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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:
Crying Shame
The Fur-Bearers
(3727 Renfrew St., Vancouver, B.C., Canada V5M 3L7;
<furbearers@banlegholdtraps.com>), 2001.
Dolphin Hunting in Japan
The Elsa Nature Conservancy
(P.O Box 2, Tukuba-Gakuen P.O., Tukuba, Ibaraki, Japan 305-8691;
<risa@surfline.ne.jp>), 2000.
Mobile
Spay/Neutering
on Half A Shoe String Budget
Barlieb/Wallace Ltd.
(1680 Minesite Road,
Allentown, PA 18103;
<barwalprod@aol.com>), 2001.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:
Pit bull terriers and Rottweilers together appear to commit
about two-thirds of the reported serial attacks on humans (65%), and
more than three-fourths of the rampage attacks (79%), ANIMAL PEOPLE
has learned, in a review of files on approximately 1,500 dog attacks
in cases in which a person was killed or maimed, or police shot the
dog.
Serial attacks are defined as instances of a dog injuring
someone after having injured a person or an animal on a previous
occasion. ANIMAL PEOPLE found that about 5% of the dogs involved in
life-threatening or fatal attacks on humans, or shot by police while
attacking, had attacked a person or killed a pet on an earlier
occasion.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:
Making social change requires a political animal by Julie Lewin
Doing Democracy:
The MAP Model for Organizing
Social Movements
by Bill Moyer
with JoAnn McAllister, Mary Lou Finley and Steven Soifer
New Society Publishers (P.O. Box 189, Gabriola Island, B.C.,
Canada, V0R 1X0), 2001. 229 pages. $16.95.
Organizing for Social Change:
Midwest Academy Manual for Activists
(Third Edition)
by Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendell & Steve Max
Seven Locks Press (3100 W. Warner Ave. #8, Santa Ana, CA 92704),
2001. 429 pages, $23.95.
 
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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:
WEBBVILLE, Ky.–Trixie Foundation founder and no-kill
shelter operator Randy Skaggs set out in 1996 to investigate county
compliance with state anti-rabies vaccination and dog pound
requirements, dating respectively to 1955 and 1958.
After obtaining and tabulating three years worth of data–and
suing 70 counties to get it, with the help of In Defense of Animals
and the Animal Protection Institute– Skaggs in late January 2002
published a report that seems to tell as much about the state of
civic concern and participatory democracy in Kentucky as about the
plight of dogs.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:
Marjan, the African lion whose endurance at the Kabul Zoo
made him a symbol of Afghan resiliance, died on January 26 in his
sleep. Of uncertain age, Marjan was donated to the Kabul Zoo by the
Koln Zoo in Germany in 1978.. The Kabul Zoo at the time was the
newest, biggest, and reputed best zoo in all of Asia, with more
than 440 animals, but at least 300 were killed in firefights or died
of war-related stress and deprivation during civil strife that broke
out after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980. In 1992 Marjan
killed a militia man who jumped into his den to show off. The next
day the victim’s brother blinded Marjan and killed his mate with a
hand grenade. World Society for the Protection of Animals
international projects director John Walsh headed a five-member team
who arrived in Kabul on January 21 to assist Marjan and the other
Kabul Zoo animals, and deliver the first of $350,000 worth of aid
for the zoo raised by North Carolina Zoo director Davy Jones, via
the American Zoo Association and European Zoo Association. Jones et
al also raised funds to assist Afghan dogs, cats, horses, and
other domestic animals, probably via an outpatient clinic which
might be established at the zoo. The zoo has long acquired animals
chiefly by rehabilitating wildlife, to the extent of staff ability,
and keeping those who are too badly injured to be successfully
released.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:
Astrid Lindgren, 94, died on January 28 in her sleep after
a brief viral illness, at home in Stockholm, Sweden. Born Astrid
Ericsson, the daughter of a farmer in Smaaland, Lindgren at age 19
scandalized her home town of Vimmerby by becoming pregnant out of
wedlock, and fled to Stockholm, where she gave birth to a son,
Lars, who died in 1986. She supported herself at office work,
married Sture Lindgren in 1931, and in 1934 birthed her daughter,
Karen Nyman, for whom she invented the storybook character Pippi
Longstocking. Described as “the strongest girl in the world,” who
feared nothing, Longstocking lived with a horse named Alfonso and a
monkey named Mr. Nilsson. She had no parents at home, but kept a
stash of gold coins left by her sea captain father, and defied the
conventions of children’s literary role models in almost every way.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:
Feral cats and dogs on U.S. Navy bases have just a year to
live, under a “Policy Letter Preventing Feral Cat and Dog
Populations on Navy Property” issued on January 10, 2002 by Admiral
Vern Clark, Chief of Naval Operations, says Alley Cat Allies
president Becky Robinson. “The policy expressly prohibits feeding
feral animals and/or implementing trap/neuter/return programs,” and
requires “humane capture and removal of all free roaming cats and
dogs” by January 1, 2003, said Robinson. Alley Cat Allies has been
using neuter/return to control feral cats at the Norfolk Naval
Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, under contract with the Navy.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:
TOKYO–Thousands of Japanese volunteers worked around the
clock from the morning of January 22 into mid-day on January 24 in a
futile effort to save 14 whales who ran aground near the town of
Ouracho on the southern island of Kyushu. Thirteen whales suffocated
before they could be towed back to sea, but the newspaper Yomiuri
Shumbun reported that one whale survived.
Yomiuri Shumbun identified the victims as Bryde’s whales,
but BBC News reported that they were sperm whales. Either way, they
were among the species that the Japanese “research” whaling fleet
killed during 2001 in the north Pacific.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:
SAN ANTONIO–A year after a heavily amended version of the
Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance and Protection Act was
rushed to passage in the final days of the 106th Congress and signed
into law by former U.S. President Bill Clinton almost as he walked
out the White House door, sanctuarians and antivivisectionists
remain deeply divided over just what it means and how to respond.
Almost all concerned are agreed that the CHIMP Act was
critically flawed by amendments allowing the National Institutes of
Health to retain ownership of chimps who are to be “retired” from lab
use, and to permit the NIH to yank them back into research use at
any time, along with any offspring born to them.