Seeking The truth about feral cats and the people who help them: NEW STUDY YIELDS CONTROVERSIAL FINDINGS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

BOSTON, MASS. –– The leading cause of death among homeless cats may be

humane euthanasia. Homeless cat colonies exist in almost every American neighborhood––but

four out of 10 homeless cats live in just 6% of the colonies, and two-thirds live in only 16%.

Over half of all stray and feral female cats are pregnant at any given time. Yet attrition is so high

that despite local fluctuations, the national homeless cat population is remarkably stable.

These and other challenges to conventional thinking about homeless cats emerge from

data gathered by ANIMAL PEOPLE and the Massachusetts SPCA, in the first-ever national

survey of cat-feeders and cat-rescuers. The controversial nature of the findings and the complex-

ity of interpreting the data in light of experience became apparent when even the ANIMAL

PEOPLE editors strongly differed over what some of the numbers may mean.

Fur

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Fur Free Friday is November

27—the day after Thanksgiving, the tradi-

tional start of the peak fur sales season. Get

details on demonstrations in your region

from either Friends of Animals at 212-247-

8120, or Animal Rights Mobilization at

303-388-7120.

The Fur Council of Canada

announced a $1 million publicity blitz on

October 20, aimed at reviving the strug-

gling Canadian retail fur market––one of

the last markets left to the Canadian fur

industry, following the collapse of fur sales

in Europe and the U.S. The campaign

argues that furs are reuseable and

biodegradable, and that the fur trade is an

essential part of controlling animal popula-

tions––which contradicts earlier industry

claims that the majority of animals killed

for fur are ranched especially for the pur-

pose.

Bred and abandoned–– but now there’s hope for potbellied pigs! (and they even have mud to root in)

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

The headlines tell the story:

October 1, 1991, St. Louis Post-Dispatch––

‘Super Pig’ Credited With Saving

Banking Executive, Wife In Fire

October 30, 1991, The Daily Oklahoman––

Council Advised To Keep Pig Law

December 4, 1991, Detroit Free Press––

Pet Pig Prompts Court Confrontation

June 7, 1992, The New York Times––

This Little Pig’s Market Plunged

June 30, 1992, Los Angeles Times––

Pet Potbellied Pig Craze Goes Belly Up

Dogs And Cats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Starting in January and incorporated just

last July under the name Every Creature Counts, Lisa

Booker, Pat Peluso, and Joy Skow of Lyons, Colorado,

had rescued an estimated 400 cats among them by the end

of September, picking up strays and ferals from Loveland

to Denver. They practice a combination of neuter/release

and pick-up-for-adoption,

Eighteen of 38 cats whose pictures are on cat-

food boxes or cans in the supermarket closest to ANI-

MAL PEOPLE are orange toms.

Hunting––

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

The Michigan Public Broadcast-

ing System on September 24 aired the final

episode of Michigan Outdoors, a weekly

hook-and-bullet show that had an audience

of 200,000. The show died after host Fred

Trost said in a product review that Buck Stop

Lure Co. used cow urine in a deer scent, lost

a $4 million defamation suit the firm filed

against him, and declared bankruptcy. Trost

was also forced to suspend a magazine he

published, Michigan Outdoor Digest, circu-

lation 40,000. The latter had also been in

trouble, having been sued for copyright

infringement at one point by the Michigan

United Conservation Clubs, whose in-house

magazine is called Michigan Out-of-Doors.

Buck Stop said Trost’s attack on its product

caused sales to drop 65%. Trost, mean-

while, pledged to regroup, find backers,

and get back on the air.

CRIME & PUNISHMENT

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Crimes Against Animals

Alleged pet thieves David Harold

Stephens, Tracy Lynn Stephens, and Brenda

Arlene Linville were scheduled for trial

November 2 in Eugene, Oregon, on charges

that they obtained dogs and cats by promising

to find them good homes and then sold them

for use in biomedical research. Customers

included Oregon Health Sciences University,

Oregon State University, the University of

Nevada at Reno, and the Cedars-Sinai

Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.

Originally charged under state legislation, the

trio were recharged under the Animal Welfare

Act after sheriff’s deputies and state and fed-

eral agents raided their kennels. Their

activites were brought to the attention of the

various authorities via detective work by

Bobbie Michaels of Committed to Animal

Protection, Education, and Rescue, a

Portland-based activist group.

Performing Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Wild Willie, the bull who was castrated

in front of the Mississippi State University foot-

ball team in early September, has been saved

from the slaughterhouse by Frank Truitt, a steak-

eating Army Reserve recruiter, and insurance

salesman Billy Walker, a hunter, Truitt and

Walker paid $2,000 apiece for Wild Willie, but

hope to recoup their money by using him in com-

mercial promotions.

Agriculture

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

The Range Rider, a publication of

the USDA Cooperative Extension Service at

Colorado State University, is urging sheep

farmers to rally in opposition to the

Endangered Species Act, now up for renewal.

ANIMAL PEOPLE had not actually received

a copy by deadline, but from a description

provided by James Cherry of the AmNet com-

puter network, it would appear to violate fed-

eral guidelines regarding impartiality.

Horse notes…

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

In the first two years since

California began requiring necropsies of

all race horses who die while under Calif.

Horse Racing Board jurisdiction, on or off

a track, 538 horses have been exam-

ined––271 in 1990-1991, and 267 in 1991-

1992. The examinations are revealing a

much greater amount of stress damage

from training than experts previously sus-

pected.

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