Remoteness thwarts aid in Pakistan (p. 20) How Irish dog New Orleans rescue racers muzzle humane critics ends with a storm SALLINS, County Kildare– – Greyhound racing issues in Ireland converge on NEW ORLEANS––The biggest AnimalRescueNewOrleans founder Jane the People’s Animal Welfare Society, halfway animal rescue effort in U.S. history official- Garrison, of Charleston, South Carolina. between Dublin and the Newbridge Greyhound ly ended on October 25, 2005. “We need more volunteers to feed and Racing Track, just a few miles beyond at Naas. On advice of assistant state veteri- water the thousands of traumatized animals Greyhound breeding, training, and boarding narian Martha Littlefield, Louisiana still on the streets, we need to keep trapping are big business right in the neighborhood. Governor Kathleen Blanco allowed the tem- animals so we can reunite them with their PAWS founder Deirdre Hethering- porary permits issued to out-of-state veteri- guardians, and we need a massive ton, 73, is among the most prominent critics of narians assisting animal relief efforts in spay/neuter program.” the Irish greyhound industry. New Orleans to expire. “We have been unable to find Yet PAWS is also increasingly reliant Out-of-state rescuers still operat- local vets who can provide consistent care on funding from both the Irish government and ing temporary shelters and feeding pro- for the cats housed at our temporary shelter the Irish Greyhound Board, reputedly made (Kim Bartlett) grams were thanked and asked to return in Bogalusa, let alone enough to conduct available as part of a co-optive strategy to dis- in February 1997, by simply renovating the home, to leave the remaining work to local the type of large-scale spay/neuter program tract opposition by rehoming a relative handful ancient stables and kennels already on the site, agencies. that is so desperately needed,” added Alley of the greyhounds who are bred to race. and putting them back to use. “We are literally seeing animals Cat Allies national director Becky Many of the PAWS dogs are boarded Built soon after the mid-12th century on the streets starving to death,” objected Robinson. “We need about a dozen veteri- with a prominent local greyhound racer. Norman conquest of Ireland, a century after narians experienced with high-volume Hetherington operates PAWS from the 1066 Norman conquest of England, Sallins surgery. Many out-of-state vets have her home, Sallins Castle, built to withstand Castle was in essence a fortified farmhouse for offered their services, free of charge. armed foes. the knights of Sallins, who ruled the nearby “If the state government doesn’t Some Irish tourism web sites allege village for most of 800 years. Now a bustling allow us to feed, treat, and find homes for that Sallins Castle, later known as Sallins Dublin suburb, Sallins throughout that time the thousands of animals struggling to sur- Lodge, no longer stands. In truth, it is well- had a human population always recorded within vive now,” Robinson fumed, “it is in for a preserved, though disguised with a stucco a few dozen of 500. rude awakening next year. The number of façade, and is almost entirely still used accord- A moated keep with twin half-round free-roaming cats and dogs will be devastat- ing to the original Norman plan. Hetherington towers flanking the portcullis faced the river (continued on page 18) started PAWS in 1996, formally incorporating (continued on page 12) ANIMAL PEOPLE News For People Who Care About Animals
November 2005 Volume XV, #9
Feline survivor. (Jan Bertman) Everyone but the chicken-eaters + takes blame for spreading H5N1 + TULCEA, Romania--The avian flu who "in exchange of some money told us that H5N1, hitting the poultry industry hard the dogs were brought there.". throughout Asia, spreading into Europe, and Maratas photographed the purported potentially deadly to humans, has never site, but the photos did not prove the story, infected dogs. and some felt that the photos actually contra- That did not stop officials hellbent dicted it. on finding a pretext to kill street dogs near Two days of follow-up investigation Balikesir, Turkey, when H5N1 was discov- in Tulcea by ROLDA cofounder Dana Costin ered there in early October. Street dogs were and Romania Animal Rescue founder Nancy as easily blamed as anyone for the economic Janes on November 26-27 found no evidence havoc and emotional trauma resulting from that any such dog massacre ever occurred. wholesale massacres of domestic poultry in But potentially infected poultry were thus far futile efforts to contain H5N1. killed by similar methods south of Tulcea. On Rumors of a Romanian dog mas- November 28 Romanian Agriculture Minister sacre ascribable to H5N1 panic reached animal Gheorghe Flutur fired local officials who advocacy groups and news media on burned alive many of 15,000 turkeys who were November 9. killed on infected farm near Scarlatesti. The killing allegedly occurred near Realitatea TV video of the killing Tulcea in the eastern Danube Delta region, "showed veterinarians in white medical suits The Austrian-based veterinary outreach organization Vier Pfoten sent a multi-national team shortly after the H5N1 virus was on October breaking the necks of poultry before throwing to Dubrovnik, Croatia, to sterilize dogs and cats during the 2005 International Companion 13, 2005 confirmed in the carcasses of three them into a fire burning in a ditch. Some of Animal Welfare Conference. More about animal welfare progress in Croatia is on page 8. barnyard ducks found dead on a farm in the birds were still alive and could be seen Ceamurlia-de-Jos, Tulcea County. struggling, their wings in flames, in a vain Africans defending national wildlife Two accounts of the Tulcea dog attempt to escape," reported Agence France- massacre e-mailed by people who claimed to Presse. be acquaintances of witnesses agreed that the First identified in Hong Kong after parks turn from guns to courts dogs who survived rough capture and handling three children died from it in 1996, H5N1 NAIROBI, HARARE, GABOR- ing them to more hunting and other commer- were thrown alive into a deep pit, covered spread rapidly throughout Southeast Asia ONE, JOHANNESBURG– – A m b o s e l i , cial exploitation, while returning the parks to with lime, and bulldozed under. As Tulcea beginning in mid-2003. Nearly 70 people Kalahari, Hwange, Kruger: the names alone tribal control is an oft-expressed rhetorical was the scene of a municipal dog massacre in have succumbed to H5N1 since then, almost evoke images of wide-open wild places on a ideal often most strongly favored by whoever 2001, under a different political administra- all of them poultry workers, cockfighters, or sparsely inhabited continent––at least to non- anticipates gaining easy access to resources in tion, the story sounded plausible. residents of homes shared with live fowl. Africans. But to many Africans whose tribal exchange for giving tribal partners a few more Fundatia Daisy Hope founder Aura More than 100 million chickens, lands they historically were, these and other dusty acres in which to graze goats. Maratas, of Bucharest, visited Tulcea to ducks, geese, and other domestic birds have globally renowned wildlife parks are symbols Amid all this, growing numbers of investigate on November 13. At the Tulcea been killed by gassing, neck-breaking, and/or of conquest, occupation, and deprivation. educated Africans see the value of protecting dump, Maratas interviewed gypsy trashpickers (continued on page 17) To those who till land or keep live- the integrity of the wildlife parks, but are stock, the parks are the source of marauding politically scattered, their tribal identities and wildlife, and appear to hoard disproportionate value as a perceived block vote typically lost a shares of the green grass and water. generation back, or several, when their par- To those who have nothing, the ents or grandparents ventured into big cities to parks symbolize inaccessible opportunity. enable their children to attend good schools. To politicians, the great African As the African colonial past recedes, wildlife parks often represent potential to where only those already well past middle largess, expendible to build a power base. age were ever part of a European-dominated Preserving the parks as unpeopled establishment, the perennial struggle over as European and American ecotourists and preserving the parks is passing to a new gener- wildlife conservation donors imagine the ation of leadership on both sides. “real” Africa to be is a multi-million-dollar There are still aging “big men” like industry, but there is also big money in open- (continued on page 10) 2 - ANIM AL PEOPLE, November 2005
