Sealing protest & media response

May 1, 2008 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2008:
Conventional activist wisdom is that confrontation attracts
publicity, which builds opposition to a grievance. An ANIMAL PEOPLE
analysis of Atlantic Canadian seal hunt coverage, however, shows a
low yield from ongoing efforts to confront and document the
activities of sealers on the ice, the chief protest tactic since the
1970s.
The New York Times during the first two weeks of the 2008
sealing season published just one brief article about it, and since
1981 has published an average of just 1.4 articles per year about the
hunt. The New York Times total of 39 articles about Atlantic
Canadian seal hunting and related protest contrasts with 312 articles
about Japanese research whaling published in the same years.

Will seizing Sea Shepherd ship help Canada to hold off European seal product import ban?

May 1, 2008 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2008:

TOKYO; SYDNEY, N.S.-The Institute of Cetacean Research
acknowledged on April 14, 2008 that pursuit of the Japanese whaling
fleet by the Sea Shepherd Conserv-ation Society vessel Steve Irwin
had held their winter “research whaling” catch to just 551 minke
whales, 55% of their self-assigned quota of 985 minke whales and 50
fin whales.
“We did not have enough time for research because we had to
avoid sabotage,” said a prepared statement from the Japan Fisheries
Agency.

About six million U.S. dogs live on chains, Dogs Deserve Better count projects

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2008:
TIPTON, Pa.–How many dogs are chained or penned in
abnormally close quarters as their primary means of confinement?
The quick answer appears to be about six million dogs, 9% of
the U.S. dog population, based on an ANIMAL PEOPLE analysis of data
gathered by Dogs Deserve Better founder Tammy Grimes and public
liaison director Dawn Ashby.
Grimes and Ashby in mid-April 2008 spent 12 days counting
chained or closely penned dogs in a dozen southern and southeastern
states. They found 1,051 chained dogs in 1,483 residential road
miles, or about one mile in 2,648 of the U.S. residential road mile
total.

“Activist vegetarian” elected to head Canadian SPCA

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2008:
MONTREAL–The Canadian SPCA board of directors on April 9,
2008 affirmed the promotion of former vice president Nancy Breitman
to acting president, following the ouster of Pierre Barnoti,
president since 1995. The CSPCA board also elected six new members
to fill eight vacancies.
Breitman told Max Harrold of the Montreal Gazette that under
Barnoti she was ostracized as “a radical, tree-hugging, activist
vegetarian.”
Breitman pledged to reduce the numbers of animals killed at
the two CSPCA shelters, in Montreal and Laval, by “as much as
possible.”
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BOOKS: Redemption

May 1, 2008 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2008:

Redemption:
The Myth of Pet Overpopulation
& the No Kill Revolution in America
by Nathan J. Winograd
Almaden (www.almadenbooks.com), 2007.
229 pages, paperback. $16.95.

The very title of Nathan Winograd’s book
Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation & the
No Kill Revolution in America offers a challenge
to conventional thinking.
Winograd introduces Redemption as, “The
story of animal sheltering in the United States,
a movement that was born of compassion and then
lost its wayŠThe story of the No Kill movement,
which says we can and must stop the killingŠmost
of all, a story about believing in the community
and trusting in the power of compassion.”

Hunters hit foreclosed pets

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2008:
Grand Rapids–Pressured for just one weekend by the
pro-hunting U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance, the 182-store Meijer retail
chain on April 28, 2008 bagged a pet photo contest meant to benefit
the Foreclosure Pets Fund, a project of the Humane Society of the
U.S.
“Meijer Inc. ducked after finding itself in the crosshairs,”
reported Shandra Martinez of the Grand Rapids Press.
Founded in Grand Rapids in 1932, Meijer now operates stores
throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. The
Meijer contest was to donate $1.00, up to $5,000, for every entry
in the online photo contest.

Prominent alleged rescue neglect cases

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2008:
PITTSBURGH–Linda a.k.a. Lin Marie Bruno, 45, who founded
Tiger Ranch Rescue in 1993, was on May 6, 2008 ordered to stand
trial in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, for 593 counts of cruelty.
A March 13, 2008 raid by the Alleghany County Sheriff’s
Department and the Pennsylvania SPCA removed 380 live cats and the
remains of 108 others from the 27-acre Tiger Ranch Rescue sanctuary
in Frazer Township, Pennsylvania. Of the live cats, 117 died soon
afterward or were euthanized as irrecoverable. The rest were housed
at a shelter in Clarion County.
Pennsylvania SPCA investigator Rebecca McDonald testified at
an April 28 preliminary hearing that Tiger Ranch records indicate
receipt of 6,482 cats in 2007 and 786 in the first 10 weeks of 2008,
of whom just 23 were adopted out.

Abolition of gas chambers and heart-sticking progresses nationwide

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2008:
RICHMOND–Virginia Governor Tim Kaine on April 13, 2008
signed a bill by Spotsylvania representative Bobby Orrock that
prohibits using a carbon monoxide chamber to kill dogs and cats.
“The bill passed the state senate just as Scott County animal
control officers received final certification in injectable
euthanasia,” Margaret B. Mitchell Spay/ Neuter Clinic chief
operating officer Teresa Dockery told ANIMAL PEOPLE. “Scott County
was the last shelter in Virginia to convert to injectable
euthanasia,” Dockery said.
Dockery, then president of the Virginia Federation of Humane
Societies, and longtime Humane Society of the U.S. staff member Kate
Pullen initiated the drive to abolish gas chambers in Virginia in
November 2000. They obtaining grant funding to provide equipment and
injectible euthanasia training to the 23 shelters then using gas.
But the money ran out before Scott County, Lee County, and the city
of Martinsville were able to make the transition to using sodium
pentabarbital.

Caught to eat, then abandoned

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2008:
WINDHOEK–The all-volunteer Cat Protection Society in
Windhoek, Namibia in mid-April 2008 rescued hundreds of cats who
were abandoned in company housing after the Malaysian firm Ramatex
closed a clothing factory that at peak operation employed 7,000
workers. Many other cats died from neglect before the rescuers
learned of their existence, wrote Denver Isaacs of The Nambian.
Opened in 2002 with heavy government subsidies,
Ramatex-Namibia tried to impose Asian sweatshop conditions, claimed
labor organizers. When the Namibian employees unionized, Ramatex
quickly settled a strike, but then hired “trainers” from China, the
Philippines, and Bangladesh to take over much of the work.

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