From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1999:

Ray County, Missouri, prosecutor
Stanley Thompson, who reputedly once
explained his failure to pursue a cruelty case by
telling a local newspaper, “I don’t do dogs,”
on July 14 charged regional Horse Aid representatives
Becky Burns and Angela Williams
with second-degree burglary and four counts of
felony horse theft. Burns and Williams were
arrested and jailed incommunicado for 20
hours, HorseAid cofounder Enzo Giobe told
ANIMAL PEOPLE, after attempting to
recover three ponies who were allegedly being
neglected and mistreated, including a stallion
who had not been gelded, in evident violation
of adoptor Floyd Stokes’ contract with
HorseAid. Under the contract, HorseAid
retains the right to reclaim animals at any time
if adoption conditions are not met, and the
adoptor waives the right to ever sell the animals.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1999:

WASHINGTON D.C.––“In an
unfortunate decision for animals whose care
falls under the auspices of the USDA, the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
has removed the requirement [in proposed
new Animal Welfare Act enforcement regula –
tions] that solid resting surfaces be provided
for all animals kept in commercial breeding
facilities,” lamented assistant editor Scott
Kirkwood in the July/August 1999 edition of
Animal Sheltering.
Animal Sheltering is a publication
of the Humane Society of the U.S. ––and
Kirkwood either didn’t know or just didn’t
mention the background to the failed proposed
requirement, detailed in the September
1995 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE.

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