Another answer is rawhide treats every day. And toys. And pools in summer to add to their fun, so they can play like the kids they are. But I’m con- stantly looking for other things to do for them. Then I went in to her huge yard to take Falcon’s picture for you. She is so happy, she just loves it here! She told me in so many ways. After she ran around for 20 minutes, jumping up to let me hug her now and then, she plopped herself down under the juniper tree in her yard and smiled. She was contented. Then it hit me . . . just having a place to call her own . . . to have fresh food and water . . . a house . . . a clinic within walking distance . . . friends to talk to and play with . . . and to know this is her life now, and that the bubble won’t burst someday . . . this is the good life they deserve, and you and I have sacrificed to give it to each of them. For the others who didn’t have us, who weren’t so lucky, I mourn. November 2005 Dear Partner, For the ones who died of disease in the pounds, I mourn. Falcon was born in the wilderness. Her parents were abandoned dogs, For the ones who were put to death early because of a physical impair- and her mother couldn't use one of her hind legs . . . she’d been hit by a car the ment that makes them “less than perfect,” I mourn. But for the ones we’ve saved, year before. Still, she gave birth to Falcon and her siblings. like Falcon and her family, I rejoice. When I found them, there were about a dozen dogs foraging in the pic- Falcon will be loved and cared for, for the rest of her life. And if she nic trash. Some were long haired, some short . . . but all were black. They were needs heart medication when she’s old, or cancer treatment, or physical therapy one big family of unwanted dogs and their kids. for paralysis . . . she will get it here . . . because treating Falcon like a person is I set up feeding stations and rescued the dogs at night when they came our promise to her. around, but only one or two at a time . . . because when I caught one in my trap, Please help this unique mission continue to spread love, and to grow. the others would run away . . . frightened. Send your best gift for these precious animals today. Eventually I got them all . . . including three puppies . . . and we named For the animals, one “Falcon.” But I’ve had this battle with myself for years . . . . Leo I rescue cats and dogs who are struggling to survive against all odds. Leo Grillo, founder Thanks to people like you I can rescue them and take them to our sanc- P.S.: I just remembered “Bert.” If you were on tour in the early 90s tuary where they are safe and loved for the rest of their lives. you saw him. When he was 13 he became paralyzed. For two years, every But . . . it is my sworn duty to these animals to give them the most d a y, he went for a ride around the shelter and visited the other dogs. He marvelous life I can. lay under a tree in good weather, like Falcon. He enjoyed his full life. Here, most are loved for the first time. And most are afraid of peo- And he was so happy here, he smiled. This is truly what care-for- l i f e ple for what has been done to them. But they love to play among them- m e a n s . selves . . . that is when they are the happiest. So what else can I do for them . . . to make them happier? That is my constant struggle. One answer to that question was the straw bale dog house. D.E.L.T.A. Rescue 100+ square feet of additional surface area to play on . . . and a huge dog house with an igloo opening to regulate the temperature naturally. PO Box 9, Dept AP, Glendale, CA 91209 + Attention: Rescuers and Shelters + Build your own inexpensive straw bale dog house for your pets’ maximum protection, comfort and fun! Here at D.E.L.T.A. Rescue, we invented a better housing system That’s why we now build the deluxe “stucco” version. Our mate- for our more than 859 dogs. Using 25 common bales of straw, and rials cost for this stucco version is about $400, while you can put up three sheets of plywood, two people can build a straw bale dog house the simple building for under $150. Good news! We put all the in under 10 minutes! This is the same simple structure that withstood building instructions for both versions on video tape for anyone to our terrible El Nino rains in 1998. The simple straw design can last use, or copy in its entirety. And it’s FREE! To help us help precious 20 years, but because we are a permanent sanctuary, our houses animals, besides our own 859 dogs and 552 cats, please get this must last longer. video today and pass it around!
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Guess no one wants to come down to separate regional editions serving all parts of the U.S. Even without carrying paid advertising, the sunny south and dodge all the hurricanes,” Suncoast Humane Society interim director and without soliciting donations with particular vigor, the National Humane Review generated Warren Cox wrote on Halloween from Englewood, Florida. enough revenue at peak, through sales and subscriptions, to subsidize the AHA itself. At the Sending Cox to Florida was clearly easier than ushering him into retirement. Now in height of her popularity, in June 1935 and January 1936, actress Shirley Temple was twice his 53rd year of humane work, Cox reduced his possessions before taking his 22nd leadership the cover girl. position by donating to ANIMAL PEOPLE a complete set of the National Humane Review, Few animal advocates alive today ever saw the National Humane Review as it exist- from the years 1933 through 1976. ed under a succession of former newspaper editors who took it to its heights, the last of whom Published by the American Humane Association, the National Humane Review for was Fred Myers. Few even imagine that such a periodical ever existed, in many respects pre- much of that time was a mainstream slick magazine, sold on train station newsstands, with saging the editorial positions and scope of coverage of ANIMAL PEOPLE. Well ahead of the times, the National Humane Review demonstrated similar sympathy for no-kill sheltering, SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES: www.animalpeoplenews.org feral cat rescue, and humane work abroad, and put comparable emphasis upon developing Key articles now available en Español et en Français! accurate statistics on animal issues. Many of the studies commissioned and published by the National Humane Review were markedly better designed and much more accurate than any- ANIMAL PEOPLE thing produced during the next several decades. At times in the early 1950s the National Humane Review even leaned toward endors- News for People Who Care About Animals ing vegetarianism, though it never actually came right out and said so. Publisher: Kim Bartlett Those still in humane work who remember the National Humane Review– – e x c e p t Editor: Merritt Clifton Cox––tend to recall the last years of a shelter-oriented publication that nearly 30 years ago Web producer: Patrice Greanville morphed into AHA Shop Talk. That was the terminal incarnation of the National Humane Review, and a faint shadow of the influential magazine it once had been. Associate web producer: Tammy Sneath Grimes At peak the National Humane Review emphasized uncompromising moral leader- Newswire monitor: Cathy Young Czapla ship. Just a month after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor plunged the U.S. into World P.O. Box 960 War II, for example, a National Humane Review lead feature took note that wars sometimes Clinton, WA 98236-0960 must be fought, but warned against unduly glorifying war, and especially cautioned against the harmful psychological effects of giving children war toys, thereby encouraging the pre- ISSN 1071-0035. 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In retrospect it is painfully clear that the more the AHA tried to mainstream itself, The editors prefer to receive queries in advance of article submissions; unsolicit- the more it lost the momentum and direction that had made it the leading voice of the humane ed manuscripts will be considered for use, but will not be returned unless accompanied by movement from 1877 until the formation of HSUS. a stamped, self-addressed envelope of suitable size. We do not publish fiction or poetry. (continued on page 4) + + 4 - ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005
