COURT CALENDAR

March 1, 1995 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1995:

Humane enforcement

The Alabama Office of the Attorney

General’s probe of the affairs of the Love and Care

for God’s Animalife no-kill shelter in Andalusia,

Alabama, was apparently lost in the shuffle when

newly elected Republican attorney general Jeff

Sessions purged the staff of Democrats, including

Greg Locklier of the consumer affairs division, who

had been assigned to the case. A “Mr. Billings” pur-

portedly inherited the dossier, but failed to return

calls pertaining to it.

The SWAT team in East Cleveland,

Ohio, on January 10 killed a Rottweiler and skirted

a pit bull terrier plus numerous snakes, baby alliga-

tors, tarantulas, and lizards while arresting Savalas

Crosby, 19, and Shawntel Gibson, 21, in connec-

tion with a December 29 drive-by shooting. Police

commander Charles Teel said the animals were

apparently being raised for sale to drug dealers as

“protection.”

What’s with the guns?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1995:

LOS ANGELES––A series of exposes of alleged

misconduct by California humane officers by Josh Meyer

of the Los Angeles Times is bringing calls for reform of the

system of appointing officers, but Barbara Fabricant of

the Humane Task Force, a target of the series, claims

Meyer almost completely inverted her position on one of

the central issues, the right to bear sidearms. Belatedly

responding to ANIMAL PEOPLE’s request for comment

on Meyer’s story, published in November, Fabricant

explained that she’d been so shocked and embarrassed at

her depiction as a gun-toting vigilante that she didn’t even

want to face her friends for some weeks. The full-page

article, illustrated with a photo of Fabricant in full uni-

form, six-gun at her hip, recorded her many clashes with

other humane organizations, and made much of her admit-

tedly colorful background, but failed to acknowledge that

she wore the gun and uniform only at the request of Meyer

and his photographer.

Religion & Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1995:

Dewey Bruce Hale, 40, of

Enigma, Georgia, on January 18

became the 74th confirmed rattlesnake

bite fatality since Pentacostal churches

took up snakehandling as a test of faith,

derived from Mark 16, “In my name

they shall take up serpents,” and Luke

10: “I give unto you power to tread on

serpents and scorpions.” The snakehan-

dling ceremonies are legal only in

Georgia and West Virginia.

The animist tradition of sac-

rificing a beast “to notify the ancestors”

upon occupying a new home has created

new tensions in South Africa as black

families move into formerly all-white

communities. Often called, the SPCA

of South Africa is unable to intervene

because the sacrifices are legal under

laws guaranteeing religious freedom.

AGRICULTURE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1995:

Livestock show judge Lynn

Holley, 42, of Bowling Green, Ohio, was

indicted December 22 along with Dallas

Miller, 42, also of Bowling Green, and

Gregory Garmyn, 41, of Hicksville, for

allegedly trafficking in clenbuterol, a banned

steroid. The drug is illegally used as a growth

stimulant for veal calves and a performance

booster for both human and equine athletes.

Residues in meat can cause illness and even

death. Holley was caught when Ohio

Department of Agriculture investigators dis-

covered at slaughter that vegetable oil had

been injected into the rump of his son Mike’s

steer, named grand champion at last year’s

Wood County Fair. The oil enhanced the

steer’s appearance but violated pure food laws

and the rules of fair exhibition. Looking far-

ther, the ODA found that eight award-win-

ning animals in the junior livestock division

at the Ohio State Fair had been tampered

with––three by injections of vegetable oil,

two with clenbuterol treatments, and three

with both substances.

Wildlife & People

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1995:

A hungry hippopotamus,

rampaging through rice fields and

upsetting canoes in the Selingue dam

district of Mali, was said to have

magical powers in January after elud-

ing vigilantes for more than a month.

Alaska Department of

Fish and Game officers shot a

mama moose because of “ill disposi-

tion” on January 14 at the University

of Alaska campus in Anchorage, after

she tried to kick professor Bruce

Kappes as he sprinted to class. A few

days earlier the moose fatally stomped

Myung Chin Ra, 71, when he tried to

pass her to enter a building.

Beaver-bashing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1995:

ALBANY, N.Y.––The New York

Department of Environmental Conservation

plans to ease beaver trapping rules in

Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties, per-

haps as early as March. The beaver trapping

season officially ends April 16, but in the

two-county “nuisance zone” landowners

will be allowed to trap beaver year-round

without a permit; will be allowed to use

cable snares, which are cheaper and there-

fore easier to place in large numbers as well

as more easily replaced if they get lost; may

set traps on dens, rather than at least five

feet away; and will be allowed to bait

beavers to specific areas before setting traps.

Animals in laboratories

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1995:

The USDA hopes to soon replace the present system of

classifying animal dealers, Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service officer Steve Smith told ANIMAL PEOPLE on January 3.

All commercial animal breeders other than farmers now receive Class

A permits; those who sell animals they do not breed themselves are

issued Class B permits. A common misperception is that “Class B

dealer” is synonymous with shadowy characters who sell stolen pets to

laboratories, but in fact about three-fourths of the 1,280 current Class

B permit holders are in the pet trade; no more than 75, according to

Smith, sell dogs and cats to labs, and of those, fewer still sell “ran-

dom source” animals. Under the anticipated regulatory amendment,

there will be nine different permit categories, each of which is specific

to the nature of the permit-holder’s business.

Anti-vealer killed: BRITISH SOBERED AFTER NEAR STREET-WAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1995:

COVENTRY, United Kingdom––Two months of protest against the export of

calves from Britain to the European continent has so far claimed six human lives––two

British animal handlers and three Algerian crew members aboard a chartered Air Algerie

Boeing 737 that crashed December 21 while returning from The Netherlands, plus protester

Jill Phipps, 31, crushed beneath a cattle truck on February 1 at the feet of her mother Nancy

and her close friend Gill Gates.

“She was obviously in immense agony, but she did not scream,” said Gates. “I

don’t think she could. The silence was worse than if she had been crying.”

Phipps was among 30 to 40 demonstrators who tried to block delivery of 97 veal

calves to a Russian plane chartered by the Coventry-based firm Phoenix Aviation for an

evening flight to Amsterdam. British cattle breeders turned to sending calves by air last year,

COURT CALENDAR

January 1, 1995 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

Humane enforcement

Charro rodeo horse trainer Jesus

Quinonez, 24, pleaded not guilty to two misde-

meanor cruelty counts on December 7 in Denver.

Quinonez allegedly beat a 2-year-old horse with a

board on October 10. By October 14 the horse was

partially paralyzed, ostensibly from an accident, and

Quinonez kicked and punched him for not getting up.

The case has drawn national attention through a mail-

ing by Animal Rights Mobilization.

Officials in San Bruno, California, on

December 8 asked San Mateo County Superior Court

to apply a law usually used to make property owners

maintain debris-strewn land to alleged animal collec-

tor Ruth Harris, 71, who has repeatedly violated a

court order to obey the city limit of four cats per

household since 1991. More than 100 diseased cats

have been removed from Harris’ feces-saturated

home in four separate raids. To be heard January 6,

the motion if granted will bar Harris from owning

any cats and will allow authorities to spot-check the

house at random to insure compliance.

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