BOOKS: LEGAL FORMS & AGREEMENTS

October 1, 2000 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2000:

LEGAL FORMS & AGREEMENTS: Special Edition for Cat & Dog Shelters and Rescue Groups

by M. Ellen Dixon, Esq.

(order c/o Dixon, 234 Canterbury Ct., Blue Bell, PA 19422; 610-239-0357; fax 610-277-3752; <liacob@aol.com>), 2000. 295 pages, paperback; $26.95 including shipping.

In the just under 300 pages of Legal Forms &
Agreements: Special Edition for Cat & Dog Shelters
and Rescue Groups, attorney M. Ellen Dixon hypothetically
describes at least 300 situations commonly
encountered by animal shelters and rescuers which may
end up in court if agreements are not legally secured.
Though most shelters and rescuers long since
learned to use written animal surrender and adoption
contracts, other transactions are often based on little
more than undocumented conversation.

Law
Reviews

“BEST OF BREED” FANCIER CHARGED IN MAJOR NEGLECT CASE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2000:

MODESTO, Calif.––Free on
$10,000 bond, Debra Rexelle, 48, whose cat
Ashmanor Duracell was judged best of the
Turkish Van breed on the Cat Fanciers
Association show circuit during the 1998-1999
season, pleaded innocent on August 23 to 13
counts of felony cruelty to animals plus four
related misdemeanors.
On August 10 rescuers and Stanislaus
County officials removed from Rexelle’s
rented home 212 mostly sick or injured cats,
15 of whom died or were euthanized before the
arraignment. Many of the cats endured the
summer Central Valley heat in stacked cages.
Others were in backyard sheds.
The rescue team also found the rotting
remains of at least 50 cats and kittens.

Hunting, poaching, and the age factor

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2000:

Legal hunters claim that their
behavior markedly differs from that of socalled
“slob hunters” and poachers––but
checking the ages of 211 people charged or
convicted in hunting-related criminal cases
reported by mass media during 1999 and the
first eight months of 2000, ANIMAL PEOPLE
found that illegal hunters show almost
the same age-related behavioral patterns
found by Robert Jackson and Robert Norton
of the University of Wisconsin in their 1977
interviews with more than 1,600 hunters
who were not charged with any offense.

Hunting & Fishing

Hunters become trophies as “boomers” fade away

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2000:

JOHANNESBURG, HARARE,
WASHINGTON D.C.––Reputedly the oldest
white rhino in the world, with the longest
horn, Long Tom, 36, roams the Thomas
Baines Game Reserve near Grahamstown,
South Africa.
Long Tom is a widely renowned living
symbol of the African wild––and, to
many, of male potence, not least because he
is still siring young. His most recent offspring
was reportedly born on August 22.
The Eastern Cape Nature Conservation
Department hopes the birth will make
wealthy hunters more eager than ever to mount
Long Tom’s head and horn on a wall, or to
grind his horn into a purportedly aphrodisiacal
powder which in Asia is believed capable of
assuring men that they will sire sons.
Because the Eastern Cape Nature
Conservation Department estimates that permission
to kill Long Tom may fetch as much
as $75,000 at auction, he may go to the block
on September 8.

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