is that maternal deprivation
may inhibit full development of the immune system,
making the affected children more vulnerable to AIDS and
other diseases later in life.

Attack of the gene splicers wins hearts and minds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.––With 80
Britons a day dying from lack of human hearts,
lungs, livers, and kidneys suitable for transplant,
Imutran Ltd. had no trouble finding 25
seriously ill volunteers in September to participate
in the first trial of organs grown in genetically
engineered pigs specifically for transplant
into humans. Subject to approval by
seven different governmental bureaus, the
experimental xenographs will be conducted at
the earliest opportunity.
Immunologist David White and
transplant surgeon John Wallwork told media
that the Imutran approach is, as London
Sunday Times medical correspondent Lois
Rogers put it, “to trick the human immune
system into tolerating animal organs. The system
is naturally programmed to mount a massive
attack to kill implanted foreign tissue
within minutes. Organs from the pigs specially
bred by the company have the same protective
proteins on their surfaces as tissue within
the human body––a mechanism designed to
stop the body from attacking itself.”

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