On the job with Jean Gilchrist and crew at the Kenya SPCA

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

NAIROBI––“Kenya SPCA director of animal welfare
Jean Gilchrist, KSPCA vice chair Dr. S.V. Varma, some
KSPCA staff, and a visiting vet from Burundi set off bright
and early one morning on a field trip to Naivasha,” recounted
the Kenya SPCA July/September 1999 quarterly report.
“They were looking forward to a day in the country,
but things did not go according to plan. They were inching
their way through traffic when out of an alley hurtled a bull,
closely followed by a pack of screaming men, wielding clubs.
“Jean stopped the vehicle and took off in hot pursuit.
She grabbed one man, wrestled his club away, and pounced on
the next man, also grabbing his club, waving both in the air
and bellowing at the gathering crowd of about 300 people. The
men insisted they were not going to club the bull, but Jean
noticed that one of the clubs had blood on it.

PETSMART staff raise $3 million

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

P H O E N I X – – P E T s –
MART store and VETsMART
clinic staff together raised a record
$1.6 million for the nonprofit
PETsMART Charities affiliate during
the October 2-24 “Just A Buck,
Change Their Luck” counter collection
drive, the second of 1999.
The two drives brought
in $3 million, nearly doubling the
capacity of PETsMART Charities
to fulfill its stated mission of “ending
needless euthanasia,” executive
director Joyce Briggs told the
recent No-Kill Conference in
Chicago. With 1998 income of
$3.8 million and assests of $1.9
million, PETsMART made grants
to neutering, adoption promotion,
and disaster relief this year
totalling $3.5 million.

WHO GETS THE MONEY? –– TENTH ANNUAL EDITION

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

This is our tenth annual report on the budgets, assets,
and salaries paid by the major U.S. animal-related charities,
together with a handful of local activist groups and humane
societies, and some prominent organizations abroad, whose
data we offer for comparative purposes. Foreign data is stated
in U.S. dollars at average 1998 exchange rates.
Most charities are 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. The R and W designations
are used only if a group makes a point of being one or the other.
Charities of unique purpose may not have a designation letter.
While many groups are involved in multiple activities,
space limits us to providing only three identifying letters.

Activists & Organizations

Seeking concern for animals in Vietnam

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

HANOI, SAIGON––Like U.S. soldiers who served
year-long tours of duty in Vietnam during the Vietnam War,
wondering why they were there all the while, Supriya Bose finished
a year in Saigon and flew home to Bombay recently,
questioning what she might have accomplished.
A second-generation humane worker, Bose in mid-
1998 left a prestigious job as clinic manager for the Bombay
SPCA and Bai Sakarai Dinshaw Petit animal hospital in hopes
of finding the opportunity to do humane work in Saigon, where
her huband worked for an Indian-owned printing company.
As Khumbatta later explained in a letter to ANIMAL
PEOPLE, she soon learned that Vietnam had no humane societies,
and apparently no animal shelters. The few international
conservation groups working in Vietnam are all based in Hanoi,
a three-day train ride to the north over tracks never fully
repaired after multiple U.S. air strikes, 1964-1975 (and now
temporarily washed out by flooding that hit the Hue region hard
in early November 1999).

Brand of violence may not be ALF

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

LONDON––Channel 4 TV
reporter Graham Hall, 43, claimed on
November 6 that elements of the Animal
Liberation Front had abducted him at
gunpoint on the night of October 25 and
branded the letters “ALF” on his back.
The claim helped build support
for a new British anti-terrorism bill,
unveiled on November 17 by Home
Secretary Jack Straw. The bill would
permit the government to bring civil
suits against alleged terrorists, much as
the Racketeering-Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations statute does in the U.S.
Hall said he was attacked in
retaliation for his 1998 broadcast I n s i d e
The ALF, which included footage of
activist Gaynor Ford describing how she
allegedly vandalized a laboratory.

BOOKS: The Save-A-Life Guide

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

The Save-A-Life Guide
Edited by Vicki Todaro
(3504 Fort Hunt Drive,
Arlington, TX 76016), 1999.

Sponsored by Ahimsa of Texas,
this 141-page looseleaf binder is a much
expanded second edition of a volume which
includes capsule descriptions and contact
data for all (or nearly all) Dallas/Fort
Worth-area animal shelters; fostering programs;
dog breed rescuers; cat clubs; rescue
groups for ferrets, rabbits, pigs, horses,
and birds; wildlife rescue and rehabilitation
programs; and various other organizations
which might help someone save an
animal in north/central Texas.
One might jump to the conclusion
that the Dallas/Fort Worth area is unusually
rich in resources for animals. It’s more the
norm, but few regions have anything like
The Save-A-Life Guide to facilitate liaison.

Sharpe’s shelter survives shake

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

TAIPEI, Taiwan –The Taipei
Abandoned Animal Rescue Foundation
escaped serious harm in the September 20
pre-dawn earthquake that killed at least 2,101
people, injuring 8,700 and leaving at least
153 missing, presumed dead.
“The kennels and the dogs are faring
fine,” TAARF founder Mina Sharpe told
ANIMAL PEOPLE on September 22. “I’ve
taken care of the dogs in the dark for two
days. The kennel has no natural light, so
we’re relying on two flashlights to get things
done. The dogs are a bit more hyper than
usual, but other than that, all is okay. We
have a lot of shelves stacked high and precariously,
yet nothing fell,” despite the first
shock of 7.6 on the Richter scale and aftershocks
as strong as 6.8.

Buffy chimp goes home

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe––Buffy, 15, a Zaireborn
chimpanzee who was smuggled into Zimbabwe as an
infant, arrived on September 20 at the Chimfunshi Wildlife
Orphanage in northern Zambia, five miles from Zaire.
“About 10 years ago Harare Lion and Cheetah Park
owner Viv Bristow paid $10,000 for her and a male chimp
named James,” Bulawayo Branch SPCA national coordinator
Meryl Harrison told ANIMAL PEOPLE. “They were kept in
a small enclosure where James was chained to the wall.
Bristow’s son tried to ‘train’ James with an electric cattle prod.
James became very aggressive.”

SHELTERING

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

Michael Arms, 51, was in September

named executive director of the Helen
Woodward Animal Center in Rancho Santa Fe,
California. The shelter adopted out just 600 animals
last year on a $3 million budget. Arms
pledged immediate improvement. As shelter
director for the North Shore Animal League,
1976-1997, Arms increased adoptions from 4,000
a year––which was already the highest total for
any shelter in the U.S.––to a peak of 44,000 in the
early 1990s. Arms previously spent 10 years with
the American SPCA in New York City.
Exposes by Corpus Christi CallerTimes
reporter Jennifer Stump, citing the ANIMAL
PEOPLE finding that Corpus Christi has
one of the highest rates of shelter killing of any
U.S. city, at 44.4 per 1,000 human residents,
brought an anonymous grant of $30,000 in late
September. Gulf Coast Humane Society president
Denny Bales told Stump the money might be
enough, added to the present budget, to save
3,000 additional animals.

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