From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

CHICAGO––Ripped recently on the
Internet and in widely distributed open letters
by two ex-employees, Chicago Animal
Rights Coalition founder Steve Hindi i n
January 1999 invited ANIMAL PEOPLE t o
“investigate my dirty laundry,” but we didn’t
find much. We had in fact already received the
complaints, from the apparent originator in
one instance, anonymously in another.
Dug Hanbicki, hired in mid-1997
as a business manager but titled “executive
director,” expressed unhappiness at having to
take direction from Hindi––who had allowed
her to change the name of the organization to
Showing Animals Respect and Kindness,
and to add people of her choice to the board of
directors. Hanbicki resigned on November 9.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

Revenue Canada has compelled
The Fur-Bearers, incorporated in 1953 as
the Association for the Protection of FurBearing
Animals, to yield the registered
charitable status it has held for 45 years, on
grounds that in advocating a cause which
could require a change in law, it is a political
organization, not a charity. Now in the
process of reincorporating, to separate
“political” activity from “charity,” The FurBearers
will retain nonprofit status, but
donations will no longer be tax-deductible.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

Last Chance For Animals on
January 11 notified 195 store managers at the
Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego that the
mall is under boycott in response to a suit the
mall management brought against LCA and
1,000 mostly unnamed individual activists,
seeking a permanent injunction which would
in effect prohibit anti-fur protests at the mall.
LCA towed a billboard in the vicinity for several
hours to publicize the boycott. LCA
director Eric Mindel told ANIMAL PEOP
LE that “Defendant Andrea Lindsey h a s
already filed her response to the case, alleging
civil rights violations. LCA will argue against
the complaint and put forth that Fashion
Valley Mall’s permit process for expressive
activity is constitutionally deficient due to
restrictions that are not content-neutral.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

The Wisconsin Stewardship
Network, representing hunters and fishers,
the Sierra Club, and the Wisconsin Wildlife
Federation, a chapter of the pro-hunting
National Wildlife Federation, on Christmas
Eve 1998 issued statements recommending a
state moratorium on factory farms––in direct
opposition to the Wisconsin Farm Bureau
Federation, a frequent ally on animal welfare
issues. Stream pollution affecting fishing
is the hook-and-bullet worry this time.
The Nature Conservancy, which
refuses to accept land gifts coming with antihunting,
anti-fishing, and/or anti-trapping
easements, and frequently sponsors massacres
of non-native wildlife on acquired
property, has come under local political fire
in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey for posting
a 531-acre tract against hunting.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

A year-long dispute over leadership
of the Society of St. Francis, in Kenosha,
Wisconsin, described in the October 1998 edition
of ANIMAL PEOPLE, “has been
resolved,” Animal Lobby founder Cindy
Schultz told ANIMAL PEOPLE on December
18. “I am the new president of the Society. The
faction opposing Bob Frank,” who was
cofounder and until November 1997 the president
of the Society, “is gone. Bob will remain
on the board,” Schultz added. Incorporated in
1975, the Society of St. Francis is among the
older no-kill shelters in the United States.
Robin Baird, the Canadian marine
mammologist who founded the MARMAM
electronic bulletin board for marine mammal
researchers, has become research director for
the Pacific Whale Foundation, succeeding Paul
Forestell, who remains PWF vice president.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

The Humane Society of Boulder
Valley, providing animal care and control service
to Boulder, Colorado, and shelter service
to all other jurisdictions in Boulder County
except Longmont, has now gone three years
without killing any dogs or cats who could be
saved, executive director Jan McHugh recently
told ANIMAL PEOPLE. Of the 6,400 animals
HSBV received in 1998, McHugh said, 3,341
were adopted to new owners, and 1,800 were
returned to their former homes. McHugh credited
microchip ID with boosting cat rehoming to
24%, eight times the U.S. average, and dog
rehoming to 86%, double the U.S. average.
“Unfortunately,” McHugh added, “729 animals
who suffered from severe injuries or extensive
health or behavior problems had to be euthanized.”
The euthanasia ratio for the HSBV service
area is 4.2 animals per 1,000 residents.
HSBV neutered 4,065 animals in 1998––more
than most humane societies serving communities
with many times the human population of
Boulder County (226,000; 175,000 excluding
Longmont).

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