Day: April 1, 1998

THAIS MULL MACAQUES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

MADISON, BANGKOK
––Efforts to keep 143 rhesus macacques
from the Vilas Park Zoo colony
of the Wisconsin Regional Primate
Research Center out of laboratories
failed on March 5, but as ANIMAL
PEOPLE went to press on March
17, animal rights activists and conservationists
around the world still
hoped to send 51 stumptailed macaques
from the disbanded facility to
their ancestral home in Thailand.
The Thai Forestry Department
during the second week in
March appointed a working group to
study repatriating the stumptails,
chaired by Wildlife Research
Division director Chawn Tunhikorn.

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Wildlife agencies demand death for killer deer

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

SHEBOYGAN, Wisc.; McLEAN, Va.;
AKRON, Ohio; LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.– – A n
appealing victim, a shocking death, and public outrage,
any prosecutor knows, are the prerequisites to win capital
punishment.
Around the U.S., wildlife agencies are pressing
the case for more hunting, allegedly to kill back
suburban deer herds––and incidentally, to encourage
hunters who may not wish to go farther afield than
around the corner from a beer store.
No longer is the kill-the-deer ammunition limited
to complaints about azalea-nibbling. Now the claim
is that deer kill people. Among the recent dead were
Kali Hancock, 12, and Wanda Schultz, 32, both of
Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

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FATHERS AND SONS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

CHICAGO––Part of the basis for
suspecting U.S. gun lobby involvement in
orchestrating the massive Countryside March
was the American background of march organizer
Eric Bettelheim, 46, whose Countryside
Business Group and the Countryside
Movement Ltd., formed by Lord Steel of
Aikwood, joined the British Field Sports
Society to create the Countryside Alliance.
Born in Chicago, raised in nearby
Hyde Park, Bettelheim took his first degree
at the University of Rochester, attended law
school at Oxford during the Vietnam War
years, earned a second law degree at the
University of Chicago in 1976, practiced law
in San Francisco for three years, and has
practiced in London ever since.

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Asia

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

With the help of Hilary Koprowski,
inventor of the oral rabies vaccine used successfully
against fox, raccoon, and coyote rabies in Europe
and the U.S., the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and
Animal Sciences University in Chennai, India, is
reportedly close to perfecting oral rabies vaccines to
protect both humans and street dogs. The human dose
would be embedded in a spinach roll; the dog dose
would be embedded in tobacco, which street dogs
avidly consume but humans rarely keep down even if
they do swallow some by accident. Chennai was previously
scene of a major humane innovation when in
1968 the Blue Cross of India introduced the Animal
Birth Control program there, now so successful in
so many cities that the Animal Welfare Board of
India in November 1997 declared as a national goal
the abolition of animal control dog-killing by 2005.

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Little shops of horrors

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

Truckers David Cook, 48, of
Jonesboro, Arkansas, and Edward
Earl Ruyle, 37, of Filley, Nebraska,
were jailed overnight on March 12 in
Greenwich, Connecticut, after a propane
heater fell over and started a fire in their
trailer that killed 44 puppies. Six others,
badly hurt, were later euthanized. Thirteen
more were hospitalized. Five, not
injured, were held by the Connecticut
Humane Society shelter in Newington.
Cook and Ruyle were initially charged
with 68 counts of cruelty, but the charges
were reduced to a single count of failing to
have a health certificate for one puppy.

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ANIMAL CONTROL, RESCUE, & SHELTERING

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

Fixing the problem

During the first decade that the
Humane Society of Charlotte ran a lowcost
neutering clinc, 1985-1996, it fixed
71,000 animals, reports president P a t t i
L e w i s, achieving a cumulative drop of
60,295 dogs received by Charlotte Animal
C o n t r o l, with continuing declines. Cat
intakes, peaking in 1989, are down 16%.
Doing Things For Animals,
publisher of the No-Kill Directory and organizer
of the annual No-Kill Conference
series, began providing direct animal care
as well in February, when director of animal
services Christine French won foundation
support to start a neutering assistance
project in the Verde Valley of Arizona.

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Trouble in River City

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.– – T u t i
DeMaagd, chair of a Humane Society of Kent
County drive to raise $1.5 million toward the
estimated $2.5 million cost of a new shelter,
told Doug Guthrie of the Grand Rapids Press
on March 3 that she welcomes a forthcoming
probe of the campaign by the Michigan
Consumer Protection and Charitable Trust
Unit. DeMaagd began the campaign in mid1997
with $1 million already in the kitty.
Donors have since pledged $1.02 million, but
only $450,000 was actually received by midFebruary
1998.
Since DeMaagd began fundraising,
nine of the 18 HSKC board members have
resigned, often alleging irregularities, among
them attorney Ginny Makita, who specializes
in animal law, WZZM TV-13 news anchor
Catherine Behrendt, and assistant U.S. attorney
Edith Landman. Also resigning were
Humane Society Guild president Frank Ladd,
and board secretary Norma Brink.

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NATURE CONS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

Burning prairie annually to keep
woody brush down, aggressively promoted
by The Nature Conservancy on public
lands in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and
Wisconsin, may be counterproductive,
wildlife biologist Ann Swengel of Baraboo,
Wisconsin, recently told Mark Ward of the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. After a decade
of studying prairie butterflies, Swengel has
reportedly discovered that frequent burning
may be driving the most specialized and
habitat-specific species to extinction. Her
findings are supported by University of
Wisconsin at Green Bay plant ecologist
Jeff Nekola, who has found that burning
grasslands to keep out non-native plants also
tends to destroy the rare habitat-specific
species he most wants to keep. Swengel and
Nekola spoke to Ward about 18 months after
Voice for Wildlife director Davida Terry
documented Nature Conservancy duplicity
in attempted prairie restoration within the
Chicago greenbelt. TNC volunteers, Terry
found, were girdling trees and setting fires
on public lands with official approval but little
or no public awareness and consultation.

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Political Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

“Political Animals has merged
with ROAR, founded in the mid-1980s by
the all-time legislative champion of animal
protection, former president pro tempore of
the California state senate David Roberti,”
Political Animals founder Sherry DeBoer
announced on March 1.
“Roberti has been on our advisory
board since inception,” DeBoer added “We
are thrilled to welcome to the board former
ROAR director Catherine Smith.”
Political Animals and the C a l i f –
ornia Equine Council are cosponsoring a
proposed California initiative to legally
define horses as companion animals rather
than livestock, which would make selling
them to slaughter illegal.

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