COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

Editor’s note: The people grouped under the heading “Animal Collectors,”

below, call themselves animal rescuers. The others, purportedly, sought to make

money. In each case, however, regardless of alleged motive, the pathology and cir –

cumstances of the perpetrators seems to be the same. As humane investigator Lewis R.

Plumb of the Promotion of Animal Welfare Society in Paradise, California wrote about

a case he and his wife prosecuted, “When two people are living in a mobile home with

hundreds of dogs, with feces all over the floors and even on the bed, when in one small

container a mother poodle nurses two dead puppies who have been left in the cage,

when three dead puppies are in the freezer next to a frozen turkey and some ice cream,

then you get the idea that it just maybe is not so much criminality as insanity. How

should these people be humanely dealt with? As it is now, each felony cruelty count

under California law carries a maximum penalty of one year is prison, a maximum fine

FUR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

ARE FUR SALES UP OR DOWN?

U.S. retail fur sales rose to $1.1

billion in 1992, ending a four-year slump

during which sales fell from $1.8 billion to

just $1 billion––says the Fur Information

Council of America.

But the FICA figures, published

in the September 21 Wall Street Journal,

are open to question––not least because it’s

hard to boost sales with markedly fewer

sales outlets. Nearly half the fur retail out-

lets of five years ago are now out of the fur

business. Among them are 34 of the 50 out-

lets formerly owned by Evans Inc., which

controlled 10% of the U.S. retail fur trade;

20 of the 49 Jindo and Fur Vault franchises;

and the entire Furrari and Antonovich

chains, both of which went bankrupt.

Marine mammals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

The Dolphin Alliance, of

Melbourne Beach, Florida, announced

September 22 that Bogie and Bacall, the

Ocean Reef Club dolphins, will be going

home to the Indian River Lagoon as soon

as they complete rehabilitation with former

“Flipper” trainer Ric O’Barry, who heads

the closely allied Dolphin Project.

Publicity surrounding the 1988 capture of

Bogie and Bacall influenced the National

Marine Fisheries Service to ban further dol-

phin captures for the benefit of facilities

not open to the public. When the Ocean

Reef Club was sold recently, it lost the

grandfather clause enabling it to keep

Bogie and Bacall.

Congressional leaders ask Babbit, Espy to halt Alaska wolf massacre

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

WASHINGTON D.C.––Convinced that Alaska’s Board of Game wouldn’t yield

to reasonable requests for a humane wolf policy, 30 Congressional leaders on September

22 urged the Clinton administration to intervene and suspend same-day wolf hunts on

public lands. Letters condemning the wolf-killing, set to start October 1, were sent to

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbit and Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy.

Babbitt alone could effectively halt the same-day hunting, since the Department

of the Interior oversees 90 million acres of Alaska under the Bureau of Land Management,

77 million acres under the Fish and Wildlife Service, and 54 million acres under the

National Park Service. The Department of Agriculture has jurisdiction of 23 million

acres.

Animal Control & Rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

The National Cat Protection Society, a shelter in

Long Beach, California, has paid $26,500 in civil penalties

and costs for providing misleading information about euthana-

sia policies and adoption rates to donors and people who sur-

render cats. NCPS attorney Richard Tanzer denied the organi-

zation had done anything wrong and said the settlement was

reached to avoid the cost of defending itself against the charges,

brought by the Los Angeles County district attorney.

Chows are now responsible for the most dog bites

of any breed in St, Bernard Parish, Louisiana, according to

animal control officer Ceily Trog––10 of 89 total bites,

through the first half of this year. Other Louisiana animal con-

trol departments also report a rise in chow bites.

Watson trial Dec. 6 ––if Canada dares

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUND-

LAND––Enjoying his new reputation in

Canada as “Captain Cod Hugger” for his July

28 confrontation with foreign dragnetters in

the North Atlantic, Paul Watson of the Sea

Shepherd Conservation Society is to go to

trial December 6 before a St. John’s jury for

allegedly endangering the lives of his crew,

the crew of the Cuban dragger Rio Las Casas,

and the Rio Las Casas itself––if the

Canadian government actually has the nerve

to try Watson for an action applauded from

coast to coast, including by many of the

same people who have long reviled him for

his protests against seal hunting.

ANIMAL HEALTH

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

IN THE VETERINARY CLINIC

Despite concerns about bites and animal-transmitted

disease, veterinary staff are as often hurt on the job by ordi-

nary slips, trips, falls, and lifting injuries, according to sta-

tistics supplied to ANIMAL PEOPLE by the American

Veterinary Medical Association Professional Liability Insurance

Trust. From 1988 through 1992, dog bites accounted for 16.3%

of claims, cat bites for 13.8%, kicks by horses and cattle for

5.2%, and all other injuries done by animals combined amounted

to just 4.1%––but slips, trips, and falls came to 17.2%, while

lifting totaled 16.2%. Three-fourths of the lifting injuries

involved lifting “small” animals, whose weight and ability to

struggle were probably underestimated by the injured. Average

costs per claim were $2,808 for animal-related lifting injuries;

$6,253 for other lifting injuries; $6,212 for slips, trips, and falls;

$4,174 for horse and cow-kicks; $1,527 for dog bites; and $678

for cat bites. Job safety statistics have apparently never been

compiled for animal control officers and shelter workers, but

similar ratios may apply.

Squirrels, cats top count to date: Student roadkill census heads into second year

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

DERRY, New Hampshire––Roadkill Monitoring

Project coordinator Brewster Bartlett, a.k.a. Dr. Splatt, has

announced that March 14 through May 15 will be the 1994

roadkill survey period for school groups.

Last year students at 31 schools participated, all of

them in New England. This year, Bartlett hopes to recruit

several hundred, from all parts of the U.S. and Canada.

“Each student is assigned a road that is frequently

traveled going to and from school,” Bartlett explains. “This

road is to be monitored at least twice a day for at least eight

out of the nine weeks.” Each Monday, student roadkill

counts from the preceding week will be tabulated and

relayed by computer modem to a Roadkill Bulletin Board

maintained by Simmons College, in Massachusetts.

Animal and habitat protection groups split on North American Free Trade Agreement

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

NO IMPACT STATEMENT REQUIRED

WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Court of

Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled September 24

that the Clinton administration doesn’t have to produce an

environmental impact statement on the North American

Free Trade Agreement before it takes effect. The ruling

reversed a lower court ruling that would have required sev-

eral years of study before the pact could be submitted to

Congress for ratification.

Public Citizen, one of three plaintiffs in the bid to

delay or stop NAFTA, pledged to appeal to the Supreme

Court within a matter of weeks.

“This decision has cheated the American public

out of the right to know,” said Friends of the Earth director

Jane Perkins.

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