Category: Stray & Feral Animals

Rick Perry appears to dance a little sidestep on wild burro shootings

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2011:

 

AUSTIN–What Texas governor and candidate for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination Rick Perry knows about wild burros under fire from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department in Big Bend Ranch State Park is uncertain.

But some of Perry’s online backers have made what they know clear:  burros are emblematic of the Democratic Party,  the party of incumbent U.S. President Barack Obama,  and for that reason alone should be shot,  along with “Liberals in Big cities,”  as one poster to the Drudge Report web site put it. Read more

Feral animals in Hawaii: pig hunting leads to dog abuse

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2011:

Commentary by Kim Bartlett

 

Visiting Hawaii in early 2011,  I was driven around the island of Hawaii 1.5 times and the island of Oahu once,  but I never caught sight of one of the pigs who are said to be wreaking so much havoc.

Feral pigs are blamed for  nibbling crops,  including macadamia nut trees,  and also for eating from people’s garbage cans. On a bus tour of the island of Hawaii,  in a forested stretch of highway north of Hilo,  the driver called out that a pig was crossing the road ahead of us,  but the pig was gone before I saw him.  The driver seemed surprised to have spotted one. Read more

Tight funds close animal shelters & an MSPCA clinic

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2011:


BOSTON,  Indianapolis,  Iqaluit–With annual income of more than $40 million,  assets of more than $62 million,  and a chief executive salary of $476,000,  the Massachusetts SPCA is a long way from Putnam County,  Indiana,  where the Putnam County Humane Society closed because of a $30,000 deficit;  Boynton Beach,  Florida,  where the last city shelter in Palm Beach County closed to save $19,356; and Iqaluit,  Nunavut,  Canada,  where the only shelter serving the region was unable to stay open on an annual budget of just $50,000. Read more

Editorial: The shelter killing of pit bulls

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Editorial feature—

More adoptions will not end shelter killing of pit bulls


Tangible progress on behalf of animals is often hard to recognize, amid paradoxes such as polling data showing that more people think about farm animal welfare even as world meat consumption is at an all-time high and rising.

Just about everyone agrees,  though,  that the past 25 years have produced unprecedented improvement in the human relationship with dogs,  especially here in the United States.  Americans keep half again more pet dogs than in 1986.  Average spending per dog per year for food,  toys,  and accessories has increased from $58 in 1986–with purchasing power worth $114 today–to $347.   Yet sales of doghouses,  once the most costly common dog accessory,  have crashed, because most dogs today live indoors with their people. Read more

European Parliament adopts dog protocol, but backs away from farm animal welfare

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2011:

BRUSSELS–The European Parlia-ment on October 13,  2011 ratified a Written Declaration on Dog Population Management in the European Union which “calls on Member States to adopt comprehensive dog population management strategies,”  to “include measures such as dog control and anti-cruelty laws,  support for veterinary procedures including rabies vaccination and sterilization as necessary to control the number of unwanted dogs,  and the promotion of responsible pet ownership.” Read more

Fatal dog attacks in Bangalore seen as threat to Animal Birth Control

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2011:

BANGALORE–-Fearing that two fatal dog attacks on children in the Bangalore suburbs might again provoke massacres of dogs and disruptions of the city Animal Birth Control program,  as occurred in 2007 after two fatal dog attacks on children,  Bangalore humane societies,  the Federation of Indian Animal Protection

Organizations, and Bangalore animal control chief Parvez Ahmed Piran closed ranks in midsummer 2011 to amplify denials–against the weight of eyewitness and forensic evidence–that the fatalities were inflicted by dogs. Read more

Bangladesh capital city stops dog culls

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2011:


DHAKA,  Bangladesh— “We have stopped culling except for some emergency cases,  such as when rabid dogs attack schoolchildren,” Dhaka health services chief Brigadier General Nasiruddin Ahmed told Agence France-Press on August 25,  2011.

Instead,  the Bangadesh Health Department and the animal advocacy group Obhoyaronnyo have sent six veterinarians to Help In Suffering in Jaipur,  India,  to learn how to manage an Animal Birth Control program. Read more

Best Friends to run shelter for Los Angeles

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2011:

LOS ANGELES--“The Best Friends Animal Society’s proposal to run our vacant Northeast Valley Animal Shelter as a high-volume adoption center and spay/neuter facility passed today in City Council 11-1,”  Los Angeles Animal Services general manager Brenda Barnette e-mailed to ANIMAL PEOPLE on August 16,  2011.

Built in 2008,  the $19.5 million Northeast Valley Shelter was never fully staffed because budget cuts left L.A. Animal Services without the additional $3.3 million per year that full staffing and full-scale operation would have cost.  “A proposal to open it with staff taken from six other shelters would have reduced hours and service” throughout the Los Angeles city shelter system,  and would have increased shelter killing “by as many as 10,000 animals a year,” said Los Angeles Daily News staff writers Rick Orlov and Dana Bartholomew. Read more

A new day dawns for cats and dogs in southern China

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:

WUXI, China–Tipped off at 10 p.m. on August 3, 2011 that
truckers planned to illegally haul a load of cats to live markets in
Guangzhou, Guangdong at dawn, disguised as a cargo of furniture,
members of the Wuxi Animal Protection Association in Jiangsu province
mobilized overnight to intercept the truck at a toll booth at about
5:00 a.m. on August 4.
The truckers had nearly convinced the first authorities on
the scene that the load was only furniture, but “Conveniently,
right at that very moment, one little cat stuck her small head and
shoulders out of one of the cages at the top of the truck, looking
around curiously,” said a WAPA media release, translated by
volunteer Joy Gao.

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