St. Francis Day in Lithuania

January 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

VILNIUS, Lithuania– Dr. Albina Aniuliene, who revived the
Lithuanian Society for the Protection of Animals in 1991 after a
decades-long hiatus, and U.S.-educated Ben Noreikis, DVM, of
Kauna, believe animal advocates in a small nation should think big.
Lithuania has approximately the same human population as
Chicago. Therefore, Noreikis told ANIMAL PEOPLE, they reasoned
that if they could organize an event that if done in Chicago would
warrant TV coverage, in Lithuania it could become a national
celebration.
With the help of State Food and Veterinary Service chief Dr.
Kazimieras Lukauskas, Aniuliene and Noreikis proclaimed St. Francis
of Assisi Day, October 4, to be Compassion Day in Lithuania.
“On this day,” they declared, “animals are not to be
slaughtered, loaded, or transported to be killed, hunted, fished,
experimented upon, nor euthanized at shelters unless deemed
necessary by a physician or veterinarian” to relieve incurable pain.
“Draft horses, circus animals, and other working animals
are to be given a day of rest,” they added.

Croatian actor slams fur

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

ZAGREB, Croatia-Born in Sibenik, Croatia, actor Goran
Visnjic posed with his dog for anti-fur billboards posted in Zagreb
and Split on January 3 by Animal Friends Croatia and PETA.
“Civilization is advancing but some people are going
backward,” said Visnjic of fur-wearers. Visnjic has played the
immigrant doctor “Luka Kovac” on the NBC drama ER since 1999.
PETA spokesperson Michael McGraw described the billboard
campaign as the first PETA anti-fur effort in eastern Europe, but
two PETA staffers and a volunteer from the Russian office of
Greenpeace stripped in 1991 for a brief anti-fur protest in Moscow.
Like other nude anti-fur protests outside the U.S., including a
first-ever nude protest in Beijing in October 2002, that effort may
have attracted more attention in U.S. and British media than where it
occurred.

Attempt to save fighting cattle comes to grief

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

MOSCOW-2003 opened miserably for sisters Lena and Tanja
Marou-eva, who had to tell fellow members of People for
Animals/Russia and their supporters abroad that their August 2001
success in banning bullfights from Moscow had nonetheless ended with
the deaths of all 30 of the imported fighting bulls and cows they
struggled for two years to save.
In the end, they managed to bring just one of the cattle
into sanctuary care. Received in November, while ANMAL PEOPLE was
in Moscow, she was named Dinara, after the late ANIMAL PEOPLE
office cat Dennis the Menace, whose memorial appeared in the
November 2002 edition. A specially built paddock for Dinara was
nearly done when she succumbed to suspected poisoning.

High-energy post-Soviet activists do everything but raise money

January 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

MOSCOW, KIEV, KHARKOV-A sociologist or political scientist
probably could not design a better comparative experiment in starting
an animal advocacy movement than is now underway in Moscow, the
largest city in Russia, and Kiev and Kharkov, the two largest
cities in the Ukraine.
Russia and the Ukraine are neighbors, the most prominent
remnants of the former Soviet Union, sharing parallel history,
ethnicity, and standards of living, and post-Soviet birth rates
that are among the seven lowest in the world, but have active
rivalries dating back more than 1,000 years.
Their ancient kings conquered each other, their forced
alliances held Napoleon and Hitler at bay, and they are now racing
into economic development and social/political westernization at a
breakneck pace.

Greece considers new national animal control law in anticipation of 2004 Olympic furor

January 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

ATHENS-Greek deputy agriculture minister Fotis Hadzimichalis
on December 19, 2002 introduced a proposed national animal control
bill which according to Agence France-Press “would discourage Greeks
from abandoning their animals, while allowing local authorities to
collect, sterilize, and in certain cases kill stray dogs.”
Hadzimichalis told Agence France-Presse that, “This is the
practical answer to those who malignly accused our country of
creating crematoria for strays ahead of the 2004 Olympic Games.”
The proposed law reportedly stipulates that dogs found at
large will be vaccinated, sterilized, held for a reclaim period,
and then be returned to the capture point if deemed healthy and not
dangerous. Those suffering from incurable illness or infirmity and
those considered dangerous will be killed.

Dutch animal welfare measures threatened

December 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2002:

Den Hague–Dutch agriculture minister C.P. Veerman, a
Christian Democrat, on October 9 told Parliament that he intended to
repeal laws adopted by the previous government which would phase out
fur farms over the next 10 years and improve conditions for broiler
hens and laying hens.
The Veerman position was consistent with the platform of the
rightist Lijst Pim Fortuyn party, which won a place in the coalition
government with the Christian Democrats and the Liberals by placing
second in the May 2002 election. The election was held nine days
after Pim Fortuyn himself was allegedly assassinated by a maverick
antifur activist who is now awaiting trial.

Turkey lacks humane fundraising tradition

November 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:

ISTANBUL, Turkey–“Although Perihan Agnelli is only
scratching at the surface of the stray dog problem on the south
coast, she is doing a very good job of self-promotion and of winning
governmental endorsement. She is showing a lot of initiative and
business sense in soliciting donations,” British garment
manufacturer Robert Smith wrote in a September 17 e-mail to the
Society for the Protection of Stray Animals (SHKD), whose Natural
Dog Shelter at the sprawling Kemerburgaz Rubbish Dump Project outside
Istanbul he has sponsored for nearly three years.

Dog trainer Stephen King convicted

October 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

LONDON, U.K.–“Yesterday, August 14, [dog trainer] Stephen
Barry King was found guilty” of two counts of animal abuse, with
separate trials on two similar sets of charges scheduled for
September and October, his former girlfriend Sarah Boat e-mailed to
ANIMAL PEOPLE from London.
Boat and the British online animal advocacy publication Ooze
both reported that British news media were barred from publishing
details of the first verdict, pending completion of the second and
third trials. The cases were heavily publicized earlier.

Free Willy/Keiko swims to Norway

October 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

OSLO–Swimming up to 100 miles a day with pods of 40 to 80
wild orcas, spending 41 consecutive days at sea, Keiko in August
2002 seemed to be a free whale at last –or so said the Humane
Society of the U.S., which took over his care in June 2002, about
six months after the top funder of the former Free Willy/Keiko
Foundation quit the project.
Then Keiko on September 1 swam into Skaalvik Fjord, Norway,
250 miles northwest of Oslo.
“The orca surprised and delighted Norwegians, who petted and
swam with him, and climbed on his back,” reported Doug Mellgren of
Associated Press.

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