Hong Kong SPCA Changes Leaders

April 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003:

HONG KONG–Scots-born veterinarian Pauline Taylor is acting
executive director of the Hong Kong SPCA, following the March 14
resignation of Chris Hanselman at the request, Hanselman said, of
the executive committee.
Previously assistant director, Taylor has done extensive
rural veterinary outreach on the Chinese mainland.
Hanselman, a former financial crimes investigator for the Hong Kong
police, and co-holder of a world record for endurance on a two-man
rowing machine, engineered the HK/SPCA plan to achieve no-kill
animal control in Hong Kong, following the San Francisco model of
dropping animal control work to focus on dog and cat sterilization.

Coin-can scandal & alleged penny-pinching end an era at Associated Humane

April 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

NEWARK–Lee Bernstein, 72, resigned on
March 5, 2003, after 34 years as executive
director of the Associated Humane Societies of
New Jersey.
Few heads of humane societies anywhere have served longer.
Bernstein was succeeded by Roseann
Trezza, 58, the Associated Humane Societies’
assistant director since 1968.

International animal control & shelter news

April 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

Barcelona, Spain, instituted
high-volume sterilization of dogs and cats in
January as cornerstone of a no-kill animal
control policy. Since 2000 the Barcelona city
shelters have reduced their killing of stray dogs
from 72% of intake to 36%, and have reduced
their killing of stray cats from 89% to 27%,
Agence France-Press reported.

Atlanta Humane gives up animal control

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

ATLANTA–The Atlanta Humane Society, managing the Fulton
County Animal Control shelter as well as its own facilities since
1974, on March 20 returned animal control duties to the county.
After rejecting bids on the animal control contract from the
Southern Hope Humane Society of Cobb County and a newly formed
for-profit company called Synergy Management Services, deputy county
manager Terry Todd reached an 11-day temporary agreement with
Southern Hope at 5:40 p.m. on March 20, and agreed to buy $350,000
worth of animal control equipment from Atlanta Humane.
“A panel of county staff recommended Synergy Management” as
the preferred new longterm animal control provider, wrote Ty Tagami
of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Synergy Management “promis-ed a
smooth transition by hiring the Atlanta Humane pound director,”
Tagami said.

What happened to Algerian cats?

March 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

HOUSTON–Members of the Houston Animal Rights team and PETA
picketed the Houston headquarters of the oil exploration firm
Halliburton on January 12 to protest the alleged poisoning of 200
feral cats at a remote work site in Algeria.
Former Halliburton employees said that the Halliburton
construction subsidiary KBR, Andarko Petroleum, and an Algerian
subcontractor brought cats to the site to control rats, but failed
to sterilize the cats before releasing them. The cats were poisoned
after Halliburton withdrew from the project. The demonstrators
argued that Halliburton had a moral obligation to ensure that the
cats were treated humanely.

Dogs and gamecocks take their revenge

March 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

For 40 years dogcatcher Manuel Pascual, 61, of Bulacan city
in Bulacan province, The Philippines, caught stray dogs and
reputedly sometimes stole freeroaming pets, selling them to
restaurants in Malolos, Marilao, Bocaue, and Baliuag, the
Philippine Inquirer reported on February 1, 2003. Eventually,
however, a dog caught Pascual, who died from rabies on January 26.
His was the second turnabout death in the Philippines in just
two weeks. On January 12 gamecock handler Elmer Mariano of Zamboanga
had just strapped spurs to the legs of a cock in preparation for a
fight when the cock wrested one leg free and fatally stabbed him in
the groin.

Immunocontraception comes of age

January 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

BILLINGS, RENO, WHITEHORSE–Immunocontraceptives for dogs,
cats, and deer are still not quite here yet, but widespread
applications and planned deployments involving bears, elephants,
wolves, and wild horses indicate that immunocontraception of
wildlife may at last be close to losing the qualifying adjective
“experimental”– at least in the species that are easiest to inject
and keep track of.
New Jersey Department of Environ-mental Protection
commissioner Bradley Campbell announced in November 2002 that his
agency hopes to test immunocontraceptives to control bears this
spring. The New Jersey bear population has increased from an
estimated 100 in 1970, when the state last opened a bear hunting
season, to as many as 2,500 according to much disputed official
figures. An attempt to resume bear hunting in 2000 was quashed by
adverse public opinion.

High-energy post-Soviet activists do everything but raise money

January 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

MOSCOW, KIEV, KHARKOV-A sociologist or political scientist
probably could not design a better comparative experiment in starting
an animal advocacy movement than is now underway in Moscow, the
largest city in Russia, and Kiev and Kharkov, the two largest
cities in the Ukraine.
Russia and the Ukraine are neighbors, the most prominent
remnants of the former Soviet Union, sharing parallel history,
ethnicity, and standards of living, and post-Soviet birth rates
that are among the seven lowest in the world, but have active
rivalries dating back more than 1,000 years.
Their ancient kings conquered each other, their forced
alliances held Napoleon and Hitler at bay, and they are now racing
into economic development and social/political westernization at a
breakneck pace.

Greece considers new national animal control law in anticipation of 2004 Olympic furor

January 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

ATHENS-Greek deputy agriculture minister Fotis Hadzimichalis
on December 19, 2002 introduced a proposed national animal control
bill which according to Agence France-Press “would discourage Greeks
from abandoning their animals, while allowing local authorities to
collect, sterilize, and in certain cases kill stray dogs.”
Hadzimichalis told Agence France-Presse that, “This is the
practical answer to those who malignly accused our country of
creating crematoria for strays ahead of the 2004 Olympic Games.”
The proposed law reportedly stipulates that dogs found at
large will be vaccinated, sterilized, held for a reclaim period,
and then be returned to the capture point if deemed healthy and not
dangerous. Those suffering from incurable illness or infirmity and
those considered dangerous will be killed.

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