Squash standings

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

MENTOR, Ohio––Drivers can
avoid roadkills and stay out of accidents,
suggests data gathered since 1993 by Mentor,
Ohio transportation department employee
Cathy Strah, by looking out for rabbits in
spring; Canada geese, raccoons, skunks,
and squirrels in late summer; and deer in fall.
Adding 1997 data to the four-year
totals analyzed in the March 1997 edition of
ANIMAL PEOPLE mostly confirms previous
findings. Strah has now recorded particulars
of 3113 roadkills picked up by Mentor
town crews, an average of 622 per year. The
lowest annual total was 456 in 1996, after the
harsh winter of 1995-1996; the highest was
778, a year earlier; and the 1997 total was
668, the closest yet to the norm.

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LATEST NUMBERS ON PET THEFT

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

IRONTON, Ohio––Earl Hall Jr.,
66, of Delbarton, West Virginia, was to be
arraigned on February 17 in Ironton Municipal
Court on 25 counts of cruelty––one for each of
25 dogs police found crammed into three
small cages in the back of his pickup truck.
Hall said he was taking the dogs for sale to a
reasearch laboratory. As ANIMAL PEOPLE
went to press, police were still trying to determine
whether any of the dogs were stolen.
There were reports that two men in separate
trucks were stealing dogs in the area by posing
as local dog wardens.
Hall was arrested just as the fourth
biennial update of the ANIMAL PEOPLE pet
theft log confirmed previous findings that the
1990 Pet Theft Act amendments to the Animal
Welfare Act appear to have virtually halted
thefts for laboratory use since taking effect in
January 1992. If any of the dogs in Hall’s
possession are identified as stolen, he will
become the first person apprehended in
alleged connection with pet theft for laboratory
use since 1993.

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“ALMIGHTY GOD HAS BLESSED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONAIRES.”

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

PALI MARWAR, RAJASTHAN,
INDIA––The Shri Pinjarapol Gaushala,
founded 150 years ago, has sheltered animals
for 25 years longer than any humane society in
the United States. But while older U.S.
humane societies have usually built up endowments
that guarantee at least some steady
income, the Shri Pinjarapol Gaushala staff of
21 plus 10 volunteers cheerfully describe their
finances as “A question mark before us.”
They now care for 1,201 cattle and
1,228 goats: blind, disabled, rescued from
illegal traffic to slaughter, or just abandoned
as poor milk-producers or cart-pullers. Their
upkeep costs just over $10,000 a year.

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ONE WEEPING MAN

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

He sat over his dying horse, his head
buried in his hands. He had walked with his horse for
20 miles from his village. The horse was behaving
strangely, kicking and walking stiffly, so the old
man did not ride her, but walked beside her, talking
to her, stroking her, cajoling her on the long journey.
His purpose was to reach our shelter, where he knew
the best doctor was available.
The diagnosis was grim. The horse had
contracted tetanus as a result of a wound to her lower
leg. Our vet immediately sedated the horse to relax
the spasms, and our staff spent several hours on the
road trying to find a chemist who sold anti-tetanus
toxoid. This was finally located and purchased at a
very high price.

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Compassionate Crusaders conquer Calcutta dog problem

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

CALCUTTA––Calcutta, India, human population
11 million, is as little as $10,000 away from becoming the fifth
major Indian city to achieve no-kill dog control, following
Bombay, Delhi, Madras, and Jaipur.
Just a few years ago some Calcutta leaders suggested
shipping stray dogs to other Asian nations for meat. The city
pound was overwhelmed, with a budget of just five cents per
day per dog received. But the citizenry wouldn’t hear of it.
Instead, on March 2, 1996, Calcutta turned dog control
over to seven activist groups, among them Compassionate
Crusaders Trust, founded in 1993 by Purnima Toolsidass,
Ratna Ganguli, and dog psychologist Debasis Chakrabarti.
Chakrabarti, involved in Calcutta humane work since
he gave up medical studies in 1976 to work for kindness toward
dogs, also heads the Calcutta chapter of People For Animals,
the national animal advocacy organization led by Member of
Parliament and syndicated columnist Maneka Gandhi.

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Lynx to get ESA listing at last

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service on February 12 agreed to list
Canadian lynx as an endangered species in the continental
states, and to publish a lynx protection
plan by June 30, 1998.
USFWS, under pressure from loggers
and trappers, had repeatedly refused to list lynx,
despite the recommendations of staff biologists
who believe fewer than 100 remain south of the
Canadian border, in isolated pockets of Montana,
Idaho, Washington, and Maine. As lynx prefer to
den in old growth, the listing will probably mean
more restrictions on old growth logging. Trappers
may find their activity curtailed, as well. The
average auction price of lynx pelts is by far the
highest paid for the skin of any native American
species, due to scarcity. When located, however,
lynx––and bobcats, their close kin––are notoriously
easily enticed by dangling bait.

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COYOTES

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

New Jersey Animal Rights
Alliance member Stuart Chaifetz o n
January 26 began a fast intended to last all 22
days of the state’s second-ever coyote season.
Just five coyotes were killed during the 1997
season, but 900 hunters bought permits this
year to pursue the estimated 1,500 coyotes
who inhabit New Jersey.
Colorado state senator Dorothy
R u p e r t has introduced a bill, SB 144, to
rescind a bounty on wolves and coyotes set by
the Colorado Territorial Legislature in 1869.
Utah trapper Shane Cornwall,
38, of Payson, a 13-year employee of the
state Wildlife Services division, was killed
and helicopter pilot Allen H. Carter, 57, was
injured on January 14 when they flew into a
canyon wall after a day of strafing coyotes.

Oryx

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

SAN ANGELO, Tex.– –
The Endangered Species Propagation,
Survival and Research Center, of San
Angelo, Texas, on February 10
exported 62 Arabian oryxes to the
United Arab Emirates. The oryxes––
16 bucks and 46 does––are to be reintroduced
to their native range.
The original wild Arabian
oryx population was hunted to extinction
by 1972, but Operation Oryx,
formed by the Flora and Fauna
Preservation Society in 1962, reintroduced
the species to Oman in 1982.

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Worse out west

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

ALBUQUERQUE––At least
9,600 cattle and sheep died of cold and starvation
in deep snow that hit southeastern
New Mexico during late December and
early January, with the toll expected to soar
when spring enables ranchers to more accurately
count the victims.
The New Mexico Cattle Growers
Association predicted that 35,000 cattle and
60,000 sheep were at dire risk.
Some were saved when seven Air
National Guard C-130 cargo planes from
Texas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming airdropped
at least 465 tons of feed.
But the inability of drift-bound
livestock to find food and water was only
part of the problem. Western ranchers
aren’t used to having to round up animals in
mid-winter, nor do most have enough barn
space for more than a fraction of their stock.

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