Pierce County to appeal $2 million award to dog attack victim

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:

TACOMA, EUREKA, EVANSVILLE--Pierce County, Washington, on August 24, 2011 filed notice of intent to appeal an August 12 jury award of $2.2 million to pit bull terrier attack victim Sue Gorman, 63, of Gig Harbor.

The jury directed Pierce County to pay damages of $924,000 to Gorman for alleged negligence in responding to many previous complaints about the pit bulls who burst through an open sliding glass door late the night of August 21, 2007, mauling her service dog and killing a Jack Russell terrier whom Gorman was keeping for a friend. Awakened by the attack, Gorman was injured when she tried to intervene. Read more

Starved dogs eat Indonesian dog meat dealer

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:

MANADO, Indonesia–-Dog meat dealer Andre Lumboga, 50, was killed and eaten by five of his dogs on September 1, 2011, police said, after Lumboga left the dogs unfed while he went on a two-week holiday. His dismembered remains were found after a neighborhood guard wondered why his luggage remained in front of his house five days after his return. The dogs apparently cannibalized two other dogs earlier. Four of the dogs were shot by police. One dog escaped.

North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance names a new manager

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:

North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance co-chairs Sarah Baeckler and Jen Feuerstein on August 21, 2011 announced the choice of Mark Twyford to become alliance manager. Twyford formerly headed the Humane Society of Allen County, in Lima Ohio, and the Chequamegon Humane Association in Ashland, Wisconsin.

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AHA brass shown at meatfest while Hurricane Irene devastates the Northeast

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:

LOS ANGELES–What did the American Humane Association do while Irene became the first hurricane to hit New Jersey since 1903, and did more damage in Vermont than any disaster since the Flood of 1927?

On August 26, 2011, six days after Irene hit the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, but one day before Irene struck North Carolina, the AHA announced that “Even as the Red Star 82-foot truck drives toward North Carolina from its Denver home base, AHA President Dr. Robin R. Ganzert waits out the hurricane on her North Carolina farm.”
Said Ganzert, “It’s very important that families, and especially children, know that we will help keep their animals safe and sound.” Read more

A new day dawns for cats and dogs in southern China

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:

WUXI, China–Tipped off at 10 p.m. on August 3, 2011 that
truckers planned to illegally haul a load of cats to live markets in
Guangzhou, Guangdong at dawn, disguised as a cargo of furniture,
members of the Wuxi Animal Protection Association in Jiangsu province
mobilized overnight to intercept the truck at a toll booth at about
5:00 a.m. on August 4.
The truckers had nearly convinced the first authorities on
the scene that the load was only furniture, but “Conveniently,
right at that very moment, one little cat stuck her small head and
shoulders out of one of the cages at the top of the truck, looking
around curiously,” said a WAPA media release, translated by
volunteer Joy Gao.

Great Ape Trust turns to public fundraising after losing only major sponsor

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:
DES MOINES–Still housing seven bonobos and two orangutans,
after making deep program budget cuts, the Great Ape Trust “has
launched a fundraising campaign in a fight to stay open after founder
and sole funder Ted Townsend informed the staff his financial support
will cease at the end of the year,” reported Perry Beeman of the
Des Moines Register on August 25, 2011.
Founded by primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh in 2002 as the
Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary, opened in 2004 after two years of
construction, the Great Ape Trust “has conducted landmark cognitive
and social research on bonobos,” recalled Beeman. “But most of its
orangutans have already been shipped out to the Indianapolis Zoo, it
is ending contracts with some of its researchers, and its budget,”
according to Savage-Rumbaugh, “is now a fourth of what it once was.”

Shooter hits Hindi with car

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:

HAMBURG, Pa.–Fredrick K. Campbell, 58, of Lower Alsace
Township, Pennsylvania, was on September 3, 2011 cited by state
police for driving at an unsafe speed after striking Showing Animals
Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi with his mini-van near the
entrance of the Wing Pointe Gun Club. Hindi, present to protest a
pigeon shoot, sought hospital treatment for knee and hand injuries.

Temples covet wild tuskers

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:

COLOMBO–Sri Lanka has almost half again
more wild elephants than the national Wildlife
Conservation Depart-ment imagined just a few
weeks ago, but this is not good news to elephant
advocates who hope to thwart pressure on the
department to capture elephant calves for temple
use.
The first survey of the Sri Lankan
elephant population since 1993 discovered 7,379
wild elephants in all, 5,879 of them in or near
parks and sanctuaries, with about 1,500
elsewhere. The survey found 1,107 baby
elephants, but only 122 mature adult males with
tusks.

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