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Sales to labs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

“Berkeley County Animal
S h e l t e r in Berkeley County, South
Carolina, has been sending shelter animals
to the Medical University of South
Carolina and University of South
Carolina for years,” Carol Linville o f
Pet Helpers wrote to ANIMAL PEOPLE
on March 20. “I contacted Berkeley
County supervisor Jim Rozier on Friday,
March 13, with a request that this practice
be stopped immediately. I am thrilled to
report that Mr. Rozier contacted me on
Monday, March 16, and announced that
Berkeley County would stop immediately
the practice of selling shelter pets to universities
for teaching and research.”

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People

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

Ed Sayres, head of the American
Humane Association animal protection division
1995-1997, has been named director of
PetsMart Charities, succeeding Lynn
Stullberg, DVM.
Jim Tedford, executive director
of the Louisiana SPCA in New Orleans
since 1995, resigned effective April 24 to
become executive director of the Rochester
and Monroe County Humane Society i n
Rochester, New York. Before taking the
New Orleans post, Tedford staffed the former
Humane Society of the U.S. regional
office in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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BOOKS: Pet Therapy

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

Pet Therapy:
A Study & Resource Guide
for the Use of
Companion Animals in
Selected Therapies
by Phil Arkow
37 Hillside Road, Stratford, NJ 08084,
1998. 198 pages, paperback, $28.00.

The secret of pet therapy is so simple
that just about all mammals and birds
know it instinctively: touch makes us feel better.

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Tourtellotte wasn’t slow

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

AUGUSTA, Me.––Maine Inland
Fisheries and Wildlife commissioner Lee
Perry on March 17 named Tim Peabody, 38,
of Northport, a 14-year staffer, to succeed
Dan Tourtelotte, 44, as head of the Maine
Warden Service. Peabody was promoted
ahead of seven senior officers.
Tourtelotte quit on March 6 to
become general manager of the New
England Outdoor Center in Millinocket, a
whitewater rafting firm––a job he accepted,
Roberta Scruggs of the Portland Press
Herald reported, during the same March 4
meeting at which a bill easing rafting rules
was approved by the Maine Legislature’s
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee.

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PORK BARREL POLITICS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

Manitoba “is offering Ducks
Unlimited up to $1 million over the next five
years to subsidize operations at its Canadian
headquarters,” Canadian Press reported on
March 18, “amid rumors it was planning to
relocate.” The headquarters, built in 1994 on
a former protected wetland with the help of $2
million from the Western Diversification
Fund, has reportedly become a political and
fundraising liability to Ducks Unlimited.
Word of the possible move reached the
Manitoba government via an anonymous letter
in a DU envelope.

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AKC and “not good” with children

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

NEW YORK, N.Y.––The American
Kennel Club on April 8 apologized to “dog
owners and breeders” belonging to 500 member
clubs and 4,000 affiliates for identifying 40
dog breeds as “not good” with children in the
19th edition of the AKC Complete Dog Book.
Thirty thousand copies were published
in December 1997. About 10,000
unsold copies were recalled on January 28 due
to protest over the breed identifications.
The book will be reissued in June,
the AKC said––without the list.

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“Puppy mill” cases come to a head

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

BUNA, Texas––Scheduled to make
a court appearance on March 25 to answer
neglect charges, dog and horse fancier Joyce
Goodrich, 59, of Buna, Texas, instead killed
herself with a fatal dose of phenobarbital. The
Beaumont Humane Society had seized 17 horses,
including several starving former show
champions, and about 20 dogs from Goodrich
a week earlier. The dogs were reportedly
mostly purebred Australian shepherds and
King Charles cavalier spaniels, both varieties
in strong demand, but whether Goodrich was
trying to breed them was unclear.
Reputedly a former veterinary assistant,
Goodrich most recently worked at a fast
food franchise, evidently not earning enough
to keep the animals fed.
The Goodrich case was one of several
going to court in March and April that
involved blurred distinctions among alleged
puppy-milling, backyard breeding, and animal
collecting. Humane society literature generally
defines puppy-millers as persons who keep animals
in poor conditions simply to maximize
profits; backyard breeders as smalltime puppymillers;
and animal collectors as animal lovers
and sometimes even rescuers whose good
intentions get far out of control.

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British rural leaders of (criminal) conviction

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

George Lyon, 41, of Kildavannan
Farm, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, newly
elected president of the National Farmers’
Union of Scotland, was fined £250 on
March 30 for allowing seven ewes to be
transported while sick and unfit, and £150
more for allowing a ewe with a damaged
knee joint to suffer pain and distress.
David Watkiss, 58, owner of the
unincorporated Rare Breed Animal
Conservation Trust in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire,
was jailed for three months
and banned from keeping animals for life on
March 26, after conviction on 36 counts of
cruelty for starving a herd of pigs. Watkiss’
business partners, Jeremy Smith a n d
James Cozens were fined £1,200 and
£1,450, respectively, for allowing the suffering
to continue.

“Euthanize the Summit,” says Berger

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

HOLLYWOOD, Calif.–– The
1998 Summit for the Animals, an assembly
of animal protection group leaders held annually
since 1983, met March 26-28 in
Hollywood, California, with expected
income of $17,905, of which only $11,455
had been collected. Unpaid dues and sponsorship
totaled $5,500, according to a balance
sheet distributed to participants. But even if
all debts were collected, expenses of $23,846
would leave a deficit of about $6,000.

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