WOOFS AND GROWLS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July 1996:

Though ANIMAL PEOPLE
heard frequent complaints that our former
World Wide Web site, maintained by the
Animal Rights Resource Network, was
incomplete and hard to find, it reportedly
drew 183,000 “hits” in five months, amounting
to as many as 1,220 readers a day.
Consultant Patrice Greanville is now at work
on a new site to be posted under our own
name soon, which will include a complete
archive of back issues plus prompt additon of
current issues. The ARRN site proved unviable
for both technical and philosophical reasons,
the latter resulting from a conflict of
the ideological mandate of ARRN with the
ANIMAL PEOPLE journalistic ethic.

Activists & Organizations

Animals in entertainment

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July 1996:

Circuses
Two circus-going children
were attacked by animals in Chile during
the first week of May. Rodrigo Silva, age
10, walked up to an elephant named Freda
on June 1. She slapped him to the ground
with her trunk, killing him. The elephant
reportedly remained agitated for hours. On
June 7, Stephanie Fuentealba, 3, was
severely mauled by a bear, who reached
through the bars of his cage to get her. In
between, a young male African lion
escaped from the Santiago zoo, but
prowled among the visitors without hurting
anyone.

On Screen: Betty Denny Smith to retire

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July 1996:

HOLLYWOOD–– Betty Denny Smith, 63,
heading the Hollywood office of the American Humane
Association since 1988, has announced she will retire at
the end of 1996, after 27 years in humane work, to
form her own animal protection foundation.
Smith, as director of the Los Angeles County
Department of Animal Care and Control in the 1970s,
was among the first animal control chiefs to abolish
killing by decompression. She later headed the Pet
Assistance Foundation.
The AHA Hollywood office, founded in
1940, monitors the use of animals in films. In 1987,
the year before Smith took over, the office had three
representatives, who monitored 44 movies, 106 TV
productions, and read 147 scripts. In 1995, said
spokesperson Jim Moore, 25 representatives with a
support staff of seven monitored 429 movie and TV productions,
reading nearly 1,000 scripts. “Smith hired a
training officer,” Moore explained, “instituted a field
training curriculum, developed a program for upward
career mobility for representatives, and began an affiliate
program with other humane societies around the
world. She also established an anti-cruelty hotline to
report any abuses of animals used in film.”

Editorial: Westward ho!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July 1996:

You may have noticed that this edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE is dated simply
“July.” Traditionally we’ve published a combined July/August edition, but we’ve varied the
routine this year to facilitate our forthcoming relocation, from a 160-year-old rambling
farmhouse almost on top of the New York/Vermont border to a compact home/office in
Clinton, Washington. Because our new location won’t be ready until we’d normally be
starting in on our September edition, and because moving 22 cats, three dogs, and a whole
newspaper cross-country and setting up again will of necessity take several weeks, we’ll be
issuing an August/September combined edition from here, to be mailed in late July, just
before we hit the road. While the post office delivers it, we’ll roll west in a convoy of rented
trucks, the traveling menagerie in an air-conditioned van with double doors to prevent
escapes, and the office in a separate van because cats, dogs, files, and computers barely
get along even without the stress of travel. (It’s not the animals who object––it’s the equipment.)
By the time you’ve received the August/September edition, we hope, we’ll be
unpacking and able to answer your calls, faxes, and e-mailed information requests.

Give them liberty or give them fish

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July 1996:

KEY WEST, Florida––It’s all over now but the blame-throwing. Bogie and
Bacall, the former Ocean Reef Club dolphins, are back at large in the Indian River Lagoon,
where they were captured in 1987, unidentifiable because someone on the night of May 17
cut the plastic fence forming their sea pen to release them just before they were to be freezebranded
to facilitate follow-up study of their progress.
Luther and Jake, two former Navy dolphins, are back in the Navy, and Buck, the
third of that group, will rejoin the Navy marine mammal program when and if he recovers
from an infected deep cut of unknown origin. Luther had a similar but less serious cut.

Puma panic

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July 1996:

Worthy of a film expose in the tradition of Reefer Madness,
the hyperbolic 1936 documentary that alerted the world to the perils of
marijuana, PUMA PANIC!!! could be coming soon to a suburb near you!
Causes include the possible presence of a puma within a few
dozen miles; public reminders that pumas eat pets and people; hunting
advocates blaming the problem on an alleged lack of people using
hounds and telemetry to track pumas, then blow them out of trees in
such a manner as to save intact heads for the wall; and wildlife officials
engaging in bizarre rituals to avert the threat, sometimes reminiscent of
animal sacrifice to appease an alleged dragon.
For instance, with the approval of Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife biologist John Thiebes, volunteer trapper Richard Stahl
circa May 13 live-trapped a purported feral cat, fed the cat for three
days, and then staked him out in a small cage as live bait for a puma
who purportedly stalked two boys near Medford on April 3, six weeks
earlier; killed several other cats; and killed a dachshund on April 29.

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1996:

Crimes vs. humans
The “Lords of Chaos,”
charged May 4 with the April 30
thrill-killing of music teacher Mark
Schwebes at his home in Pine Manor,
Florida, began a two-week spree of
arson, robbery and mayhem by burning
two large macaws alive in their
cage at The Hut, a local restaurant.
Facing murder charges are K e v i n
Foster, 18; Christopher Black, 18;
Derek Shields, 18; and P e t e r
Magnotti, 17. A fifth gang member,
Christopher Burnett, 17, is
charged only with conspiracy to commit
armed robbery.

BOOKS: Tools for humane work

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1996:

Many useful and interesting publications don’t come from
major publishers––because their topics are considered “too special –
ized,” or their authors are too obscure to attract commercial atten –
tion. These low-budget, do-it-yourself books could never become
bestsellers, but ANIMAL PEOPLE readers may wear them to tatters
with repeated reference:

Fishing: An Activist’s Guide. Price: “a small donation”
to the Animal Rights Coalition, POB 862, Chanhassen, MN
55317. 20 pages, 1996.
Chicago Animal Rights Coalition cofounder Steve
Hindi––whose similarly named group is not the same as the publisher
of Fishing: An Activist’s Guide––shocked ANIMAL PEOPLE readers
in May with his guest column outlining, as a former fisher, the
inhumanity of fishing. The shock for too many was not that Hindi had
done things he now finds appalling, but that he now finds appalling
things routinely done to fish, that even most people who care about
animals haven’t thought about deeply.

No monkey-business at STPO

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1996:

DILLEY, Texas – – The
USDA Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service announced on May
10 that “Arashiyama West Primate
Center/South Texas Primate Observatory
director Lou Griffin and assistant
director Tracy Wyman, of Dilley,
Texas, agreed to surrender its registration
as a research facility” certified by
the Animal Welfare Act, and to
“cease engaging in activities that will
designate them as a covered dealer,
exhibitor, or research facility under
the Act, and, for Arashiyama and
Griffin, pay a combined civil penalty
of $15,000 which is suspended providing
no further violations of the Act.”

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