A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:
Translation
I am writing on behalf of
the staff here at the Khenifra Refuge
to request a French translation of
your newspaper. The staff here are
very keen to read it, but due to the
language problem find it very hard.
I hope this is possible.
––Harry Cormack
(Veterinary intern)
SPCA North Africa
Centre de l’Elevage
Khenifra, Morocco
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:
ANIMAL PEOPLE, as part of our ongoing effort to help solve animal protection
problems by accurately defining them, has since 1992 been tabulating all the data we can get
about cruelty cases to develop species-specific, method-specific, and motive-specific composite
portraits of the typical offender.
Not surprisingly, the psychological pathologies inflicted on different species tend to
vary according to whatever the animals most often symbolize. Among our findings, reported
and updated from time to time in greater detail:
• Men who harm women may also harm dogs, but tend to hurt cats with a particular
passion. Serial killers of women are frequently also serial cat-killers.
• Men who serially kill other men may kill cats, but more often serially kill dogs.
• Overt violence is overwhelmingly a male proclivity, but passive/aggressive abuse,
exemplified by dog-and-cat hoarding, child-starving, and starving farm animals, may be
practiced by either gender, as a symptom of chronic depression. The victims tend to be any
beings who are at the mercy of the offender. Depressive behavior, including hoarding, tends
to come earlier in life for men, coinciding with financial reverses, and later for women, coinciding
with bereavement, but the full syndrome can occur in either gender at any age.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:
SEOUL, BRUSSELS, LONDON,
WASHINGTON D.C.––An estimated
50 members of the Korean Animal
Protection Society rallied against dog-eating
and cat-eating on August 16 in front of
Myoungdong Cathedral in central Seoul.
Sympathy rallies occurred in many
other cities around the world, attracting
media coverage in the U.S., Canada, Great
Britain, and South Africa as well as Korea.
But the protests did not deter Grand
National Party legislator Kim Hong Shin and
20 cosponsors from introducing a bill into the
Korean Parliament that same day to repeal six
unenforced prohibitions on dog-eating issued
since 1978 by adding dogs to the list of livestock
species regulated by the Korean
Agriculture Department.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:
FLAGSTAFF, ALBANY, HEGINS,
LONDON––Acknowledging that the
public no longer tolerates thrill-killing, even
thinly disguised, the Arizona Game and Fish
Commission on September 11 voted 3-2 for a
new state regulation stating, “A person or
group shall not participate in, promote, or
solicit participation in any organized hunting
contest for killing predatory animals, fur-bearing
animals, or nongame mammals.”
The newly adopted ban on mammalkilling
contests evolved from outrage erupting
in early 1998 over a “Predator Hunt Extreme”
promoted by two hunters who wanted to knock
down populations of pumas, coyotes, foxes,
and bobcats so as to have less competition in
killing deer and pronghorn.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:
Tucker, a German shorthair/Labrador mix, had
already been swept backward 400 yards despite his desperate
dog-paddling against the snowmelt-swollen Wesserunsett
Stream in Skowhegan, Maine. He was 300 yards from being
swept over an old mill dam to probable death on February 28
when 11-year-old Karla Pierce saw him.
Her parents, Kim and Ralph Pierce, watched from
the opposite bank in terror as Karla hooked her feet on shrubbery,
leaned down a slick slope, and pulled Tucker to safety.
“I first tried to grab his stomach but it didn’t work,”
she said. “So I grabbed his paws. He started yelping, but there
was no other way.”