ANIMAL PEOPLE & the role of humane reporting (from page 3) As the National Humane Review imploded into a erage of movement controversies, investigations of the use of viable niche for providing general interest coverage through a house organ, Frederick L. Thomsen in 1965 founded Humane donated money, and attention to dog-and-cat issues, often nonprofit medium. Information Services Inc. as umbrella for a newsletter called emphasized despite a barrage of criticism that this was “trivial- The animal rights movement long ago followed earli- Report to Humanitarians, which tried to fill the vacated leader- izing” the animal cause, expressed in published letters from er incarnations of the humane cause into developing established ship role. It grew into a newspaper, The Humane Report, fea- executives of PETA, the Doris Day Animal League, and vari- institutions and career tracks. The “no kill movement” emerged turing investigative exposes by the late Henry Spira. T h e ous antivivisection societies. 20 years later, evolving through the same phases of growth and Humane Report circulated 19,000 copies per edition at Unconsciously echoing the editors of the N a t i o n a l institutionalization during the past decade. A second-genera- Thomsen’s death in 1978, but died with him. Humane Review more than 50 years earlier, Bartlett editorially tion animal rights movement emerged as well, focused on food explained many times that the leaders of the animals’ cause had issues rather than vivisection, and has also produced many now Animals’ Agenda to find ways to avoid killing more animals each year than either fairly well established organizations and information media. The next periodical of record for the U.S. animal laboratories or the fur trade, if they were to be taken seriously. Animal advocacy is now not just a community but a advocacy cause was the Animals’ Agenda, founded in 1981 Animals’ Agenda came full circle back to where it fast-expanding megapolis. through the merger of animal rights newsletters published by started on May 1, 1992, when the board opted to return it to There have been setbacks and implosions along the Jim Mason and Doug Moss. being “of the movement” first and foremost, firing Clifton. way, mirroring the disasters that afflict any growing communi- Since the demise of the National Humane Review and Bartlett soon resigned. By sundown on May 2, the ANIMAL ty. Among our disasters were the amendments to the Animal The Humane Report, there had been no nationally distributed PEOPLE debut logo had already been designed, incorporation Welfare Act that permanently excluded rats, mice, and birds independent news media covering animal advocacy. Not even was underway, and a business plan was in development. from protection in 2002; the virtual repeal of the 1971 Wild one newspaper in the U.S. had a reporter formally assigned to The “magazine of the movement,” like any house Horse Annie Act in November 2004; the simultaneous exclu- covering animal issues, though some had pro-animal colum- organ of any cause, was self-doomed to becoming little more sion of “non-native” species from coverage by the 1918 nists. Only a handful of syndicated columnists wrote about ani- than a historical repository as the movement matured. A N I- Migratory Bird Treaty Act; the resumption and expansion of mals, most notably Cleveland Amory. MAL PEOPLE from the first was and is a community newspa- the Atlantic Canada seal hunt, Norwegian and Japanese whal- Yet the sudden rise of the animal rights movement per, emphasizing “News for people who care about animals,” ing, and the recovery of the fur industry through the sale of required participant-oriented coverage, including forums for for a community united by interest rather than geography. cheap pelts from China, including dog and cat fur. (Adjusting discussion and debate. Movements, succeed or fail, tend to die young, for inflation, fur still is not anywhere near as profitable as it Animals’ Agenda filled the gap, as the self-designat- either becoming absorbed into mainstream culture or fading was 20 years ago, but the animal toll is again comparable.) ed “magazine of the movement.” The ANIMAL PEOPLE into self-isolated irrelevance. Communities grow, with no Many of these setbacks and implosions occurred due founders, not yet acquainted, were readers right from the inherent limit on what they might become. to the short-sightedness of activists and activist groups who beginning. Kim Bartlett, now the ANIMAL PEOPLE p u b- Animals’ Agenda eventually merged with A n i m a l s ’ continued to think in terms of being a “movement” instead of in lisher, became editor of Animals’ Agenda in 1986, joining Voice, then collapsed. Moretti later revived Animals’ Voice as terms of belonging to the mainstream political landscape. associate editor Patrice Greanville, who is now the ANIMAL a website. There are now more vegetarians in the U.S. than PEOPLE webmaster. Merritt Clifton, now ANIMAL PEO- hunters and trappers, for example, and more financial sup- PLE editor, debuted as Animals’ Agenda lead feature writer in The community grows porters of animal advocacy causes than there are people who the January/February 1987 edition. The animals’ cause continues to grow and diversify. ever hunted or trapped. Animals’ Agenda achieved peak circulation, reader- The 3,000 U.S. organizations that existed in 1981 are now more Animal advocates are not a movement, but a con- ship, income, and influence from 1986 to 1992, after turning than 11,000, according to the Internal Revenue Service, stituency, and a major constituency at that, like the citizens of two important corners. including more than 5,000 animal shelters. The numbers of any community that encompasses millions. First, before Bartlett was hired, came the decision to active groups abroad are growing even faster. If a constituency feels it is not getting adequate atten- go slick. Unaware of the National Humane Review h i s t o r y, The Internet took over the role of providing internal tion, it has the capacity to organize politically to change the sta- Animals’ Agenda went from a newsprint format resembling that communications, which Animals’ Agenda and A N I M A L tus quo. This is at last beginning to occur. of The Humane Report to essentially the format that the P E O P L E once had, and expanded the audience, enabling A constituency needs multiple news media, of multi- National Humane Review died with. Going slick never came ANIMAL PEOPLE to devote much more space to original ple kinds, and we have them. Like the National Humane close to paying for itself, but did put Animals’ Agenda o n investigative reporting and news analysis. R e v i e w and Animals’ Agenda in their heydays, A N I M A L newsstands just as the concept of “animal rights” caught the Discovering the value of ANIMAL PEOPLE as an PEOPLE occupies a unique niche as the only printed periodi- public imagination. accessible independent information resource, mainstream cal providing fulltime specialized coverage of animal advocacy, This in turn inspired former Animals’ Agenda t y p e - newspapers increasingly often explore the local dimensions of but the national and international mainstream newswires now setter Laura Moretti to expand her Animals’ Voice n e w s l e t t e r the topics we raise. Most mainstream dailies now have at least move enough pro-animal material every day to fill a daily into an even glossier magazine, heavily subsidized by philan- one reporter who is assigned to animal-related coverage on a newspaper. Online information distributors circulate more thropist Gil Michaels. regular basis, increasing their cumulative attention to animal material each week than any pro-animal printed periodical ever Two years later, Bartlett and Greanville promoted issues more than tenfold since our debut. Many mainstream did, or could, and may also reach more people. Clifton to news editor, with a single-sentence mandate to animal beat reporters have more knowledge of animal issues While ANIMAL PEOPLE still looks much as it did establish for Animals’ Agenda a reputation for journalistic than anyone serving the animal cause did 20 years ago, in 1992, our mission continues to evolve. integrity and credibility. This was done at a price. The because background on almost any issue is now readily accessi- Recognizing the growing importance of websites, we founders, before they departed, elected a board of directors ble from the Internet, enabling anyone to become informed place increasing emphasis on making our online archives acces- consisting of longtime activists and representatives of national almost overnight if necessary. sible and producing how-to handbooks that humane workers + advocacy groups. The editorial team soon learned that the Regional pro-animal tabloids supplement the main- around the world can download to help themselves cope with + board largely wanted the good reputation without allowing the stream coverage in many areas. such problems as fundraising and accountability, mange and editors to exercise the reportorial independence, capacity for General interest pro-animal publications such as the rabies control, and keeping shelter cats healthy. critical thought, and standards of factual verification that such a Massachusetts SPCA’s A n i m a l s and the American SPCA’s Our annual Watchdog Report On Animal Protection reputation must be built upon. A n i m a l W a t c h thrived when mainstream coverage was sparse, Charities long ago outgrew the annual “Who gets the money?” The board wanted applause for their own campaigns, but faded out in recent years because the readership long since section, from which it descended. often without regard to the greater health of the cause. began getting equivalent material from mainstream sources. The ANIMAL PEOPLE newspaper is not less focal The most frequent flashpoints for conflict were cov- There was no longer a need for a humane society to do it, nor a to our work, but the newspaper is now the hub of much more activity, helping to move the animals’ cause forward. MAINSTREAM NO LONGER ACCEPTS MEAT AT HUMANE EVENTS “With friends like these…” animal and pro-vegetarian media, but consumption, in an anecdote submitted was the first thing that came to mind Reader’s Digest is more deliberately rep- from coal mine country by a reader of no after reading the Carbon County Friends resentative of mainstream Middle animal advocacy background discernible of Animals raffle ticket I’d just bought,” American values than the U.S. Congress. through