Editorial: Lessons from the Red Cross debacle

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

ANIMAL PEOPLE had planned that this very late November 2001
edition would feature our first-hand investigative report on the
success of the “No homeless animals, no-kill, no shelter” approach
to dog and cat overpopulation taken by the Veterinary Licensing Board
and allied animal welfare groups in Costa Rica. Seeing is believing,
and after nearly two weeks in Costa Rica, counting dogs and cats and
observing how they are faring wherever we went, we can testify that
the Costa Rican animal care community has a lot to teach the world.
But that report will have to wait until our December edition
appears, when it can help to inspire a happy and productive New
Year. We fell behind in May, when ANIMAL PEOPLE publisher Kim
Bartlett contracted pneumonia following two distressful hours of
photographically documenting the sale of dogs and cats for meat at
the Moran Market near Seoul, South Korea. Then we held up
production of our September edition for an extra week to include
coverage of the animal aspects of the terrorist attacks of September
11.

Will new law stop dog-killing by Bucharest mayor Basescu?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

Bucharest, Romania–“Seven months of city workers
slaughtering street dogs in an effort to rid Bucharest of one of the
highest stray dog populations in the world may finally come to an
end,” freelance foreign correspondent Chuck Todaro e-mailed to
ANIMAL PEOPLE on December 2 from a Bucharest internet cafe.
“Pressure from local and international animal welfare groups
just last week helped to win passage of the first Romanian law
governing animal control,” Todaro continued. “The new law requires
a total transformation of present shelter conditions and practices.
Cities have 30 days to implement the changes, including that dogs
must be held for seven days to allow for reclaim or adoption. The
Bucharest holding time is now just 24 hours.”

ANIMAL OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

Soda, a.k.a. Alice Hanley Castle, the “canine first lady of

Hong Kong” 1992-1997 as pet of last British governor Chris Patten,
died in mid-November after a long illness. Soda and her mate and
cousin Whisky, who survives her, lived at the Patten family
vacation home in France after the Pattens left Hong Kong, to avoid
the six-month quarantine that was then required of all dogs and cats
entering Britain. Patten cited their loyal service in an eventually
successful effort to get the law amended. Only then did they return
to the land of their birth.

Obituaries

Osama bin Laden on meat and denial

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

It was no radical animal rights activist or militant vegan
whose recently disclosed words linked the events of September 11 to
the phrase, “Meat is murder!”
Rather, the fate of the 5,690 people who were murdered
aboard four hijacked airliners, at the World Trade Center and at the
Pentagon appears to have been inseparably linked to meat by Osama bin
Laden himself, the alleged mastermind and financier of the attacks,
in his handwritten final orders to the 19 hijackers.

NSPA president charged with hoarding

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
KANSAS CITY, Mo.–National Society for the Protection of
Animals president Barbara DeGraeve, 55, was charged on October 10
with cruelty, failure to vaccinate, failing to provide adequate
shelter to as many as 60 cats, and letting a dog be a nuisance.
Told by police to obtain veterinary care for several cats who
were sneezing, with runny noses and eyes, “DeGraeve hired a
veterinarian to take care of the sick cats,” Kansas City Star
reporters Richard Espinoza and Brad Cooper wrote, “and people who
said they were NSPA volunteers began taking away the healthy cats,
Kansas City animal control supervisor Ted O’Dell said.”

Miracle cats and great dogs on the job at 9/11 crash sites

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

NEW YORK CITY; ALLENTOWN, Pa.–Woodie, a seven-year-old
ex-stray whose human says he looks like a groundhog, turned up in
the remnants of her heavily damaged home in Stoneycreek Township,
Pennsylvania, on September 24.
Precious, a tiny Persian even before enduring 18 days
without food, was found on September 29 by a North Carolina State
Animal Response Team search dog on the debris-strewn roof of an
apartment house across Liberty Street from the site of the collapsed
World Trade Center in New York City. Emergency workers took the dog
to the roof after receiving a report that someone had heard a cat
crying in the vicinity. Precious suffered from eye injuries, burnt
paws, and smoke and dust inhalation, but apparently found enough
rainwater to drink to avoid fatal dehydration.

LETTERS [October 2001]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

Little Ecologists

I teach French and English at both a school and a nursery
school in my town. Last year I started “The Little Ecologists Club,”
to educate children about the need to preserve nature, including our
Romanian brown bear, wolf, lynx, and chamois, who are all in
danger of extinction. More than 100 children have joined.
Unfortunately, it is very difficult for me to buy materials such as
books and videos about animals and nature, which my students would
otherwise not see.
I shall be grateful for any materials that can be sent to us
for use in wildlife education.
–Oana Boghean
Str. Lt. V. Marceanu #20
Gura Humorului 5900
Jus. Seceava, Romania
Phone: 030-231185
<boghean@yahoo.com>

Letters

Where does an elephant sleep? Sanctuary space is scarce in Sri Lanka

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
PINNEWELA, Sri Lanka–For centuries some of the Buddhist
monks of Sri Lanka and Thailand adopted whatever wildlife orphans
were brought to them–especially elephants, who had value as work
animals and for display.
But that was before the advent of firearms, chainsaws, and
motor vehicles, when the original vegetarian form of Buddh-ism
remained almost unchallenged by outside cultural influence.
Relatively few animals were separated from their habitat, and the
jungle reclaimed farmland almost as fast as it could be cleared for
cultivation. The burden of keeping orphaned animals was not greater
for the monasteries than the value of having them.

Viva! gives up charity status

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
BRIGHTON, U.K.–Under pressure from the British Charities
Commission, with lobbyists for the battered British meat and
livestock export industry possibly lurking in the background, the
British vegetarian charity Viva! is splitting into two separate
affiliates with a common board, both headed by Juliet Gellatley,
who founded Viva! in 1993.

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