How we helped save some coyotes

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

LOS ANGELES––By order of
the Los Angeles Animal Services Commission,
the city Department of Animal
Services on September 8 retrieved traps
that were loaned just before Labor Day
to two residents of Northridge and
Woodland Hills in the San Fernando
Valley to help them kill coyotes.
The residents were to set and
monitor the traps, but were to call
Animal Services to dispatch any coyotes
they caught.
The trap loans reversed Animal
Services Commission policy in effect
since 1993. Scare stories about why the
loans were made revived old phobias
about coyotes that “Coyote Lady” Lila
Brooks and others have fought for more
than 30 years.

ANIMAL CONTROL & SHELTERING

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

Pet registration and microchipping,
required throughout Taiwan since September 1,
is expected to markedly increase returns to owners
by pounds and reduce running-at-large. Stricter
regulation of shelters is meanwhile expected to
diminish the cruelty for which Taiwanese pounds
became notorious in recent years through campaigns
led by the International Alliance for
Taiwan Dogs, Animal Protection of Taiwan,
Life Conservationist Association, and Asians for
Humans, Animals, and Nature. A survey commissioned
by the Council of Agriculture Bureau
of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and
Quarantine reported on August 30 that the number
of stray dogs in Taiwan has fallen from 1.3 to 1.4
million in 1995 to about 600,000 now, while the
number of dogs kept at home as pets has surged
from circa 350,000 then to more than two million.

Trouble in the Balkans––and Asia Minor

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

LONDON–– Two border collies
named Kelly and Gemma symbolize to the
British public the frustration of trying to
help animals––and humans––in the
Balkans and Asia Minor.
Kelly and Gemma are trained
sniffing dogs, thoroughly vaccinated,
who were dispatched to Izmit, Turkey, by
the Gloucester-based disaster response
group Rapid U.K. after the August 17 predawn
earthquake that fatally buried as
many as 45,000 Turks in the rubble of
their collapsed homes.
Kelly and Gemma saved at least
six human lives. But because rabies
occurs in Turkey, they were locked into
quarantine immediately upon their return
home, their vaccination records not withstanding
bureaucratic constipation.

WHO’S FIXING PET OVERPOPULATION?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

The following table lists the number of
dogs and cats killed per thousand humans in
North American cities, counties, and states
where complete recent counts are available.
Immense regional differences are readily
apparent, with the lowest ratios clustered in
the Northeast and the highest in the South,
except around Washington D.C.
The low Northeastern and Washington
D.C. area figures would appear to be associated
with high urban populations, apartment living
and resultant low pet ownership rates; cold winters,
the D.C. area excepted, which depress the
survival rate of late-born feral kittens and also
suppress estrus in dogs and cats, decreasing the
frequency with which they bear litters; a relatively
strong humane infrastructure to encourage neutering;

Organizations & key personnel

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

Stabilizing a year after the death
of founder Henry Spira, Animal Rights
International including the Coalition for
Nonviolent Food has elected Princeton
University professor of bioethics Peter
Singer as president and has hired Pace
University adjunct law faculty member and
animal rights law conference organizer Susan
Porto as coordinator. ARI was directed since
Spira’s death by attorney Elinor Molbegott,
his executor and longtime close friend, who
remains on the ARI board, along with Singer
and Humane Society of the U.S. senior vice
president Andrew Rowan. Singer authored
the philosophical study Animal Liberation
(1974), co-authored Animal Factories w i t h
Jim Mason (1981), and wrote Ethics Into
Action (1998), the definitive Spira biography.
Rowan was among Spira’s most often consulted
advisors on scientific affairs.

Activists & Organizations

Court Calendar

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

San Diego Superior Court Judge
John S. Meyer on August 20 ruled that the
35-page Fashion Valley Mall a p p l i c a t i o n
for permission to engage in “expressive”
activity there is overbroad and unconstitutional.
Meyer lifted a preliminary injunction
the mall owners obtained in December 1998
against Last Chance for Animals, other
activist groups, and dozens of individuals
who had participated in anti-fur demonstrations
there. Earlier, on June 11, Meyer let
the injunction stand, but held unconstitutional
a policy prohibiting protesters from
telling shoppers they should not patronize
merchants at the mall. The Fashion Valley
Mall has now amended their application,
LCA executive director Eric Mindel t o l d
ANIMAL PEOPLE, and is to apply again
for an injunction on October 4. Ironically,
the case is now down to just four defendants,
Mindel noted: LCA, himself personally,
LCA attorney Roland Vincent, and one
other individual. None of them were ever
part of any action involving the mall,
Mindel said, until they were named in the
1998 preliminary injunction, and decided to
fight it as a potential landmark in the evolution
of law pertaining to shopping malls as
venues for public expression.

ALF update

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

Accused of bombing the Fur
Breeders Cooperative at Sandy, Utah, in
1997, Clayton Ellerman, 22, pleaded guilty
to reduced charges on August 19 and turned
federal witness, along with his brother David
Ellerman, 21, who was convicted for his part
in the bombing in 1998, and is now serving a
seven-year prison sentence. Clayton Ellerman,
facing up to 30 years in prison, is to be sentenced
on November 16. The Ellermans testified
against Andrew Bishop, 25, of Ithaca,
New York; Sean Gautschy, 23, of Salt Lake
City; and Adam Troy Peace, 21, of
Huntington Beach, California––but a jury on
September 8 found all three men not guilty of
all charges against them, reportedly due to
lack of physical evidence confirming the
Ellerman testimony. A sixth defendant,
Alexander Slack, killed himself in June 1999.

PIGEON SHOOTING, COCKFIGHTING, AND GREYHOUND RACING

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

The Hegins pigeon shoot and
Omak Suicide Race each drew about 5,000
people just to watch animals get hurt and heckle
protesters, suggest attendance figures from
the village events they were part of. The
Hegins Labor Day festival in recent years drew
about 10,000 people; only 5,000 came this
year, the first since 1935 that pigeons were
not shot. The Omak Stampede rodeo drew up
to 22,000 people; just over 17,000 came this
year, the first since 1936 that horses were not
galloped down a steep embankment into the
Okanogan River. Even without the Suicide
Race, however, the Stampede still included
traditional rodeo events featuring violent treatment
of animals. Hegins without the pigeon
shoot apparently had no violent attraction.

BULLFEATHERS AND THE MONTREAL SPCA

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

MONTREAL––The first
“bloodless” bullfight in Montreal since
1973 was held as scheduled on August
21. Montreal SPCA president Pierre
Banoti initially allowed the SPCA’s
name to be used in promoting the fight
in exchange for 25¢ per ticket sold.
After an e-mail and fax campaign
by the Global Animal Network
and the July/August ANIMAL PEOP
L E editorial made the deal known to
the worldwide humane community,
Banoti claimed Quebec law did not
allow the Montreal SPCA to prevent the
fight. Therefore, he said, he cut a deal
with the bullfight promoter to raise
$7,500 to send the bulls to retirement
post-fight at the hobby farm of a former
Montreal SPCA board member, instead
of to slaughter. But the former board
member withdrew her offer to take the
bulls after the deal became controversial––and
after activists told media that
they would monitor the bulls to ensure
they were not sold to slaughter later.
The Montreal SPCA, under
Banoti, claimed credit for preventing
ing another scheduled “bloodless” bullfight
as recently as August 1998.
U.S. anti-bullfighting campaigner
Steve Hindi joined Montreal
activists for several days of protest.

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