ANIMAL HEALTH

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1994:

“Often dogs show signs of lead intoxication

before children, and the signs in humans are more subtle

than in dogs,” University of Missouri veterinary toxicologist

Stan Casteel advises. Canine symptoms include prolonged

diarhea, vomiting, and stomach upset.

Fort Dodge Laboratories, a division of

American Home Products, has introduced the first vac-

cine for treating and preventing ringworm in cats. T h e

vaccine replaces traditional oral and topical treatments.

Michigan State University professor of veteri-

nary medicine Sally Walshaw, 49, on May 1 became the

ninth annual winner of the Leo K. Bustad Companion

Animal Veterinarian Award––and the first female recipient.

Walshaw teaches laboratory techniques. Said Richard

Walshaw, her husband and a fellow member of the MSU

veterinary teaching staff, “Before Sally, few people really

ever bothered understanding laboratory animals’ feelings,

and they indeed have a lot of feelings.”

Laboratories

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1994:

Residents of Cranberry and

Hampton Township, Pennsylvania, got a

close-up view of the realities of vivisection on

May 7 when the tailgate of a truck taking 2.5

tons of dead rats from Zivic-Miller Laboratories

to a landfill broke twice, littering two streets

with rat remains. Zivic-Miller, of Zelienople, a

Pittsburgh suburb, sells rats to research institu-

tions. The dead rats were unsold surplus, owner

Bill Zivic told Associated Press.

1990 University of Minnesota animal

intake records obtained by the Animal Rights

Coalition under the Minnesota Data Practices

Act indicate that the university purchased for

research use at least 139 of 248 dogs who were

individually identified in a 1992 USDA com-

plaint filed against Class B animal dealers Julian

and Anita Toney, of Lamoni, Iowa, for failing

to keep records on animal acquisitions. The

USDA charges, now four years old, are still

pending, while the Toneys remain the primary

suppliers of dogs to the university––which has

been suspected of using stolen dogs ever since

the late Lucille Moses traced dog thefts through

local suppliers to UM in the early 1960s.

Woofs and growls

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1994:

Wise-use wiseguys

Frederick Goodwin, former director of the National

Institute of Mental Health, announced in late March that he would soon

be setting up a Center of Science, Medicine, and Human Values at

Georgetown University, to promote vivisection. The announcement was

premature: on May 5, Georgetown University executive vice president

Dr. Patrick A. Heelan, S.J., stated in a letter to inquiring faculty members,

“Please know that Dr. Goodwin is not coming to join the faculty.” No fur-

ther explanation was given.

U.S. Surgical Corporation chairman Leon Hirsch took a 97%

pay cut last year, as USSC stock crashed. His wife, Turi Josefsen, took

almost as steep a cut. Still, Hirsch drew $1.59 million, while Josefsen got

$941,117, enough to enable them to keep supporting anti-animal protec-

tion including the Americans for Medical Progress Research Foundation,

Educators for Responsible Science, and Connecticut United for Research

Excellence––all funded mainly by U.S. Surgical itself.

Greenwich Village vivisection and dog export hoaxes rattle humane community

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1994:

NEW YORK, N.Y.––Two appar-

ent hoaxes in two weeks rattled the humane

community during late spring. Both orginated

out of New York City’s Greenwich Village, a

longtime hotbed of pranks executed in the

name of performance art. The first, advertised

in The Village Voice, was a purported pro-

vivisection group called American Vivisection

Defense, with a 92¢-a-minute 900 number set

up on April 29. The organization––AVID for

short––claimed to be soliciting donations of

unwanted pets for use in biomedical research.

It had no connection whatever with AVID

Microchip, of Norco, California, which

received a barrage of outraged calls and in

short order threatened to sue the purported

prankster, Winfield Scott Stanley III, of 304

Newberry Street in Cambridge, Mass-

achusetts. Both the name and the address are

believed to be fictitious. Callers to the 900

number heard a long diatribe promoting fur

and veal, as well as biomedical research.

