N.Y. sues Angel’s Gate

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2012: (Actually published on November 1, 2012.)

ALBANY–New York state attorney general Eric Scheiderman on September 26, 2012 filed a lawsuit seeking the dissolution of the Angel’s Gate animal hospice in Delhi, New York, for allegedly failing to file accountability reports since 2008. Moving to rural Delhi from Long Island after being fined $800 for noise violations in 2007, Angel’s Gate founder Sue Marino was in May 2012 charged with 22 cruelty counts, as a result of a PETA probe which followed visits and warnings from at least three other animal charities since 2009.

Irish pols protect hare coursing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2012: (Actually published on November 1, 2012.)

MULLINGAR, Ireland--The Irish Council Against Blood Sports welcomed recent announcements by Jimmy Deenihan, minister for arts, heritage, and the Gaeltacht, that he would ban hunting curlews and Kerry red deer.

The council warned, however, that Deenihan’s July 2012 suggestion that he might also ban shooting hares “is believed not to be to save hares from being shot to death but rather to help make it easier for coursers to find hares for their blood sport. Earlier this year,” the Irish Council Against Blood Sports reminded, “pro-coursing Deenihan pledged to coursers, ‘Whatever I can do for coursing while I am in this job, I will certainly do it.'” Read more

Humane community stops Alabama vets from blocking low-cost s/n

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2012: (Actually published on November 1, 2012.)

MONTGOMERY--The Alabama Veterinary Medical Examiners Board on October 10, 2012 unanimously rejected a rule proposed by the Alabama Veterinary Practice Owners Association which could have closed all four nonprofit dog and cat sterilization clinics in the state.

California bans hunting black bears and bobcats with hounds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2012: (Actually published on November 1, 2012.)

SACRAMENTO–California Governor Jerry Brown on September 26, 2012 signed into law SB 1221, a bill banning the use of hounds to hunt black bears and bobcats. The new California law came amid increasing recognition that hunting with hounds is more like dogfighting and the medieval practice of “baiting” tethered animals than it resembles hunting with weapons which can effect a quick kill. There are few quick kills when dogs chase wildlife, often for hours, in hunts that often culminate in the prey making a frantic last stand against the pursuing dogs. Read more

Lawsuit says spotlighting coyotes puts endangered red wolves at risk

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2012: (Actually published on November 1, 2012.)

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-The Southern Environmental Law Center, representing Defenders of Wildlife, the Animal Welfare Institute, and the Red Wolf Coalition, on October 23, 2012 asked Wake County Superior Court to issue a preliminary injunction against spotlight coyote hunting in North Carolina. A hearing was expected to be held after ANIMAL PEOPLE went to press on October 30, with a ruling possibly coming later in the week. Read more

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson jumps bail

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012:

TOKYO--The international police agency Interpol on September 16, 2012 at Japan’s request asked for the cooperation of member nations in arresting Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson. The Interpol “red” notice superseded an earlier “blue” notice which only sought information about Watson’s whereabouts. Read more

Walking horse shows are watched more closely than some would like

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012:

CHATTANOOGA–U.S. District Judge Harry S. Mattice on September 19, 2012 fined Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration Hall of Fame trainer Jackie McConnell $75,000, three years on supervised probation, and 300 hours of community service to be done for the USDA.

“It’s the stiffest sentence ever handed down under the 1970 Horse Protection Act,” exulted Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne Pacelle. “McConnell in 2011 was captured on tape by a Humane Society of the U.S. undercover investigator intentionally injuring the animals under his charge in order to get them to step higher and win ribbons at horse shows,” Pacelle elaborated. “McConnell still faces 15 charges of violating Tennessee’s cruelty to animals statute in a pending case, and his guilty plea in federal court virtually guarantees the charges will stick.” Read more

New Pennsylvania dog law chief is Michael Pechert

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012:

Michael Pechert, previously Pennsylvania executive deputy secretary for agriculture, on July 31, 2012 succeeded Lynn Diehl as director of the Pennsylvania Dog Law Enforcement Office. Philadelphia Inquirer animal beat blogger Amy Worden described Diehl, a former bank manager, as “a Republican Party volunteer who had no prior experience in animal welfare or law enforcement.” Read more

Butterball Conviction

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012:

Former Butterball employee Brian Douglas, one of five people shown abusing turkeys seen in undercover video footage obtained by Mercy For Animals in late 2011, pleaded guilty felonious cruelty to animals in Hoke County Superior Court in Raeford, North Carolina on August 28, 2012. Douglas was sentenced to serve 30 days in jail followed by six months of probation and 36 months of supervised probation, to pay $550 in fines, and to provide a DNA sample to the state. “Cases against the four other people charged are pending,” reported Fayetteville Observer staff writer Caitlin Dineen.

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