Brooke outreach in Pakistan, Afghanistan

June 1, 2006 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

MULTAN–Often the young pro-animal organizations of the
Islamic world can do little beyond raising awareness, with
proclamations such as a June 3, 2006 resolution by the Animal Save
Movement of Multan, Pakistan, objecting to overdriving oxen,
donkeys, and horses in the summer heat.
But Pakistan is among the seven nations, four predominantly
Muslim and two others with substantial Muslim minorities, in which
the British-based Brooke Fund for Animals operates equine
clinics–including a clinic in Multan.
The Brooke began working in Pakistan in 1991 with a mobile
clinic operating out of Peshawar in 1991. That project rapidly
expanded into a base clinic, two field clinics, and six mobile
veterinary teams.

Blue Cross of India wins case vs. bullock cart racing

May 1, 2006 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2006:

CHENNAI– Justice R. Banumathi of the Madurai Bench of the
Madras High Court in Chennai, India, on March 29 directed the Tamil
Nadu state government to prevent cruelty to animals in connection
with bullock cart racing and Indian-style bullfighting, which
masquerades as a way of “honoring” cattle.
“It is high time the government shouldered the responsibility
of taking up the cause of animals,” Banumathi said. “Equally, it
is high time the police shared responsibility in boldly declining
permission” for public events involving illegal cruelty, she added.
“Though animal fights are expressly banned under the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960,” Blue Cross of India
chief executive Chinny Krishna told ANIMAL PEOPLE, “these sad
spectacles go on year after year. Scores of spectators and animals
are badly injured and killed each year. The bulls are driven crazy
with fear, are force fed alcohol and ganja (opium), have their
tails bitten, and are then let loose before a drunken crowd to find
a person who can ‘tame the bull.’ The largest of these bullfights,”
Krishna said, “is organised by the Government of Tamil Nadu in
Alanganallur, near Madurai, in January each year.

Gaming politics & greyhounds

May 1, 2006 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2006:

BOSTON–Does anyone care if Native American-run gambling
casinos donate to campaigns to end greyhound racing?
The Massachusetts-based anti-dog racing group Grey2K USA
“receives support from the Humane Society of the U.S.,” which
“routinely accepts cash donations from Indian casinos,” alleged
Boston Herald chief investigative reporter Dave Wedge on April 20,
2006, raising two questions: are casinos actually involved in
anti-greyhound racing efforts, and if they are, is there anything
questionable about opponents of gambling on animals accepting support
from promoters of non-animal based gambling, especially in view that
hundreds of humane societies are partially supported by raffles and
bingo?
“In my recollection, the only time we have partnered in any
financial way with Indian casinos was in fighting efforts by
greyhound tracks to [get state legislatures to] allow slot machines
at their tracks,” HSUS president Wayne Pacelle told ANIMAL PEOPLE.
This was a fight recently lost in Florida, where the
Hollywood Greyhound Track is now allowed to have slot machines. A
similar proposal is still under legislative consideration in
Massachusetts.

Editorial: What cruelty to animals tells us about people

April 2, 2006 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2006:

To behave unethically by the standards of
hare coursers is no easy feat. Hare coursing
consists of setting dogs, usually greyhounds,
on captive rabbits. Recently banned in Britain,
it continues in Ireland, and in parts of the
U.S. and other places where most people do not
yet realize that anyone is doing something so
depraved for kicks.
Vinnie Jones, however, is no ordinary
man. Playing for Wimbledon against Newcastle in
1987, Jones became “football’s most infamous
hardman,” according to Ben Hoyle of the London
Times, when photographed in the act of
backhandedly squeezing the testicles of opponent
Paul Gascoigne of Newcastle.
After Gascoigne protested, Jones sent
him a dozen roses, in an attempted further
insult to his manhood. Gascoigne told Jones that
if he wanted that kind of relationship, he could
do some chores, and sent him a toilet brush.

