Fixing dog & cat overpopulation

May 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2002:

Ed Boks, director of the Mari-copa County Animal Care &
Control department in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 16 introduced
differential incentives to encourage residents to sterilize and
release feral cats instead of turning them in to be killed. The
county will now charge $61 to kill a cat–or $20 to sterilize the cat
and send him or her “home.” The Arizona Humane Society, which
requests a $15 donation to kill a cat, reports an increase in cat
intake, as have smaller local shelters. However, said Maricopa
County Animal Care & Control spokesperson Julie Bank, “We’ve spent
30 years trying to control feral cats the traditional way, and the
problem is not stopping, ” with feral cat turn-ins averaging a
steady 10,000 a year. “We hope in the next three to five years to
see a decrease,” Bank added.

Hangin’ judge Roy Bean “justice” prevails in Texas for feral cats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2002:

WACO, Texas–Circa 1883, Val Verde County justice of the
peace Roy Bean, “The Law West of the Pecos,” ruled at one of the
most infamous trials in U.S. history that “There ain’t no law in the
state of Texas against killing a Chinaman.”
That verdict was recalled on March 19 in Waco when a McLennan
County jury decided that there is no law in the state of Texas
against killing a feral cat, no matter how it is done.

Rabies makes bad Zimbabwe situation worse

April 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2002–

HARARE, Zimbabwe–If Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabwe
responds to the mid-March death of a Mhondoro boy from rabies at
Harare Central Hospital as faltering dictators usually do, his next
move will be to put troops on the streets to shoot stray dogs
wherever his hold on authority is weak.
Four other people were believed to have been bitten by the
dog who infected the dead boy. But a week after the death, only
three of the other bite victims had been found.

Dogs & monkeys

March 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

After three years of nonstop effort, the Visakha SPCA has
sterilized about 80% of the street dogs in Visakhapatnam, we
believe. We are now making special efforts to catch the remaining
20%, who inhabit the beaches and other open areas where they can
quickly run away from the dogcatchers. Our Animal Birth Control
program has now extended our services to adjacent communities and
nearby rural areas.

Laws, morals, and rural reality

March 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

Thirty-eight of the 49 Washington state senators voted on
February 19 to repeal the Washington anti-trapping initiative–passed
in November 2000 by 34 of the 49 Washington counties, and approved
by 55% of a record voter turnout.
If the Washington house of representatives agrees, which it
may not, the anti-trapping initiative would become the first
initiative in state history to be repealed by the
legislature–although the lawmakers weakened a 1996 initiative ban on
hunting pumas with dogs.

Home 4 the Holidays places 76,000+

March 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

SAN DIEGO–More than 450 animal shelters in four nations
combined efforts to send more than 76,000 dogs and cats “Home 4 the
Holidays,” Hala Ali Aryan of the San Diego Union-Tribune reported on
January 20. The seven-week joint promotion ran from November 13,
2001, to January 6, 2002.
Founded in 1999 by Mike Arms of the Helen Woodward Animal
Center in Rancho Santa Fe, California, “Home 4 the Holidays”
debuted as a 14-shelter local program. It went global in 2001 with
the help of advertising in ANIMAL PEOPLE. In 30 years of adoption
promotion and counseling, at the American SPCA and North Shore
Animal League America before becoming executive director of the Helen
Woodward Center, Arms has supervised more than half a million
adoptions, and collaborative events he helped to initiate,
including the spring “Pet Adoptathon” coordinated by North Shore,
have placed several hundred thousand more animals.
The Woodward Center broke its own record for adoptions in a
month by placing 145 pets in December 2001.

Biologists in “missing lynx” uproar didn’t think they saw a puddy tat

March 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

OLYMPIA, Washington–A two-month national furor about
alleged falsification of evidence by seven field biologists studying
lynx range apparently started because several of the biologists did
not believe a feral domestic cat could survive in the Gifford Pinchot
and Wenatchie National Forests.
Almost any experienced feral cat rescuer could have told them
that feral domestic cats thrive wherever they find small mammals or
birds to hunt and adequate cover, from the equator to inside the
Arctic and Antarctic Circles.

Shelters & labs

March 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

The Inland Valley Humane Society, of Pomona, California,
has ceased supplying dogs and cats to veterinary technician training
programs at Mount San Antonio College, after 30 years, and to Cal
Poly Pomona, after four years, executive director Bill Harford
confirmed in mid-February 2002 to Los Angeles Times reporter Danielle
Samniego. Harford blamed criticism from PETA for ending the
arrangements, which he said often led to the animals finding homes
with the vet tech trainees–a contention PETA disputes.

Funding the War on Roadkills

March 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

BOZEMAN, Montana–The $59.6 billion U.S. Department of
Transportation appropriation signed by President George W. Bush in
December 2001 included $500,000 for an anti-roadkill project under
study by the Western Transportation Institute, a program of the
College of Engineering at Montana State University in Bozeman.
That aspect of the bill appears to have been reported only by
Bob Anez, of Associated Press, who promptly interviewed WTI
research engineer Pat McGowan.

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