What’s up in Minneapolis?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1994:

MINNEAPOLIS––The Animal

Humane Society of Hennepin County, the

leading shelter in Minneapolis, has

achieved a 50% adoption rate or better

every year since 1990. Broken down,

AHSHC places 97% of the puppies it

receives, 50% of the adult dogs, 60% of

the kittens, and 35% of the adult cats. The

high adoption numbers are not achieved

through selective intake: of the 22,151 ani-

mals AHSHC handled in 1992, 84% were

animal control pickups.

Cold winter holds down roadkills: Peaks coincide with moon phases

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1994:

DERRY, New Hampshire––The good

news is that roadkills will apparently claim 23%

fewer animal lives in 1994 than 1993. The bad news

is that the reason is probably not safer driving, but

rather the harsh winter of 1993-1994, which thinned

the numbers of many of the most vulnerable species.

Refinements of the survey method may

also account for some of the drop, from an estimated

total of 187 million animals killed in 1993 to just 137

million this year. The 1993 statistics were derived

exclusively from Dr. Splatt’s Roadkill Project, a

learning exercise then including students at 31 New

England middle schools, coordinated by Dr.

Brewster Bartlett of Pinkerton Academy, in Derry,

New Hampshire.

Love & Care shelter in trouble again

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1994:

MONTGOMERY, Alabama––Responding to consumer complaints,

attorney Greg Locklier of the Alabama Office of the Attorney General is “cur-

rently investigating Love and Care for God’s Animalife Inc.,” a purported no-

kill shelter based in Andalusia, Alabama, “for possible deceptive trade practices

and other violations of Alabama law.” Love and Care has moved and changed

business names several times in recent years while incurring debts and legal

problems in both Georgia and Alabama, including frequent alleged violations of

humane care standards. Founder Ann Fields now lives in California, Locklier

said. After longtime shelter manager Linda Lewis quit at the start of the sum-

mer, the already marginal care standards degenerated, according to Locklier, as

management chores were left to a staff of apparent illegal aliens. Shortly before

Lewis quit, she said Love and Care was housing 688 dogs, half of them age 10

or older, and 400-plus cats, of whom about half the females were unneutered.

Summer flooding tested disaster prep in Georgia

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1994:

MACON, Georgia––Tropical Storm Alberto killed 31 people during the second

week of July, washing out 9,000 homes, 1,700 roads, 600 bridges, and 100 dams across

southern Georgia. Animals suffered too, as 300,000 chickens drowned on just one farm near

Montezuma, while 83 dogs and cats died in the submerged Sumter County Humane Society

shelter, a short distance north at Americus. Of the dogs left inside, only the shelter mascot

survived, hiding in a storage closet that withstood the water. One cat also survived, who was

quickly adopted out and named “Miracle.” Six dogs kept outside escaped as the torrent

wrecked their cages.

The Georgia Wildlife Resources division expected a heavy impact upon rabbits,

rodents, foxes, and fawns, who were born late this year due to a lingering winter. Driving

THE DOG MEAT SOUP HOAX

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1994:

NEW YORK, N.Y.––As Joey Skaggs wrote

in his letter of confession, “On Monday, May 16, 1994,

artist and socio-political satirist Joey Skaggs mailed over

1,500 letters to dog shelters around the country announc-

ing that his company Kea So Joo, Inc. (which translates

into Dog Meat Soup, Inc., in Korean) was seeking to

purchase dogs at 10¢ per pound to be consumed by

Asians as food. The response was overwhelming. Calls

were received from people willing to sell dogs (most

likely attempts at entrapment); from people outraged at

the concept of eating dogs; from people who were out-

right hostile and racist; and from people who threatened

to kill the proprietor of this business as well as other

Asians indiscriminately. Representatives of various gov-

ernmental and animal rights organizations including the

American SPCA were pressured to do something…

American and Korean media were called to arms.”

Vets talk about low-cost neutering: PART TWO OF A NEW NATIONAL STUDY

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1994:

PORT WASHINGTON, New York––The issue is money. Most veterinarians

want to be paid more for neutering cats and dogs, most pet keepers think they already pay too

much, and most animal control and rescue workers feel caught in the squeeze, trying to talk

veterinarians into neutering for less in order to convince the public to neuter as many animals

as is necessary to stop population control killing.

That’s no news to anyone who reads ANIMAL PEOPLE. The real news, emerg-

ing from a national survey done by ANIMAL PEOPLE for the Spay USA program of the

North Shore Animal League, is that much of the friction could be reduced or ended.

FILM REVIEWS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1994:

Early-Age Spay/Neuter, distributed by Cats In

Need of Human Care (POB 431, Pomona, CA 91769,

attn. Tiffany Curry). $10.00, or $13.00 including addi-

tional information for veterinarians.

“I began early-age neutering in early 1988,”

recalls veterinarian W.M. Mackie in a commentary distrib-

uted with the Early-Age Spay/Neuter video. “By the summer

of 1989, the Coalition for Pets in Los Angeles assigned

Phyllis Daugherty to video me in a show-and-tell. It is an

amateur production,” Mackie acknowledges of the newly

released product. But the technical faults don’t get in the way

of the message. “The purpose,” Mackie continues, “is to

show my anesthesia protocol and to demonstrate that the skill

required is not extraordinary. Shown quite clearly is that

recovery of youthful patients is quick.”

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1994:

Activism

The U.S. Supreme Court on

June 13 upheld federal court and Court

of Appeals rulings that communities

cannot consititutionally ban the display

of political signs on citizens’ own prop-

erty. Issued on behalf of anti-Persian Gulf

War protester Margaret Gilleo, of Ladue,

Missouri, who is now a Congressional

candidate, the ruling applies as well to

people who have been ordered to cease

displaying signs on behalf of animals.

Friends of Animals in early

June won a judgement against the State

of Alaska for attorney’s fees incurred in

defending itself against governor Walter

Hickel’s failed attempt to sue FoA for libel.

The Hickel suit was filed in June 1993 in

an apparent attempt to prevent FoA from

further publicizing the Alaskan plan to kill

wolves in order to make more moose and

caribou available to hunters.

Summer Book Reviews

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1994:

The Cats of Thistle Hill, by Roger Caras.

Simon & Schuster (1230 Ave. of the Americas, New

York, NY 10020), 1994. 236 pages. $22 hardcover.

An excellent book for youngsters who demand to

know why they cannot have as many pets as they like, The

Cats of Thistle Hill is a melange of feline biographies,

information about the origins of the species and current

breeds; hints on the care, feeding, and behavioral problems

of cats; and anecdotes about the other animals on Thistle

Hill Farm, which seems to be less a farm than an animal

refuge. Roger Caras, now president of the American SPCA

and formerly an ABC television personality, apparently

maintains the fiction of farming as a front for animal rescue.

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