PETSMART staff raise $3 million

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

P H O E N I X – – P E T s –
MART store and VETsMART
clinic staff together raised a record
$1.6 million for the nonprofit
PETsMART Charities affiliate during
the October 2-24 “Just A Buck,
Change Their Luck” counter collection
drive, the second of 1999.
The two drives brought
in $3 million, nearly doubling the
capacity of PETsMART Charities
to fulfill its stated mission of “ending
needless euthanasia,” executive
director Joyce Briggs told the
recent No-Kill Conference in
Chicago. With 1998 income of
$3.8 million and assests of $1.9
million, PETsMART made grants
to neutering, adoption promotion,
and disaster relief this year
totalling $3.5 million.

WHO GETS THE MONEY? –– TENTH ANNUAL EDITION

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

This is our tenth annual report on the budgets, assets,
and salaries paid by the major U.S. animal-related charities,
together with a handful of local activist groups and humane
societies, and some prominent organizations abroad, whose
data we offer for comparative purposes. Foreign data is stated
in U.S. dollars at average 1998 exchange rates.
Most charities are identified in the second column by
apparent focus: A for advocacy, C for conservation of habitat
via acquisition, E for education, H for support of hunting
(either for “wildlife management” or recreation), L for litigation,
N for neutering, P for publication, R for animal rights, S
for shelter/sanctuary maintenance, V for focus on vivisection
issues, and W for animal welfare. The R and W designations
are used only if a group makes a point of being one or the other.
Charities of unique purpose may not have a designation letter.
While many groups are involved in multiple activities,
space limits us to providing only three identifying letters.

Activists & Organizations

Seeking concern for animals in Vietnam

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

HANOI, SAIGON––Like U.S. soldiers who served
year-long tours of duty in Vietnam during the Vietnam War,
wondering why they were there all the while, Supriya Bose finished
a year in Saigon and flew home to Bombay recently,
questioning what she might have accomplished.
A second-generation humane worker, Bose in mid-
1998 left a prestigious job as clinic manager for the Bombay
SPCA and Bai Sakarai Dinshaw Petit animal hospital in hopes
of finding the opportunity to do humane work in Saigon, where
her huband worked for an Indian-owned printing company.
As Khumbatta later explained in a letter to ANIMAL
PEOPLE, she soon learned that Vietnam had no humane societies,
and apparently no animal shelters. The few international
conservation groups working in Vietnam are all based in Hanoi,
a three-day train ride to the north over tracks never fully
repaired after multiple U.S. air strikes, 1964-1975 (and now
temporarily washed out by flooding that hit the Hue region hard
in early November 1999).

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
founder Paul Watson, 47, on November 22
reported to prison in St. John’s, Newfoundland, to
serve the final nine days of his 1995 30-day sentence
for mischief in connection with a confrontation
versus the Cuban trawler Rio Las Casas on the
Grand Banks in July 1993. Watson was free pending
the outcome of an unsuccessful appeal to the
Newfoundland Supreme Court. He said a Sea
Shepherd Supporter had pledged to pay him
$10,000 U.S. for each day he was in prison.

Brand of violence may not be ALF

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

LONDON––Channel 4 TV
reporter Graham Hall, 43, claimed on
November 6 that elements of the Animal
Liberation Front had abducted him at
gunpoint on the night of October 25 and
branded the letters “ALF” on his back.
The claim helped build support
for a new British anti-terrorism bill,
unveiled on November 17 by Home
Secretary Jack Straw. The bill would
permit the government to bring civil
suits against alleged terrorists, much as
the Racketeering-Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations statute does in the U.S.
Hall said he was attacked in
retaliation for his 1998 broadcast I n s i d e
The ALF, which included footage of
activist Gaynor Ford describing how she
allegedly vandalized a laboratory.

Daryl Larson beats rap again ––but HFA wins law against farm animal neglect in Calif.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

Hog farmer and ex-veterinarian Daryl
Larson, 46, on October 20, 1999 escaped conviction
for allegedly abandoning 315 pigs on a farm near
Wyoming, Iowa, when a Jones County District
Court jury declared it could not reach a unanimous
verdict. No date was set for retrial.
The starving pigs were found on October
27, 1998, cannibalizing the remains of others.
Larson was previously convicted of leaving hogs to
starve in Clinton County, Iowa, in 1997; abandoning
as many as 2,000 hogs to starve near Craig,
Missouri, in 1995; not properly disposing of the
remains of 261 hogs who starved on his land near Des
Moines in 1994; and not properly disposing of about
300 hogs who allegedly starved on another of his
Iowa properties in 1993.

“Crush video” bill goes to White House

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WASHINGTON D.C.– – T h e
U.S. Senate on November 19 unanimously
approved a bill by Rep. Elton Gallegly (RCalif.)
to ban the interstate distribution of
videos or films depicting gratuitous cruelty
to animals, if they are without “serious
religious, political, scientific, educational,
journalistic, historical, or art value.”
The bill cleared the House on
October 19, 372-42, and is expected to be
signed by President Bill Clinton.

Meat, milk firms hit for cruelty

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

Humane organizations challenged
routine abuses at milk and meat production
facilities in Arizona, Florida, New
Jersey, and Virginia during October and
November 1999, winning one case out of
court, with the other outcomes pending.
Accepting a consent agreement
instead of facing cruelty charges,
McArthur Farms of Okeechobee, Florida,
is to help the University of Florida and the
Florida Agriculture Depart-ment develop a
training program to teach staff how to
properly kill culled calves; pay up to
$27,500 to produce training materials;

OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

Patricia Nelson, 94, died on
August 31 in Rancho Bernardo, California.
Born in Columbius, Ohio, Nelson was
daughter of a prominent neurologist. She
never married and never had children of her
own, but devoted much of her life to children,
running a nursery school in San Diego
for more than 30 years. She took up animal
rescue after selling the nursery in 1971.
Nelson met Cleveland Amory, the late
founder of the Fund for Animals, “in 1984,
in the midst of the San Clemente goat rescue,”
Fund president Marian Probst recalled,
“when she offered five acres she owned in
Ramona, California, as a place we could
bring some of the goats for veterinary care
and subsequent adoption. In 1985, she gave
us the five acres, which became the core of
our now 13-acre wildlife rehabilitation center.
Chuck and Cindi Traisi, who volunteered in
the goat rescue, moved to Ramona from San
Diego to establish the wildlife rehab center,
and as they say, the rest is history.” Nelson
also helped to form and fund the Ramona Pet
Awareness League, circa 1991, and also
started the Animal Trust Foundation, which
is reportedly setting up an Internet site to help
rehome lost pets and place shelter animals.

Obituaries

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