Category: Activists & Organizations

Big trouble at South Jersey Animal Rescue, Clean Slate, and Cats With No Name

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2009:

The New Jersey SPCA on March 4, 2009 filed three civil and
three criminal counts of cruelty to animals against Daniel C. Tyce,
26, of Atlantic City, and filed a similar set of charges against
his alleged assistant, Sam Smith. Tyce for about two years
allegedly pretended to be a female veteterinarian, “Dr. Danielle
Smith,” of “South Jersey Small Animal Rescue.”
Arrested on January 9, 2009 in Vineland, New Jersey, for
practicing medicine without a license, Tyce was held in the
Cumberland County Jail in lieu of posting $10,000 bond. After police
and state conservation officers raided his home on January 12, Tyce
was indicted by an Atlantic County grand jury for alleged illegal
possession of prescription-strength ibuprofen and possession of a
prescription drug with intent to distribute.

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Los Angeles dog & cat sterilization funds cut

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2009:

LOS ANGELES–“Our spay/neuter program has not been
terminated,” Los Angeles Animal Services general manager Ed Boks
clarified on March 19, 2009, six days after rumors swept the animal
welfare world that the oldest city-funded dog and cat sterilization
program anywhere was a casualty of the U.S. economic crisis.
“Distribution of our spay/neuter coupons under this program
was temporarily suspended,” Boks acknowledged. “Since
implementation of the Los Angeles spay/neuter ordinance, the demand
for these coupons has exceeded our funding. We are working with the
mayor’s office to restore distribution in a manner that can be
sustained,” Boks said.
Explained Los Angeles Daily News staff writer Rick Orlov,
“The city last year adopted a law requiring dog and cat owners to
have pets spayed or neutered when they reach four months of age. As
a way to promote the program, the city included the certificates to
cover most of the costs of the procedure.”

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Uncertain times for hunter/conservationists

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2009:
Commerce Department inspector general Todd Zinser in early
March 2009 sent an administrative subpoena to the National Wildlife
Federation, demanding documents that would identify whoever leaked
information to the NWF about the plans of the George W. Bush
administration to weaken the Endangered Species Act with
administrative rules changes introduced just before leaving office.
The leak helped the NWF and other Endangered Species Act defenders to
ensure that reversing the rules changes is a high priority for the
Barack Obama administration. Zinser, appointed by Bush in November
2007, issued the unusual subpoena at request of Senator James Inhofe
of Oklahoma, the senior Republican on the U.S. Senate Committee on
Environment and Public Works. The leaked documents “were not marked
sensitive, secret or otherwise confidential or classified,”
reported Associated Press writer Pete Yost.

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Indian animal advocates beaten

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2009:
AHMEDABAD, THRISSUR– The Kerala Elephant Lovers’
Association on March 24, 2009 asked the Indian federal government to
investigate the ambush beating of Thrissur SPCA senior inspector E.R.
Jayan. Jayan was allegedly assaulted by four men on March 19 after
responding to a false report that an elephant was being abused.
Jayan was attacked two weeks after Animal Lovers Emergency
Rescue Team founder Sandra Jhala, 53, of Ahmedabad, “suffered
multiple fractures, cuts and bruises after men went into her yard
and attacked dogs kept there,” reported the Times of India on March
3, 2009. Beaten when she intervened, “Jhala received more than 50
stitches on her head and has five fractures on her left hand,”
elaborated Roshan Kumar of the investigative newspaper DNA.

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Pilot charged with killing hunt follower

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2009:
COVENTRY–Heating technician, hunting opponent, and
gyrocopter pilot Bryan Griffiths, 54, of Bedworth, Warwickshire,
has been held by police since March 9, 2009 on a charge of murdering
hunt follower Trevor Morse, 48, of Alderminster, Warwickshire.
“Morse died of head injuries after he was struck by the
gyrocopter’s propeller at Long Marston airfield, near
Stratford-upon-Avon,” reported the London Times. “Magistrates in
Nuneaton, Warwickshire, were told that a witness videotaped the
incident, and the moments before it. The court was told that
Griffiths was a member of an anti-hunt animal rights campaign and
worked as a volunteer hunt monitor, liaising closely with police.
Warwickshire Police said that a second man arrested on suspicion of
murder was released on police bail pending further inquiries.”
“A gyrocopter had been following us for a couple of weeks and
we had made a formal complaint to the Civil Aviation Authority 10
days ago,” Warwickshire Hunt joint master Sam Butler told BBC News.
Summarized Lucy Bannerman and Valerie Elliott of the London
Times, “It is believed that Morse went with a friend to the airfield
to try to discover who piloted the gyrocopter. He and a woman were
believed to have approached the aircraft as it was refuelling.”

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Editorial: Helping more animals with fewer resources

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2009:

A year into the global financial meltdown, the humane
community as a whole seems to be holding up relatively well, so
far–but precariously.
Puppy mills, by contrast, are collapsing at an
unprecedented pace. 2008 brought more than twice as many dogs and
cats into animal shelters as result of breeder failures than 2007,
and the 2009 volume from breeder failures is on pace to eclipse the
2008 record.

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Endowment restrictions causes Massachusetts SPCA to close three shelters

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2009:
BOSTON–Downsizing for the second time in five years, the
Massachusetts SPCA on February 5, 2009 announced the closure of
shelters in Brockton, Martha’s Vineyard, and Springfield,
effective May 1. Thirty-eight staff will be laid off and eight
vacant positions will be eliminated.
The MSPCA will continue to operate shelters and animal
hospitals in Boston, Centerville, Methuen, and Nantucket.
MSPCA spokesperson Brian Adams told media that any animals
who are not adopted from the Brockton, Martha’s Vineyard, and
Springfield shelters before they close will be transferred to the
shelters that remain open.

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Impeachment of Illinois governor did not surprise SHARK

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2009:

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois–When the Illinois Senate impeached
governor Rod Blagojevich for abuse of power on January 29, 2009, by
a vote of 59-0, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve
Hindi could say “I told you so.” Hindi had accused the Blagojevich
administration of corruption via the SHARK web site since July 2006.
Hindi fingered Blagojevich himself and senior officials at
the Illinois Department of Agriculture, the Illinois State Police,
and the office of the Illinois State’s Attorney after they refused to
prosecute cruelty to animals captured on videotape by SHARK
investigators at the 2006 Illinois High School Rodeo Association
finals in Springfield, the Illinoi state capital.

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Whale wars in Washington D.C. & the Southern Oceans

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2009:
WASHINGTON D.C.–“The American people
care deeply about protecting whales and do not
want the U.S. to be the broker who capitulated to
those who still want to kill whales for
commercial gain,” declared U.S. House of
Representatives Natural Resources Committee chair
Nick Rahall in a February 4, 2009 letter asking
the acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce to replace
William Hogarth as U.S. representative on the
International Whaling Commission. Hogarth is
also the current IWC chair.
The Rahall letter reinforced a February
2, 2009 appeal to U.S. President Barack Obama by
the Whales Need Us coalition, representing 13
prominent anti-whaling organizations, headed by
Animal Welfare Institute wildlife biologist D.J.
Schubert.

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