FURRIERS, MEAT-EATERS CAN’T STAND THE HEAT IN CALIF., PA., UTAH

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

Last Chance For Animals on
January 11 notified 195 store managers at the
Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego that the
mall is under boycott in response to a suit the
mall management brought against LCA and
1,000 mostly unnamed individual activists,
seeking a permanent injunction which would
in effect prohibit anti-fur protests at the mall.
LCA towed a billboard in the vicinity for several
hours to publicize the boycott. LCA
director Eric Mindel told ANIMAL PEOP
LE that “Defendant Andrea Lindsey h a s
already filed her response to the case, alleging
civil rights violations. LCA will argue against
the complaint and put forth that Fashion
Valley Mall’s permit process for expressive
activity is constitutionally deficient due to
restrictions that are not content-neutral.

Mary Chipperfield convicted of cruelty

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

HAMPSHIRE, U.K.––Circus
trainer Mary Cawley Chipperfield, 61,
and her husband Roger Cawley were on
January 26, 1999 convicted, respectively,
of 12 counts of cruelty toward a
young chimpanzee named Trudi and a
sick elephant.
One of their staff, Stephen
Gillis, was convicted in November
1998 on related charges for allegedly
beating an elephant with an iron bar,
shovel, broom, and pitchfork.

Where elephants roam

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

BANGKOK, Thailand; BRITS, South Africa––
The five survivors among a group of six young Asian elephants
whom Thailand exported to Indonesia in October 1997 returned
home on December 31 to floral necklaces, cheering crowds, a
welcoming banner at dockside in Ao Makham, and all the
bananas, sugar cane, and pineapples they could eat.
Presiding over the feast were prime ministerial secretary
Wattana Muangsuk, Phuket member of parliament
Anchalee Theppabutr, and Phuket governor Padet Insang.
Explained Attaya Chuenniran of the Bangkok Post,
“The five beasts, and another, who died in Indonesia, were
sent with their mahouts in October 1997 under a 10-year contract
to help their Indonesian counterparts catch wild elephants,”
who were allegedly terrorizing the countryside in the
wake of fires set to clear brush and facilitate rainforest logging.

OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

Gloria Marie De Martini
Stradner, 72, died on December 22 from
cancer of the lungs and brain, discovered
only six weeks earlier. For more than 50
years Stradner fed, neutered, and tried to
find homes for dogs and cats she found abandoned
at the Evergreen, Mount Neboh, and
Cypress Hills cemeteries in Brooklyn and
Queens, funding her work and supporting
herself with jobs in catering halls. “I would
estimate she saved thousands of animals,”
Last Post Animal Sanctuary manager Jeanne
Toomey told New York Times obituarist
Richard Severo. Stradner had no known relatives.
Fellow animal rescuers Michael and
Anne Marie Puccino reportedly took care of
her own two dogs, Lance and Ivy.

Obituaries

MORE VIDEO REVIEWS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

Straw Bale Dog House
DELTA Rescue
(POB 9, Glendale, CA 91209)
$6.00 requested for copying and postage.

Perhaps the most obvious yet least
remarked of all the changes that humans have
imposed on the canine lifestyle is that dogs in
the wild never choose to live in anything that
resembles the quarters we tend to give them.
Throughout the world, given their choice,
dogs live in dugouts. Fox, wolf, dingo, jackal,
coyote, African wild dog or Carolina dog,
they all either enlarge the burrows of prey or
dig their own.
The first virtue of Leo Grillo’s Straw
Bale Dog House technique is not that it provides
cheap and durable shelter, though
DELTA Rescue builds each house for $400
including stucco finish. Nor is it that straw
bale building is quick, though with practice
each house can be made it less time than it
takes to watch the video. Nor is it that straw
bale dog houses save space: the roof of each
house becomes a patio/balcony as big as the
area the house occupies.

REVIEWS: A Cow At My Table

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

A Cow At My Table
Directed and edited by Jennifer Abbott
Flying Eye Productions
(Denman Place Postal Outlet, POB 47053
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6G 3E1), 1998. 90 minutes. $35/Canadian, $30/U.S

Billed as “a feature documentary
about culture, meat and animals,” A Cow At
My Table is an idiosyncratic and often refreshingly
unpredictable mix of interviews,
excerpts from agriculture industry teachingand-training
films, early 20th century silent
comedies, and undercover videos of abusive
practices mostly made by director/editor
Jennifer Abbott herself.

Animals in bondage: the hoarding mind

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

LYLES, Tenn.; ANAMOSA,
Iowa; SALT LAKE CITY, Utah– – Near
Lyles, Tennessee, the shelterless Hickman
County Humane Society just before Christmas
1998 seized 299 dogs, 38 horses, and various
cats from an alleged puppy mill reportedly
owned by one Patricia Adkisson.
The site was littered, rescuers said,
with the remains of dead dogs.
On January 1, 1999, hoping to keep
a developing neglect case from becoming selfperpetuating,
Florida Humane Society volunteers
cleaned the home of widower Terry
Ruppel, 70, of Lighthouse Point, who surrendered
37 cats after neighbors complained
about filth and stench. Ruppel and his wife of
47 years exhausted their savings trying to fix
up an old house, Fort Lauderdale SunSentinel
staff writer Robert George explained.
Then Ruppel had a stroke, skin cancer, and
kidney cancer, and in August 1998 his wife
died of a sudden heart attack.

South China tigers go the way of the Yeti

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

BANGKOK, BEIJING––1998, the Chinese “Year
of the Tiger,” ended with an admission from Wang Menghu,
deputy secretary-general of the China Zoological Protection
Association, that the South China population of Asian tigers
has gone to the realm of the yeti––the legendary “abominable
snowman.”
On December 14, Chinese forestry and wildlife conservation
director Zhang Jianlong and colleague Lie Yongfan
told the world through the government news agency Xinhua
that official investigations underway since 1984 have found no
evidence that the yeti ever existed.
“All reported sightings were actually other wild animals,”
Zhang said.
Elaborated Yan Xun, director of the 1,800-squaremile
Shennongjia Reserve, “There are no basic primate foods
such as berries or broadleaf trees in the mountains of
Shennongjia, where most yeti enthusiasts believe the mysterious
creature lives.”

Temple elephants approach extinction

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka– – Eleph-
ant hunting and capture have been banned in
Sri Lanka since 1960.
Now the Sri Lankan tradition of
temple elephant keeping is at risk. None have
been born in captivity in five years; only
seven have been born in half a century.
Often hired to lead processions,
and a magnet for visitors and donations, temple
elephants have long been a mainstay of
the Sri Lankan religious economy. And the
ostentatiously devout like to keep their own
yard elephants. Of the estimated 2,000 elephants
in Sri Lanka, about half are privately
owned. Most are beyond their prime reproductive
years, even if they could be induced
to mate in captivity.
When a baby elephant vanished
from the Pinnawela elephant refuge circa
November 1, wildlife conservation department
deputy director Nandana Atapattu
observed to Susannah Price of the South
China Morning Post that, “Owning an elephant
is extremely prestigious––he could be
sold for a million rupees,” or about $37,000.

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