Category: North America

Ruling on Tony the truck stop tiger

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2011:

GROSSE TETE,  Louisiana— More than 10 years of controversy
and litigation over Tony,  the resident tiger at the Tiger Truck Stop
near Interstate 10 in Grosse Tete,  Louisiana,  may be near an
end–or maybe not.  District Judge Michael Caldwell on November 3,
2011 ruled for the second time in six months,  in a case brought by
the Animal Legal Defense Fund,  that Tiger Truck Stop owner Michael
Sandlin is illegally keeping the tiger.  However,  Caldwell’s
previous ruling was reversed by a three-judge panel of the Louisiana
First Circuit Court of Appeal,  and Sandlin is expected to appeal
again. Read more

Farm Sanctuary annexes Animal Acres as second California location

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2011:

ACTON,  California–The brief  but eventful history of Animal Acres came around full circle when Farm Sanctuary on September 15, 2011 announced that the southern California farm animal sanctuary would become a third Farm Sanctuary location.

 

Animal Acres,  located in Acton,  an hour from Los Angeles, “is presently home to rescued cows,  pigs,  sheep,  goats,  turkeys, geese,  and chickens,”  the Farm Sanctuary announcement continued. Read more

Big Cat Rescue seeks enforcement of 2007 Florida captive wildlife bonding requirement

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2011:

TAMPA–Contacted by ANIMAL PEOPLE about a flamboyant but ill-informed September 28,  2011 “exposé” of Big Cat Rescue by Mike Deeson of WTSP-TV,  Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin seemed only transiently interested in defending herself and her organization.

Her husband,  attorney Howard Baskin, posted an extensive response and rebuttal to Deeson on the Big Cat Rescue web site,  including a detailed summary of why he advised his wife against going on camera with Deeson for what appeared to be an “ambush interview.”  Carole Baskin did e-mail to Deeson an extensive written response to the allegations against Big Cat Rescue.  Read more

Sealing verdict

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2011:

LUXEMBOURG–The European General Court on September 14,  2011 ruled that the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami,  representing Canadian indigenous sealers,  lacks standing to challenge the 2010 European Union ban on imports of seal products.  The Fur Institute of Canada is reportedly pursuing a similar case,  targeting the seal import ban enforcement regulations,  while the Canadian government is appealing the ban to the World Trade Organization.  Read more

Horse hauling

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2011:

WASHINGTON D.C.–-A new USDA rule amending enforcement of the Commercial Transport of Equines to Slaughter Act to cover horses at every stage of transport to slaughter took effect on October 7, 2011.  The old rule,  in effect since 2001,  prohibited hauling horses to slaughter on double-decked trailers,  and required that horses going to slaughter must receive food,  water,  and six hours of rest before each travel segment,  but horses “never move directly to slaughter,”  USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service farm animal welfare coordinator Gary Egrie told Heather Johnson of the North Platte Telegraph.  “Buyers move them to feedlots or other assembly points until they have a full truck,”  Egrie explained.  The rule now covers collecting horses to be slaughtered,  as well as the final haul.

Feral animals in Hawaii: pig hunting leads to dog abuse

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2011:

Commentary by Kim Bartlett

 

Visiting Hawaii in early 2011,  I was driven around the island of Hawaii 1.5 times and the island of Oahu once,  but I never caught sight of one of the pigs who are said to be wreaking so much havoc.

Feral pigs are blamed for  nibbling crops,  including macadamia nut trees,  and also for eating from people’s garbage cans. On a bus tour of the island of Hawaii,  in a forested stretch of highway north of Hilo,  the driver called out that a pig was crossing the road ahead of us,  but the pig was gone before I saw him.  The driver seemed surprised to have spotted one. Read more

Tight funds close animal shelters & an MSPCA clinic

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2011:


BOSTON,  Indianapolis,  Iqaluit–With annual income of more than $40 million,  assets of more than $62 million,  and a chief executive salary of $476,000,  the Massachusetts SPCA is a long way from Putnam County,  Indiana,  where the Putnam County Humane Society closed because of a $30,000 deficit;  Boynton Beach,  Florida,  where the last city shelter in Palm Beach County closed to save $19,356; and Iqaluit,  Nunavut,  Canada,  where the only shelter serving the region was unable to stay open on an annual budget of just $50,000. Read more

Rick Perry appears to dance a little sidestep on wild burro shootings

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2011:

 

AUSTIN–What Texas governor and candidate for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination Rick Perry knows about wild burros under fire from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department in Big Bend Ranch State Park is uncertain.

But some of Perry’s online backers have made what they know clear:  burros are emblematic of the Democratic Party,  the party of incumbent U.S. President Barack Obama,  and for that reason alone should be shot,  along with “Liberals in Big cities,”  as one poster to the Drudge Report web site put it. Read more

Shipping live calves from Hawaii is twice as big a trade as shipping pigs to Hawaii

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2011:

HONOLULU–The Hawaiian live calf export trade may have become the world’s largest seagoing trade in calves almost without notice. Though most of the calves move through U.S. and Canadian west coast container ports almost under the windows of major animal advocacy groups,  there appears to have never been an undercover investigation of the trade,  never a protest,  never a lawsuit,  and never a mailing. Read more

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