ADDENDA: WHO GETS THE MONEY? BUDGETS, ASSETS, FUNDRAISING, OVERHEAD

January 1, 1996 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1996:

This addenda to our sixth annual report on the financial
affairs of the major national animal and habitat protection
groups includes those whose IRS Form 990 didn’t reach us
before our December issue deadline.
Groups are identified in the second column by apparent
focus and philosophy: A is for advocacy, C for conservation
of habitat via acquisition, E for education, H for support
of hunting, L for litigation, P for publication, R for animal
rights, S for shelters and sanctuaries, V for antivivisection,
and W for animal welfare. The R and W designations are used
only if an organization makes a point of being one or the other.
Except where otherwise stated, the financial data
comes from current Internal Revenue Service Form 990 filings,
covering either calendar year or fiscal year 1994.

MSPCA missed heads-up

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1996:

BOSTON––A federal district
jury on December 18 awarded
$787,621 to former Massachusetts
SPCA head of radiology Marjorie
McMillan, DVM. The award included
judgements of $171,250 against
MSPCA president Gus Thornton,
DVM, and $269,925 against Paul
Gambardella, DVM. McMillan, a
pioneer of bird radiology, in August
1989 filed a gender-based salary discrimination
complaint against the
MSPCA with the Massachusetts
Commission Against Discrimination.
In November 1991, her 20th year at
the MSPCA, McMillan was terminated.

WOOFS & GROWLS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1996:

Bidding to take over her late mother Ann
Fields’ Love & Care For God’s Animalife
fundraising empire, which paid Fields $75,000 to
$100,000 a month according to the Alabama Office
of the Attorney General, Tina Fields Denny has
formed an organization called Saving Animals From
Euthanasia (SAFE, Inc.), and is now raising funds
herself apparently using Fields’ list, ostensibly to be
able to meet the bonding requirement necessary to
take custody of the 900 dogs and cats left at the Love
& Care shelter after a January 30 hearing. Fields
Denny is also urging donors not to send money to the
Andalusia Humane Society; those funds go, by court
order, to court-appointed animal caretaker Allen
Corey, and actually feed hungry dogs and cats. “We
will have the same goals and guidelines as the no-kill
animal shelters of my parents, Ann and Jerry Fields,”
one Fields Denny appeal proclaims. It may be worth
noting that the June 1994 edition of the Love & Care
newsletter accused Tina Fields Denny’s husband
Ronald Denny of stealing equipment, misappropriating
shelter vehicles, and running drugs.

Values

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1996:

Findings from a telephone poll of 1,004
randomly selected adult Americans from all states but
Alaska and Hawaii, commissioned by the Associated
Press, and published on December 2, are in plain
type. Findings from the methodologically most similar
polls we have on file, if we have any, are in italicized
parenthesis.
Animal protection laws go too far: 18%.
Animal protection laws don’t go far enough: 33%.
Laws are okay now: 43%.
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War on rabbits goes awry Down Under

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1996:

ADELAIDE, S.A.––Australian
officials admitted November 27 that the premature
release of calicivirus into the outback
of New South Wales and South Australia
state in October was an accident.
Apparently carried to the mainland
by insects after deployment at a test site on
Wardong Island, the disease soon killed
850,000 rabbits––22 an acre––in Flinders
Ranges National Park alone. Ranger David
Peacock said that was counting only rabbits
who died in the open; experts predicted
most afflicted rabbits would die underground.
Farmers eager to get rid of rabbits
were reportedly paying $75 apiece for
infected rabbits to release on their property.
Australia has been trying to eradicate
rabbits for more than a century.

Help for dogs who have been hit by cars

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1996:

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana––The Purdue University School of Veterinary
Medicine’s Center for Paralysis Research seeks dogs with spinal fractures, to participate in a
study of oscillating field stimulators, a type of surgically implanted rehabilitative device.
Eligible dogs cannot weigh more than 35 pounds; must be two to eight years old; must have
suffered fracture and dislocation of bones in the spinal column, a type of injury common in
dogs hit by cars, within the past 14 days; and must be completely paralyzed in the hindquarters.
Prospect dogs must be brought to the center by the owners. The center will cover all
medical costs of dogs accepted into the study. For further details, call 317-494-7600.
This is the second major Purdue study of spinal injuries in dogs to use only dogs
who already need medical help. A study of naturally occurring disc herniations, begun in
1988, has helped more than 300 dogs, 90% of whom were otherwise euthanasia candidates.

Animal Health

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1996:

Ebola virus
The World Health Organization
on December 16 declared a two-year drive
to discover how Ebola virus is transmitted
from other primates, who often survive it, to
chimpanzees and humans, in whom it is usually
fatal. An early clue came from Colonel
Nancy Jax of the U.S. Army Medical
Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, in
Frederick, Maryland, who reported in the
December 22 edition of the British medical
journal The Lancet that Ebola is probably
transmitted by airborne droplets, much like
the common cold. Jax observed that two
monkeys kept in cages 10 feet from others
who had Ebola also developed Ebola and
died in 10 and 11 days, respectively, even
though they had no physical contact with the
sick monkeys. “The findings emphasize the
advisability of at-risk personnel employing
precautions to safeguard against ocular, oral,
and nasopharyngeal exposure,” Jax wrote.

So-called sportsmen

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1996:

Hunting writer and safety
instructor Roger Vanderlogt, 43, of
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, drew 15 years in
prison on December 9 plus 15 years on probation,
for producing sexually explicit photographs
and videos of very young girls.
William Douglas Hinson, 71, of
Myrtle, Mississippi, pleaded guilty on
November 28 to conspiring with his granddaughter,
Teresa Jean Hutcheson, 30, to
murder her husband Jimmy Dean Hutcheson
for life insurance proceeds in a staged “hunting
accidenct.” Each drew five years in
prison. Hinson has two great-grandchildren
by his granddaughter, with whom court officials
said he has had sex since she was 11.

Fall was hard on squirrels

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1996:

ALBANY, N.Y.––Prolonged summer/fall drought had a
mixed effect on wildlife in the Northeast, generally helping birds but
hurting other species. Already menaced amphibian populations suffered
as breeding pools dried up and shallow water made both surviving tadpoles
and adult frogs easy pickings for great blue herons and
egrets––who also thrived on exposed small fish. Pennsylvania and New
Jersey delayed trout-stocking because of the risk they would be killed by
oxygen depletion in low streams and lakes. Beavers became unusually
vulnerable to foxes and coyotes. Bears and deer were driven down from
the hills to find water, into often dangerous proximity with humans.
Authorities in Ottawa, Ontario, relocated 62 black bears during the
summer, 10 times the usual number. But crickets and grasshoppers
hatched in high volume, much to the benefit of wild turkeys and quail.
New York state biologists reported extraordinary numbers of
dead squirrels on highways. New York Department of Environmental
Conservation wildlife pathologist Ward Stone said one person counted
922 dead squirrels along the New York State Thruway––where roadkills
are normally relatively few––just between New Paltz and Albany.

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