online searching, any humane wrote Michael J. Frendak of Lansford, Founded in January 1922 as a society that still raffles meat or serves Pennsylvania, in the August 2005 edi- source of sermon material for ministers, meat at official events needs to take note. tion of Reader’s Digest. Reader’s Digest describes itself in its Even much of the meat-eating “I could win one of the follow- Popular Culture Guide as “traditionally public now views the involvement of a ––Wolf Clifton ing, it said: a 10-pound box of chicken never sensationalistic and rarely contro- humane society in meat con- legs, one smoked ham, four T-bone versial, with a tendency toward inspira- sumption by human beings This little one will steaks, five pounds of fresh sausage or tional self-help stories. The magazine much as it views fornication hot dogs, or a box of pork chops.” has been criticized,” it admits, “for by the clergy. never face laboratory Such laments are often voiced espousing a generally right-wing, con- People may politely research or isolation or in ANIMAL PEOPLE and other pro- servative point of view and for evoking ignore indiscretions by others the beatings and stress nostalgia for a simpler, less diversified of ordinary moral stature, but America.” guardians of public morality, of training to perform Hit them with When even Reader’s Digest including humane workers, as “entertainment.” hints that humane societies should avoid are expected to exemplify a She has found safe a 2-by-4! either promoting or participating in meat higher standard. haven at Primarily More than 30,000 "THEY HAVE Isolation is the worst cruelty Primates, among people who care about to a dog. 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Copy and use our ground-breaking report into 360-579-2505 the harm that isolation does ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005 - 5 6 - ANIMAL P E OPLE, November 2005 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Rehovot AVMA position on foie gras With reference to your September article “Israeli res- Your September 2005 article “AVMA refuses to cuers remove about 400 animals from Gaza,” no mention was condemn foie gras” is a sad reflection of the veterinary pro- PetSmart & live animal sales made of the Rehovot Society for the Protection of Animals. fession. In August 2003 the Israeli Supreme Court banned Regarding PetSmart’s Luv-A-Pet Adoption Centers, Using our rescue van, donated by the Royal SPCA of Great the practice of force-feeding geese to make foie gras, based described in your September 2005 edition, and the October Britain, and members’ own cars, we brought many cats and on expert veterinary testimony and on pathological evidence 2005 letter from PetSmart Charities vice president Susana M. dogs to safety. On September 3, 2005 we and Let The obtained from force-fed geese at post mortem. If this docu- Della Maddalena, I sincerely appreciate all that PetSmart Animals Live had an adoption day for the rescued animals. All mented evidence was good enough for the Israeli Supreme Charities does for dogs and cats, but implore PetSmart to of our rescued dogs, some dogs already in our care, and six Court, it should be good enough for the AVMA. reconsider selling other animals as merchandise. cats found new loving homes. ––Andre Menache, BSc(Hons), BVSc, MRCVS, FRSH ––Mrs. V. Santar Birds, reptiles, fish and small mammals deserve the Veterinary Surgeon & past general manager of NOAH Rehovot SPA same respect as dogs and cats. Petco, pressured by PETA and (Israeli Federation of Societies for the Protection of Animals) POB 1067 other animal rights groups, in April 2005 agreed to stop selling Scientific Consultant to Animal Aid Rehovot 76110, Israel large parrots. Should we now campaign against PetSmart? The Old Chapel, Bradford Street Phone: 972-8-9445497 ––Tami Myers Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1AW, U.K.
The Watchdog monitors fundraising, spending, and The political activity in the name of animal and habitat pro t e c - tion—both pro and con. His empty bowl stands for all the bowls left empty when some Watchdog take more than they need. ESA rewrite author Pombo took junket funding from anti-animal welfare front WASHINGTON D.C.–– George W. Bush, the Pombo ESA ly boost milk production, $115,000. was at the time vice president for accepted a six-month jail sentence. Central California rancher and rewrite may run into more opposi- “Other big donors to the investigations with the Humane HSUS and the State of Maryland House of Representatives Resources tion in the U.S. Senate, where the IFCNR include the Japan Whaling Society of the U.S. The wedding agreeed to drop six other counts of Committee chair Richard Pombo (R- ESA has much stronger and better Association, the Maryland Trappers was jointly performed in Mexico embezzlement, alleging thefts of Tracy) enjoyed the biggest victory of positioned Republican support. Association, Caspian Star Caviar, City by then-HSUS president John $84,128. his political career on September 29, Bob Williams of the the [food service provider] Sysco Hoyt and then-HSUS vice president “There are several transac- 2005, when the House passed his Center for Public Integrity and Steve Corporation, Smithfield Foods, Paul Irwin, both former clergymen. tions in IFCNR’s filings that might “Threatened & Endangered Species Henn of the American Public Media Strauss Veal Company, and the A longtime Hoyt protégé, raise flags as possible self-dealing,” Recovery Act” 229-192, with 96 co- radio program M a r k e t p l a c e i n t e r - University of Southern Mississippi’s Wills was hired in 1972 at Hoyt’s Williams and Henn suggested, cit- sponsors and little debate, just eight rupted Pombo’s momentum by dis- Gulf Coast Research Laboratory,” recommendation to head the New ing “A $55,000 grant in 2000 to the days after introduction. closing on October 18 that Pombo Willians and Henn added. Hampshire Humane Society. Wills now-defunct People, Ethics, Ani- Rolling back the 1973 “may have broken the law by not The top individual donor, reportedly left in 1978 just before mals, Truth Institute. The PEAT Endangered Species Act, the chief paying taxes on at least two foreign contributing $47,022, was Lori J. the board discovered that funds were Institute was run by Wills,” Will- feature-of the Pombo rewrite is a trips costing more than $23,000, White, a former IFCHR director missing. Hoyt then recommended iams and Henn explained. “It con- requirement that property owners paid for by the nonprofit according to Williams and Henn. Wills to the Michigan Humane tributed $13,500 to IFCNR in 2001 must be compensated for any loss of International Foundation for the White is wife of David Wills, who Society, where Wills was executive and $4,315 to the group in 2003. land use that results from protecting Conservation of Natural Resources.” was listed as the chief contact for the director, 1979-1989. Wills resigned Wills himself also contributed animals or habitat. The misleadingly named IFCNR on their 2004 filing of IRS from Michigan Humane when the $8,000 to IFCNR in 2003. A suc- “It establishes an extraor- IFCNR is a wise-use front that Form 990, and was listed as an board began inquiring into the disap- cessor entity to PEAT Institute dinary new entitlement program for “received donations from nearly IFCHR director in 2000. pearance of $1.6 million. Book- called Sustainable Resources Inter- developers and speculators that three dozen funders from 2000 to IFCNR President Emeritus keeper Denise Hopkins was eventu- national, also run by Wills, con- requires taxpayers to pay them 2004,” Williams and Henn said. Stephen Boynton told Williams and ally convicted of embezzling tributed $10,000 to IFCNR in 2004.” unlimited amounts of money,” “Most of the money came from the Henn that Wills is not an IFCNR $56,000 of the missing sum. Council on Foundations House Democratic leader Nancy food, agriculture, or fur industries.” employee or officer, and called the Wills next founded the attorney Andrew Schultz, of Pelosi (D-San Francisco) told The top listed IFCNR listing in 2000 a mistake. National Society for Animal Washington, D.C., pointed toward Zachary Coile of the San Francisco donor was Darden Restaurants, But Boynton said that Protection, but dissolved it when he another possible instance of self- Chronicle. owners of Red Lobster and Olive Wills “is responsible for the IFCNRs took the HSUS position. Longtime dealing, for which nonprofit founda- Playing a perceived hot Garden restaurant chains, contribut- financial affairs,” Williams and Michigan Humane Society volunteer tions may be fined and lose their tax hand, Pombo followed up his ESA ing $574,000. Red Lobster sales of Henn summarized. and employee Sandra LeBost of exempt status. Making grants to rewrite by introducing a draft bill to Canadian snow crabs are under boy- “Repeated phone calls to Royal Oak, Michigan, in June 1995 substantial contributors or founda- sell 15 National Parks for “energy or cott by the Humane Society of the Wills seeking comment were not won a $42,500 judgement against tion officials is typically considered commercial development,” and to U.S. and other groups as a pressure