ODD BODKIN––HE SEEKS TO KILL SEA OTTERS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

ANCHORAGE––An “odd bodkin,” used in witchcraft
trials, was a telescoping needle used to prick the accused
without drawing blood, thereby assuring a guilty verdict.
Friends of Animals special investigator Carroll Cox,
formerly of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, thinks the oddest
bodkin he’s seen lately was the application seeking to kill
sea otters that National Biological Service sea otter research
project leader James L. Bodkin of the Alaska Science Center in
Anchorage submitted to the USFWS on March 17. Bodkin
applied to shoot up to 20 endangered sea otters to recover surgically
implanted time depth recorders (TDRs) and VHF transmitters,
just 31 days after getting USFWS permission to capture
and implant the devices in up to 100 sea otters on the proviso
that none would be intentionally killed or lastingly injured.

Cotton-tops come to Primarily Primates

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

SAN ANTONIO––The Primarily
Primates sanctuary north of San Antonio
has agreed to take in 156 cotton-top
tamarins, bred for colon cancer research at
the University of Tennessee Marmoset
Research Center in Oak Ridge but declared
surplus last year due to budget cuts.
More than 30,000 cotton-tops
were taken from the Columbian rainforest
during the 1960s and 1970s, but just 236
survive in zoos, along with under 100 at
other research facilities and fewer than
2,000 in their remaining wild habitat, much
diminished by logging and farming.

Sheltering

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

Animal shelters are exempted from a new
Arizona law that makes pet stores financially liable
for veterinary costs if they sell sick dogs and cats. One
side effect of the bill, which resembles legislation
already in effect in many other states, will be to
encourage more pet stores to emulate the PetsMart
Luv-A-Pet program, which allows humane societies to
do adoptions through store facilities. The 300–plusstore
PetsMart chain, based in Phoenix, may cumulatively
place more animals now than any other organization,
but is not beloved of all humane societies: a
brochure on Spaying and Neutering distributed by the
in-house VetsSmart clinics, forwarded to A N I M A L
PEOPLE by Animal Issues Movement co-director
Phyllis M. Daugherty, of Los Angeles, seemingly
encourages breeding with a passage reading, “Many
people who welcome the birth of puppies or kittens
believe the experience and the comitment involved are
among the most rewarding experiences of their entire
lives. Being a ‘grandparent’ to a bunch of new pets
can be fun for everyone in your family––and highly
educational for your children.”

People in animal protection

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

The Washington Animal Rescue
League in April honored Ann Cottrell Free,
of Bethesda, Maryland, with a lifetime
achievement award. Shown above with her
granddaughter Amanda Nooter and Terry
Cummings of the Poplar Springs Animal
Sanctuary, Free “was a participant, as a journalist
and an activist,” in winning passage of
the Humane Slaughter Act (1959) and
Laboratory Animal Welfare Act (1966), the
Bethesda Gazette recalled. After a long career
as Washington D.C. correspondent to the New
York Herald Tribune, Chicago Sun Times,
and Newsweek, Free founded Flying Fox
Press and the Albert Schweitzer Council on
Animals and the Environment, wrote three
books pertaining to animals, led efforts to
upgrade local animal shelters, and earned previous
honors including the Animal Welfare
Institute’s Albert Schweitzer Medal, the
Rachel Carson Legacy Award, and election to
the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame.

Activists & Organizations

Arizona Office of the Attorney General’s Office raps Veterinary Review Board for failure to discipline veterinarians, probe complaints

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

PHOENIX––The Arizona State
Veterinary Medical Review Board “does not
adequately discipline veterinarians,” dismissing
more than 90% of the complaints it
received in three of the past four years, the
Arizona Office of the Attorney General reported
on April 28, following up a 1995 “sunset
review” by the Joint Legislative Audit
Committee, which determines whether or not
state-established organizations should continue
past their original mandate.
“Veterinary consultants retained by
the Auditor General reviewed complaints from
fiscal year 1996,” the Office of the Attorney
General’s report continued, “and found that as
many as one out of every six complaints dismissed
should have resulted in some discipline.

Going to the dogs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

Margie Richardson, 76, wife of the late Leon D.
Richardson, on April 21 asked the Hong Kong High Court
to set aside a will leaving more than $12 million to the Royal
S P C A, whose annual budget is about $60 million. Leaving
Mrs. Richardson in 1994, after 40 years, coincidental with the
death of his poodle, Leon Richardson gave her $3 million,
then rewrote his will, a 1991 draft of which purportedly left
her everything, just nine days before his May 1995 death at
age 77 from a heart attack. The RSPCA legacy was the
biggest share of an estate worth about $30 million. The London
Times remembered Leon Richardson, a U.S. citizen, as “a
dog-lover and financial commentator who had survived kidnapping,
atomic bomb tests and corruption charges.”

Activists & Organizations

Say what?!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

The Lettuce Ladies, from People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals, invited North Carolina general assembly
members to a May 8 vegetarian “pig-out” as thanks for a
moratorium on building hog barns. However, PETA
spokesperson Michael McGraw said, “Invitations bearing a
sexy vegetarian wearing strategically placed lettuce leaves
proved too racy” for the assembly speaker, who barred their
distribution.
The Louisiana state Senate and Governmental
Affairs Committee in April voted to terminate 60 state agencies
mostly set up to promote commerce and tourism, but
spared the Pork Promotion Board and Fertilizer Commission;
then approved amending the state ethics code to allow elected
officials to accept hunting and fishing trips from lobbyists.

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THE WINDSOME REGISTER

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

“The Windsome Register is the title of a register of
reputable animal protection organizations worldwide,” former
Royal SPCA and International Fund for Animal Welfare
executive Edward Seymour-Rouse wrote on May 15 to about
500 selected recipients.
“This Register is being set up at the request of a
donor to ensure that his already considerable donations to animal
protection go to those projects ‘that are concerned with
the largest number of animals who have suffered the most,’
backed by the most efficient and effective organizations.”

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“He’s an oxymoron”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

LOS ANGELES––Hired circa February 1, according
to Last Chance for Animals executive director David
Meyer, program staffer Luke Montgomery was on the job a
month before Washington Times columnist John McCaslin
noted his presence and his background; another month passed
before other activists called ANIMAL PEOPLE, accusing
him of trouble-making and asking, “Who is he?”
Gay activists previously asked the same question.
According to an October 6, 1995 posting by commentator P.
Del Grosso on a Gay:Stories:Gay Life World Wide Web site,
Montgomery “came to Washington D.C. a few years ago and
made a big fuss about changing his name to Sissyfag. He
claimed to be an AIDS activist and chased Bill Clinton around
for not doing enough about AIDS.”

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