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.

Greek street animals — Olympic organizers go for hearts of gold

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

ATHENS–Fears among Greek animal advocates that street dogs
and feral cats might be poisoned en masse before the 2004 Olympic
Games eased on June 26 when Athens 2004 Organizing Committee
president Gianna Angelopoulou Daskalaki endorsed a plan to sterilize,
vaccinate, tattoo, and return to their neighborhoods as many as
20,000 animals, beginning in September 2003.
Greek deputy agrculture minister Fotis Hatzimichalis
announced that the project would begin with a budget of one million
euros. Local municipalities are to provide animal capture vehicles
and surgical workspace. The actual capturing is to be done by
volunteers or staff of nonprofit animal welfare societies.

Humans, whales, and the ghosts of high seas drifters

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the
Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling, by Kieran
Mulvaney
Island Press (1718 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite
300, Washington, DC 20009), 2003. 349 pages,
hardcover. $26.00.

Between Species: Celebrating the Dolphin-Human
Bond, edited by Toni Frohoff & Brenda Peterson
Sierra Club Books (85 Second St., San Francisco,
CA 94105), 2003. 361 pages, hardcover. $24.95.

From the title, and from the longtime
role of author Kieran Mulvaney as the main
Greenpeace media liaison at annual meetings of
the International Whaling Commission, one might
guess that The Whaling Season: An Inside Account
of the Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling is an
exposé or defense of backroom politics.

Nonlethal bison and pigeon population control

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

“The Santa Catalina Island Conservancy has given In Defense
of Animals the opportunity to adopt and relocate 100-150 bison to the
mainland,” IDA regional director Bill Dyer announced on June 20.
“Fourteen bison were introduced to Catalina for the filming of The
Vanishing American, starring Richard Dix, in 1924. The population
has grown beyond what the island can sustain. It is imperative that
the relocation take place by August 1, 2003. A managed colony of
100-150 bison will remain on the island.” Dyer welcomes offers of
care-for-life homes for the bison at 310-301-7730 or
<Bill@idausa.org>.

Editorial: An extra special thanks

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

An extra special thanks is in order to all of the respondents
to the June 2003 ANIMAL PEOPLE appeal for help in meeting the
extraordinary cost of our ultimately successful defense against the
libel suit brought against us in July 2002 by direct mail fundraiser
Bruce Eberle and one of his companies, Fund Raising Strategies, Inc.
Eberle’s response to our June 2003 news coverage of the
judicially imposed settlement, discussion of his response, and a
small sampling of reader comments appear on page 4 of this edition.

Listen to what Keiko wants!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

Listen to what Keiko wants!
Guest column by Bonnie Norton

Do you (along with thousands of other people), know in your
heart that after five years of trying to free Keiko, it is now time
to bring him to a place where he can be taken care of and again be
with people?
I am a devoted animal lover. In general, I am not in favor of
keeping wild animals in captivity, but have learned to observe,
listen to, and honor each animal as an individual.
In 1997 I learned to communicate with animals. While visiting
the Oregon Coast Aquarium I communicated with Keiko who, to my
surprise, told me he did not want to be set free and would continue
to behave in ways to discourage his handlers from releasing him
because his work was with the people who came to see him.

Animal obituaries

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

Pakko, the German shepherd who was first Dr. Dog in the
Philippines, died on July 8 from stomach cancer. “Yasmin Jadwani,
Pakko’s adoptive ‘parent,’ tells us that he was the largest dog in
her house, but he was the gentlest of her more than 30 rescued dogs
and 50 rescued cats,” recalled Glorianne P. Fernandez of the
Environments Collaborative. “When a 13-year old ‘special child’
climbed on his back during one Dr. Dog session, he buckled under the
weight and some of his fur was pulled out before teachers could rush
to his rescue, but Pakko did not growl at the child, hid any pain
and regained his composure immediately.” Begun in Hong Kong by the
Animals Asia Foundation to elevate the image of dogs in nations where
they are eaten, Dr. Dog is sponsored in the Philippines by the
Philippine Animal Welfare Society.

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