ANIMAL CONTROL & RESCUE

October 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

* The Sprint telephone service and the

American Humane Association have set up a

nationwide hotline to help reunite lost pets

with their keepers. Reporting a stray is free:

call 1-800-755-8111. To report a lost pet, call

1-900-535-1515. The cost for lost pet calls is

$1.95 per minute, a portion of which is donat-

ed to AHA. The average lost pet report takes

four minutes to complete, according to Sprint.

* Paige Powell and Tama Janowitz of

New York City produce a TV show in cooper-

ation with the animal rescue groups Being

Kind and the Animal Project to promote pet

adoptions. Called It’s A Dog’s Life, the show

airs on channels 16 and 17.

Watson & Hughey charities are in trouble again

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The states

of Connecticut and Pennsylvania are suing the

Cancer Fund of America and three other chari-

ties for alleged fraudulent accounting in

describing the use of donations.

The Cancer Fund of America,

based in Knoxville, Tennessee, solicits con-

tributions by claiming that it does not fund

research using animals. In actuality, it funds

little or no cancer research of any kind, and is

one of eight charities promoted by the Watson

and Hughey direct mail fundraising firm, of

Alexandria, Virginia, which were fined a total

of $2.4 million in 1991 for using misleading

sweepstakes appeals.

Woofs and growls:

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

The U.S. Court of Appeals for

the 11th Circuit on August 18 upheld a lower

court decision that Soldier of Fortune maga-

zine must pay $4.3 million in damages to the

sons of Richard Braun, an Atlanta business-

man who was murdered in 1985 by a contract

killer whose “gun for hire” ad the magazine

published. The killer, Michael Savage, 44,

of Knoxville, Tenn., and eight of his clients

have been convicted of criminal conspiracy in

connection with the Braun case and at least

two others. Soldier of Fortune has recently

amplified a series of National Rifle

Association attacks on the animal rights move-

ment and anti-hunting activists.

Religion & Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

Pope John Paul II was scheduled to

issue “A solemn appeal for animal welfare” on

eptember 30, from the Vatican. The appeal

will not have the force of ecclesiastic law, and

is expected to be quite conservative.

A San Francisco Board of

Supervisors subcommittee on August 18

approved an ordinance to ban animal sacrifice,

modeled after similar ordinances now in effect

in various Florida and southern California

cities. Supervisor Carole Migden introduced

the ordinance after the city Department of

Animal Care and Control reported having

found evidence of at least 1,000 animal sacri-

fices during the past year. The ordinance now

goes before the full Board of Supervisors for

enactment. Migden meanwhile withdrew a

proposed to ban the sale or ownership of wolf

hybrids, since so many are already in San

Francisco that enforcement might prove

impossible.

Defenders of Animal Rights shelter picketed

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

PHOENIX, Md. — Weekly protests

outside the Defenders of Animal Rights shel-

ter just north of Baltimore commenced on

August 14, coordinated by the Animal

Welfare League of Greater Baltimore. The

protesters, including former shelter employ-

ees and volunteers, alleged unrecorded

euthanasias, financial abuses, and miscella-

neous other irregularities paralleling some of

those alleged against Primarily Primates one

month earlier, also by former volunteers and

staffers. Several protesters contacted ANI-

MAL PEOPLE, including AWLGB president

Elizabeth Kirk, but none documented any-

thing at DAR that substantially deviates from

common shelter practice., nor did they pro-

vide evidence that anyone at DAR is collect-

ing unusually high remuneration.

Shakeup coming at NAVS?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

CHICAGO, Ill. — Independent auditor William Foy assumed administration of the

National Anti-Vivisection Society on August 1 for an indefinite period, replacing president

Mary Margaret Cunniff, who took a paid maternity leave. .

The NAVS board of directors hired Foy to perform an internal audit shortly after an

expose by ANIMAL PEOPLE editor Merritt Clifton revealed that over a fourth of the NAVS

stock portfolio was invested with firms who perform or commission vivisection and/or have

become notorious for environmental abuses—including U.S. Surgical, whose sales demonstra-

tions on live dogs Cunniff denounced in print in May 1991, only days before purchasing

$46,745 worth of U.S. Surgical shares. The stock had nearly doubled in value when sold.

Earlier exposes traced the extensive use of NAVS funds to benefit members of Cunniff’s family,

including her husband, attorney Kenneth Cunniff; her sister, Catherine Curran; her father,

George Trapp, who preceded her in the presidency; her brother-in-law, Patrick Rocks; and her

uncles, Robert Mahoney and Al Lamier. Cunniff and her husband alone received an estimated

$172,000 in salaries and benefits during 1991. During their administration, according to well-

placed staffers, NAVS membership has fallen from 53,000 to 11,000; following the exposes,

the organization was believed to be losing from $25,000 to $50,000 a month.

Fighting isn’t over for the Old War Horse

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

LONDON, U.K. — The late Dorothy

Brooke founded the Brooke Hospital for

Animals as the Old War Horse Memorial

Hospital. Brooke specified that her primary

purpose was to protect retired military horses

and donkeys. Military organization wasn’t nec-

essarily part of her plan–but after assuming the

top post at the Old War Horse approximately

one year ago, following his retirement from the

Royal Army Veterinary Corps, Col. Brian

Thompson quickly moved to establish military

order—including institution of a rigid chain-of-

command, increased paperwork to track activ-

ities, a lid on information released to the press,

and an apparent ban on cooperation with per-

ceived rivals.

No time for monkey business at Primarily Primates

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. — Primarily Primates

has survived an attempted putsch, at least for

now, but the future of the showplace sanctuary

could yet be jeopardized by animal rights move-

ment politics.

Founded over a decade ago by former

zookeeper Wally Swett to house primates res-

cued from laboratories, roadside zoos, and

abusive exotic petkeepers, Primarily Primates

has expanded to accommodate nearly 400 ani-

mals. As Swett admits, there have been grow-

ing pains. Animals have often arrived at a

faster rate than funds to feed and shelter them.

Sometimes Swett and his volunteer staff have

been obliged to handle species they’ve never

seen before. Frequently they receive non-pri-

mates for temporary housing until other situa-

tions can be found—which can be difficult. A

What’s going on at The Animals’ Agenda?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

MONROE, Conn. — Five months after the

Animals’ Agenda board of directors sacked

most of the staff and forced editor Kim

Bartlett’s eventual resignation, the publication

is in “dire financial peril,” according to a late-

September appeal issued by board president

Wayne Pacelle..

Under pressure from numerous national

organizations who were irate over exposes of

group financial practices, among them PETA,

the National Anti-Vivisection Society, the

Doris Day Animal League, In Defense of

Animals, and the American SPCA, the board

abruptly fired news editor Merritt Clifton,

now editor of ANIMAL PEOPLE, last May

1. Simultaneously, the board terminated use

of otherwise vacant space at the magazine

offices by Bartlett’s feral cat rescue project.

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