Thai charities Soi Cat & Dog Rescue and Soi Dog Foundation merge

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012:

BANGKOK, PHUKET–Soi Cat & Dog Rescue, of Bangkok, and the Soi Dog Foundation, of Phuket, on February 28, 2012 announced a merger. Often confused with each other, SCAD and the Soi Dog Foundation have parallel programs, emphasizing dog and cat sterilization, and have parallel histories. British expatriate Sheridan Conisbee founded SCAD, then called Soi Dog Rescue, in 2002. Early mobile sterilization campaigns were assisted by Danish veterinarian Mogens Hansen. Dutch expatriate Margot Park formed the Soi Dog Foundation in September 2003, assisted by then newly arrived British expatriates John and Gillian Dalley. Read more

FoA wins 15-year-old wrongful dismissal case

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012:

WASHINGTON D.C.–The District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights on March 20, 2012 ruled that former Friends of Animals special investigator Carroll Cox “failed to establish Respondent (FoA) terminated him based on his race or retaliated against him in the exercise of rights protected under the D.C. Human Rights Act.”
The ruling appears to end nearly 15 years of litigation resulting from about 140 days of employment. FoA hired Cox, a former special investigator for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and, earlier, for the California Department of Fish & Game, on a consulting basis on March 31, 1997. FoA relocated Cox from Hawaii and put him on salary on July 7, 1997. FoA terminated Cox on August 20, 1997. Read more

Sealing on thin ice

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012:

CAP-AUX-MEULES, Quebec— Seal clubbing and shooting started on March 22, 2012 for Iles-de-la-Madeleine vessels, five days ahead of schedule, because ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence were receding so rapidly that Quebec sealers were at risk of finding no seals to kill.
Canadian Fisheries Department area director Vincent Malouin told Canadian Press that only two to five boats from Iles-de-la-Madeleine were expected to hunt seals in 2012. Iles-de-la-Madeleine was allocated a sealing quota of 25,000, from a total Canadian quota of 400,000, the same as in 2011, despite a lack of evident markets for seal pelts since 2010, when the European Union banned seal pelt imports. Read more

Iowa & Utah are first states to pass ag-gag laws

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012:

DES MOINES, SALT LAKE CITY –-Iowa Governor Terry Branstad and Utah Governor Gary Herbert on March 2, 2012 and March 20, 2012 signed into law the first two U.S. state “ag-gag” bills, written to suppress undercover video exposés of animal handling.
Following a template introduced into at least eight state legislatures since 2010, the Utah law creates a criminal offense called “agricultural operation interference,” committed if a person, “without consent from the owner of the operation, or the owner’s agent, knowingly or intentionally records an image of, or sound from, the operation, while the person is on the property where the agricultural operation is located, or by leaving a recording device on the property where the agricultural operation is located.” Read more

Another Chicken Activist’s Perspective on Federal Legal Protection for Hens

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ISSUES

by Paul Shapiro
Senior director of farm animal protection, Humane Society of the U.S.

In 1999, United Poultry Concerns rightly lauded the passage of the European Union’s law requiring a phase-in of better treatment of egg-laying hens by 2012, including a switch from barren battery cages to enriched colony cages.

“Europe Bans Battery Hen Cages” was the UPC newsletter’s headline, with the article continuing that caging systems will be improved by reducing stocking density, but that cage-free would have been better. “Historic Day for Hens,” continued another UPC headline about the EU announcement. The article asserted, “It is time for the United States and Canada to climb aboard,” adding “The vote is a victory for the birds and for our struggle on their behalf in a country that, to date, accords to birds and to farmed animals no federal protection at all.” Read more

Failure of Armenian s/n program brings NYC success

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:

NEW YORK CITY–Newly released New York City Center for Animal Care & Control shelter surrender numbers gave Companion Animal Network founder Garo Alexanian cause for celebration on February 4, 2012–and a message for Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia.

“After five years of virtually unchanged numbers of dog and cat surrenders to the CACC,” Alexanian said, “the total dropped by 15%,” or nearly 6,000 animals, “during 2010, the first full year that we operated our Low Cost Vet Mobile, and fell another 9% in 2011, our second full year.” Read more

Obituaries

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:

Obituaries

“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.” –William Shakespeare

Nick Santino, 47, a New York City soap opera actor who had performed in All My Children and Guiding Light, on January 24, 2010 had his pit bull Rocco euthanized, after receiving veterinary advice that the dog was aggressive, and although New York City has more resources for retraining and rehoming pit bulls than any other city, with the possible exception of Los Angeles. Less than 24 hours later Santino killed himself with an overdose of sleeping pills, attributing his suicide to guilt over killing Rocco. Other residents of the building in which Santino owned a condominium had reportedly complained about Rocco, who according to building rules could not ride in the main elevators and was not allowed to be left in Santino’s apartment alone for more than nine hours. Santino reportedly attributed Rocco’s behavior to his own depression. Read more

Obituaries

Meat consumption falls 12.2% amid health concerns

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:

CHICAGO-–“Americans will consume 12.2% less meat and poultry in 2012 than they did in 2007,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture projected in December 2011.

Analysts ranging from the commodities trading firm CMI Group and the Daily Livestock Report mostly attributed falling meat consumption to higher feed grain prices, which have made meat and poultry more expensive. Food writers, however, tended to note that the number of self-declared vegetarians in the U.S. has increased from 1% in 1971 to 3.4% in 2009. Read more

BOOKS: Behavior of North American Mammals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:

Behavior of North American Mammals
by Mark Elbroch & Kurt Rinehart
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (22 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116), 2011. 374 pages, hardcover. $35.00.

“Behavior of North American Mammals,” says the publisher’s flack sheet, “is a guide not for identifying mammals, but to understanding what they do,” including “information on seasonal activity, food and foraging, home range and habitat, communication, courtship, and mating, development and dispersal of young, interactions with their own species, and interactions with other species.” Read more

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