BRIAN DAVIES FOUNDATION INVESTED IN VIVISECTION

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1994:

LONDON, England––At deadline ANIMAL

PEOPLE was still awaiting International Fund for Animal

Welfare founder Brian Davies’ response to allegations by the

British Broadcasting Corporation expose series Public Eye

that as much as 39% of the Brian Davies Foundation stock

portfolio may be invested with firms that either do vivisection

or are under boycott by other major animal and habitat pro-

tection groups. ANIMAL PEOPLE had, however, received

IFAW’s apparently accidental fax transmission of our request

for comment with four handwritten notes scrawled across it

by at least three different people, discussing how to respond.

The Brian Davies Foundation is a holding corpora-

tion affiliated with IFAW, the sole purpose of which appears

to be managing investments.

IFAW, now under fire for announcing it would not

oppose a plan that could lead to the resumption of commer-

cial whaling (see page one), was just two months ago riding

the crest of outrage over the Canadian sale of 50,000 seal

penises to the Asian aphrodisiac trade––which full-page ads

placed by IFAW in leading Canadian newspapers accurately

linked to child prostitution in Southeast Asia. The issue was

and may still be the hottest for Davies and IFAW since 1983,

when Canada suspended the offshore slaughter of infant harp

seals (though the land-based phase of the killing continues).

Philippines joins Indonesia in banning monkey business

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1994:

MANILA, The Philippines– – A

high-ranking Philippine official confirmed

May 9 that a long-awaited Philippine ban on

wild-caught monkey exports will take effect

this year, fulfilling a promise made in 1986

and completing a phase-out begun in 1989.

Quoting a radio broadcast by

Philippine Protected Areas and Wildlife

Bureau director Corazon Sinha, the Xinhua

news service reported that the export ban will

cover both wild-caught and captive-bred mon-

keys––a significant extension of the 1989

plan, reiterated in early 1993 by Sinha’s pre-

decessor, Samuel Penafield. Ending all mon-

key exports would ease the burden of enforce-

ment, since officials would not be obliged to

determine where each monkey was born.

Laboratories

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

The American Association for the

Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care

put the animal care program at the Davis cam-

pus of the University of California on proba-

tion for six months in mid-April, stating that

the lack of a centralized system for enforcing

care standards has led to uneven and some-

times inadequate care, including cages that are

too small and dirty, and rat infestations of

holding facilities.

MEXICAN PET THIEVES SUPPLY U.S. SCHOOLS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

MEXICALI, Mexico––The World

Society for the Protection of Animals on March

25 announced it had exposed a major Mexican

pet theft ring, operating for at least eight years.

The ring is organized by several American resi-

dents of Mexico. Bunchers pay children $1.00

apiece to catch cats, who are trucked in lots of

30 to 40 to Mexicali, where they are drowned

about 10 at a time in water barrels, preserved

with formaldehyde, and hauled to a location in

Sinaloa state, where they are sold for $7.00

each. From Sinaloa, they are trucked to U.S.

customers.

Opening Pandora’s box: ZOO SURPLUS STOCKS CANNED HUNTS, ROADSIDE EXHIBITS, PRIVATE BREEDERS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

HOOSICK FALLS, New York––The young

Himalayan snow leopard paces the corn crib cage, situated at the

edge of a woodlot. As roadside zoos go, his home at the Flag

Acres Zoo is fairly good––comparable, even, to some accredited

zoos of 30 years ago. But it isn’t where one would expect to find

an apparent prime example of a highly endangered species.

In fact, the snow leopard is genetically redundant “sur-

plus,” neutered and loaned to Flag Acres by the Seneca Park Zoo

of Rochester, New York––a facility accredited by the American

Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums. According to

Seneca Park Zoo director Dan Michalowski, the snow leopard

was removed from the captive gene pool to reduce the risk of

inbreeding. A conditional loan to Flag Acres seemed preferable

to euthanasia. The Seneca Park Zoo may reclaim him if at any

time he appears ill-treated. The deal is a model of the AAZPA-

recommended protocol for the disposition of surplus animals.

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