BOOKS: Vegetarian Dogs

May 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

Vegetarian Dogs:
Towards a World
Without Exploitation
by Verona re-Bow
and Jonathan Dune
LiveArt (POB 7056, Halcyon, CA
93421), 1998.
55 pages, spiral binding, $12.00

In India, where one can hardly open
one’s eyes without seeing a street dog, and
where commercial dog food is almost unheard
of, there are indeed plenty of malnourished,
even starving dogs. One wonders, however,
if the malnourishment is not due less to the diet
of street garbage––mostly fruits and vegetables
–– than to parasite infestation and over-competition
for the garbage caused by too many dogs,
too many pigs, and lots of monkeys.

AKC and “not good” with children

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

NEW YORK, N.Y.––The American
Kennel Club on April 8 apologized to “dog
owners and breeders” belonging to 500 member
clubs and 4,000 affiliates for identifying 40
dog breeds as “not good” with children in the
19th edition of the AKC Complete Dog Book.
Thirty thousand copies were published
in December 1997. About 10,000
unsold copies were recalled on January 28 due
to protest over the breed identifications.
The book will be reissued in June,
the AKC said––without the list.

“Puppy mill” cases come to a head

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

BUNA, Texas––Scheduled to make
a court appearance on March 25 to answer
neglect charges, dog and horse fancier Joyce
Goodrich, 59, of Buna, Texas, instead killed
herself with a fatal dose of phenobarbital. The
Beaumont Humane Society had seized 17 horses,
including several starving former show
champions, and about 20 dogs from Goodrich
a week earlier. The dogs were reportedly
mostly purebred Australian shepherds and
King Charles cavalier spaniels, both varieties
in strong demand, but whether Goodrich was
trying to breed them was unclear.
Reputedly a former veterinary assistant,
Goodrich most recently worked at a fast
food franchise, evidently not earning enough
to keep the animals fed.
The Goodrich case was one of several
going to court in March and April that
involved blurred distinctions among alleged
puppy-milling, backyard breeding, and animal
collecting. Humane society literature generally
defines puppy-millers as persons who keep animals
in poor conditions simply to maximize
profits; backyard breeders as smalltime puppymillers;
and animal collectors as animal lovers
and sometimes even rescuers whose good
intentions get far out of control.

250 Things You Can Do To Make Your Cat Adore You

April 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

250 Things You Can Do To
Make Your Cat Adore You
by Ingrid Newkirk
Simon & Schuster (1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020), 1998.
201 pages, paperback, $11.00.

In 1992 and 1995, ANIMAL PEOP
L E surveys of cat rescuers netted several
signed responses from PETA staffers who,
almost alone among the respondents, identified
mass roundups for killing by needle as
their preferred “rescue” method. One of them
killed an average of about one cat per day.
In January 1998, ANIMAL PEOP
L E received a detailed account from John
Newton of the Meower Power Feral Cat coalition,
alleging that a hit squad led personally
at first by PETA cofounder Ingrid Newkirk
had for three years frequently trapped cats
from supervised neuter/release colonies in the
vicinity of Fort Norfolk, Virginia, and delivered
many to their deaths at local animal shelters.

FIXING PETS, RODEO ABUSE, AND MAIL MILLS

April 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

GLENDALE, Calif.; CHICAGO; SARASOTA––Unacquainted
with each other except through the pages of
ANIMAL PEOPLE, DELTA Rescue founder Leo Grillo,
Chicago Animal Rights Coalition president Steve Hindi, and
Sarasota In Defense of Animals wildlife coordinator Sumner
Matthes have independently served notice on major national
animal and habitat-related charities that they are mad as hell
about the nationals raking off money for projects the nationals
don’t really fund, and after years of putting up with it are ready
to start pointing fingers.
Grillo fired the loudest warning shot with a March 16
direct mailing to thousands of southern Californians, starting
fundraising for his new Spay L.A. 2000 and Spay America
2000 low-cost pet sterilization initiatives.
“I’m sick of the lies and empty promises of the selfappointed
animal welfare ‘gurus,’” Grillo said in his appeal.

Saga of a running dog

March 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

MEDFORD, Oregon––The Oregon law
protecting livestock from canine harassment came
under fire as a February 17 execution date approached
for Nadas, a collie/Malamute mix held by Jackson
County since September 1996 for allegedly repeatedly
chasing a neighbor’s horse.
Nadas’ owner, Sean Roach, was convicted
of criminal mischief for appearing at the county shelter
wearing a clown suit, in an apparent attempt to
recover Nadas on Halloween 1996. Roach and Nadas
were represented in subsequent appeals by Lake
Oswego attorney/activists Robert and Gail Babcock,
who took the case––unsuccessfully––to the Oregon
Supreme Court. The Babcocks, allied with Portland
activist Roger Troen, have long opposed Oregon and
Portland/Multnomah County dangerous dog laws.

Murder by dog

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

JUNCTION CITY, Kansas––A
jury in Geary County, Kansas, on January
23 convicted Sabine Davidson, 27, of
unintentional second degree murder and
endangering the life of a child for allowing
three Rottweilers to run loose. The dogs on
April 24, 1997, killed Christopher Wilson,
age 11, as he awaited a school bus with his
brother Trammell, age 9, who escaped.
Testimony by Davidson’s daughter
Victoria, age 8, established that
Davidson claimed the dogs were harmless
even after they killed Wilson. Well before
that attack, another witness testified,
Victoria complained that the dogs were
mean and that one had attacked her sister.

HSUS doesn’t get it in Taiwan

March 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

TAIPAI, TAIWAN––“Approximately two
million dogs in Taiwan are owned––and 1.3 to 1.5 million
are strays,” Humane Society of the U.S/Humane
Society International vice president for companion animals
Martha Armstrong lamented in the winter 1998
edition of HSUS News. “There are few bona fide animal
shelters in Taiwan, and there is no clear-cut
authority or responsibility for controlling strays.
Citizens are very reluctant to cooperate with government
in the control of stray and unwanted animals.”
The Taiwanese Environmental Protection
Administration has the chief jurisdiction over stray
dogs. But agency staff, Armstrong found, don’t like to
kill animals. “Chinese has no term for euthanasia,” she
claimed, seemingly unaware that there are several
“Chinese” languages. The official language of Taiwan
is Mandarin.

LATEST NUMBERS ON PET THEFT

March 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

IRONTON, Ohio––Earl Hall Jr.,
66, of Delbarton, West Virginia, was to be
arraigned on February 17 in Ironton Municipal
Court on 25 counts of cruelty––one for each of
25 dogs police found crammed into three
small cages in the back of his pickup truck.
Hall said he was taking the dogs for sale to a
reasearch laboratory. As ANIMAL PEOPLE
went to press, police were still trying to determine
whether any of the dogs were stolen.
There were reports that two men in separate
trucks were stealing dogs in the area by posing
as local dog wardens.
Hall was arrested just as the fourth
biennial update of the ANIMAL PEOPLE pet
theft log confirmed previous findings that the
1990 Pet Theft Act amendments to the Animal
Welfare Act appear to have virtually halted
thefts for laboratory use since taking effect in
January 1992. If any of the dogs in Hall’s
possession are identified as stolen, he will
become the first person apprehended in
alleged connection with pet theft for laboratory
use since 1993.

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