returned,” Williams and Henn said. Wills for nonrepayment of loans he self-dealing. open the Arctic National Wildlife tactic in opposition to the Atlantic “Boynton at one point agreed to set solicited in connection with starting “IRS records show that the Refuge and other coastal areas to Canadian seal hunt. up a meeting between the Center, NSAP. She was never able to col- vast majority of the grants made by more oil drilling, both perennial The next three largest Wills and himself to discuss the lect the money. IFCNR from 2002 through 2004 goals of Congressional “wise-use” IFCNR donors were the National foundation, but he later withdrew In August 1995, three have gone to David Sollman, of Republicans. Trappers Association, $143,890; that offer, saying he didn’t think it HSUS employees sued Wills for Heltonville, Indiana, for “biodiver- Backed by U.S. President the International Fur Trade would be in IFCNR’s best interest.” alleged sexual harrassment and sity study of fur trade.” Sollman Association, $120,000; and Lori J. White, former wife embezzling. Suspended by HSUS received a total of $119,153 in such NEW STATE LAWS Monsanto Corporation, the leading of People for the Ethical Treatment soon afterward, Wills was fired in grants from IFCNR from 2002 + California Governor maker of bovine somatotropin, a of Animals cofounder Alex Pacheco, November 1995, after A N I M A L through 2004,” Williams and Henn + Arnold Schwarzenegger o n synthetic hormone used to artificial- married Wills in June 1995. Wills P E O P L E detailed his history in reported. “Sollman is the executive October 7, 2005 signed into law a three-edition series of exposes. administrator of the National Trap- bill by state senator Jackie Speer (D- U.K. cruelty act update introduced Wills countersued the pers Association, which in turn has Hillsborough) that allows local gov- HSUS employees who sued him. been a major contributor to IFCNR, ernments to enact breed-specific dog L O N D O N – – B r i t i s h nating loopholes. Those causing Those cases were settled out of court giving the foundation a total of sterilization ordinances. Cities and junior environment minister and unnecessary suffering to an animal in mid-1998. $143,890 in 2003 and 2004.” counties including San Francisco are minister for animal welfare Ben will face up to 51 weeks in prison, a In June 1999 Wills plead- Schultz told Williams and reportedly rushing to have mandato- Bradshaw on October 14, 2005 fine of up to £20,000 or both.” ed guilty to one count of embezzling Henn that those transactions ry sterilization of pit bull terriers and introduced a long awaited new draft Added Guardian political $18,900 from HSUS between 1990 appeared to have been made in direct other breeds commonly used in Animal Welfare Bill, which if correspondent Matthew Tempest, and mid-1995; agreed to pay restitu- violation of the IRS rules governing fighting in place when the state law passed by Parliament would be the “The bill applies to all vertebrates tion of $67,800 to HSUS; and private foundations. takes effect on January 1, 2006. first major update of the U.K. anti- owned by people, except farmed North Carolina Govern- cruelty statute since 1910. animals and animals used for scien- Horse slaughter moratorium weakened Summarized Amanda tific experimentation.” or Mike Easley in late September U.S. President George W. Bush on November 4, 2005 endorsed 2005 endorsed into law a felony Brown of The Independent, “The The draft animal welfare bill introduces a duty on those bill was lauded by Royal SPCA into law an eight-month suspension of federal funding for inspecting penalty for anyone who is convicted horse slaughterhouses, included as a rider to a USDA appropriation bill. in any way of participating in a responsible for animals to do all director general Jackie Ballard, that is reasonable to ensure the wel- herself a former Member of Parlia- As originally passed by both the U.S. Senate and the House of cockfight, including spectating. Representatives, the moratorium was to start immediately, having the effect Cockfighting is now illegal in 48 fare of the creatures in their care––a ment for the Liberal Democratic duty which for the first time applies Party, but Daily Telegraph e n v i - of suspending horse slaughter for human consumption, and was to run for a states and a felony in 32 of them. year, but House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture chair Henry New York Governor to non-domestic animals. The bill ronment editor Charles Clover fret- simplifies animal welfare legisla- ted that, “Keeping wild animals in Bonilla (R-Texas) won a 120-day delay of implementation in conference George Pataki and Michigan committee. “Bonilla managed to sneak in confusing language that may allow Governor Jennifer Granholm i n tion by bringing more than 20 circuses, docking the tails of dogs pieces of legislation into one, and some aspects of keeping game horse slaughterhouses to hire their own meat inspectors and continue their September 2005 signed into law operations,” added Gannett News Service correspondent John Hanchette. bans on hunting via web sites. strengthening penalties and elimi- birds could be ended by stealth.” INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL LEGISLATION Twenty-three nations with native The Director General and Inspector advertising, forbids the use of choke collars and chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orang- General of Police and Commissioner of the electrical shock collars, bans tail-docking, ear- u t a n s on September 9, 2005 signed a Declar- Department of Hindu Religious Institutions & cropping, and declawing of dogs and cats, and ation on Great Apes in Kinshasa, Democratic Endowments in Tamil Nadu state, India, in officially recognizes feral cat caretakers. Similar Republic of Congo, committing themselves to mid-October 2005 warned that “slaughtering ani- bylaws have been adopted lately by other Italian protecting great apes and ape habitat in terms sim- mals, offering their organs, spilling their blood, cities, wrote Barbara McMahon of The Guardian. ilar to the language of the 1982 global moratorium exhibiting their flesh or bones, selling, or cook- “Reggio Emilia, near Bologna, banned boiling on commercial whaling and the 1997 Kyoto proto- ing them in the name of religion, deity, fair, fes- live lobsters,” McMahon said, “and birds such as col on climate change. The treaty was brokered tival, house warming, vehicle sanctification, budgerigars and parrots must be kept in pairs.” through four years of negotiation by the Great etc., is punishable under the Karnataka Animal The Bulgarian Council for Electronic Apes Survival Project, formed by the United Sacrifice Prohibition Act of 1959.” Enforcement M e d i a on November 8, 2005 ordered that Nations Environment Program and the U.N. of the 46-year-old law has often been weak and Bulgarian TV channels must not broadcast “psy- Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. sporadic. At request of the federal ministry of chological or physical violence against humans or “GRASP has convinced nearly all of the range environment and forests, however, the Tamil animals” between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. states that saving great apes is very much in their Nadu Director General of Police in September The 577-member French National interests, by stressing that apes can bring enor- 2005 signaled a crackdown by ordering all city A s s e m b l y on October 17, 2005 unanimously mous economic benefit to poor communities and district police departments to form units man- resolved that foie gras, produced by force-feeding through eco-tourism,” summarized Michael dated to enforce anti-cruelty laws. ducks and geese until they develop unnaturally McCarthy, envronment editor of the London A 59-point pet care bylaw taking distended livers, is “part of the cultural and gas- Independent. “The new agreement places ape con- effect on November 9, 2005 in Rome, Italy, tronomic patrimony, protected in France.” The servation squarely in the context of strategies for reportedly bans keeping goldfish in small round Israeli Supreme Court in August 2003 banned foie poverty reduction and developing sustainable bowls, requires that dogs be walked at least once gras production as unconstitutionally cruel. (See livelihoods.” a day, bans displays of live animals in storefront “Letters,” page 6.) 10 -ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005
