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Butterball Conviction

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2012:

Former Butterball employee Brian Douglas,  one of five people shown abusing turkeys seen in undercover video footage obtained by Mercy For Animals in late 2011, pleaded guilty felonious cruelty to animals in Hoke County Superior Court in Raeford, North Carolina on August 28, 2012.  Douglas was sentenced to serve 30 days in jail followed by six months of probation and 36 months of supervised probation, to pay $550 in fines, and to provide a DNA sample to the state.  “Cases against the four other people charged are pending,” reported Fayetteville Observer staff writer Caitlin Dineen.

Bullfights back on Spanish state TV

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2012:

MADRID--Live bullfights returned to the Spanish state TV network, Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española (RTVE) on September 5, 2012 at 6:00 p.m., the traditional time slot since RTVE debuted by airing a bullfight in 1948.

TVE ended a six-year suspension of live bullfight broadcasts just 18 months after the 2011 updated edition of the corporate stylebook advised in a chapter titled “Violence against animals” that it stopped broadcasting live bullfights in 2007 to avoid upsetting children. Read more

Attenborough wins Constance Gold Medal

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2012:

MELBOURNE--Australian animal advocate and philanthropist Phil Wollen on August 20, 2012 presented the Winsome Constance Gold Medal and an award of $25,000, given annually in honor of his mother and his nanny, to British wildlife documentary film maker Sir David Attenborough.

ASPCA, PetSmart Charities, and IFAW change chief executives

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2012:

American SPCA president Ed Sayres, 63, on July 25, 2012, announced his retirement, pending selection of a successor.  “I am going to take a breath and assimilate the lessons of the past 10 years,” Sayres told ANIMAL PEOPLE.  “The A has been a great fit for me. I realized I could implement the no kill vision more effectively through the ASPCA than San Francisco SPCA,” where Sayres was president 1999-2003, “and [Mayor’s Alliance executive director] Jane Hoffman has been an outstanding partner in transforming New York City.  Now with Community Partners,” the ASPCA national outreach program, “we have created many different and transparent examples of how to sustain life saving efforts.   We have been fortunate to recruit some of the best in the field, and I am leaving a very strong organization for the next leader. Read more

Animal shelter leadership transitions

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2012:

Bill Bruce, 58, director of  Calgary Animal & Bylaw Services since 2000, retired on August 3, 2012.  Dubbed “Bylaw Bill” by Sherri Zickefoose of the Calgary Herald, Bruce worked for the City of Calgary for more than 31 years. Like his predecessor as animal control chief, Jerry Aschenbrenner,  who headed the department for 25 years, Bruce advocated incentive-based animal control.  Under Aschenbrenner, Calgary achieved by far the highest rate of dog licensing compliance in North America and perhaps the world, exceeding 80%, more than twice the highest rate ever achieved by any U.S. city of comparable size.  Bruce boosted compliance to more than 90%.  Read more

70,000 Australian sheep stranded at sea by disease outbreak

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2012:

KARACHI–Twenty-two thousand Australian sheep on September 22, 2012 won at least a temporary reprieve from being culled in Pakistan, and were still alive two days later while the Sindh High Court reviewed evidence submitted by Rafiq Khanani of the Dow Univesity of Health Sciences that the sheep had not contracted serious diseases during prolonged transport aboard the Ocean Drover. Read more

Farm Bill stall delays Congressional action on horse slaughter, attending animal fights, & laying hen cage size

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  July/August 2012:

Farm Bill stall delays Congressional action on horse slaughter, attending animal fights,  & laying hen cage size

    WASHINGTON D.C.–The odds may have lengthened just before the Fourth of July recess week against the final version of the 2012 Farm Bill including measures favored by animal advocates–but not for any reason having anything to do with laying hen cage sizes,  horse slaughter,  or cockfighting and dogfighting,  among other topics addressed by proposed Farm Bill amendments. Read more

Bat World Sanctuary wins $6.1 million libel judgment

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2012:

Bat World Sanctuary wins $6.1 million libel judgment

FORT WORTH–Bat World Sanctuary, and Bat World founder and president Amanda Lollar of Mineral Wells, Texas, were on June 14, 2012 awarded $6.1 million in damages by Tarrant County district Judge William Brigham, who found after a four-day trial that Los Angeles activist Mary Cummins had committed “intentional, malicious, and egregious” defamation against Lollar and had breached an internship contract she signed in 2010 with Bat World. The award was the highest known to ANIMAL PEOPLE in a defamation case involving animal advocates. Read more

Ringling wins right to proceed in racketeering case vs. ASPCA, AWI, HSUS, and Born Free USA

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2012:

Ringling wins right to proceed in racketeering case vs. ASPCA, AWI, HSUS, and Born Free USA

WASHINGTON D.C.–Rejecting motions seeking dismissal, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on July 9, 2012 issued a highly technical 87-page ruling that Feld Entertainment Inc., owner of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, may pursue a lawsuit under the federal Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act against the American SPCA, the Animal Welfare Institute, the Fund for Animals, the Humane Society of the U.S., and the Animal Protection Institute. Read more

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