Watson fined

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland––Captain

Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation

Society was fined $5,000 on April 11 and his for-

mer ship the Cleveland Amory was fined $30,000,

for allegedly lacking proper certification under

Canadian maritime law during their July 28, 1993

confrontation with the Cuban dragnet fishing ves-

sel Rio Las Casasnear the tail of the Grand Banks.

The fines, stated in Canadian funds, would come

to about $4,000 and $24,000, respectively, in

U.S. currency.

Laboratories

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

The American Association for the

Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care

put the animal care program at the Davis cam-

pus of the University of California on proba-

tion for six months in mid-April, stating that

the lack of a centralized system for enforcing

care standards has led to uneven and some-

times inadequate care, including cages that are

too small and dirty, and rat infestations of

holding facilities.

Nuisance wildlife: swans as goose control

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

Nuisance wildlife control

experts in the upper midwest

report that mute swans may be the

best brake on the proliferation of

giant nonmigratory Canada geese.

Wildlife agencies in Atlantic coast

states from Rhode Island to Georgia

have practiced aggressive mute swan

“control” via egg-addling for about a

decade, after mute swan sightings

during the annual National Audubon

Society Christmas bird counts dou-

bled. Not noting that the number of

people out counting birds had also

doubled, the agencies warned that

the Atlantic coast was on the verge

of a mute swan population explo-

sion, 150 years after they were first

imported from England; blamed

swans for causing the decline of

heavily hunted migratory waterfowl;

MEXICAN PET THIEVES SUPPLY U.S. SCHOOLS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

MEXICALI, Mexico––The World

Society for the Protection of Animals on March

25 announced it had exposed a major Mexican

pet theft ring, operating for at least eight years.

The ring is organized by several American resi-

dents of Mexico. Bunchers pay children $1.00

apiece to catch cats, who are trucked in lots of

30 to 40 to Mexicali, where they are drowned

about 10 at a time in water barrels, preserved

with formaldehyde, and hauled to a location in

Sinaloa state, where they are sold for $7.00

each. From Sinaloa, they are trucked to U.S.

customers.

DOG SLEDDING

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

Discouraged by the loss of a

dog due to heart attack, the only dog

death during the 1994 Iditarod sled race,

Susan Butcher, 39, announced March

21 that she won’t enter the race in 1995,

and said she would sell most of her ken-

nel. Butcher has competed in every

Iditarod since 1978, recording four vic-

tories and 15 finishes in the top 10 while

crusading for humane dog care and han-

dling. In 1991 she surrendered a lead

and allowed her longtime archrival Rick

Swenson to become the first five-time

winner, rather than risk her dogs’ lives

in a blizzard.

Woofs and growls

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

Animals and wildlife get

7% of the charity dollar in Britain,

4% in Canada, 2% in Spain, and

just 1% each in France and the

U.S., says a new study by the

Charities Aid Foundation––but the

figures aren’t directly comparable,

since medical care is primarily a

government reponsibility in the other

nations but remains heavily subsi-

dized by charity in the U.S.

Zoos and aquariums

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

Caught in a lobster trap in January

and donated to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium

in San Pedro, California, a 58-pound octu-

pus with 12-foot arms nicknamed Octavia was

housed in a tank just six feet wide, attracting

crowds and a PETA-sponsored protest. She

suffocated overnight April 11 after yanking

the plug from her tank.

Louis Bailey, age 8, escaped seri-

ous injury on April 5 when a cheetah scaled

an eight-foot fence at the Jackson Zoo in

Jackson, Mississippi, pounced the boy, who

had wandered into a restricted area––and

raced off with his baseball cap. The 75-year-

old zoo is asking the Mississippi legislature to

approve a $16.5 million bond issue to finance

major renovation.

HSUS usurps AHA disaster relief role

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

WASHINGTON D.C.––On March 9 the American Humane

Association renewed the agreement it has had with the American Red Cross since

1976 to serve as the coordinating agency for animal relief after U.S. disasters.

Eight days later, after apparently pressuring the Red Cross at the board level, the

Humane Society of the U.S. reportedly told Associated Press that the Red Cross

had designated it “the official disaster relief agency for pets and other animals.”

According to AP, HSUS vice president David Wills claimed, “There

has been no real coordinated effort so far,” ignoring the AHA role in coordinat-

ing disaster relief since 1916, and the recent disaster relief work of the North

Shore Animal League and United Animal Nations,

HSUS raids the Fund for Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

WASHINGTON D.C.––No one at the

Humane Society of the U.S. was talking––not on

the record––but spring maneuvers apparently

intended to consolidate political influence both

internally and externally may give the group a very

different profile on Capitol Hill. Events of note

included the March 15 resignation of Kenneth

Inglis, considered the most militant animal rights

activist on the board of directors; the hiring of for-

mer North Shore Animal League president David

Ganz, apparently to raise funds in connection with

a new HSUS government relations arm, including

a political action committee; and the wooing away

of virtually the whole political apparatus of the

Fund for Animals, including national director

Wayne Pacelle, attorney Aaron Medlock, and

Ohio lobbyist Bill Long, who had represented both

the Fund and HSUS in recent months.

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