Elephant Sanctuary to get last Cuneo eles

December 2, 2005 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2005:

CHICAGO–The Elephant Sanctuary at Hohenwald, Tennessee, in
late December 2005 expects to receive nine female elephants from the
Hawthorn Corporation of Richmond, Illinois. The move will put John
Cuneo, 74, out of the elephant training and rental business after
48 years.
Cuneo started the Hawthorn Corporation as a traveling circus
in 1957. Later Cuneo found a more profitable business niche in
leasing animals to other circuses and boarding exotic animals.
Cuneo agreed in March 2004 to settle 47 alleged Animal Welfare Act
violations by divesting of his 16 elephants by August 2004. The
divestiture was repeatedly delayed by disputes over where to send
them.

BOOKS: Gods In Chains

November 2, 2005 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005:

Gods In Chains
by Rhea Ghosh
Foundation Books
(4764/2A, 23 Ansari Rd., Daryaganj, New Delhi 110002, India),
2005. 239 pages, hardcover. $20.00.

Rhea Ghosh, of Boston, Massachusetts, spent the summer of
2004 researching the status of working elephants in India,
commissioned by the Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation Centre in
Bangalore, Karnataka state, India.
Gods In Chains is the 230-page record of her findings, including her
detailed recommendations for changes in the elephant-keeping regimen,
and extensive appendices containing much of her source material.
Ghosh’s observations are heavily derivative of those of Peter
Jaeggi, who has observed captive elephants in India since circa
1990. The extent to which Jaeggi’s commentary has influenced Ghosh
is evident from comparing her text to the two Jaeggi articles
included among the appendices, “Chained in Delhi” and “Living Gods
in a living hell.”

Betting on all but the dogs

November 2, 2005 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005:

DELEVAN, DAYTONA, LACONIA–The 15-year-old Geneva Lakes
Greyhound Track in Delavan, Wisconsin ended live racing on November
6, 2005, with telecasting of races at other tracks due to end in
December.
About 450 of the estimated 1,000 dogs housed at Delavan were
offered for adoption by the local chapter of Greyhound Pets of
America, formed in 1989. Greyhound Pets of America is the largest
U.S. greyhound rescue group to be partially subsidized by the
greyhound industry.
Of the five greyhound tracks opened in Wisconsin during the
early 1990s, only the Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha is still
operating. Geneva Lakes Greyhound Track general manager blamed the
closures on competition from Native American gambling casinos. The
casino operators have managed to keep the Wisconsin greyhound tracks
from expanding into other forms of gambling.
The Iowa Racing & Gaming Commission on October 13 rejected an
application from the National Cattle Congress to reopen the Waterloo
Greyhound Park, closed in 1996, as hub of a riverboat casino
complex.

Rescued donkeys bring peace to bloodsoaked ancient battlefields

November 2, 2005 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005:

LISCARROLL, County Cork–In time the
Donkey Sanctuary of Ireland may be remembered as
the most significant institution in the history
of the blood-soaked rolling hills of Liscarroll.
The 350 donkeys peacefully grazing at the
impeccably tidy 30-acre visitor center and the
equally well-managed 70-acre donkey retirement
farm together form a living monument to a
globally influential turning point in
animal/human relations.
Donkeys are known to have lived at
Knockardbane, the farm that became the visitor
center, since 1926, when Donkey Sanctuary
manager Paddy Barrett’s grandfather retired from
a career as a police officer, and took up
grazing livestock instead.
But in all likelihood donkeys have
inhabited the site for almost as long as donkeys
have been in Ireland.

How Irish dog racers muzzle humane critics

November 1, 2005 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005:

SALLINS, County Kildare–Greyhound
racing issues in Ireland converge on the People’s
Animal Welfare Society, halfway between Dublin
and the Newbridge Greyhound Racing Track, just a
few miles beyond at Naas. Greyhound breeding,
training, and boarding are big business right in
the neighborhood.
PAWS founder Deirdre Hetherington, 73, is among
the most prominent critics of the Irish greyhound
industry.
Yet PAWS is also increasingly reliant on
funding from both the Irish government and the
Irish Greyhound Board, reputedly made available
as part of a co-optive strategy to distract
opposition by rehoming a relative handful of the
greyhounds who are bred to race.
Many of the PAWS dogs are boarded with a
prominent local greyhound racer.
Hetherington operates PAWS from her home,
Sallins Castle, built to withstand armed foes.

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