From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

DALLAS––A federal court on December 8
ruled that Texas Exotic Feline Foundation cofounder
Gene Reitnauer must leave her home at the TEFF
sanctuary within 30 days, despite a bankruptcy claim
she filed after a Travis County court ordered her to
pay $1.8 million in restitution and damages for
allegedly converting TEFF assets to her personal use.
The Travis County judgement held that the use of
donors’ funds on the house made it TEFF property
rather than her own.

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

The Humane Society of the U.S. is to collect
“3-5% of all sales” of book, plush animal, and audiotape
packages produced by The Benefactory, of
Fairfield, Connecticut, inspired by “true stories about
real, living animals.” If any of the money gets back to
the rescue groups actually involved with each animal,
there seems to be no mention of it in the publicity package
ANIMAL PEOPLE received. Among the stories is
that of a dog saved by the Northeast Animal Shelter, a
no-kill high volume adoption facility––with no mention
that HSUS has crusaded against both no-kill sheltering
and high volume adoption for more than 40 years.
Wrote San Francisco SPCA president
Richard Avanzino on November 21 to Humane
Society of the U.S. president Paul Irwin, “In a recent
edition of your publication Animal Sheltering, devoted
to the no-kill debate, you admonish no-kill shelters that
failure to be forthright can create ‘false and harmful’
perceptions. You counsel against misrepresenting the
extent of the ‘surplus pet problem’ and stress the need
for everyone to be ‘fair and truthful.’ However, your
own publication states that ‘In the fiscal years 1993

Read more

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

These tables on animal-and/or-habitat-related
organizations whose IRS Form 990 filings were
received late appear supplemental to the tables published
in our December 1997 edition. That edition covered
105 other organizations, in our eighth annual
“Who Gets The Money?” special feature, and is still
available at $3.00 per copy.
Each charity is 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. R and W are used only if a
group makes a point of being one or the other.

Read more

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

Arizona SPCA founder Treva
Slote, 68, lost her left leg and Phoenix
police officer Brian Wilbur, 26, was critically
injured on December 20 when Elfido
Moreno, 35, allegedly rammed them as
they picked up a hurt dog. Officer Jeremy
Rosenthal, 25, suffered minor injuries.
Moreno was booked on two counts of aggravated
assualt and one count of endangerment.
He reportedly had just left a party,
and had a police record for alleged drunk driving.
Slote, a former exotic dancer, cofounded
the Arizona Humane Society and
started the AzSPCA in 1960, after first trying
to purchase every cat and kitten who
would otherwise be killed by Maricopa
County animal control. In 1976 she convinced
the county to halt killing animals by
decompression––already discredited as inhumane,
but then still in common use.