Category: North America

Bell Canada not funding centennial Stampede rodeo

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2012:

Bell Canada not funding centennial Stampede rodeo

CALGARY, RENO–-Bell Canada spokesperson Jacqueline Michelis on July 3, 2012 confirmed to Lauren Krugel of Canadian Press that the telecommunications company will not sponsor Calgary Stampede rodeo events. The 100th anniversary running of Calgary Stampede was to be held July 6-13, 2012.

“We have decided to focus on the entertainment part of the Stampede,” Michelis said. Bell Canada continued to sponsor non-rodeo Stampede events, including free live entertainment at the newly opened Bell Centennial Plaza on the Stampede grounds. Read more

Georgia Aquarium applies to import 18 wild-caught belugas–who would be first to reach the U.S. in 20 years

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2012:

Georgia Aquarium applies to import 18 wild-caught belugas–who would be first to reach the U.S. in 20 years

ATLANTA-The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta has applied for a federal permit to import 18 beluga whales from the Sea of Okhotsk in eastern Russia. They could be the first belugas to be captured in the wild and brought to the U.S. for exhibition since 1992, when the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago imported four from the vicinity of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Read more

Houndsmen are convicted by video in Maine & worried in Indiana

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2012:

Houndsmen are convicted by video in Maine & worried in Indiana

BELFAST,  Maine;  LINTON,  Indiana–A Superior Court jury in Waldo County,  Maine on April 23,  2012 deliberated for less than an hour before convicting Randall Carl of Knox,  46,  of aggravated cruelty for setting four bluetick coonhounds on an illegally trapped and tethered bobcat in February 2009.  The bobcat was killed.     Read more

Fire kills 500,000 hens

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2012:

Fire kills 500,000 hens

 ROGGEN,  Colorado–An April 30,  2012 fire at the Boulder
Valley Poultry egg farm razed three of the 10 barns at the facility,
killing nearly half a million of the one million resident hens.  Fire
crews from Wiggins,  Hudson,  and Fort Lupton fought the blaze,
which attracted a large crowd,  including an  unidentified lone
demonstrator who stood with a sign reading “Save the Chickens,”
reported Sharon Dunn of the Greeley Tribune.

How Arizona ranchers won a partial exemption from cruelty laws

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2012:

How Arizona ranchers won a partial exemption from cruelty laws
by Debra J. White

Under the headline “Legislation in the cowboy states,”  the May 2012 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE reported that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer in mid-April endorsed into law a bill by state representative Peggy Judd (R-Wilcox),  HB 2780,  which exempts dogs used in ranching and herding from anti-cruelty laws.  Judd introduced the bill after one of her constituents,  a Cochise County rancher,  was charged for leaving two dogs in a horse trailer for two days without food or water.  Three others were left tied without clean water. Read more

Feral cats not to blame in Southern California murine typhus scare

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2012:

Feral cats not to blame in Southern California murine typhus scare

 

SANTA ANA,  California–Fear of “Typhus moggie”  appeared to be receding in Orange County,  California by June 1,  2012,  just a few days after emerging,  but anti-neuter/return bloggers had already amplified misleading claims far and wide about an alleged link of feral cats to murine typhus.
In truth there was no cause to associate either of two cases of murine typhus occurring three months apart with feral cats.
Murine typhus is a rare flea-borne disease,  easily cured by antibiotics,  which is entirely unrelated to typhoid fever,  the once common and often deadly disease of which “Typhoid Mary” Mallon, 1869-1938,  was the first known immune carrier. Read more

Top non-breed-specific insurer pays record sum to settle dog bite claims in 2011

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2012:

Top non-breed-specific insurer pays record sum to settle dog bite claims in 2011

LOS ANGELES–State Farm Insurance,  believed to be the largest U.S. home insurer that does not enforce breed-specific restrictions on what dogs it will cover,  in 2011 paid 9% more dog bite claims than in 2010,  and paid out 21% more money to settle the claims,  spokesperson Eddie Martinez told media on May 16,  2012.

State Farm in 2011 paid out $109 million to settle 3,800 dog bite claims nationwide,  up from $90 million paid out in 2010 to settle about 3,500 dog bite claims,  Martinez disclosed.  The Insurance Information Institute estimated that all U.S. home insurers combined paid out nearly $479 million to settle dog bite claims in 2011,  spokesperson Loretta Worters told Sue Manning of Associated Press–a 16% increase from $413 million in 2010. Read more

Exotic cat exhibitor Joe Schreibvogel responds to HSUS exposé with threat of "a small Waco" if cats are confiscated

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2012:

Exotic cat exhibitor Joe Schreibvogel responds to HSUS exposé with threat of “a small Waco” if cats are confiscated

Wynnewood, Oklahoma–– National television broadcasts on May 16,  2012 featured longtime traveling tiger exhibitor Joe Schreibvogel and his GW Exotic Animal Park at Wynnewood in central Oklahoma,  but the self-described “Joe Exotic” probably did not enjoy the spotlight.

“With Congress and the state of Ohio considering bills to restrict private ownership of dangerous exotic animals,  CBS This Morning broke news of another Humane Society of the U.S. undercover investigation,”  blogged HSUS president Wayne Pacelle,  describing Schreibvogel as “perhaps the largest private owner of tigers in the nation.” Read more

USDA-APHIS to regulate online pet breeders

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2012:

USDA-APHIS to regulate online pet breeders

    RIVERDALE,  Maryland–The USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service on May 16,  2012 proposed “to revise the definition of retail pet store and related regulations to bring more pet animals sold at retail under the protection of the Animal Welfare Act.  Specifically,”  USDA-APHIS stated in the Federal Register,  “we would narrow the  definition of retail pet store so that it means a place of business or residence that each buyer physically enters in order to personally observe the animals available for sale prior to purchase and/or to take custody of the animals after purchase,  and where only certain animals are sold or offered for sale, at retail, for use as pets. Retail pet stores are not required to be licensed and inspected under the AWA.”  Publication of the proposed change opened a 30-day comment period. Read more

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