Category: Companion Animals

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1993:

Humane Enforcement
Concluding a three-year probe
begun in September 1990, the USDA in
October charged American Airlines w i t h
multiple violations of the Animal Welfare
Act. Seventy-one animals died aboard U.S.
domestic flights in 1990, the worst toll since
the USDA began monitoring air transport of
pets in 1976. Numerous airlines were
charged. 1992, however, was worse yet, as
50 puppies died aboard a single TWA flight
from Missouri to St. Louis. The puppies
were en route from breeders to pet shops.

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How much of pet overpopulation do euthanasia statistics measure?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1993:

Somehow in the deadline rush we mislaid a
letter we’d intended to publish from Cam
Martinez of San Diego, California, who
asserted that all the published shelter
euthanasia statistics are far low in providing
an index of pet overpopulation because they
don’t include the animals euthanized by vet-
erinarians, or killed by pet owners using var-
ious do-it-yourself methods.
Martinez claimed we should take
the highest available number and multiply it
at least by 10 to get an accurate count of the
surplus puppies and kittens born each year.
In fact there have been several seri-
ious attempts to estimate total pet births and
mortality, but none have yielded figures on
that order:

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Get thee to a shelter, Bill!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1993:

BALTIMORE, Maryland– –
More than 600 participants in the American
Humane Association annual conference told
President Bill Clinton on October 13 to get
the golden retriever he covets from a shelter
rather a breeder. Syndicated columnist Mike
Capuzzo told the group that in May, Clinton
unsuccessfully bid $3,500 for a golden
retriever at an auction held at the Sidwell
Friends School, which his daughter Chelsea
attends. Later he bid unsuccessfully on a
golden retriever puppy owned by Robert
Wood Johnson IV, great-grandson of the
founder of Johnson & Johnson Inc. Capuzzo
urged Clinton to emulate the late Lyndon
Johnson, whose favorite dog was a mongrel
stray his daughter Lucy found at a Texas gas
station.

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Animal Control & Rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1993:

The Connecticut Humane Society,
long under fire from local no-kill groups for a
“high” euthanasia rate that is in fact better than
average for big shelters, has ceased accepting
animals from other shelters for euthanasia, and
is accepting animals for euthanasia from res-
cuers only by special arrangement. “I don’t
want to be in the business of euthanasia,” pres-
ident Richard Johnson told ANIMAL PEO-
PLE. “I want to do saving and adoption.”
CHS will now pay for neutering any animal
adopted by anyone from any municipal shelter
in Connecticut, Johnson said.

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COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

Editor’s note: The people grouped under the heading “Animal Collectors,”
below, call themselves animal rescuers. The others, purportedly, sought to make
money. In each case, however, regardless of alleged motive, the pathology and cir –
cumstances of the perpetrators seems to be the same. As humane investigator Lewis R.
Plumb of the Promotion of Animal Welfare Society in Paradise, California wrote about
a case he and his wife prosecuted, “When two people are living in a mobile home with
hundreds of dogs, with feces all over the floors and even on the bed, when in one small
container a mother poodle nurses two dead puppies who have been left in the cage,
when three dead puppies are in the freezer next to a frozen turkey and some ice cream,
then you get the idea that it just maybe is not so much criminality as insanity. How
should these people be humanely dealt with? As it is now, each felony cruelty count
under California law carries a maximum penalty of one year is prison, a maximum fine

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Animal Control & Rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

The National Cat Protection Society, a shelter in
Long Beach, California, has paid $26,500 in civil penalties
and costs for providing misleading information about euthana-
sia policies and adoption rates to donors and people who sur-
render cats. NCPS attorney Richard Tanzer denied the organi-
zation had done anything wrong and said the settlement was
reached to avoid the cost of defending itself against the charges,
brought by the Los Angeles County district attorney.
Chows are now responsible for the most dog bites
of any breed in St, Bernard Parish, Louisiana, according to
animal control officer Ceily Trog––10 of 89 total bites,
through the first half of this year. Other Louisiana animal con-
trol departments also report a rise in chow bites.

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WOOFS AND GROWLS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

THE WISE USE WISE GUYS ET AL
George Frampton’s last major task
before leaving the presidency of The Wilderness
Society to become Assistant Secretary for Fish,
Wildlife, and Parks in the Clinton administration
was to preside over the assembly of a 50-page
report called The Wise Use Movement: Strategic
Analysis and 50-State Review. It calls upon the
mainstream environmental movement to distance
itself from radical environmentalism, deep ecolo-
gy, and animal rights, while rebuilding alliances
with farmers and hunters.
The fall 1993 issue of Friends of
Animals’ ActionLine magazine features ANIMAL
PEOPLE editor Merritt Clifton’s “Attack of the
Wise Use Wise Guys,” an investigation of vio-
lence against animals and animal defenders by
members of the self-named “wise use movement.”
It’s $1.95, from POB 1244, Norwalk, CT 06856.
Having run low on friends in Washington D.C.,
Putting People First is relocating this month to
Helena, Montana––PPF president Kathleen
Marquardt’s birth state.

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Advice from a dog

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

DALTON, Georgia––”Living on the buckle of
the Bible Belt, where every harsh, cruel thing done to ani-
mals seems to have so-called divine justification, is at
times intolerable,” says Linda McClure-Woodham. “I can
count the number of animal activists in Dalton on the fin-
gers of one hand. But I keep writing my column in the
hope that maybe, just maybe, it is reaching those who
would never read ANIMAL PEOPLE or any other publi-
cation like it.”
For just over three years, McClure-Woodham
has ghostwritten two installments a month of a pet advice
column called Gizzmo for the Dalton Advertiser, a twice-
a-week newspaper with a circulation of 34,000. The osten-
sible author is her Chihuahua mix, Gizzmo, whom she
adopted from the local pound five years ago, at age six
months, as the dog was headed for the gas chamber.
Gizzmo answers fictitious letters sent in from other ani-
mals––some actually submitted by human readers on
behalf of their animals, some invented to illustrate other
issues McClure-Woodham wants to address.

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Dogs & Cats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

Petsmart Inc., a Phoenix-based national
chain of pet supply stores, maintains adoption
boutiques for local animal shelters instead of buying
and selling animals from breeders. The 38 “Luv-A-
Pet” boutiques placed 4,000 animals in the first 12
months they were open––and when Petsmart stock
went public in July, the price surged from $18 per
share to $25 the first day before leveling off even
higher. Investment analysts are recommending
Petsmart at any price up to $30 a share.
A growing number of communities are
discovering a need for a group similar to the Pet
Owners With Aids Resource Service of New York
City and the Pets Are Wonderful Support network of
Los Angeles, which help hundreds of AIDS patients
to keep their pets as long as possible and seek new
homes for the animals when their people die.
Pending formation of such a group in New Orleans,
Legislation In Support of Animals is pinch-hitting.

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