Ontario bans spring bear hunt

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

TORONTO, VICTORIA–– Foes
of shooting groggy bears as they awake from
winter hibernation won a round in tough territory
on January 14 when Ontario natural
resources minister John Snobelen announced
a long-sought ban on spring bear hunting.
Snobelen acknowledged that killing
bears in spring had orphaned about 270 bear
cubs per year, few of whom survived.
“We’ve looked at various options
to make sure that bear cubs aren’t orphaned,”
Snobelen said. “The only answer we came
up with was to end the spring bear hunt. It’s
the only acceptable way.”

USDA considers calling birds “animals”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

WASHINGTON D.C.––The USDA
on January 28 announced that it will take
comments until March 29, 1999 on a petition
from United Poultry Concerns to amend the
definition of “animal” in the Animal Welfare
Act enforcement regulations to remove the
current exclusion of birds, rats, and mice.
“A short letter is fine,” commented
UPC founder and president Karen Davis,
“but the important thing is that the USDA
hears from the public that we want birds,
rats, and mice to be included in the AWA
regulations.”
The opening of the comment period
marks the farthest advance yet toward removing
the exclusion, made initially because
animal experimenters claimed the cost of
complying with AWA regulations in handling
birds, rats, and mice would be prohibitive.

Clinton declares war on ferals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

WASHINGTON D.C.—Declaring
war on species not native to the U.S., President
Bill Clinton on February 2 issued an executive
order creating an interagency Invasive Species
Council which within 18 months is to produce a
plan to “mobilize the federal government to
defend against” what Clinton called “aggressive
predators and pests.”
The ISC will be jointly chaired by
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, Commerce
Secretary William Daley, and Agriculture
Secretary Dan Glickman. USDA Wildlife
Services, just eight months after the House of
Representatives briefly voted to rescind more
than a third of its funding, would appear to be
the chief beneficiary of $29 million for invasive
species eradication that Clinton included in his
proposed fiscal year 2000 budget, sent to
Congress in late January.

“I heard a young child scream. I thought he got a deer.”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

Four kinds of hunting stories involving children reach
ANIMAL PEOPLE with tedious regularity: children killed
while hunting; children killing their own fathers, brothers,
mothers, or sisters in hunting accidents; children using hunting
weapons to commit murder; and adult authorities working to
lower the minimum age for hunting.
Among the child and teen victims of legal hunting
during 1998:
Isaac Earl Reynolds, 13, of Paonia, Colorado,
killed on his first hunt by his father Earl A. Reynolds’ accidental
discharge;
Marvin Olausen, 9, of Oriska, North Dakota, killed
by an adult hunter’s stray shot as he sat with his mother in a
pickup truck;

AVANZINO RELEASES DUFFIELD

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

ALAMEDA, Calif.––Former San
Francisco SPCA president Richard Avanzino
on February 25 released grant application
guidelines for the Duffield Family Foundation,
doing business as Maddie’s Fund.
Like Maddie’s Adoption Center, at
the SF/SPCA, Maddie’s Fund exists in
memory of Maddie, the late beloved dog of
computer software magnates Dave and
Cheryl Duffield. Maddie’s Fund was created
with a $200 million endowment for the
specific purpose of helping communities
across the U.S. achieve no-kill control of dog
and cat populations––as San Francisco did
during Avanzino’s tenure at the SF/SPCA.

ANIMAL CONTROL & RESCUE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

According to the January 1999
edition of Veterinary Economics, “ D r .
Richard Fayrer-Hosken, an associate professor
at the University of Georgia College
of Veterinary Medicine, has developed
Spay-Safe, an injectible contraceptive made
from a natural protein found in pig ovaries.
Three shots permanently sterilize a dog without
any known side effects. Spay-Safe is
undergoing FDA evaluation, and the university
has licensed a company to market it pending
approval. Now Dr. Fayrer-Hosken is
developing a dosage for cats.” Fayrer-Hosken
did not answer inquiries from ANIMAL
PEOPLE , however, and other information
reaching us indicates that the University of
Georgia may be involved in litigation with the
Humane Society of the U.S., which apparently
funded some of the research, over ownership
of the marketing rights.

Dogfighting

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

Authorities in New York and
California recently achieved three of the biggest
dogfighting busts on record––but in New
Orleans, more than 50 reports of dogfighting
collected by the New Orleans Anti-Dogfighting
Task Force over the past 18 months reportedly
haven’t brought so much as one arrest.
Task force founder and League In
Support of Animals executive director Jeff
Dorson on February 9, 1999 formally complained
about the inaction to police superintendent
Richard Pennington.
Local high school teacher Anne B.
Churchill supported Dorson’s complaint with
pages of transcripts of classroom conversations
about dogfighting, to show how the nonenforcement
of anti-dogfighting laws affects the
attitudes of young people.

Joint effort aims for no-kill in Albuquerque

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

ALBUQUERQUE––They didn’t
quite offer a Spay Day USA deal to match
Dallas, where PetFixx and The Fund for
Animals paid high school students age 18 and
older $5.00 on February 11 for each dog or cat
they brought in to be altered, or New York,
where The Fund clinic offered a “Neuter
Benny for a Penny” promotion to senior citizens,
welfare recipients, people with disabilities,
and animal rescuers––but the third annual
“Neuter Scooter for a Nickel” day organized
by the People’s Anti-Cruelty Association/
Albuquerque Animal Rescue did unite
Albuquerque Animal Services, New Mexico
Animal Friends, and the Animal Humane
Association in a pilot effort to “help this city
get started on the road to becoming no-kill,”
said PACA/AAR president Jane Long.

People, awards, honors, and appointments

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

PETsMART Inc. on January 4
announced the appointment of Joyce Briggs
as director of PETsMART Charities, which
contributed more than $2.5 million to animal
protection charities in 1998, and facilitated
the adoption of more than 175,000 dogs and
cats via the PETsMART Luv-A-Pet
Adoption Centers, located in each
PETsMART store. PETsMART does not sell
dogs and cats. Briggs previously was senior
director of marketing and public relations for
the American Humane Association, and
before that was director of The Spayed Club,
a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit neutering service.

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