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Montana Spay/Neuter Task Force fixing for “Phase 3”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

VICTOR,  Montana–Scarce funding may doom
the Montana Spay/Neuter Task Force,  founder Jean
Atthowe told ANIMAL PEOPLE in early June
2003–but,  characteristic of the optimism that
impelled Atthowe to form the Task Force in 1996,
she added that lack of resources may expedite the
transition of the work to community management.
This would fulfill her initial ambition for the project.
“From November 1996 through October
2002,”  Atthowe said,  “the Task Force has helped
to create 46 pet care events with local hosts,
and has provided spay/neuter surgeries for over
15,000 Montana dogs and cats.  The Task Force has
visited all seven Native American nations in
Montana from one to four times each,”  as well as
many small towns in remote locations which often
do not even have a local veterinarian.

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Singapore ends TNR program amid SARS panic

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

SINGAPORE–“More than 70 cat lovers gathered at a five-star
hotel yesterday to remember the 700 cats who were culled recently,”
the Singapore Straits Times reported on June 9.  “The special
80-minute session,  which included song and flower tributes,  and a
minute’s silence for the dead animals,  was organized by the animal
welfare and rescue movement SOS Animals,”  founded by Sandy Lim.
SOS Animals claimed to have rescued 60 cats from the
purported culling,  and was raising funds to build a shelter for them.
Another Singapore group,  the Animal Lovers League,  founded
by Cathy Strong,  approached the Singapore Agri-Food & Veterinary
Authority with a proposal to build a sanctuary capable of keeping
2,000 to 3,000 cats–which she believed could be done for $173,000.
Earler,  Strong proposed evacuating as many as 2,000 cats to
the Noah’s Ark shelter in Johor,  Malaysia.  Noah’s Ark founder
Raymond Wee responded that his shelter was already filled to capacity
with 320 cats and dogs,  while the Johor Veterinary Services
Department said that feral cats from Singapore would not be accepted
in Malaysia anyway.

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Locke vetoes Washington trap ban repeal & other state legislative highlights

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

Three of the biggest wins for animals during spring 2003
legislative sessions were the defeat of anti-animal bills in
Washington,  Texas,  and California.
Washington Governor Gary Locke on May 22 vetoed a repeal of
Initative 713,  banning the use of body-gripping traps.  The
initiative was approved in November 2000 by 55% of the electorate.
It was vulnerable in the legislature because support was concentrated
along the heavily populated eastern shore of Puget Sound,  which is
proportionally underrepresented in both the state house and senate
relative to rural districts.
Despite vetoing the repeal bill,  Locke asked the state
Department of Fish and Wildlife to “place limited enforcement
resources into higher-order priorities than against homeowners,
businesses,  and the timber industry,  that trap for moles,  gophers,
and mountain beavers.”

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Finding the sentience of fish

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

Credit scientific discovery.  Credit
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Credit Finding Nemo,  the latest pro-animal
animated production in a 64-year string from Walt
Disney Productions.
Whatever the reason,  humans around the
world are suddenly talking about the suffering of
fish as never before.

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Charities sue over slogans and similar names

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

SAN FRANCISCO–Alleging “trademark infringement,  unfair
competition,  and related claims arising from the unauthorized use”
of the phrase “Don’t breed or buy while homeless animals die,”  the
International Society for Animal Rights on April 29,  2003 sued In
Defense of Animals in U.S. District Court.
ISAR trademarked the phrase in January 2001,  the suit
states,  objecting that “IDA has incorporated the confusingly similar
slogan ‘Please don’t breed or buy while millions of homeless animals
die’ into posters,  flyers,  and other products featuring gruesome
images of dead and/or dying pets.”  ISAR contends that this confuses
“prospective and actual donors and members about a perceived
relationship between the organizations.”

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Animal Advocates and Indigenous Peoples: The Survey Results

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

Animal Advocates and Indigenous Peoples:  The Survey Results
by Lee Wiles

In a survey conducted during the winter of 2002-2003, 1,000
randomly selected U.S. readers of Animal People were asked various
questions about, among other things, their attitudes toward
indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada, indigenous
peoples’ use of animals, and the animal advocacy movement’s
interactions with indigenous peoples.  A total of 358 ANIMAL PEOPLE
readers responded.
The survey discovered that approximately equal numbers of
animal advocates are sympathetic and unsympathetic toward the
indigenous rights movement. This split appears to be due to the
ambivalence many animal advocates feel toward indigenous peoples
after several disputes over hunting and trapping.

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Help the Watchdog bark!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

We are still alive and barking after a 10-month fight for our lives.
As explained in the article beginning on
page one,  the fundraiser Bruce Eberle and his
company Fund Raising Strategies sued ANIMAL
PEOPLE in July 2002 for “libel” and “interfering
with a business relationship.”
Eberle’s “libel” claims were so unclear
that for months we could not even figure out what
he claimed we got wrong.  We have always promptly
corrected errors,  when informed what they are,
and the corrections we have now published could
have been made at any time,  for the asking,  if
the evidence of error had been presented to us.

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Correction & Statement of Regret

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

Via e-mails,  telephone calls,  articles and our web site the
impression may have been created that Bruce Eberle and his company,
Fund Raising Strategies (FRS) operate with less than integrity.
It was stated:
1)  That Eberle was involved in the distribution of a fake
photo of an American POW in Laos.  We accept the sworn statement by
Mr. Eberle that he had “Nothing whatsoever to do with the staging,
printing,  or distribution of the fake photo of an American POW.”
Our previous statements to the contrary are incorrect.

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BOOKS: Monster of God

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2003:

Monster of God:
The man-eating predator in the
jungles of history and the mind
by David Quammen
W.W. Norton & Co. (500 5th Ave., New York, NY 10110), 2003.
384 pages, hardcover. $26.95.

Certain to be classified by most librarians as “natural
history,” Monster of God has already been mistaken by many reviewers
as a screed in defense of “sustainable use.”
Monster of God is actually a book mostly about faith,
exploring the influence of the human evolutionary role as prey upon
concepts of religion, and of the more recent human ascendance as a
top predator on our ideas about conservation.

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