HUMAN OBITUARIES
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2000:
Vicki Moore, 44, founder of Fight Against Animal Cruelty in Europe, died in Liverpool, England, on December 6, from complications of a goring she suffered while videotaping a bull run through the streets of Coria, Spain, in July 1995. “It took one minute 36 seconds to get her to the hospital,” her husband Tony Moore said, “and then they operated for seven hours. The bull was shot immediately, which was good for the bull. They said he was too dangerous. They don’t like to be in too much danger when they do what they do. When I told Vicki, she burst into tears.” A former actress, Moore documented animal abuse undercover at Spanish fiestas for more than a decade before her injury, and rescued many of the animals she saw mistreated, including Blackie the Donkey, who as a longtime guest of The Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth, Devon, became poster-animal for her cause. Blackie died in 1994. Moore’s longest battle was against the custom of throwing a goat from a 60-foot church tower during an annual festival in Manganeses de la Polverosa, Spain. Moore saw a nanny goat killed there in 1990, and won an order from the governor of Zamora that a goat not be thrown in 1991. Thereafter, defying such orders became part of the tradition––until this year, when the town council threatened to fine anyone who helped toss a goat. The festival was held on January 23, and the goat-toss was not done.