CRIME & PUNISHMENT

November 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Crimes Against Animals

Alleged pet thieves David Harold

Stephens, Tracy Lynn Stephens, and Brenda

Arlene Linville were scheduled for trial

November 2 in Eugene, Oregon, on charges

that they obtained dogs and cats by promising

to find them good homes and then sold them

for use in biomedical research. Customers

included Oregon Health Sciences University,

Oregon State University, the University of

Nevada at Reno, and the Cedars-Sinai

Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.

Originally charged under state legislation, the

trio were recharged under the Animal Welfare

Act after sheriff’s deputies and state and fed-

eral agents raided their kennels. Their

activites were brought to the attention of the

various authorities via detective work by

Bobbie Michaels of Committed to Animal

Protection, Education, and Rescue, a

Portland-based activist group.

ANIMAL CONTROL & RESCUE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Citing fear of liability if they

should inadvertantly euthanize a pet, under

a new state law directed at pet thieves, the

Oregon Humane Society and Multnomah

County Animal Control now refuse to

accept cats brought to them by private citi-

zens and independent groups who trap ferals

and strays. The Portland-based group

Committed to Animal Protection,

Education, and Rescue charges, however,

that fundraising tactics are involved.

CAPER cites a letter from OHS staffer

Sharon Harmon, who wrote, “Despite the

services provided by OHS (to cats brought

in by independent rescuers), we received no

cash donations for their care. If we had

made contact with the owner or finder at the

time of surrender, by modest estimation, we

could have potentially realized $18,000 in

donations.”

Fur

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

* Fur Free Friday will be November 27

this year—the day after Thanksgiving, the

traditional start of the peak fur sales season.

Friends of Animals and Animal Rights

Mobilization are coordinating events in

numerous locations. Get details from FoA at

212-247-8120, and from ARM at 303-388-

7120.

* The Committee of Jews for

Compassion is taking out a series of full-page

ads in Jewish newspapers to publicize Tel

Aviv chief Sephardic rabbi Haim David

Halevi’s recent ruling that Jewish law forbids

manufacturing or wearing fur because it for-

bids causing pain to animals. Write CJC c/o

CHAI, P.O. Box 3341, Alexandria, VA

22302.

Agriculture

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

October 2 was the 10th anniver-

sary of World Farm Animals Day, declared

in 1983 by the Farm Animal Reform

Movement to coincide with Gandhi’s birthday

and World Vegetarian Day. Major commemo-

rations were scheduled in New York, the

Washington D.C. metropolitan area, Iowa,

Florida, California, and Hawaii.

The contribution of cattle to global

warming has significantly increased over the

past three years, along with the world cattle

population, International Union of Air

Pollution Prevention Associations director

general John Langston warned the 800-mem-

ber group in early September.

ANIMAL CONTROL & RESCUE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

* The Sprint telephone service and the

American Humane Association have set up a

nationwide hotline to help reunite lost pets

with their keepers. Reporting a stray is free:

call 1-800-755-8111. To report a lost pet, call

1-900-535-1515. The cost for lost pet calls is

$1.95 per minute, a portion of which is donat-

ed to AHA. The average lost pet report takes

four minutes to complete, according to Sprint.

* Paige Powell and Tama Janowitz of

New York City produce a TV show in cooper-

ation with the animal rescue groups Being

Kind and the Animal Project to promote pet

adoptions. Called It’s A Dog’s Life, the show

airs on channels 16 and 17.

Hunting news

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

Arizonans will vote November 3

on a referendum measure to ban

trapping, portrayed by the National Rifle

Assn. and National Trappers Assn. as an

attempt to ban all hunting and fishing as

well. The initiative is sponsored, however,

by Arizonans for Safety and Humanity on

Public Lands, whose initial board of direc-

tors included a hunter and a gun dealer. The

group declined funding from the Humane

Society of the U.S. to avoid confusing the

issues.

Guest Column: Violence and hatred won’t stop the pigeon shoot by Marjorie Spiegel

October 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

The string is pulled. The lid of the box opens,

and a bird flutters a few feet up into the air and is imme-

diately shot once, twice. If it is a clean shot, the bird

lies motionless. The crowd cheers. “That one’s dust,”

says a spectator. If the shooter is less accurate, we see

one wing, perhaps, twitching in the air, or a bird strug-

gling on the field. Boys in yellow shirts run to the birds,

throw a body in the bag, twist a neck, then into the same

bag. Sometimes a commotion: someone has made it

onto the field. She is pursued, yet reaches the string

lines or the boxes. The lids open, and eight or so pigeons

fly off to freedom, the most beautiful sight on a day

filled with much to be sorry for.

That is the essence of the Labor Day pigeon

shoot in Hegins, Pennsylvania: some people wish to use

these pigeons for target practice, and others wish to see

this ended and to let the pigeons go free.

KKK defends pigeon shoot; 2,000 protest Labor Day bird massacre but 5,000 support it. Time for new tactics?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

HEGINS, PENNSYLVANIA — A pigeon hit point-blank by a shotgun blast looks

like a spreadeagled angel for just a split second, until the pellets tear her white breast and wings

to pieces and she flaps to the ground, awaiting the trapper boys who will wring her head off.

Wounded angels to some, doves of peace to others, and flying rats according to the

human participants, 5,000 to 7,000 pigeons are shotgunned each Labor Day at the Fred Coleman

Memorial Pigeon Shoot in Hegins, Pennsylvania. Held annually since 1934, the shoot was

reputedly dying of disinterest a half century later; but no more. Two thousand protesters turned

out this year, nearly double last year’s then-record number. Lured by the chance to heckle, be

on TV, and maybe see someone get killed dashing in front of the guns to save pigeons, the

crowd of shoot supporters doubled as well, to an estimated 5,000. Among them were several

motorcycle gangs and two robed and hooded Ku Klux Klan members from Ephrata, Penn., who

explained that they saw the event as a good chance to recruit.

Why They Can Hunt On Your Land–and what you can do about it!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

Posted your land yet?

If you’re among the 56 million Americans who

live in a nonmetropolitan area, chances are that you

have, long since. If you didn’t, but value your safety

and security, you’d better hop to it, because if you

don’t, your chances of getting the law to respond to

reports of armed intruders may be mighty slim from the

end of summer until after Christmas. Fall, according to

state and federal wildlife agencies, is hunting season, or

rather a succession of hunting seasons: small game,

dove, waterfowl, turkey, grouse and pheasant, archery,

muzzleloader, deer, bear, and a variety of others

depending upon what’s left alive in your neck of the

woods. Anyone with a rifle or shotgun, especially if

carrying a big knife as well and dressed in camouflage,

is presumed to be hunting legally until there are dead

human bodies–unless the land is posted.

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