FREE BOOKLET on how to stop a dolphin abusement park in your country. Just click on this address and print out: www.onevoice-ear.org/english/campaigns/marine_mammals/dolphins_jobs.html Africans turn from guns to courts (from p. 1) Zimbabwean president-for-life Robert Mugabe, cynically 21 referendum on a proposed new national con- exploiting the parks to pay off their supporters; still neo-colo- stitution looming, Kenyan president Mwai nial bwanas using proximity to the parks to stock private hunt- Kibaki directed the Kenya Wildlife Service to ing preserves, most conspicuously in South Africa; and still surrender management of Amboseli to the some overseas nonprofit organizations funding paramilitary Olkejuado County Council, to be managed by the efforts to defend the parks, as in past decades. Kajiado region Masai in the same manner that the The effect of the Mugabe regime on wildlife habitat Narok and Trans Mara councils manage and share is particularly evident in Hwange National Park now, wrote revenue from the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Peta Thornycroft in the October 31, 2005 edition of T h e Kajiado leaders contend that the gov- Independent, because officials diverted to purchasing new cars ernment improperly seized Amboseli to create a for themselves the funds that were needed to maintain the park in 1974. pumps that keep the Hwange waterholes filled. Whole herds of Other regional councils have also buffalo, zebras, antelope, and other species are left at risk. demanded control of national parks as the price of “This is mismanagement, nothing more. It's not a endorsing the Kibaki constitution. These natural disaster,” said Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force demands have come at the same time that Masai chair Johnny Rodrieguez. Members of the all-volunteer non- leaders including Minister of State William ole profit task force recently donated diesel fuel and made pump Ntimama have threatened to lead hunts to kill repairs as best they could to try to save some of the animals. lions, elephants, and other species whose ven- Yet the struggle is now more often among African tures outside wildlife reserves often result in lawyers in neatly pressed suits than gun-toting rangers and human deaths, injuries, and economic losses. rebels, with courts making the key decisions. The lion and elephant populations of Kenya have both been poached to a fraction of what they were 30 years ago, Bushmen win in Botswana Fighting Amboseli giveaway but human settlement around the national parks has increased. An October 28 Botswana High Court verdict went the The battle over Amboseli National Park in Kenya As result of the Amboseli turnover, “Kajiado leaders opposite way, as the court ordered the Botswana government erupted in earnest on September 29, 2005. With a November can anticipate a financial windfall to build schools, hospitals to allow Basarwa tribesman Amogolang Segootsane and his and roads,” editorialized The Nation, of family to return, with their goats, to their ancestral land in the Nairobi. “In terms of promoting rural Central Kalahari Game Reserve. The ruling may have been the development, the government has done the beginning of the end of an often violent 20-year dispute right thing. The revenue will directly bene- between the Basarwa and the reserve managers, but was fit the local people. viewed in some quarters as also potentially the beginning of the “However, the timing suggests end of the reserve itself. that the decision was based not on the need “Dozens of Bushmen have been evicted from the to give Kajiado people control of their reserve at gunpoint in recent weeks,” claimed the indigenous resources, but as part of a bid to entice rights group Survival International. “Three Bushmen, includ- them to back the government position on ing a seven-year old boy, have been shot and wounded.” the vote for the proposed new constitution. Earlier, one Basarwa allegedly died during a brutal To put it more bluntly, official policy is police interrogation. Several others have been killed in similar being dictated by the need to bribe specific confrontations during past years. communities in order to secure their politi- The September 2005 shooting started after members cal backing.” of an organization called First People of the Kalahari tried to The Kenya High Court on return to the park after being removed in 2002. Twenty-eight October 12 granted standing to the East Basarwa were arrested by police firing tear gas and rubber bul- These animals came running and fought for water when volunteers refilled Africa Wildlife Society, Centre for lets on September 24, according to Survival International, a Hwange National Park waterhole. (Johnny Rodrieguez) Environmental Legal Research and after the Bushmen tried to take food and water to relatives who Education, Born Free Foundation, and had not yet been evicted. Anti-chaining & feral cat ordinances Youth for Conservation to sue seeking to ANIMAL PEOPLE was unable to locate any inde- nullify the turnover of Amboseli. On pendent media accounts of the conflict. Survival International The cities of Burnaby and Advocates, Dogs Deserve Better, and October 28 the High Court also granted a said reporters were kept away by the Botswana government. Vancouver, British Columbia, NIAA campaigns have now won ban- restraining order to suspend the turnover, On September 2, however, Botswana presidential Canada, in October and November ning or restricting chaining in almost as + pending the outcome of the lawsuit. (continued on page 11) + 2005 adopted anti-chaining ordi- many cities as children have been killed n a n c e s that Animal Advocates of B.C. by chained dogs (58) since Grimes founder Judy Stone believes are “the began counting in 2003. best in North America.” Animal The Indianapolis city coun- Advocates of B.C. began promoting cil on October 10 voted 26-1 to make a Buck Starbucks! anti-chaining ordinances through adver- neuter/return program run by the local tising in ANIMAL PEOPLE a b o u t organization IndyFeral a part of the offi- "I hate rodeos and animal cruelty more than I like soy lattes." seven months before Tammy Grimes cial city animal control policy. “Indy- formed the U.S.-based anti-chaining Feral charges colony caregivers $20 per organization Dogs Deserve Better, and cat for their service, compared to 20 months before Connecticut passed an approximately $120 per cat trapped and anti-chaining law sought since 1986 by killed by Indianapolis Animal Care and National Institute for Animal Advocacy Control,” noted Nuvo Magazine writer founder Julie Lewin. The Animal Mary Lee Pappas.
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Motseta of Associated Press that parts of the “has been praised as an example of regional controversial sale of 135 wild animals from Three of the four species that reserve were closed due to “a highly conta- cooperation and sustainable development, Kenya to the Chiang Mai Night Safari zoo in Plodprasop Suraswadi said would be eaten are gious outbreak of sarcoptic mange among raising foreign investment and creating Thailand on November 10 appeared to be native to Kenya, and would apparently be bred herds of domestic goats and sheep illegally much needed jobs,” wrote Kristy Siegfried almost a done deal. from the Kenyan stock. brought into the reserve by Bushmen who in the October 15 edition of The Guardian. Kenya president Mwai Kibaki and Elephants are also native to resisted being relocated.” However, at drought-stricken Salani Thai prime minister Thaskin Shinawatra cere- Thailand––and are a symbol of both the Ramsay said the disease had “a village in Mozambique, Siegfried said, monially signed the agreement at the State Buddhist religion and the Thai nation, which is high fatality rate and was potentially disas- “Since officials removed a section of fence House in Nairobi. 95% Buddhist. trous to native springbok,” Motseta wrote. between Kruger National park in South The transaction is to include both Animal advocates in both Kenya and About the size of Switzerland, the Africa and Limpopo National Park in black and white rhinos, elephants, lions, leop- Thailand were appalled. Central Kalahari Game Reserve was formed Mozambique and enforced a hunting ban to ards, cheetahs, hyenas, servals, hippos, and “The idea will set the country’s image in 1961 to protect the Basarwa and their allow animals to begin populating the land at least 14 hooved species. back a century,” warned Wildlife Fund habitat, including the animals they hunted. along the Limpopo River, villagers and their But the deal was originally to have Thailand secretary Surapol Duangkae, Over time, however, the Basarwa turned livestock are vulnerable to predators. The included more than 300 animals, as described “because nowadays zoos around the world aim from hunting to herding, resulting in habitat hunting ban has depleted the villagers’ in July 2005. It was scaled back after Youth for to educate, and to conserve wildlife, cam- degradation. Many of those who continued already meagre diet and the promised Conservation rallied international opposition to paigning to stop the killing of animals.” hunting were caught killing endangered or tourism jobs are a distant prospect. the animal sale, over a variety of humane, tacti- “The zoo should be a place for study threatened species. Pressured by conserva- “Limpopo National Park lacks tarred cal, precedental, and conservation considera- and conservation, not killing. Promoting the tionists, the Botswana government began roads, running water, and electricity, much tions. eating of wild animals will confuse adults and trying to persuade the Basarwa to voluntarily less tourist-friendly amenities. Game-view- Already claiming 726 animals of 103 children about what’s right and what’s wrong,” resettle outside the park in 1986, and started ing opportunities are still rare, and