Murder by dog

March 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

JUNCTION CITY, Kansas––A
jury in Geary County, Kansas, on January
23 convicted Sabine Davidson, 27, of
unintentional second degree murder and
endangering the life of a child for allowing
three Rottweilers to run loose. The dogs on
April 24, 1997, killed Christopher Wilson,
age 11, as he awaited a school bus with his
brother Trammell, age 9, who escaped.
Testimony by Davidson’s daughter
Victoria, age 8, established that
Davidson claimed the dogs were harmless
even after they killed Wilson. Well before
that attack, another witness testified,
Victoria complained that the dogs were
mean and that one had attacked her sister.

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

Shot dead on January 24 at an
illegal cockfight in Sunnyside, Washington,
Jesus Brambila, 29, of Yakima,
was apparently one of about a dozen armed
robbers, including his three brothers, who
tied up and beat around 20 other attendees,
Yakima County sheriff’s investigators said
on January 30. Brambila was killed, theorized
detective Robert Weedin, when
another robber’s shotgun discharged accidentally.
Several similar robberies had
occurred locally during the preceding 60
days, Weedin said, giving no further
details. The probe of Brambila’s death
apparently was not linked to the January 31
arrest of 39 people, mostly Philippine
Canadians, and confiscation of 72 cocks
plus cockfighting gear at Burnaby, British
Columbia, four hours north by car.

HSUS doesn’t get it in Taiwan

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

TAIPAI, TAIWAN––“Approximately two
million dogs in Taiwan are owned––and 1.3 to 1.5 million
are strays,” Humane Society of the U.S/Humane
Society International vice president for companion animals
Martha Armstrong lamented in the winter 1998
edition of HSUS News. “There are few bona fide animal
shelters in Taiwan, and there is no clear-cut
authority or responsibility for controlling strays.
Citizens are very reluctant to cooperate with government
in the control of stray and unwanted animals.”
The Taiwanese Environmental Protection
Administration has the chief jurisdiction over stray
dogs. But agency staff, Armstrong found, don’t like to
kill animals. “Chinese has no term for euthanasia,” she
claimed, seemingly unaware that there are several
“Chinese” languages. The official language of Taiwan
is Mandarin.

PETA faction loses NEAVS custody verdict

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

BOSTON––Margaret Hinkle,
Justice of the Superior Court for Suffolk
County, Massachusetts, ruled on January
22 that People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals cofounders Alex Pacheco and
Ingrid Newkirk, Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine founder and president
Neal Barnard, Bosack & Kruger
Foundation executive director Scott Van
Valkenburg, and fellow New England
Anti-Vivisection Society trustees Merry
Caplan and Tina Brackenbush all “breached
their fiduciary duties” to NEAVS in 1996
by “failing to allow Theo Capaldo to stand
for election as the duly nominated sole candidate
for president” of NEAVS at the 1996
annual meeting; removing Fund for
Animals president Cleveland Amory from
his dual role as NEAVS president “without
cause”; and “delegating to the executive
committee,” which they created, “excessive
powers and authority.”

Squash standings

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

MENTOR, Ohio––Drivers can
avoid roadkills and stay out of accidents,
suggests data gathered since 1993 by Mentor,
Ohio transportation department employee
Cathy Strah, by looking out for rabbits in
spring; Canada geese, raccoons, skunks,
and squirrels in late summer; and deer in fall.
Adding 1997 data to the four-year
totals analyzed in the March 1997 edition of
ANIMAL PEOPLE mostly confirms previous
findings. Strah has now recorded particulars
of 3113 roadkills picked up by Mentor
town crews, an average of 622 per year. The
lowest annual total was 456 in 1996, after the
harsh winter of 1995-1996; the highest was
778, a year earlier; and the 1997 total was
668, the closest yet to the norm.

LATEST NUMBERS ON PET THEFT

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

IRONTON, Ohio––Earl Hall Jr.,
66, of Delbarton, West Virginia, was to be
arraigned on February 17 in Ironton Municipal
Court on 25 counts of cruelty––one for each of
25 dogs police found crammed into three
small cages in the back of his pickup truck.
Hall said he was taking the dogs for sale to a
reasearch laboratory. As ANIMAL PEOPLE
went to press, police were still trying to determine
whether any of the dogs were stolen.
There were reports that two men in separate
trucks were stealing dogs in the area by posing
as local dog wardens.
Hall was arrested just as the fourth
biennial update of the ANIMAL PEOPLE pet
theft log confirmed previous findings that the
1990 Pet Theft Act amendments to the Animal
Welfare Act appear to have virtually halted
thefts for laboratory use since taking effect in
January 1992. If any of the dogs in Hall’s
possession are identified as stolen, he will
become the first person apprehended in
alleged connection with pet theft for laboratory
use since 1993.

“ALMIGHTY GOD HAS BLESSED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONAIRES.”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

PALI MARWAR, RAJASTHAN,
INDIA––The Shri Pinjarapol Gaushala,
founded 150 years ago, has sheltered animals
for 25 years longer than any humane society in
the United States. But while older U.S.
humane societies have usually built up endowments
that guarantee at least some steady
income, the Shri Pinjarapol Gaushala staff of
21 plus 10 volunteers cheerfully describe their
finances as “A question mark before us.”
They now care for 1,201 cattle and
1,228 goats: blind, disabled, rescued from
illegal traffic to slaughter, or just abandoned
as poor milk-producers or cart-pullers. Their
upkeep costs just over $10,000 a year.

ONE WEEPING MAN

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

He sat over his dying horse, his head
buried in his hands. He had walked with his horse for
20 miles from his village. The horse was behaving
strangely, kicking and walking stiffly, so the old
man did not ride her, but walked beside her, talking
to her, stroking her, cajoling her on the long journey.
His purpose was to reach our shelter, where he knew
the best doctor was available.
The diagnosis was grim. The horse had
contracted tetanus as a result of a wound to her lower
leg. Our vet immediately sedated the horse to relax
the spasms, and our staff spent several hours on the
road trying to find a chemist who sold anti-tetanus
toxoid. This was finally located and purchased at a
very high price.

Compassionate Crusaders conquer Calcutta dog problem

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

CALCUTTA––Calcutta, India, human population
11 million, is as little as $10,000 away from becoming the fifth
major Indian city to achieve no-kill dog control, following
Bombay, Delhi, Madras, and Jaipur.
Just a few years ago some Calcutta leaders suggested
shipping stray dogs to other Asian nations for meat. The city
pound was overwhelmed, with a budget of just five cents per
day per dog received. But the citizenry wouldn’t hear of it.
Instead, on March 2, 1996, Calcutta turned dog control
over to seven activist groups, among them Compassionate
Crusaders Trust, founded in 1993 by Purnima Toolsidass,
Ratna Ganguli, and dog psychologist Debasis Chakrabarti.
Chakrabarti, involved in Calcutta humane work since
he gave up medical studies in 1976 to work for kindness toward
dogs, also heads the Calcutta chapter of People For Animals,
the national animal advocacy organization led by Member of
Parliament and syndicated columnist Maneka Gandhi.

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