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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
I wonder if you are aware of the awful situation at Memphis Animal Services in Memphis, Tennessee? Things have not changed there much, if at all, since they were raided in 2009. Abuse, neglect, and cruelty are still the order of the day. The city officials continue to be stone-faced, and animal rescuers continue to be outraged. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
SHREVEPORT, SAN ANTONIO–Bob Barker, the retired longtime host of The Price Is Right television game show, has donated $230,000 toward the cost of relocating five former laboratory chimpanzees who had been exposed to HIV infection from the bankrupt Wild Animal Orphanage sanctuary near San Antonio, Texas, to Chimp Haven, near Shreveport, Louisiana.
“A team from Chimp Haven will go to Texas in late July to do health and behavioral assessments on each of the chimpanzees in anticipation of a move to our facility in August,” Chimp Haven national advancement director Karen Allen told ANIMAL PEOPLE. At Chimp Haven, Allen said, the chimps “will live in a social group in an outdoor habitat and get nutritious meals, full-time veterinary care, daily behavioral enrichment, and compassionate care. It is the least that we can do for them.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
NEWINGTON, Connecticut– National Labor Relations Board
Administrative Law Judge Steven Fisher on June 6, 2011 ordered the
Connecticut Humane Society to reinstate former employees Maureen Lord
and Bridget Karchere.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
WASHINGTON D.C. –The Humane
Society of the U.S. in June 2011 received a
Silver Telly Award for excellence in television
for the second consecutive month. The Telly
Award program, founded in 1978, honored the
HSUS video Undercover at Smithfield in June,
after honoring the HSUS video Stallone: The Face
of Dogfighting in May. Undercover at Smithfield
is an exposé featuring the findings of an HSUS
investigator who worked for a month in a Virginia
farrowing barn operated by a Smithfield Foods
subsidiary. Stallone is the biography of a
fighting dog.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
LEFT–Dogs Deserve Better founder Tamara Ci Thayne and
longtime anti-chaining campaign supporter Joe Horvath were married on
June 20, 2011 on the Pennsylvania State Capitol steps in Harrisburg,
concluding Thayne’s annual “chain-off” demonstration in pursuit of a
state law prohibiting dog tethering as a primary means of
confinement. Thayne, who has chained herself to doghouses in public
places every summer since 2004, spent 52 days in 2010 chained in
front of the Pennsylvania State Capitol. Thayne and Horvath were
joined at the 2011 demo by about 75 other protesters, 25 of whom
also spent the day chained to doghouses.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
HARRISBURG–Jesse Smith, heading the Pennsylvania Bureau of
Dog Law Enforcement since 2006, was on June 15, 2011 transferred to
the Office of Chief Counsel, where she said she would be “putting
together a USDA-sponsored agricultural mediation program.”
Replacing Smith, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
secretary George D. Greig announced, is Lynn Diehl. Greig
introduced Diehl as “a lifelong animal lover with a magnitude of
management skills.” Greig also announced that Pennsylvania Governor
Tom Corbett is “transitioning the Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement to
the Dog Law Enforcement Office. The office will report directly to
the department’s Executive Deputy Secretary Mike Pechart,” Greig
said, “ensuring its functions are handled at the highest level.”
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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
NAIROBI, PARIS, DAR ES SALAAM, WASHINGTON D.C.–The
United Nations Educational & Scientific Organization on June 24,
2011 declared victory over the Tanzanian government plan to build a
highway crossing Serengeti National Park, but apparently had not
examined the details of the letter from Tanzanian Natural Resources
and Tourism Minister Ezekiel Maige that prompted the celebration.
“The Serengeti road project has not been abandoned. We have
just revised it. I don’t know where all this confusion comes from,”
Maige told Reuters reporter Fumbuka Ng’wanakilala on July 1, 2011.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2011:
LA CIOTAT, France–The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
fast interceptor and scout vessel that pursued Japanese whalers in
the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary in 2010-2011 as the Gojira,
Japanese for “Godzilla,” was on May 25, 2011 renamed in honor of
French actress-turned-activist Brigitte Bardot. The owners of the
Gojira and Godzilla film monster trademarks had objected to further
Sea Shepherd use of the names. Launched as the Cable & Wireless
Adventurer, the vessel now called the Brigitte Bardot in 1998 set a
record for powered craft by circling the world in 74 days.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2011:
PHILADELPHIA–Downsizing for the fourth time in four years,
the Pennsylvania SPCA on April 30, 2011 closed its Wellsville
shelter and transferred the Montrose shelter in Susquehanna County to
a new organization which will operate the shelter as True Friend’s
Animal Welfare Center.
The Pennsylvania SPCA in January 2008 closed its former
shelter in Clarion County, and closed its Monroe County shelter in
Stroudsburg at the end of January 2009. Managing six branch shelters
at the close of 2007, the Pennsylvania SPCA now has only two branch
shelters, in Danville and Centre Hall.