it will species, the Chiang Mai Night Safari opened added Wildlife Conservation Society represen- forcibly evicting herders in 1997. take years for zebras, giraffes, impala and for promotional tours by invited guests on tative Petch Manopavitr. The Basarwa population of the rhinos to populate the entire area.” November 16. The public opening is to be on Formerly the Thai fisheries minister, reserve, now about 1,400, peaked at circa Further, Siegfried noted, “No donor January 1, 2006. and later the wildlife minister, Plodprasop 5,000 in the 1960s. is willing to fund the Zimbabwean section of Youth for Conservation founder Suraswadi lost both positions amid scandals. A the park, which includes Gonarezhou Josphat Ngonyo pledged to continue efforts to Thai senate panel in late 2004 officially found Great Limpopo National Park. South African papers report stop the transfer of the Kenyan animals. The reason to believe that he illegally issued permits Similar conflict may be ahead as that Gonarezhou has been invaded,” by sup- seemingly lost cause gained momentum after allowing the Sri Racha Tiger Zoo to sell 100 result of the merger of wildlife reserves in porters of Robert Mugabe, “and that much Chiang Mai Night Safari director Plodprasop tigers to China. The panel concluded that the Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe of its game has been killed.” Suraswadi disclosed plans for the park to tiger sale was a commercial transaction, not a to create the Great Limpopo Transfrontier ––Merritt Clifton include a buffet restaurant serving tiger, lion, legitimate attempt to conserve the species. Events Nov. 20: Touched By An Animal Benefit Lunch, ® Chicago. 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At the back of the keep stood a The best-remembered residents of in the history of the blood-soaked rolling hills Garrett Barry, possibly a distant two-story stable, with an armory in between. Sallins Castle and the neighborhood arrived of Liscarroll. descendant of Og de Barry, in 1642 captured On the ground level were the horses. Above in the 18th century, including the author The 350 donkeys peacefully grazing Limerick with an Irish rebel army of 1,500. was a loft, defended by loopholes, with a Richard Brooke, who shared Sallins Lodge at the impeccably tidy 30-acre visitor center Rallying the countryside, Barry had 6,000 pitched roof to keep firebrands out of the hay. with his brother and their families for a few and the equally well-managed 70-acre donkey men behind him, including 500 horsemen Like most Norman castles, Sallins years early in the century; General Samuel retirement farm together form a living monu- commanded by one Oliver Stephenson, when Castle was not designed to withstand a pro- Holt, who occupied the castle during and ment to a globally influential turning point in he stormed Liscarroll Castle in mid-July. longed siege. The strategy, if attacked, was after the 1798 rebellion; and Theobald Wolfe animal/human relations. The victory lasted just two weeks. for most of the residents to put up the best Tone, instigator of the rebellion. Donkeys are known to have lived at Murrough O’Brien, Earl of Inchi- fight they could, while riders or runners A resident of Sallins village, not Knockardbane, the farm that became the visi- quinn, marched from Cork to take Liscarroll slipped out the back way to fetch help from the castle, Tone is buried at nearby Bodens- tor center, since 1926, when Donkey back. Stephenson captured Inchiquinn in an the next castle, typically 10 to 20 miles dis- town. Poet Thomas Davis made the grave- Sanctuary manager Paddy Barrett’s grandfa- ill-timed charge, but Inchiquinn’s brother shot tant along the main toll roads. yard a nationalist shrine by erecting a stone to ther retired from a career as a police officer, Stephenson dead through the eye-piece of his For the knights of Sallins, that Tone’s memory in 1843. and took up grazing livestock instead. helmet. As Stephenson’s cavalry fell back, meant Dublin, 18 miles east. The Sallins Castle stable has proba- But in all likelihood donkeys have O’Brien counter-charged, killing more than Hugonauts exiled from France in bly housed greyhounds and other dogs for as inhabited the site for almost as long as don- 700 rebel riders and foot soldiers, capturing the 16th century bought the Sallins keep, long as it has existed. Norman knights typi- keys have been in Ireland. 50 rebel officers alive. All were hanged the probably by then abandoned, and rebuilt it cally kept a hunting pack in an otherwise At the highest point on Knockard- next morning, effectively ending any threat into a more comfortable house, after the style (continued on page 13) bane, as far from the office as visitors can the revolt posed to English rule. walk within the fenced trails, a circle of half- Though there are plaques at the buried white-painted stones highlight the Donkey Sanctuary identifying the fortifica- earthworks that are the remaining traces of tions, more signage describes the ancient lime Cearbhall’s Fort, a now little remembered kiln just behind the office, used for centuries landmark in both Irish and equine history. to make mortar for brickwork. This is where Cearbhall MacDún- The Barrett family commitment to lainge, Lord of Osraighe, built the fortified making peace rather than war turned from cavalry stable for which he became known to agriculture to humane work in 1964, when his enemies as “Cearbhall MacDunghill.” Paddy Barrett’s father took a job as field He was not called that to his face. inspector for the Irish SPCA. From time to Cearbhall was first recorded in histo- time during the next 17 years he occasionally ry when he fought off an attack by Vikings impounded abused animals, especially don- who invaded overland from Dublin in 845. keys, who at the time were still heavily used Alternately a foe and an ally of the Vikings, in Ireland for farm labor and rural transport. thwarting frequent attacks by both sea and Having nowhere else to take them, he brought land, between raids on rival regional warlords, them home. Cearbhall for the next 43 years proved excep- This was the beginning of the Barrett tionally adept at survival, if never quite strong Animal Sanctuary. Succeeding his father with enough to convert victories into conquest. the Irish SPCA, Paddy Barrett formally incor- Cearbhall was most nearly defeated porated the sanctuary in 1982, left the Irish in 868. His longtime arch-foes from Leinster SPCA to manage the sanctuary fulltime in cornered him at Cearbhall’s Fort. Charging up 1987, and a year later formally affiliated with the steep hill hellbent on effecting his quick the Donkey Sanctuary of the United Kingdom, demise, they reached the summit winded. A founded in 1969 by Elisabeth Svensden. cavalry charge repelled and slaughtered them. To hear Paddy Barrett, he and his The name “Cearbhall” over time family knew nothing about donkeys before metamorphized into a description of his prized Svensden became involved, and not much “skewbald” horses. While the term evolved on about anything else; but Paddy is an Irish into “piebald” during the 19th century. “skew- story-teller. The official Donkey Sanctuary Paddy Barrett, manager of the Donkey Sanctuary of Ireland. (Kim Bartlett) bald” became “Stewball,” the name of a wine- version is that Svensden began helping to fund Farm for the remainder of their lives, but Addis Ababa University veterinary school. + those who are the best prospects for adoption Svendsen opened the Lamu Donkey + drinking horse kept by Sir Arthur Marvel. site improvements because she was favorably Stewball circa 1790 was entered into a match impressed with how much the Barrett family or demonstrate the most interest in human Sanctuary on an island off the coast of Kenya race in Kildare against Miss Portly, a gray was doing for donkeys with so little by way of companionship are taken to Knockardbane. in 1987. Since 1994 Donkey Sanctuary has mare of comparably dubious habits kept by Sir public support. Adopted donkeys are in effect on also funded a donkey hospital and harness Ralph Gore. Renamed the Donkey Sanctuary of loan. The Donkey Sanctuary retains legal title workshop at the Kenya SPCA in Nairobi. Miss Portly took an early lead but Ireland, the project eventually expanded to to them, and may recall them at any time if Donkey Sanctuary affiliates in stumbled and fell. Stewball, the winner, was Hannigan’s Farm, on another hilltop on the far visits by the Donkey Sanctuary inspectors find Gurgaon, Bhatti, and Ahmedabad, India, remembered in a ballad first published in side of the main road to Liscarroll. Today any sign of mistreatment. debuted in 1998, 2003, and 2004. 1829, made famous in mid-20th century ver- incoming donkeys go first to Hannigan’s The Donkey Sanctuary outreach to El Refugio del Burrito, a Donkey sions by The Weavers, Lonnie Donnegan, Farm, for examination, any necessary veteri- Ireland yielded such encouraging results that Sanctuary affiliate in Spain, opened in 2003. Joan Baez, and Peter Paul & Mary. nary treatement, and quarantine and extended Svendsen followed up by introducing field [Contact the Donkey Sanctuary of The remains of Cearbhall’s Fort care, if appropriate. clinics to help donkeys in Mexico in 1984, Ireland c/o Liscarroll, Mallow, Co. Cork; tele- phone 353-22-48398; fax 353-22-48489; overlook the ruins of Liscarroll Castle, among Many donkeys stay at Hannigan’s conducted since 1991 with help from the International League for the Protection of
