Sheltering

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

Animal shelters are exempted from a new
Arizona law that makes pet stores financially liable
for veterinary costs if they sell sick dogs and cats. One
side effect of the bill, which resembles legislation
already in effect in many other states, will be to
encourage more pet stores to emulate the PetsMart
Luv-A-Pet program, which allows humane societies to
do adoptions through store facilities. The 300–plusstore
PetsMart chain, based in Phoenix, may cumulatively
place more animals now than any other organization,
but is not beloved of all humane societies: a
brochure on Spaying and Neutering distributed by the
in-house VetsSmart clinics, forwarded to A N I M A L
PEOPLE by Animal Issues Movement co-director
Phyllis M. Daugherty, of Los Angeles, seemingly
encourages breeding with a passage reading, “Many
people who welcome the birth of puppies or kittens
believe the experience and the comitment involved are
among the most rewarding experiences of their entire
lives. Being a ‘grandparent’ to a bunch of new pets
can be fun for everyone in your family––and highly
educational for your children.”

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People in animal protection

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

The Washington Animal Rescue
League in April honored Ann Cottrell Free,
of Bethesda, Maryland, with a lifetime
achievement award. Shown above with her
granddaughter Amanda Nooter and Terry
Cummings of the Poplar Springs Animal
Sanctuary, Free “was a participant, as a journalist
and an activist,” in winning passage of
the Humane Slaughter Act (1959) and
Laboratory Animal Welfare Act (1966), the
Bethesda Gazette recalled. After a long career
as Washington D.C. correspondent to the New
York Herald Tribune, Chicago Sun Times,
and Newsweek, Free founded Flying Fox
Press and the Albert Schweitzer Council on
Animals and the Environment, wrote three
books pertaining to animals, led efforts to
upgrade local animal shelters, and earned previous
honors including the Animal Welfare
Institute’s Albert Schweitzer Medal, the
Rachel Carson Legacy Award, and election to
the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame.

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Arizona Office of the Attorney General’s Office raps Veterinary Review Board for failure to discipline veterinarians, probe complaints

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

PHOENIX––The Arizona State
Veterinary Medical Review Board “does not
adequately discipline veterinarians,” dismissing
more than 90% of the complaints it
received in three of the past four years, the
Arizona Office of the Attorney General reported
on April 28, following up a 1995 “sunset
review” by the Joint Legislative Audit
Committee, which determines whether or not
state-established organizations should continue
past their original mandate.
“Veterinary consultants retained by
the Auditor General reviewed complaints from
fiscal year 1996,” the Office of the Attorney
General’s report continued, “and found that as
many as one out of every six complaints dismissed
should have resulted in some discipline.

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Going to the dogs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

Margie Richardson, 76, wife of the late Leon D.
Richardson, on April 21 asked the Hong Kong High Court
to set aside a will leaving more than $12 million to the Royal
S P C A, whose annual budget is about $60 million. Leaving
Mrs. Richardson in 1994, after 40 years, coincidental with the
death of his poodle, Leon Richardson gave her $3 million,
then rewrote his will, a 1991 draft of which purportedly left
her everything, just nine days before his May 1995 death at
age 77 from a heart attack. The RSPCA legacy was the
biggest share of an estate worth about $30 million. The London
Times remembered Leon Richardson, a U.S. citizen, as “a
dog-lover and financial commentator who had survived kidnapping,
atomic bomb tests and corruption charges.”

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Say what?!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

The Lettuce Ladies, from People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals, invited North Carolina general assembly
members to a May 8 vegetarian “pig-out” as thanks for a
moratorium on building hog barns. However, PETA
spokesperson Michael McGraw said, “Invitations bearing a
sexy vegetarian wearing strategically placed lettuce leaves
proved too racy” for the assembly speaker, who barred their
distribution.
The Louisiana state Senate and Governmental
Affairs Committee in April voted to terminate 60 state agencies
mostly set up to promote commerce and tourism, but
spared the Pork Promotion Board and Fertilizer Commission;
then approved amending the state ethics code to allow elected
officials to accept hunting and fishing trips from lobbyists.

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THE WINDSOME REGISTER

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

“The Windsome Register is the title of a register of
reputable animal protection organizations worldwide,” former
Royal SPCA and International Fund for Animal Welfare
executive Edward Seymour-Rouse wrote on May 15 to about
500 selected recipients.
“This Register is being set up at the request of a
donor to ensure that his already considerable donations to animal
protection go to those projects ‘that are concerned with
the largest number of animals who have suffered the most,’
backed by the most efficient and effective organizations.”

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“He’s an oxymoron”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

LOS ANGELES––Hired circa February 1, according
to Last Chance for Animals executive director David
Meyer, program staffer Luke Montgomery was on the job a
month before Washington Times columnist John McCaslin
noted his presence and his background; another month passed
before other activists called ANIMAL PEOPLE, accusing
him of trouble-making and asking, “Who is he?”
Gay activists previously asked the same question.
According to an October 6, 1995 posting by commentator P.
Del Grosso on a Gay:Stories:Gay Life World Wide Web site,
Montgomery “came to Washington D.C. a few years ago and
made a big fuss about changing his name to Sissyfag. He
claimed to be an AIDS activist and chased Bill Clinton around
for not doing enough about AIDS.”

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British close to banning fox hunts–– if Labour keeps deal

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

LONDON––Did International Fund for Animal
Welfare founder Brian Davies retire from the IFAW board of
trustees after the election of the new Labour government of
Britain to put himself in line for a high-level appointment, or
because his million-pound gamble that Labour will halt hunting
might not pay off?
Or was it really all just as he said, to focus on his
work with the Political Action Lobby, PAL for short, an independent
pro-animal organization claiming 50,000 supporters?
Davies gave Labour the equivalent of $1.5 million on
September 1, 1997, after Labour leader Tony Blair pledged to
permit a free vote in the House of Commons to ban hunting
with hounds. Blair seemed to retreat, however, as the May 1
election approached and hunting supporters formed a trade
union, The Union of Country Sports Workers. Eventually
Blair appeared to indefinitely postpone the free vote, in which
Members of Parliament would be allowed to vote their consciences
instead of a particular party line.

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Shelby bill would turn National Wildlife Refuges into hunting preserves

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

WASHINGTON D.C.––Alabama Senator Richard
Shelby, a Tuskaloosa Republican, on May 15 introduced legislation
to declare all federal land open to hunting and fishing,
except if used for national security or other purposes which
cannot accommodate hunting and fishing. The bill would also
state that Congress intends for federal agencies to support, promote,
and enhance fishing and hunting opportunities when
making decisions regarding federal land use; require that all
excise taxes on hunting and fishing equipment be spent for
wildlife management to benefit hunting and fishing; and give
hunters and fishers the right to intervene in any civil lawsuit
that might impose limits on hunting or fishing on federal land.

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