People & Positions

June 1, 2012 juanitoG Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2012:

The Center for Animals & Public Policy on May 29, 2012 confirmed the appointment of former associate center director for education Allen T. Rutberg as permanent director, and named as assistant director Emily McCobb, DVM. Rutberg had for three years been interim director of the center, founded in 1983 within the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. A zoologist, Rutberg is best known for overseeing deer contraceptive research funded by the Humane Society of the U.S. at sites including Fire Island, New York, and the 578-acre National Institute of Standards & Technology campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The first two years of the Fire Island project cut the deer population by 46%. Read more

Activists & Organizations

Vet killed while prepping elephant for retirement

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2012:

Vet killed while prepping elephant for retirement

TUAKU, New Zealand–-Helen Schofield, 42, owner, director, and veterinarian at the Franklin Zoo & Wildlife Sanctuary in Tuaku, New Zealand, was on April 25, 2012 fatally crushed by Mila, 39,
an African elephant whom Schofield was preparing for eventual relocation to the Performing Animal Welfare Society’s 2,3000-acre elephant sanctuary in northern California. Read more

The American SPCA grants $151,000 to help a poultry producer expand operations

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2012:

The American SPCA grants $151,000 to help a poultry producer expand operations

NEW YORK CITY-American SPCA farm animal welfare campaign director Suzanne McMillan on May 15, 2012 announced a $151,100 grant to the five-year-old nonprofit organization Farm Forward, to be used “to promote humane poultry welfare at the Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch
in Lindsborg, Kansas.” Read more

The race to revive horse slaughter

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2012:

The race to revive horse slaughter

RIVERTON, Wyoming–Trying to become the first U.S. entrepreneur to kill horses for meat since 2007, Unified Equine company founder and Wyoming state representative Sue Wallis (R-Recluse) hopes to open a horse slaughterhouse near Riverton within the next year, she told Jeremy Pelzer of the Casper Star-Tribune on May 22, 2012–but first Wallis has to find the investment capital.
“Wallis said Unified Equine, is looking to bring in local investors to help finance the plant, which she said could cost between $2 million and $6 million and would initially create about 50 jobs. The facility would process up to 200 horses a day for sale abroad and to ethnic markets within the U.S., she said,” reported Pelzer. Read more

Chicago-area caretaker is first known mute swan attack death

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2012:

CHICAGO–Anthony Hensley, 37, on April 14, 2012 drowned at the Bay Colony Drive condominium complex in an unincorporated part of Cook County, Illinois, near Des Plaines, west of Chicago.
Employed for about 10 years by Knox Swan & Dog LLC, a Great Barrington firm that deploys mute swans and dogs to deter nonmigratory Canada geese, Hensley was rushed by a mute swan while making a routine check on the swans in his care. Read more

Appellate Court upholds animal fighting ban

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012:

RICHMOND, Virginia–A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on April 20, 2012 unanimously
affirmed that Congress has the constitutional authority to prohibit
animal fighting. The verdict upheld federal legislation passed in
2007 that created felony penalties for cockfighting and dogfighting
in cases involving interstate transport of participants, animals,
money, or fighting paraphernalia. The 2007 legislation reinforced
sections of the federal Animal Welfare Act which have been in effect
since 1976, but previously carried only misdemeanor penalties.

Humane Society of the U.S. sends a message via Kreider & Burger King

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012:

MIAMI, PHILADELPHIA–The Humane Society
of the U.S. on April 12, 2012 disclosed
undercover video of horrific conditions at a
Kreider Farms egg ranch in Man-heim,
Pennsylvania–an erstwhile ally in seeking
passage of HR 3798, the proposed federal bill to
mandate larger cage sizes for laying hens.
On April 25, 2012, less than two weeks
later, HSUS president Wayne Pacelle lauded
Burger King for announcing that by 2017 all
Burger King eggs and pork products are to come
from cage-free hens and pigs raised without use
of gestation stalls.

Trying to save fighting dogs five years after the Michael Vick case

May 1, 2012 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012:

MANILA, COLUMBUS, Ohio– Incidents on opposite sides of the
world have rekindled debate over the wisdom of expending humane
resources to try to rehome dogs of known violent history and behavior.
Within the space of 10 days:
* The Philippine Animal Welfare Society took temporary
custody of 266 pit bulls who were seized on March 30, 2012 from a
dogfighting ring in San Pablo, Laguna, the Philippines.
* Three small children and an 18-year-old woman in different
parts of the U.S. suffered disfiguring injuries inflicted by recently
rehomed pit bulls.

King Juan Carlos, honorary head of World Wildlife Fund/Spain, apologizes for shooting elephant

May 1, 2012 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012:

MADRID–King Juan Carlos of Spain is for
the time being still honorary president of the
Spanish arm of the World Wildlife Fund, as he
has been since it was formed in 1968, but an
April 20, 2012 public apology for participating
in an ill-fated $60,000 elephant hunt in Botswana
did not quell calls for his ouster or
resignation–even from within the pro-hunting WWF.

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