Sanctuary at Angel Canyon: Animal rescue mission settles in the desert

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1995:

ANGEL CANYON, Utah––As The Outlaw Josie Wales,
Kansas/Missouri border country farmer Clint Eastwood came home
to find his wife and family massacred by Jayhawkers, picked up a
gun, and swore bloody vengeance. The Civil War was over, but not
the fighting. Killing whoever crossed him, Eastwood fought his
way west, reluctantly gathering misfit sidekicks as he went––a
horse, a dog, an Indian, an abused woman, a child. Struggling to
stay focused on murder, he found himself sidetracked by the effort
of keeping them all sheltered and fed.
The bounty hunter sent to kill Eastwood or drag him back
for a public hanging caught up with him at Angel Canyon, scoping
out the situation before Eastwood knew he was there. Rather than
risk involving his newfound second family in a shootout, Eastwood
rode to Kanab, five miles south, to meet the bounty hunter in the
town saloon.

Animal health

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1995:

Infectious diseases
Protecting their collections, Sea World San Diego and Marine World Africa USA
in Vallejo, California, have suspended accepting stranded marine mammals, after morbillivirus
was found in a common dolphin who beached herself on August 31 near Marina Del
Ray and was taken to Sea World for rehab. Lack of a rehab site obliged authorities to euthanize
a stranded pygmy sperm whale in early October. Morbillivirus, related to canine distemper,
killed tens of thousands of seals and at least 800 bottlenose dolphins in the North
Atlantic during 1987-1988, about 1,000 striped dolphins in the Mediterranean in 1989-1990,
and circa 900 dolphins off the Texas coast in 1994, but has never before been found in the
Pacific. The infected dolphin, still at Sea World, shows no symptoms of the disease, and
may be an immune carrier.

Animal control & rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1995:

Neutering
Animal Aid of Tulsa made 362 follow-up
calls to animal adopters from January 1
to July 23 to check neutering compliance. Ten
percent couldn’t be located, but 80% had
neutered their adopted pets, nearly twice the
rate of compliance that other shelters found in
studies done in the 1970s and 1980s.
John Schultz, animal warden for
Medina County, Ohio, passed out 111 certificates
good for a $20 discount on neutering
adopted dogs between July 1 and September
11, but only 10% were used by September 21.
The Fund for Animals mobile neutering
clinic was to visit the Zuni and Navajo
Indian Nations in New Mexico, Arizona, and
Utah from October 14- 29, expecting to fix
300 to 400 dogs and cats with sponsorship
from the American Humane Association, the
Houston Rockets basketball team, Solvay
Animal Health, and Holiday Inn. In addition
to the mobile unit and a fixed-site neutering
clinic in Houston, the Fund plans to open a
low-cost “super clinic” in New York City next
year, said spokesperson Sean Hawkins.

A wild horse story

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1995:

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.––The Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act is perilously
close to becoming an unfunded mandate, due to Congressional budget cuts.
If that happens, the Bureau of Land Management will be forced to return to the
range more than 8,000 horses and burros now in adoption programs and sanctuaries––without
the money to protect them from snipers and horsemeat contractors.
Since 1970, the BLM has been responsible for keeping the wild horse and burro
population on federal land at a level acceptable to grazing lease holders, without killing horses
or burros, and without allowing anyone else to. In that time the wild horse population has
officially quadrupled, to circa 50,000. Citing private surveys, wild horse advocates say it’s
less than half that number.
Either way, western ranchers say it’s too many. About 3.2 million cattle compete
for water and forage within the equines’ habitat. Ranchers used to just round up wild horses
and burros for slaughter. Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable drew attention to that practice in
their last film, The Misfits (1961), which gave impetus to Nevada secretary Velma Johnson’s
then little noted efforts to protect wild equines. When the “Wild Horse Annie Act” finally
outlawed the slaughter roundups in 1970, it was nicknamed in Johnson’s honor.

