REVIEWS: Sakae Hemmi

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

A Report on the 1996 Dolphin Catch-Quota Violation
at Futo Fishing Harbor, Shizuoka Prefecture
Wild Orca Capture: Right or Wrong?
both by Sakae Hemmi
Elsa Nature Conservancy (POB 2, Tsukuba-Gakuen Post Office,
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8691, Japan.) No prices listed.

A Report on the 1996 Dolphin
Catch-Quota Violation at Futo Fishing
Harbor, Shizuoka Prefecture, initially published
in Japanese, now translated, details
how in October 1996 the Elsa Nature
Conservancy forced the Futo Fishing
Cooperative to release more than 100 dolphins
who were captured in excess of a “drive
fishery” kill quota, and a week later obliged
two aquariums to release six psuedorcas who
had been taken from the excess for exhibition.
“The protest movement against the
dolphin capture was the first of its kind,”
author Sakei Hemmi explains. Previous
opposition to drive fisheries came from foreign
activists, notably filmmaker Hardin
Jones, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
founder Paul Watson, and Steve Sipman,
who invented the name “Animal Liberation
Front” in connection with releasing two dolphins
from a Hawaiian laboratory in 1976.

BOOKS: Taking Wing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

Taking Wing: Archaeopterix and the Evolution of Bird Flight
by Pat Shipman
Touchstone (1230 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10020), 1998. 336 pages, paperback; $15.00.

Pennsylvania State University
anthropologist Pat Shipman in Taking Wing
presents the most comprehensive, fair-minded
overview we’ve seen of the many controversies
surrounding Archaeopteryx and evolution.
As she entertainingly outlines, Archaeopteryx
in the 19th century emerged as the most convincing
fossil evidence for evolution itself. In
the late 20th century, Archaeopteryx is focal
point of a raging battle among theorists over
whether birds evolved from therapod dinosaurs
or much earlier, from a common ancestor
shared with the rest of dinosauria.

Shrinking animal work stress

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

DESMOINES, Wash.;
DENVER, Colo.––The last people
to get help are often the caregivers.
And that’s dangerous, agree psychologists
Kate Prevost Myers and
Caterina Spinarsis, who specialize
in helping animal caregivers.
Myers, a former animal
control officer in northern California
and past editor of the National
Animal Control Association magazine,
changed careers in midlife––
partly due to “burnout.”
After developing her new
career in psychology, however,
Myers returned to her original field
because that’s where she perceived
major untreated need.

AVANZINO RELEASES DUFFIELD

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

ALAMEDA, Calif.––Former San
Francisco SPCA president Richard Avanzino
on February 25 released grant application
guidelines for the Duffield Family Foundation,
doing business as Maddie’s Fund.
Like Maddie’s Adoption Center, at
the SF/SPCA, Maddie’s Fund exists in
memory of Maddie, the late beloved dog of
computer software magnates Dave and
Cheryl Duffield. Maddie’s Fund was created
with a $200 million endowment for the
specific purpose of helping communities
across the U.S. achieve no-kill control of dog
and cat populations––as San Francisco did
during Avanzino’s tenure at the SF/SPCA.

ANIMAL CONTROL & RESCUE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

According to the January 1999
edition of Veterinary Economics, “ D r .
Richard Fayrer-Hosken, an associate professor
at the University of Georgia College
of Veterinary Medicine, has developed
Spay-Safe, an injectible contraceptive made
from a natural protein found in pig ovaries.
Three shots permanently sterilize a dog without
any known side effects. Spay-Safe is
undergoing FDA evaluation, and the university
has licensed a company to market it pending
approval. Now Dr. Fayrer-Hosken is
developing a dosage for cats.” Fayrer-Hosken
did not answer inquiries from ANIMAL
PEOPLE , however, and other information
reaching us indicates that the University of
Georgia may be involved in litigation with the
Humane Society of the U.S., which apparently
funded some of the research, over ownership
of the marketing rights.

Dogfighting

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

Authorities in New York and
California recently achieved three of the biggest
dogfighting busts on record––but in New
Orleans, more than 50 reports of dogfighting
collected by the New Orleans Anti-Dogfighting
Task Force over the past 18 months reportedly
haven’t brought so much as one arrest.
Task force founder and League In
Support of Animals executive director Jeff
Dorson on February 9, 1999 formally complained
about the inaction to police superintendent
Richard Pennington.
Local high school teacher Anne B.
Churchill supported Dorson’s complaint with
pages of transcripts of classroom conversations
about dogfighting, to show how the nonenforcement
of anti-dogfighting laws affects the
attitudes of young people.

Joint effort aims for no-kill in Albuquerque

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

ALBUQUERQUE––They didn’t
quite offer a Spay Day USA deal to match
Dallas, where PetFixx and The Fund for
Animals paid high school students age 18 and
older $5.00 on February 11 for each dog or cat
they brought in to be altered, or New York,
where The Fund clinic offered a “Neuter
Benny for a Penny” promotion to senior citizens,
welfare recipients, people with disabilities,
and animal rescuers––but the third annual
“Neuter Scooter for a Nickel” day organized
by the People’s Anti-Cruelty Association/
Albuquerque Animal Rescue did unite
Albuquerque Animal Services, New Mexico
Animal Friends, and the Animal Humane
Association in a pilot effort to “help this city
get started on the road to becoming no-kill,”
said PACA/AAR president Jane Long.

People, awards, honors, and appointments

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

PETsMART Inc. on January 4
announced the appointment of Joyce Briggs
as director of PETsMART Charities, which
contributed more than $2.5 million to animal
protection charities in 1998, and facilitated
the adoption of more than 175,000 dogs and
cats via the PETsMART Luv-A-Pet
Adoption Centers, located in each
PETsMART store. PETsMART does not sell
dogs and cats. Briggs previously was senior
director of marketing and public relations for
the American Humane Association, and
before that was director of The Spayed Club,
a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit neutering service.

Animal Welfare Act cases

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

The USDA Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service on February 19
amended a 1998 complaint against the
Coulston Foundation, of Alamogordo,
New Mexico, for alleged violations of the
Animal Welfare Act to address “grave concerns
regarding the circumstances under
which several chimps recently died,” USDA
undersecretary for regulatory programs
Michael V. Dunn told media. The amended
complaint claims the Coulston Foundation
failed to establish and maintain a program of
adequate veterinary care, and did not make
itself aware of known side effects of veterinary
drugs. Despite a record of repeated
AWA violations resulting in chimp fatalities,
dating at least to 1995, and an allegedly high
rate of veterinary staff turnover, the Air
Force in August 1998 awarded the Coulston
Foundation permanent custody of 111 former
members of the NASA space chimp colony.

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