Category: North America

What 35 bus-riding activists did and didn’t do on their summer vacation

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

WASHINGTON D.C.––The 1999
Primate Freedom Tour ended quietly on
September 4, in cold rain resulting from
Hurricane Dennis. About 200 people attended a
rally, and three activists were arrested for
unfurling a banner from scaffolding set up by a
repair crew at the Washington Monument.
Starting from the Washington
Regional Primate Research Center in Seattle on
June 1, the Freedom Tour won more media
attention to primates in laboratories than any
other event or campaign since 1985, when the
Animal Welfare Act was amended to require
labs to provide for the “psychological wellbeing”
of dogs and primates.

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Dog labs cancelled

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

Effective with the start of fall
classes, the University of Missouri at
Columbia is no longer holding dog dissection
exercises to teach medical students
about drug effects on the cardiovascular
system, and the University of
Medicine and Dentistry of New
Jersey/Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School at New Brunswick has ceased
using dogs––or any live animals––to
teach physiology.
Both universities said their
much-protested dog labs were abandoned
because using computers was
more cost-efficient.
The UMD-NJ campuses at
Newark and Stratford quit using live animals
to teach physiology some time ago,
said spokesperson Stuart Goldstein.

BLOODLUST THWARTED

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

FLAGSTAFF, ALBANY, HEGINS,
LONDON––Acknowledging that the
public no longer tolerates thrill-killing, even
thinly disguised, the Arizona Game and Fish
Commission on September 11 voted 3-2 for a
new state regulation stating, “A person or
group shall not participate in, promote, or
solicit participation in any organized hunting
contest for killing predatory animals, fur-bearing
animals, or nongame mammals.”
The newly adopted ban on mammalkilling
contests evolved from outrage erupting
in early 1998 over a “Predator Hunt Extreme”
promoted by two hunters who wanted to knock
down populations of pumas, coyotes, foxes,
and bobcats so as to have less competition in
killing deer and pronghorn.

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The kids are all right––but Angell’s legacy isn’t

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

Tucker, a German shorthair/Labrador mix, had
already been swept backward 400 yards despite his desperate
dog-paddling against the snowmelt-swollen Wesserunsett
Stream in Skowhegan, Maine. He was 300 yards from being
swept over an old mill dam to probable death on February 28
when 11-year-old Karla Pierce saw him.
Her parents, Kim and Ralph Pierce, watched from
the opposite bank in terror as Karla hooked her feet on shrubbery,
leaned down a slick slope, and pulled Tucker to safety.
“I first tried to grab his stomach but it didn’t work,”
she said. “So I grabbed his paws. He started yelping, but there
was no other way.”

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Court calendar

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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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ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL, RESCUE, AND ALTERNATIVES TO KILLING

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1999:

Management
Indianapolis police lieutenant
John H. Walton on August 2 took over as
director of the city Animal Control Division.
Lieutenant Spencer Moore, director since
1993, was reassigned at his own request to
Youth Services. Public safety director Alan
Handt, M.D., said the shifts were “unrelated
to recent complaints” about shelter operations
aired in June by the Indianapolis Star News.
Walton, wrote Star News reporter Bonnie
Harris, “comes to his new position with no
animal control experience. Walton ran into
difficulties in 1995, when he was charged
with raping a female acquaintance. A jury
acquitted him in April 1996; however, the
Indianapolis Civilian Police Merit Board
found Walton had violated departmental rules
in connection with the incident. As a result,
he was suspended for two months and demoted
to sergeant,” winning promotion back to lieutenant
just before his reassignment.

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CVMA to fix 60,000 feral cats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1999:

ALAMEDA, California––Maddie’s Fund, the $200 million
foundation formed by PeopleSoft founders Dave and Cheryl Duffield to
promote no-kill animal control, on August 2 announced a grant of $3.2 million
to the California Veterinary Medical Association, “to spay or neuter
60,000 additional feral cats in California” above and beyond the number
altered in 1998.
“The first phase of the project begins today,” a joint release
issued by Maddie’s Fund and the CVMA stated. “The CVMA anticipates it
will complete all three phases by June 2002.”
Participating veterinarians are to receive $50 per surgery.
Administrative costs are estimated at $70,000 per year.
Feral cats are defined as those who “generally do not voluntarily
accept handling by humans, and are ‘feral, independent wildlife’ or ‘feral,
interdependent free-roaming/unowned,’” as described by longtime Cat
Fanciers Association board member Joan Miller in a 1993 article for the
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

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THEY CAN’T SAVE LIVES ON SUNSHINE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1999:

FLORIDA––Monroe County on July 8 turned
over management of the Key West and Marathon animal
shelters to the Florida Keys SPCA––and cut the county
animal control budget by 10%.
Despite the cut, Florida Keys SPCA president
Gwen Hawtof was reportedly optimistic that animal care
would improve and shelter killing decrease. The
Humane Animal Care Coalition has already made similar
progress after taking over the Key Largo shelter in
1998, HACC president Tom Garretson told M i a m i
Herald staff writer Hancy Klingener.
But even before the reported “worst parvovirus
outbreak in memory” hit Orange County Animal
Services in Orlando, it was a hard month for many
other Florida humane institutions.

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HSUS wrings hands over regulatory failure

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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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