SHELTERING

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

Michael Arms, 51, was in September

named executive director of the Helen
Woodward Animal Center in Rancho Santa Fe,
California. The shelter adopted out just 600 animals
last year on a $3 million budget. Arms
pledged immediate improvement. As shelter
director for the North Shore Animal League,
1976-1997, Arms increased adoptions from 4,000
a year––which was already the highest total for
any shelter in the U.S.––to a peak of 44,000 in the
early 1990s. Arms previously spent 10 years with
the American SPCA in New York City.
Exposes by Corpus Christi CallerTimes
reporter Jennifer Stump, citing the ANIMAL
PEOPLE finding that Corpus Christi has
one of the highest rates of shelter killing of any
U.S. city, at 44.4 per 1,000 human residents,
brought an anonymous grant of $30,000 in late
September. Gulf Coast Humane Society president
Denny Bales told Stump the money might be
enough, added to the present budget, to save
3,000 additional animals.

ACTIVISTS CHANGE THE GUARD ON PUGET SOUND

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

SEATTLE, VANCOUVER––T h e
Sea Shepherds are coming, Bear Watch is
gone, and no one is saying yet what may
become of the Sea Defense Alliance [SeDnA].
Maintaining a vigil off Neah Bay
against Makah tribe whaling for much of the
past two years, and anticipating further confrontations
with the Makah, the Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society expects to soon open a
permanent headquarters at Friday Harbor, on
San Juan Island.
The Sea Shepherd fleet operated
from Friday Harbor throughout spring 1999,
but berthed at Seattle during the summer. Sea
Shepherd vessels have been continuously stationed
on Puget Sound since 1996, after many
years of frequent visits, and the Sea Shepherds
have had personnel continuously in the area
since 1995, when the Makah first announced
their intent to resume whaling.

Maneka keeps ministry for animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

NEW DELHI––As always prominently
including animal protection on her
platform as an independent candidate,
Maneka Gandhi on October 3 won election
for the fourth time in 10 years as Member of
Parliament for Pilibhit District, Uttar
Pradesh, India.
Defeating her only opponent by a
margin of more than two to one, Maneka is
among the most securely seated members of
the ruling coalition, headed by the Hindu
nationalist Baratiya Janata Party. The BJP
and allied parties won 297 of the 543 seats in
the Indian Parliament, substantially increasing
the strength of the second successive BJPled
government since the end in early 1998 of
nearly 49 years of rule by the Congress Party,
whose seats decreased to just 134.

Cox wins rights claim vs. Friends of Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

WASHINGTON D.C.––The D.C.
Department of Human Rights and Local Business
Development on September 17 told complainant
Carroll Cox and respondent Friends of Animals that
it has found probable cause to believe that FoA violated
the D.C. Human Rights Act of 1977 when it
fired Cox in August 1999.
A former special investigator for the
California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Cox was hired by
FoA in April 1997 to work on wildlife issues. He
was relocated from his own office in Hawaii to the
FoA branch office in Washington D.C. in June 1997
––and was fired by FoA president Priscilla Feral
just seven weeks later, despite apparently outstanding
performance, acknowledged in her memos.

People

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

Jeanne Daniels, of Houston,
owner of the TarryTown Center
shopping plaza in Austin, recently
ired the 400-member West Austin
Neighborhood Group by requiring
as part of new leases that tenants not
sell animal products. Gourmet
supermarket owner Harvey Tack
relocated rather than stop selling
meat. The other tenants with leases
up for renewal are reportedly moving
to comply––but two of the three
restaurants at the plaza have a year
left under their old leases.

Pork barrel politics

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

Corporate Hogs at the Public
Trough, a new Sierra Club report slamming
government subsidies to factory hog farms,
was released on September 15 in Kansas City
and September 17 in Oklahoma City. “This
money is not creating economic development;
it’s creating environmental destruction,”
said Missouri chapter director Ken
Midkiff. Added Sierra Club president
Chuck McGrady, “God never intended for
100,000 pigs to poop in the same place.”

Fur trapping and fashion

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

The last chance in the present Congress
for a ban on leghold and neck snare trapping in
National Wildlife Refuges introduced by Senator
Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) and Representative Sam
Farr (D-California) was to come in a October joint
House/Senate committee meeting to resolve differences
between their respective Interior
Appropriations Bill versions. The full House of
Representatives on July 14 approved the Farr bill as
an amendment to the Interior Appropriations Bill,
259-166, over strenuous opposition from House
Resources Committee chair Don Young (R-Alaska),
who reportedly snapped a leghold trap on his index
finger and gesticulated in a seemingly obscene manner
at his opponents. Trappers then intensely lobbied
the Senate, where the Torricelli companion to the
Farr bill failed, 64-32, on September 9.

Singapore fixes ferals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

SINGAPORE––Animal control
cat pickups fell 5% in the first year
after the Singapore Primary Production
Department began a neuter/return project
in 25 precincts under 11 town
councils, according to data PPD urban
animal management branch head
Madhavan Kannan recently shared with
Grace Ma of the Straits Times.
Formerly trying to catch and
kill any cat found at large, the PPD has
since August 1998 allowed volunteers
to vaccinate and neuter cats in supervised
colonies at their own expense.

BULLFEATHERS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

Matador Cristina Sanchez,
27, retired on October 11 after
killing two bulls at the Las Ventas
ring in Madrid, fulfilling a threat she
issued in May after having difficulty
getting prestigious bookings. Male
chauvinism drove her out, she said:
male bullfighters would not appear in
the same ring with her. Sanchez
fought bulls professionally for four
years, after six years as a novice.

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