Dogs Deserve Better founder Grimes sentenced to 300 hours, $3,879 penalties

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:
HOLIDAYSBURG, Pa.– Blair County Court Judge Elizabeth Doyle
on February 22, 2008 sentenced Dogs Deserve Better founder Tammy
Grimes to do 300 hours of community service, in a capacity helping
humans rather than animals, and to spend a year on probation, for
removing an elderly and apparently painfully dying dog from the yard
of Steve and Lori Arnold of East Freedom, Pennsylvania in September
2006.
Grimes was unsuccessful in attempting to bring a cruelty
prosecution against the Arnolds, after the Central Pennsylvania SPCA
and Blair County district attorney Richard Consiglio refused to press
the case. Grimes was convicted of theft and receiving stolen
property in December 2007.

British reporter uncovers another greyhound scandal; dog racing in U.S. may be near finish

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:

LONDON–The Royal Veterinary College pays
the Greyhound Clinic in Essex £10 per dog to
kill healthy racing greyhounds and supply body
parts to the college, revealed Daniel Foggo of
the London Times on March 2, 2008.
The fee paid by the RVC is in addition to
the £30 per dog that the Greyhound Clinic charges
dog owners, Foggo wrote. “The RVC, the oldest
and largest veterinary college in Britain,
admitted that it had similar agreements with
other clinics,” added Foggo.

Mauled tiger rescuer gets a job offer

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:
KOLKATA–The Compassionate Crusaders Trust has offered a job
to Ashutosh Dhali, 45, of Deulbari, West Bengal, who was severely
mauled on February 18, 2008 while checking to see if forest guards
had properly tranquilized a female tiger who had been treed by a
rock-throwing mob.
“Forest guards encircled the tree with a net,” the Times of
India reported, “but the locals set the tree on fire,” causing the
tiger to flee.

People & projects

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:

Prince Charles of Britain “has shown his
distaste for the cruelty involved in making foie
gras by banning it from his residences,”
reported Valerie Elliot of the London Times on
February 28, 2008. “He instructed chefs
several months ago that they were no longer to
buy or serve the pâté,” wrote Elliot. “He has
also said that he will review the royal warrant
given to a shop near his Highgrove home which
sells it. His views,” surprising in view of
Prince Charles’ lifelong participation in captive
bird shooting and fox hunting, “were disclosed
in a letter to Joyce Moss, an activist with
Vegetarian International Voice for Animals,”
Elliot said.

Activists & Organizations

Judges overturn Bush sonar waiver

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:
LOS ANGELES, HONOLULU–U.S. President George W. Bush on
January 15, 2008 exempted the U.S. Navy from a preliminary
injunction creating a 12-nautical-mile no-sonar off Southern
California, meant to protect marine mammals, but the Navy is not
“exempted from compliance with the National Environmental Policy
Act,” U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ruled on February 4
in Los Angeles.
Three days later, on February 7, U.S. Magistrate Elizabeth
Laporte of San Francisco found that the Navy failed to take adequate
precautions to protect marine mammals before using low-frequency
sonar in submarine detection exercises. Laporte directed the Navy to
establish sonar-free zones around eight locations worldwide that
attract sound-sensitive species.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
then ruled on February 29 in Los Angeles that the Navy must observe
Cooper’s February 4 ruling.

Chimp Haven ordered to return chimps to Primarily Primates

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:
SAN ANTONIO–Bexar County Judge Michael Peden on February 15,
2008 ordered Chimp Haven, of Keithville, Lousiana, to return to
Primarily Primates seven chimpanzees who were transferred to Chimp
Haven in November 2006, while Primarily Primates was temporarily in
court-appointed receivership.
The chimps are the survivors of a colony of nine formerly
kept by Ohio State University researcher Sally Boysen, who were
retired by OSU to Primarily Primates in February 2006, with an
endowment for their housing and upkeep. Boysen and PETA opposed the
arrangement.

Pet food contamination

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:

Hartz Mountain Inc. on February 11, 2008 named American SPCA
Poison Control Center director Steven R. Hansen “2007 Veterinarian of
the Year” for his response to the March 2007 international recall of
pet food that was contaminated with the coal byproduct melamine by
the Chinese makers of wheat glutens used as an ingredient. Adding
melamine produced a chemical reaction that caused tests to indicate
that the glutens contained more protein than they did–and killed
1,950 cats and 2,200 dogs, according to complaints reaching the U.S.
Food & Drug Administration.

U.S. Supreme Court upholds breed-specific legislation

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:
WASHINGTON D.C.–The U.S. Supreme Court on February 19, 2008
upheld the constitutionality of breed-specific dog regulation by
refusing to hear an appeal of Toledo vs. Tellings, a challenge to
the Toledo ordinance limiting possession of pit bull terriers to one
per person, and requiring that pit bulls be muzzled when off their
home property.
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled in favor of Toledo in August
2007. The Ohio Supreme Court verdict followed other court decisions
upholding breed-specific legislation in Arkansas, Colorado,
Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, New Mexico, Utah, Washington,
and Wisconsin.

Another bloody winter for the hungry Yellowstone National Park bison herd

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:
WEST YELLOWSTONE–Bison defenders fear that the winter of
2007/2008 will become one of the bloodiest in decades of trying to
protect Yellowstone National Park bison who stray into Montana,
seeking forage.
“With heavy snow falling, and the end of winter weather possibly
months away, the death toll this year is fast approaching the 1,016
bison killed during the winter of 2004/2005,” Associated Press
writer Matthew Brown observed on February 26, 2008.

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