Neutersol hits the market; Third World seeks a price break

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

COLUMBIA, Missouri–Globally anticipated for more than 12
years, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in March
2003, and officially introduced to the U.S. veterinary drug market
in May 2003, the injectible sterilant Neuterol is finally here–but
not there yet, overseas, in the impoverished nations where
uncontrolled reproduction of street dogs is most problematic.
As marketed so far by Addison Biolog-ical Laboratories,
Neutersol is only for American puppies, and then only for those
puppies whose caretakers are willing to pay almost as much for
sterilization by injection as for a conventional surgical castration
or vasectomy.
“Work is continuing with the FDA toward a clearance for cats
and older dogs,” Addison president Bruce Addison told Vet Practice
News.

Creating positive images of animals in Turkey

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

Fethiye, Turkey–Setting out in 2000 to end the annual
pre-tourist season poisoning of street dogs and feral cats by
sterilizing at least 70% within five years, Fethiye Friends of
Animals reached the goal in just three years, founder Perihan
Agnelli announced in June.
Agnelli celebrated by asking the students at 15 local schools
to create positive visual images of animals. All 450 students who
sent drawings received commemorative t-shirts. Sixty drawings were
selected for a four-day public show. The April 19 opening was
attended by 6,000 Fethiye residents and was broadcast live on local
television. An art jury presented gold-on-silver medals to the
artists in each of three age groups whose works were judged best;
silver medals went to the runners-up.
The art contest was sponsored by the Marchig Animal Welfare
Trust, founded by Jeanne Marchig, widow of Swiss painter Gustave
Marchig.
[Contact Fethiye Friends of Animals c/o Degirmenbasi Mevkii,
Orman Deposu Karsisi, Fethiye, Mugla, Turkey; 90-252-613-5825;
<ragnelli@superonline.com>.]

Court Calendar: Precedental verdicts

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

A three-judge panel of the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled 2-1
on July 9 that a ballot initiative prohibiting the state government
from confiscating private property without first obtaining a criminal
conviction against the owner was structured in violation of state
constitutional rules. Passed by two thirds of the voters but not yet
enforced, the initiative was challenged by the Lincoln Interagency
Narcotics Team with several humane societies as co-plaintiffs. If
enforced in cruelty cases, the initiative could prevent taking
animals into protective custody upon charging the defendants, and
therefore might expose the animals to continued suffering.

Five convicted of murder-by-dog, three charged in new cases

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

TEMECULA, California–Baby sitter Jackie Batey, 30, was on
July 9 charged with felony child endangerment and involuntary
manslaughter for the June 20 fatal mauling of Sumner Clugston, age
2, in the front yard of her home in Riverside County, California.
Batey allegedly left Clugston and three other children alone with her
pit bull terrier.
The charges against Batey followed five convictions on felony
charges in three other murder-by-dog cases during the preceding 12
days.
The Batey charges came 20 days after Kathleen Josephine
Hansen, 60, and her son Roger Allen Hansen, 35, were jailed and
charged with involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a
child, reckless endangerment, and dog law violations after a
similar incident in Clarion County, Pennsylvania. In that case,
Roger Hansen allowed his three Rottweilers to escape while Kathleen
Hansen was playing with her two-year-old granddaughter Lillie
Krajewski of Buffalo.

The “Carnivore crowd” licks chops at chance to repeal Kenya no-hunting policy

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

NAIROBI–Roars are often audible at the
Kenya Wildlife Service headquarters on the fringe
of Nairobi National Park–and not just from the
dwindling numbers of resident lions, fast being
poached to extirpation by Masai who see the park
as not only a buffer between their grazing land
and urban sprawl but also a source of grass for
their cattle and firewood now that drought and
overgrazing has turned their commons into
semi-desert.
Losing in competition for fodder, wild
ungulates have migrated from Nairobi National
Park into the distant hills. Hungry lions have
turned to hunting Masai cattle. Now the Masai
are hunting the lions.

Legislative Calendar

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

Reviewing proposed amendments to the Fiscal Year 2004
Agriculture Appropriations Act, the House of Representatives on July
14 added $800,000 to the USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection
Service budget to support enforcement of legislation banning the
interstate transport of gamecocks and fighting dogs, by a vote of
222-179, but voted 202-199 against an amendment by Representatives
Gary Ackerman (D-NY) and Steve Latourette (R-Ohio) that would have
forbidden processing non-ambulatory livestock for human consumption.
This was the closest that Ackerman has come yet in many attempts to
pass “anti-downer” legislation.

Cockfighters cleaned up on Newcastle clean-up

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

SACRAMENTO–Cockfighters who spread Exotic Newcastle Disease
throughout Southern California and into Arizona between November 2002
and May 2003 by illegally transporting gamecocks between fighting
pits appear to have created a financial windfall for themselves,
according to documents obtained by Associated Press under the federal
Freedom of Information Act.
The USDA paid compensation of $22.3 million to poultry owners
whose infected or exposed flocks were killed as part of the
eradication effort. Most of the 3.7 million birds who were destroyed
were egg-laying hens, for whom the USDA paid $2.89 apiece,
according to Associated Press: $10.7 million.

“Flushing Nemo” & the soaring threat of “101 Snowy Owls”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

OAKLAND, California– “Sadly, audiences are missing some of
the most important messages in Finding Nemo,” says Action for
Animals founder Eric Mills, suggesting that activists should leaflet
theatres to help ensure that what the Disney film actually says is
absorbed.
“This popular animated film has a strong vegetarian theme,”
Mills points out, “and one of the characters says that ‘Fish don’t
belong in boxes.’ Nonetheless, there has been a tremendous increase
in the demand for clown fish by hobby aquarists.”
“Everyone who comes in says they want Nemo,” confirmed
Michael Diaz, manager of Jewels of the Sea in West Palm Beach,
Florida, to Jill Barton of Associated Press.

Latest U.S. data shows shelter killing down to 4.2 million/year

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

Continued rapid progress against pet overpopulation in some
of the fastest-growing parts of the South, the Sunbelt and the
Midwest combined with continued low shelter killing volume in the
Northeast and Northwest to bring estimated total U.S. shelter killing
in 2002 down to 4.2 million–a record low.
Our 2002 estimate is projected from 2000-2002 data covering
every major shelter in cities and states including 39% of the current
U.S. human population of 281 million.
If 1999 data is included to get better representation from
the South, Sunbelt, and Midwest, the projection edges up to 4.3
million. The ANIMAL PEOPLE projected toll in 2001 was 4.4 million,
and the tolls in 1999 and 2000 were almost identical, rounding off
to 4.5 million and 4.6 million.

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