"Cat ladies" of greater Vancouver still wary despite hard-won gains

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012:

“Cat ladies” of greater Vancouver still wary despite hard-won gains

VANCOUVER, B.C.–“The worst thing anyone can call me is a cat lady,” Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association founder Karen Duncan once famously told longtime Global TV program host Dave Gerry. Then she laughed.
Cat rescuers throughout the greater Vancouver area now quote Duncan, with the laugh, expressing evident pride.
“I wasn’t a crazy cat lady,” says VOKRA volunteer Jemma Crossin in a video clip posted to the VOKRA web site, “but Karen turned me into one.” Read more

Animal Place & Harvest Home rescue 4,460 hens

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012:

TURLOCK, California–“There are still 2,750 hens at our Rescue Ranch facility in Vacaville and 200 hens at our Grass Valley sanctuary. 587 hens have been placed into loving homes,” Animal Place founder Kim Sturla posted on March 28, 2012, a month after volunteers coordinated by Animal Place and the Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary, in Stockton, completed the largest hen rescue on record. Read more

Bob Barker funds elephant move & new PETA HQ

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012:

LOS ANGELES–-The Performing Animal Welfare Society on March 23, 2012 disclosed that former television game show host Bob Barker has donated $870,000 to fund the relocation of three African elephants from the Toronto Zoo to the PAWS Ark 2000 sanctuary in San Andreas, California. Barker agreed to fund the transfer in December 2011, after the Toronto City Council voted to close the zoo’s elephant exhibit.
“Since 1984, seven elephants have died at the zoo, four within the past four years. The oldest was 41,” reported Linda Diebel of the Toronto Star.
The impending transfer is bitterly opposed by members of the Toronto Zoo staff. Read more

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

Suspect allegedly planned "hit" on fur wearer "partially to get away" from family

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012:

CLEVELAND, Ohio—The Federal Bureau of Investigation on February 21, 2012 arrested Meredith Marie Lowell, 27, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, for allegedly trying to use a Facebook account accessed from a public library computer to solicit the murder of “someone who is wearing fur.”
According to an affidavit sworn on February 17, 2012 by FBI special agent Ryan M. Taylor, “On November 4, 2011 the FBI was provided information that a person owning a Facebook page under the name Anne Lowery,” an alias that Lowell acknowledged using, “posted a message on Facebook stating that Lowery wanted to hire a hit man to kill someone wearing fur.” Read more

Editorial

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012:

Editorial feature:
Don’t let irrational extremists define the cause

This April 2012 ANIMAL PEOPLE editorial is written amid an unusually fiercely contested series of primary elections and state caucuses to select the Republican nominee for U.S. President in the November 2012 national election.
Animal issues have barely surfaced during the many months of speeches, debates, and electronic media commercials through which the candidates seek to rally the electorate. Almost the only mention of animals so far has come from a web site called Dogs Against Romney, posted to publicize and decry how front-runner Mitt Romney in 1983 hauled his family’s English setter Seamus on a 12-hour drive to Canada in a carrier tied to a roof rack. Several Dogs Against Romney viewers demonstrated against Romney on Valentine’s Day outside the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in New York City. 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

SHARK wins "2nd Battle of Broxton Bridge"

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:

SHARK wins “2nd Battle of Broxton Bridge”

EHRHARDT, S.C.–Showing Animals Respect & Kindness on February 12, 2012 routed fewer than two dozen pigeon shooters at the second Battle of Broxton Bridge–but the shooters, in retreat, allegedly gunned down a SHARK drone helicopter camera platform moments after takeoff. Read more

Westminster dog show drops Pedigree over pro-adoption ads

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:

Westminster dog show drops Pedigree over pro-adoption ads

NEW YORK CITY— Mars Petcare U.S., maker of Pedigree brand dog food, lost the 2012 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show television advertising contract to Nestle Purina Pet Care, but won the publicity war after Westminster spokesperson David Frei on February 10, 2012 confirmed to Ben Walker of Associated Press that Pedigree was dropped for airing tear-jerking commercials that promoted shelter adoptions of mutts during the 2011 Westminster show. Read more

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