Animal control & rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1995:

The city council of San Jose, California,
on August 29 approved a plan to turn all pet-related
licensing and complaint response duties over to the
Humane Society of Santa Clara Valley, which has
already handled pickups of dead, injured, or vicious
animals since 1993. The society will be paid $3.5
million to provide the services over the next 22
months. The San Jose cat licensing program, the
revenues of which support neutering strays, meanwhile
started fast, with 850 registrations in July
alone, well ahead of projections that about 3,000 cat
owners would comply with licensing in all this year.
HSSCV licensing manager Feryl Bird said that while
the neutering program is too new to see a decline in
stray cat pickups yet, the rate of increase in San Jose
is already lower than in neighboring communities.

Dog attack deaths and maimings by breed

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1995:

Dog attack deaths and maimings by breed
U.S. and Canada, September 1982 to September 15, 1995
Compiled by the editor of ANIMAL PEOPLE from press accounts since 1982, this table covers only
attacks by dogs who have been kept as pets, who are of clearly identified breed type, as designated by animal control
officers or others with evident expertise. Due to the exclusion of dogs whose breed type may be uncertain, it
is by no means a complete list of fatal and otherwise serious dog attacks. Attacks by dogs trained specifically to
fight are excluded. “Attacks doing bodily harm” includes all fatalities, maimings, and other injuries requiring prolonged
hospitalization. “Maimings” includes permanent disfigurement or loss of a limb.

Animal rescue abroad

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1995:

A wide-ranging new anti-cruelty bill
introduced in Victoria state, Australia, on
September 7 by agriculture minister Bill McGrath
would give greater powers of intervention to prevent
cruelty to police, Royal SPCA, and state government
inspectors; extend the definition of animals to cover
fish and crustaceans; apply to the use of animals in
reasearch; remove religous-based exemptions to
existing laws governing the humane slaughter of fowl;
and ban the transport of untethered dogs in the backs
of trucks and trailers unless they are helping to move
livestock. The provisions pertaining to aquatic life,
McGrath said, are “not intended to intrude on existing
commercial practices in the fishing industries, but
will enable inspectors to investigate the transport and
display of crayfish and the preparation of fish and
crustaceans for the table.”

New York didn’t reinstitute pound seizure

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1995:

ALBANY, N.Y––Frantic online postings from vari-

ous activists who wanted New York governor George Pataki to

veto state bills A8002 and S3869B, together with a follow-up

posting by James Corrigan of Animal Rights America, “con-

gratulating” the American SPCA on their passage, produced a

fast-spreading rumor in mid-August that New York, at instiga-

tion of the ASPCA, had backhandedly repealed a 1977 ban on

the sale of shelter animals to biomedical research.

The rumor struck a nerve, especially among antivivi-

sectionists old enough to remember that the ASPCA supported

the institution of pound seizure, the mandatory sale of animals

to research, in the 1940s, and fought the 1977 law. A8002

pertained to the use of animals in endotracheal intubation train-

ing, further alarming those who recalled that the ASPCA

allowed cats who were anesthetized for neutering to be used in

such training until 1990, when executives and the board were

advised by counsel that this could constitute a violation of the

1977 law. Subsequently, in 1992, the ASPCA sought retroac-

tive legalization of the intubation training.

Animal control & rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1995:

New legislation

An update of Louisiana animal

protection laws long sought by

Legislation In Support of Animals, the

Coalition of Louisiana Animal Advocates,

and other state groups includes the stiffest

felony cruelty statute in the U.S., mandat-

ing a fine of not less than $1,000, up to

$25,000, plus from one year in prison up

to 10 years at hard labor; fines for misde-

meanor cruelty of up to $1,000 and 48

hours of community service plus jail time;

the extension of the cruelty law to cover

parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds (but not

fighting cocks); the extension of the state’s

anti-dog theft law to cover other pets, with

stiffer penalties; and the creation of a fund

to help save the scarce Louisiana specta-

cled bear, funded by sales of a special

license plate. Known for gung-ho effica-

cy––on a budget of just $50,000/year––

LISA celebrated by bringing the

Spay/Neuter Assistance Program mobile

clinic from Houston to New Orleans for a

weekend of providing free neutering to

low-income families.

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