Abroad

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

In Germany, “animals kept in shelters are
never killed as a result of pet overpopulation,” federal
animal shelter overseer Jorg Styrie recently
wrote to Diana Nolen, president of the STOP antipet-overpopulation
project in Mansfield, Ohio.
According to Styrie, unless an animal “is incurably ill
and suffers pain, it is forbidden to put animals to
sleep.” Adoption, surrender, vaccination, and neutering
fees at German shelters are all comparable to
those in the U.S., but pet abandonment brings a fine
of about $1,500, Styrie told Nolen.

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Fixing the problem

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

Cile Holloway of the Texas
Humane Legislation Network hopes to
sell $500,000 worth of “Animal Friendly”
license plates (above) by September 2001 to
endow a state trust fund which will then distribute
revenue to low-cost and no-cost pet
sterilization programs. If the sales target
isn’t reached, under the terms of the legislation
approving issuance of the plates, the
effort will be cancelled.

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ANIMAL CONTROL, RESCUE, & SHELTERING

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

Jim Nakamura, of Chico,
California, whose prosecution for cat-feeding
was featured on page one of the March
1998 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE,
agreed on March 19 to a “diversion” in lieu
of contesting continued criminal prosection,
“on condition that he perform 40 hours of
work with the Chico Cat Coalition i n
Bidwell Park,” wrote his attorney, Larry
Weiss, of Santa Rosa. “Since Jim was one
of the founders of the Chico Cat Coalition,
and since feeding/trapping the cats in
Bidwell Park is all that he wanted to do
from the outset, we had no problem agreeing
to this disposition. Under the agreement
Jim is to participate in the program to trap
feral cats. That program specificially
includes feeding while the trapping is being
done. We’re very happy with the outcome,
and there is still no conviction in California
for the ‘crime’ of feeding cats.”

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SPORTSMEN & SPORTSWOMEN

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

The Oregon Hunters Association
on April 12 removed Portland chapter president
Wendell Locke of Forest Grove from
office for admittedly burning a cross on the
lawn of Oregon Humane Society state director
Sharon Harmon in April 1996, but did
not expell Locke from membership.
Mary Shriver, 55, executive
director of the New Hampshire Wildlife
Federation, on April 1 pleaded guilty to illegally
allowing her tags to be used on a moose
killed by New Zealand game preserve owner
Alan Stewart, and paid a fine of $300.

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Sales to labs

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

“Berkeley County Animal
S h e l t e r in Berkeley County, South
Carolina, has been sending shelter animals
to the Medical University of South
Carolina and University of South
Carolina for years,” Carol Linville o f
Pet Helpers wrote to ANIMAL PEOPLE
on March 20. “I contacted Berkeley
County supervisor Jim Rozier on Friday,
March 13, with a request that this practice
be stopped immediately. I am thrilled to
report that Mr. Rozier contacted me on
Monday, March 16, and announced that
Berkeley County would stop immediately
the practice of selling shelter pets to universities
for teaching and research.”

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People

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

Ed Sayres, head of the American
Humane Association animal protection division
1995-1997, has been named director of
PetsMart Charities, succeeding Lynn
Stullberg, DVM.
Jim Tedford, executive director
of the Louisiana SPCA in New Orleans
since 1995, resigned effective April 24 to
become executive director of the Rochester
and Monroe County Humane Society i n
Rochester, New York. Before taking the
New Orleans post, Tedford staffed the former
Humane Society of the U.S. regional
office in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Tourtellotte wasn’t slow

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

AUGUSTA, Me.––Maine Inland
Fisheries and Wildlife commissioner Lee
Perry on March 17 named Tim Peabody, 38,
of Northport, a 14-year staffer, to succeed
Dan Tourtelotte, 44, as head of the Maine
Warden Service. Peabody was promoted
ahead of seven senior officers.
Tourtelotte quit on March 6 to
become general manager of the New
England Outdoor Center in Millinocket, a
whitewater rafting firm––a job he accepted,
Roberta Scruggs of the Portland Press
Herald reported, during the same March 4
meeting at which a bill easing rafting rules
was approved by the Maine Legislature’s
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee.

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PORK BARREL POLITICS

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

Manitoba “is offering Ducks
Unlimited up to $1 million over the next five
years to subsidize operations at its Canadian
headquarters,” Canadian Press reported on
March 18, “amid rumors it was planning to
relocate.” The headquarters, built in 1994 on
a former protected wetland with the help of $2
million from the Western Diversification
Fund, has reportedly become a political and
fundraising liability to Ducks Unlimited.
Word of the possible move reached the
Manitoba government via an anonymous letter
in a DU envelope.

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