From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

TORONTO–The Toronto Humane Society will not regain the
city pound contract that it lost in April 2000, Toronto health board
chair Joe Mihevic told Brad Honeywill of the Toronto Sun on November
14, even if the THS members did just vote out of office the
directors responsible for losing the contract.
While many humane societies are voluntarily getting out of
animal control to focus on humane law enforcement and fighting pet
overpopulation, the decision to leave animal control was essentially
forced upon THS after former board president Jeannie Butler demanded
that Toronto pay THS at a “break-even” level for impounding and
either adopting out or killing feral and stray dogs and cats.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
KANSAS CITY, Mo.–National Society for the Protection of
Animals president Barbara DeGraeve, 55, was charged on October 10
with cruelty, failure to vaccinate, failing to provide adequate
shelter to as many as 60 cats, and letting a dog be a nuisance.
Told by police to obtain veterinary care for several cats who
were sneezing, with runny noses and eyes, “DeGraeve hired a
veterinarian to take care of the sick cats,” Kansas City Star
reporters Richard Espinoza and Brad Cooper wrote, “and people who
said they were NSPA volunteers began taking away the healthy cats,
Kansas City animal control supervisor Ted O’Dell said.”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

Pressured for a decade by the Animal Rights Coalition,
helped in recent months by visits from the SHARK “Tiger” video truck,
the Animal Humane Society in Golden Valley, Minnesota, is to
discontinue using two gas chambers to kill animals, and effective in
October 2001 will instead use injections of sodium pentobarbital,
board president Sharon Decker announced on August 28. Board member
Wayne Popham told Dan Wascoe Jr. of the Minneapolis Star Tribune that
he thought the pivotal protest tactic was publishing board members’
names, addresses, and telephone numbers in a July 10 ad placed by
ARC in the Lakeshore Weekly News, enabling readers to voice their
feelings. Handling about 20,000 animals per year, killing about
40%, AHS was among the largest nongovernmental shelters in the U.S.
still using gas. The switch to injections encouraged similar efforts
by activists trying to stop the use of gas at the city shelters in
St. Joseph, Missouri, and Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada.

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