Category: Awards

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.”

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CHILDREN & ANIMALS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1994:

“Higher levels of childhood pet keeping
were related to more positive attitudes toward
pet animals and greater concerns about the wel-
fare of non-pet animals and humans,”
researchers J.S. Paul and James Serpell discovered
in a recent survey of 385 British university students,
published by the Universities Federation for Animal
Welfare (8 Hamilton Close, South Mimms, Potters
Bart, Herts EN6 3QD, United Kingdom). Serpell,
author of In The Company of Animals, now holds
the Marie Moore Chair for Humane Ethics and
Animal Welfare at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Children & Animals: NABT MOVES TOWARD STRONGER SUPPORT OF CLASSROOM DISSECTION

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

WASHINGTON D.C.––The National Association of Biology Teachers has withdrawn its monograph The
Responsible Use of Animals in Biology Classrooms “due to ethical concerns about some of its classroom exercises and about
the unequal representation of animal rights and biomedical research groups in the resource list,” according to the
February/March 1994 edition of National Science Teachers Association Reports. NABT executive director Patricia

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SPECTACLES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

The film Free Willy, the Paul
McCartney song Looking for Changes
and episodes of the TV comedies T h e
Simpsons and Dinosaurs took the top hon-
ors at the Genesis Awards ceremony March
12. Presented by the Ark Trust, the
Genesis Awards honor entertainment and
reportage that furthers awareness of animal
protection. The Simpsons, a surprise
choice, was recognized for an episode in
which underachiever Bart Simpson and his
sister Lisa disrupt a rattlesnake roundup.

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CHILDREN AND ANIMALS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1993:

Shakira Hemphill, Michael Mims, Robert Ronnell Jones, and LaTroy Eugene Murphy, all of
Abram Simon Elementary School in Washington D.C., on April 29 shared the American Humane Association’s first-
ever Be Kind To Animals Kid Award for their part in bringing to justice an off-duty police officer whom they witnessed in
the act of severely beating a dog. All four witnessed the beating on May 2, 1992. Jones, a third grader at the time,
approached the man and demanded an explanation. As the abuse continued, he ran up and down the street to keep an
eye on the dog, whom the man eventually dragged into an alley, while the others called the Washington Humane
Society. All four then pointed the abuser out to the WHS cruelty officer who responded to their call. The dog was
impounded, but was returned to the owner on June 15, who claimed to have given her away one week later. A grand
jury declined to indict, leaving any punitive action up to the Washington D.C. police department division of internal
affairs. As the nominating shelter for the AHA award winners, WHS received $1,000 worth of dog food from Advanced
Nutrition Cycle.

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ANIMAL CONTROL & RESCUE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

Legislation In Support of
Animals has awarded the St. Tammany
Humane Society a “platinum” star for being
the top shelter in Lousiana three years in a
row. The Louisiana SPCA won LISA’s gold
star this year; Ouachita Animal Control of
West Monroe and the no-kill Morehouse
Humane Society each earned a silver star;
and Slidell Animal Control received a bronze
star. The award winners include both public
and private facilities, with some of the
biggest and smallest budgets in the state. A
golden heart award went to two anonymous
sheriff’s deputies who arrested a pair of men
they caught torturing a mouse by dunking her
repeatedly in a beer glass, and threw the
book at them. The black star for worst shel-
ter of the year went to the Leesville Animal
Shelter. “The shelter is actually clean and by
most appearances, well run,” LISA execu-

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CHILDREN & ANIMALS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

$40 million in public funds are
used to teach “hunter education” to
700,000 U.S. school children a year. The
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service puts up $32.2
million, while the balance comes from the
states; all 50 states participate. “They’re
teaching hunting as ‘gun safety,’ ‘physical
education,’ and any other excuse they cna
think of,” says Katherine Trimnal of
Columbia, South Carolina, who has been
investigating the program for some time.
This program is completely separate from
Project Wild, which also promotes a pro-
hunting message at cost of $23 million a
year.

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CHILDREN & ANIMALS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

Serbian soldier Borislav Herak, 21, who may
become the first person executed for war crimes since 1945,
told New York Times reporter John Burns in November that
senior personnel taught him to kill by having him assist in
cutting pigs’ throats. Herak is charged with murdering 29
Moslem civilians between July and late October, and has
confessed to participating in more than 220 murders––most
of the victims women and children, many of them killed in
connection with rape. Herak, captured in mid-November
by Bosnian troops, goes to trial this month.
The first known controlled clinical trial of thera-
py and education involving animals, conducted by the
University of Pennsylvania, has confirmed what pet therapy
and classroom pet advocates have insisted all along: that
children learn more readily in the presence of other species.

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CHILDREN & ANIMALS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Israel on September 10
banned six British women from giving
birth in the Red Sea at a dolphin sanctu-
ary, under supervision of obstetrician
Gowri Motha. Motha told reporters she
wanted to see whether the dolphins
could communicate with the fetuses
through ultrasonic waves. “We hope to
make these children more in tune with
nature,” she said. Israeli authorities
believed the experiment might jeopar-
dize the survival of the newborns.

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