Hauler is banned for life in alleged racing greyhound adoption scam

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2007:

 

The Arizona Department of Racing on December 19, 2006 issued a
lifetime ban from involvement in the Arizona greyhound industry
against Richard Favreau of Calhan, Colorado, for failing to
account for more than 140 greyhounds he took from the Tucson
Grey-hound Park between Nov-ember 2005 and July 2006.
Owners of retired racing dogs paid Favreau $150 apiece to
find adoptive homes for them. Greyhound Protection League president
Susan Netboy believes at least 177 dogs are missing. Only six of
Favreau’s purported adoptions have been verified.
“The animals may have been killed for profit,” wrote Arizona
Department of Racing director Geoffrey Gonsher.

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Javelinas claim a U.S. desert home

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2007:
TUCSON–Encountering a dozen peccaries during a dawn walk
with her three Chihuahuas on December 7, 2006, Tracy Gordon, 34,
of Tucson, was bitten, knocked down, and trampled. One Chihuahua
was critically injured. Another suffered a large bite on the neck.
Arizona Game & Fish Department information and education
program manager Tom Whetten suggested that the javelinas were
protecting younger members of the herd.
Gordon “did exactly what she was supposed to do by getting
those dogs under control,” Whetten told Enric Volante and Jeff
Commings of the Arizona Daily Star.

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ALDF/AWI case reinstated

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2007:

SAN FRANCISCO–The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on
November 22, 2006 reinstated a lawsuit seeking to compel the USDA to
adopt guidelines governing primate care in zoos and laboratories.
The Animal Legal Defense Fund, Animal Welfare Institute,
and three individuals filed the case in 2003, after the USDA refused
to implement regulations which would have required non-human primates
to be housed in social groups, and be given toys to provide mental
stimulation.
The lawsuit alleges that the USDA violated the intent of
Congress in passing 1985 amendments to the federal Animal Welfare Act
that recognized the social nature and intelligence of dogs and
nonhuman primates. The case was dismissed by a federal district
court, but the Court of Appeals sent it back for further review.

Primate Freedom Project wins museum building verdict

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2007:
MADISON, Wisc.–Dane County Judge Sarah O’Bean ruled on
November 28, 2006 that the Primate Freedom Project holds a legal
contract to buy a building located between the National Primate
Research Center and the Harry Harlow Primate Psychology Laboratory.
Both labs are operated by the University of Wisconsin.
O’Bean ordered owner Roger Charly to complete the sale to
retired California physician Richard McLellan, for the specified
price of $675,000. Charly is expected to appeal.
Primate Freedom Project founder Rick Bogle moved to Madison
in 2004 to renovate the building into a planned National Primate
Research Center Exhibition Hall, expected to become a rallying point
for opposition to primate experiments.

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CDC spends $3 million on animal care upgrade

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2007:
ATLANTA–“The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
has spent $3 million on animal care improvements since last year,”
Associated Press medical writer Mike Stobbe reported on November 16,
2006, after the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of
Laboratory Care International “threatened to revoke its approval for
the way the CDC treats lab animals.”
Among other violations of AALAC standards, Stobbe wrote,
“Faulty sipper tubes left some monkeys with no access to water,
leading to the dehydration death of an owl monkey and a rhesus monkey
in 2004. A rhesus monkey was mistakenly killed in 2005 because of
record-keeping and communications problems. Three rhesus monkeys
were given a deadly combination of anesthetic and analgesic
medications. The doses were consistent with published guidelines,
but killed the monkeys, leading to the CDC adopting new standards.

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IDA wins copies of primate records

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2007:

PORTLAND, Ore.–Matt Rossell, Portland representative for
In Defense of Animals, on December 21, 2006 confirmed that he had
at last received 113,000 pages of Oregon National Primate Research
Center monkey care records, eight years after he first applied to
obtain them in 1998, during a two-year stint as a center employee.
The center is operated by Oregon Health & Science University.
After the university refused to provide the records, Rossell and IDA
sued to get them in 2001. The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled in April
2005 that Rossell and IDA had a right to obtain copies, and that a
copying charge of more than $150,000 proposed by the university was
excessive. However, the court allowed the university to black out
the names of individual researchers and animal caretakers.

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Sid Yost performing chimps to be retired

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2007:

PETALUMA, Calif.–The Animal Legal Defense Fund on December
7, 2006 announced that three performing chimpanzees formerly kept by
Hollywood trainer Sid Yost would be retired to the Center for Captive
Chimpanzee Care facilities in New Mexico and Florida, where they
will be reunited with members of their biological families.
“A fourth chimpanzee, Apollo, allegedly received a fatal
rattlesnake bite in July while in his cage at the San Bernardino
facility,” the ALDF announcement said.

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International adoption pioneer in trouble in California

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2007:

SAN MARCOS, Calif.–Mina Sharpe, 25, who founded the
Taiwan Abandoned Animal Rescue Foundation in Taipei at age 12, may
be charged with violating probation, after San Marcos animal control
officer Tunis VanBerkum on December 9, 2006 found her keeping 16
dogs and two rabbits in allegedly filthy conditions in a
700-square-foot home.
The animals were surrendered to the Escondido Humane Society.
Earlier in 2006 Sharpe was convicted of keeping 18 dogs in
unsanitary conditions at her former home in Carlsbad, and was
ordered to find other homes for all but two of them.

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