COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

Animal Trafficking

Worldwide Primates propri-

etor Matthew Block, 31, of Miami,

drew 13 months in federal prison on April

17 for his part in arranging for six infant

orangutans to be smuggled from Indonesia

to the Soviet Union––the 1990 Bangkok

Six case. Hoping to win a plea bargain,

Block testified against three accomplices

and helped set up the January 26 arrest of

a Mexican zoo director for allegedly trying

to smuggle a gorilla. However, assistant

U.S. attorney Guy Lewis told U.S. district

judge James Kehoe that Block had never

fully cooperated with either investigation,

had lied about his degree of involvement

in the orangutan deal, and was still in

touch with smuggling associates. Block

now faces USDA action for allegedly

feeding primates at his facility spoiled

food, failing to provide water, and keep-

ing them in vermin-infested cages.

Doberman deeds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

When a tiger abandoned her newborn cub recently at

the zoo in Chhat Bir, India, the zookeeper in desperation gave the

cub to his Doberman pinscher to nurse. After 17 days, both dog

and tiger were reportedly doing well.

Orphaned by Hurricane Andrew when his original fam-

ily lost their home and left him at the SPCA in Jefferson Parish,

Louisiana, a Doberman named Max found a new home with Ava

Mareno of New Orleans last October. On March 27, Max saved

her two-year-old daughter Brittany’s life by pulling away another

dog who was mauling her.

ANIMAL CONTROL & RESCUE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

The Los Angeles City Council’ s

ad hoc committee on the ongoing municipal

budget crisis has dropped plans to merge

city and county animal control, as a merger

might hurt service without saving money.

The Agricultural Subcommittee

of the Maine legislature has unanimously

killed as impractical a bill to institute

statewide cat licensing.

Washington state senator Scott

Barr’s bill (SB 5832) to force pounds and

shelters to surrender animals to research lab-

oratories recently cleared the state senate

agriculture committee 6-0. The committee is

headed by Marilyn Rasmussen, who is

author of another bill, SB 5532, that would

strip humane societies of the power to

enforce anti-cruelty laws, and exempt dog

and cat breeders, circuses, zoos, aquariums,

Can we outlaw pet overpopulation?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

SACRAMENTO, California –– Neuter your cat

or else!

In legal language, “An owner of a cat over the age

of six months shall have the cat sterilized by a veterinarian if

the cat is permitted outdoors without supervision.”

As drafted, California state assembly bill AB 302

admits no exceptions. Introduced in early February by

assemblyman Paul Horcher, AB 302 sounds like a shelter

worker’s dream––but may be mainly symbolic, since it

includes neither an enforcement mechanism nor specific

penalties for disobedience. Due to the difficulty of identify-

ing cats, some legal experts believe it could never be

enforced without instituting a universal statewide system of

cat licensing, something never before attempted on any

comparable scale, and almost certain to be opposed by

many cat-keepers.

Fixing a cat on the air

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

Alan Givotovsky, DVM, of Vachon Island, Washington, says he isn’t sure

whether he’d again perform a neutering operation on live radio. On February 3, Givotovsky

neutered a tomcat in the studio of KISW-Seattle during the early morning drive time to pro-

mote neutering, while disk jockey Bob Rivers supplied commentary and took calls from lis-

teners.

“Field surgery most of the time is pretty clean,” Givotovsky told ANIMAL PEO-

PLE, “but people were anxious because we weren’t in a clinic.” In fact, Givotovsky got up

at four a.m. to pack up and take along just about all the equipment he’d normally have had at

his clinic. The operation took 45 minutes, Givotovsky said, because of the preliminary

introduction, the time required to anesthetize the cat, and interruptions for songs, advertis-

ing, and the news.

ANIMAL HEALTH

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

Massachusetts SPCA veterinari-

ans Michael G. Aronsohn and Alicia M.

Faggella recently published protocols for

anesthetizing and neutering 6-to-14-week-

old kittens in the Journal of the American

Veterinary Medical Association, vol. 202,

#1, pp. 53-62.

The USDA announced April 1

that from now on it will require environ-

mental impact statements filed in connec-

tion with animal disease eradication activi-

ties to include identification of any pesti-

cides that might be used; any chemicals

used for sanitation; and a protocol for dis-

posing of carcasses and contaminated

manure and debris.

Is the ASPCA a dog-in-the-manger? by Garo Alexanian

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

Last month’s historic announcement from the

American SPCA that it would no longer bid for the $4.5

million contract for operating a pet-killing facility for the

City of New York was apparently motivated by the intro-

duction of Assembly Bill 5376A just three weeks prior.

This bill would finally bring New York City’s

counties (boroughs) parity with all the other counties in the

state with respect to the formation of county-wide Societies

for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Whereas almost

all other counties in the state have the right to have their

own county-wide SPCA, the boroughs of Manhattan,

Queens, Staten Island, and Brooklyn are prohibited from

so doing by state law. An SPCA is basically a volunteer

police force for animals. Functional SPCAs are essential to

shape the public’s attitude, behavior, and compliance with

responsible pet ownership laws. SPCAs help determine

which animal crimes get investigated and prosecuted, and

more importantly, w h o gets prosecuted. If it chose to, a

borough SPCA might bid on any or all of the $4.5 million

contract the ASPCA has relinquished.

An open letter to the ASPCA and New York City legislators by Elizabeth Forel

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

The American SPCA’s recent decision to get out of the

business of killing homeless cats and dogs leaves many

unanswered questions. The killing will continue, only

now it may done behind doors closed even more tightly

than before, since the New York City government will

most likely but not willingly assume the responsibility.

New York City could become the biggest, most horren-

dous slaughterhouse dog pound in the nation.

Will the ASPCA don white gloves and join with

every other shelter and humane society in the greater met –

ropolitan area, calling themselves a “no kill” shelter but

closing their eyes to the continuing slaughter of precious

healthy animals whose only crime was homelessness? Or

will the ASPCA accept the moral and ethical imperative

and speak out loudly and effectively against the slaughter,

using their newly released energy and financial strength to

educate relentlessly against the obscenity of breeding and

killing? Their past record does not offer much hope.

ANIMAL PEOPLE CRACKS CASE: USDA halts sales of Canadian dogs and cats to U.S. labs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

WASHINGTON D.C.––Confirming leads gathered by ANIMAL PEO-

PLE editor Merritt Clifton during a 13-year probe, the U.S. Department of

Agriculture in mid-April sealed the Canadian border to imports of dogs and cats for

laboratory use. All Class B animal dealers known to have imported dogs and cats

from Canada were advised in writing that such animals cannot be certified as to ori-

gin in compliance with the Animal Welfare Act.

As many as 2,000 dogs and 6,000 cats have been imported from Canada

each year for resale by Class B dealers. Most come from privately operated pounds

that hold municipal animal control contracts––the majority in Quebec. Rural auc-

tions are another significant source, and still other dogs and cats are stolen.

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