How the Irish dog racing industry muzzles humane critics (from page 12) unoccupied horse stall. The stable appears to “We are the only animal rescue in efforts to counter activist criticism of the grey- boarded with a racing trainer whose large com- have been renovated only twice, by the Ireland currently taking greyhounds from the hound industry. Yet PAWS began getting help mercial kennel and cattery stands on the same Hugonauts, who built the present stalls, and state-run dog pounds, and one of the few tak- after the Dublin-based Alliance for Animal road, a mile beyond Sallins Castle. by Hetherington, who added some tile walls ing lurchers,” or greyhound-mix hunting dogs, Rights and the American/European Greyhound The PAWS greyhound rescue pro- and floors. Eventually Hetherington also con- Hetherington says. Alliance embarrassed agriculture minister Joe gram thereby helps indirectly to keep at least verted the former servants’ quarters into dog “All of the greyhounds are ex-racers, Walsh with an August 2000 protest outside one trainer in business, while helping the Irish housing, and turned the outbuildings into ken- who have been taken to the pounds to be Leinster House, seat of the Irish Parliament. government to pretend that the usual fate of nels. The onetime gardens became runs. destroyed, usually at about two years of age,” The Irish SPCA followed up in 2001 ex-racing dogs is humane retirement. Raising an annual budget of about Hetherington continues. “As it is nearly with an investigative report detailing cruel But PAWS is scarcely the only Irish $150,000 per year, assisted by family and impossible to rehome these dogs in Ireland, treatment of greyhounds exported to Spain. animal welfare charity to receive government friends, Hetherington has ambitions of replac- we have to hold them until we can get them to As the Irish greyhound export issue and industry subsidies for finding homes for ing the admittedly dilapidated, cold, wet, the United Kingdom or the U.S.,” where many gained global attention, the aid increased–– ex-racing greyhounds. The funding, a fraction drafty medieval animal quarters with a state- are rehomed by Louise Coleman of Greyhound some of it coming directly from the industry. of the $69 million euros spent to subsidize rac- of-the-art adoption palace. But that will take Friends, in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. “During 2004 we hugely expanded ing in 2004, is reputedly liberally distributed an influx of new funding from somewhere, The PAWS adoption record is out- our greyhound rescue,” daughter Gina among animal rescue societies. perhaps a major bequest. standing, but has a more problematic side. Hetherington explained in a recent PAWS Neither is PAWS the only Irish ani- Hetherington claims to have adopted PAWS’ work has been subsidized newsletter. “The Irish Greyhound Board has mal welfare charity to board dogs with grey- out more than 7,000 dogs since starting since 2001 by grants from the Irish govern- committed to pay kenneling fees and neutering hound trainers. No one has been more outspo- PAWS, 70% of them adults. Many were cast- ment. Officially, there is no direct link costs for registered greyhounds in our care.” kenly critical of the greyhound industry over offs from the Newbridge racetrack. between subsidies for animal welfare and Most of the PAWS greyhounds are (continued on page 14) More events (from page 11) December 20-24: Asian Vegetarian Union Cong-ress, Bangkok. Info: www.ivu.org/avu/. (continued on page 13) 2006 March 8-11: Humane Society of the U.S. Animal Care Expo, Anaheim. Info: 301- 5 4 8 - 7 7 3 9 ;
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How Irish dog racers muzzle critics (from 13) the years than American/European in 1983 precisely because, as she registered during the first half of Greyhound Association and put it, she refused to be muzzled. 2005, according to FitzGibbon. Limerick Animal Welfare cofounder Major U.S. promoters Since breeding and registry mostly Marion FitzGibbon, for example. were then still building new grey- come early in the year, the 2005 FitzGibbon is also a board member hound tracks. Now tracks close total may represent another drop in of the Avalon Greyhound Sanctuary. every year, not to be replaced, and greyhound whelping. Her former tenure as Irish SPCA most of the survivors augment live Yet the complete context board president coincided with the racing with telecasts, slot machines, shows little to celebrate. The three most aggressive phase of ISPCA and poker tables. most recently published annual greyhound activism. The Irish greyhound totals of dogs killed in Irish shelters Yet among the boarders industry is also declining––but about were 24,000, 20,000, and 18,000. housing dogs for FitzGibbon is a generation more slowly. The numbers are dropping due to the prominent racing trainer and trans- As of 1994, according to success of pet sterilization programs porter Donal Croke. the Irish Greyhound Studbook, such as SpayWeek Ireland. “Croke has just built new Ireland bred 25,000 greyhounds per If the greyhound toll is kennels and has big paddocks for the year. About 11,000 greyhounds per included in the shelter toll, as the dogs to run in,” FitzGibbon told year were retired from racing, of reporting leaves unclear, grey- supporters. “He has good connec- whom about 4,000 were killed, hounds accounted for 13% of Irish tions in England, and will try to find according to the Irish SPCA. shelter dog killing in 1993, 58% in homes for greyhounds in the south Approximately 10,000 greyhounds 2003, and 78% in fiscal 2005. If the of England, as well as promoting were exported, chiefly to race and greyhound toll is separate, grey- them in the southeast of Ireland.” hunt in Spain. Most of the dogs sold hounds accounted for 11% in 1993, FitzGibbon and virtually to Spain were believed by grey- 37% in 2003, and 44% in fiscal every other Irish animal advocate hound advocates to have been killed 2005. Either way, ex-racing grey- whom ANIMAL PEOPLE i n t e r - at the end of the hunting or racing hounds are the largest single source viewed readily agreed that grey- season, to be replaced with more of homeless dogs killed in Ireland. hound racing is among the most dogs from Ireland the next year. urgent animal welfare issues in By 2003, only 20,000 Hidden taxes Ireland––but most also asserted that greyhounds were whelped in Ireland, Greyhound racing thrived Deirdre Hetherington with spaniel pups. (Kim Bartlett) the racing industry is much too according to a report called G r e y - even when Ireland was poor. Now Bord na gCon––the Irish equivalent hounds tear a live rabbit to shreds. + strong to confront directly, and that hound Hell, jointly published by the that Ireland has the fastest growing of the National Greyhound Associ- From this, people have the mistaken + working with it is inevitable. Irish SPCA and the Royal SPCA of economy in Europe, the Irish gov- ation––is almost an official govern- idea that greyhounds are dangerous,” Ironically, FitzGibbon Great Britain. As the export market ernment sees dog racing as perhaps ment agency. Many aspects of the even though no greyhound has ever and others quickly acknowledge the had dwindled, following a collapse the easiest way to raise taxes in a greyhound industry receive special been listed on the ANIMAL PEO- longtime support of Greyhound of greyhound racing at Spanish nation whose historical antagonism privileges. So the industry seems to PLE log of life-threatening and fatal Friends founder Louise Coleman. tourist venues, the Irish SPCA toward tax collectors is why Sallins be more monolithic than here. dog attacks, kept since 1982. The Outspokenly critical of both grey- believed that about 14,000 Irish Castle was built. “I began going to Ireland log includes more than 2,000 attacks hound racing and U.S. organizations greyhounds were killed as surplus in “A major difference be- on a regular basis in 1978,” Coleman by dogs of 83 different breeds and that accept aid from the industry, 2003, more than triple the volume tween greyhound racing here and added. “I have Irish grandparents combinations, including more than allegedly at the price of silence, of killing when exports were strong. there,” Coleman told A N I M A L and used to go over to visit family, 1,000 attacks by pit bull terriers and Coleman began Greyhound Friends 13,278 greyhounds were P E O P L E , “is that in Ireland the hear music, and have a good time. nearly 400 by Rottweilers. After my greyhound work began in Coleman sees convincing 1983, I realized that the glut of the Irish public that greyhounds are Join the No More Homeless Pets Forum extraneous greyhounds in the U.S. not inherently dangerous as the first Join us for a week with some of the leaders of this lifesaving movement, who will share an inside had a corollary in Ireland. Many of step toward turning public opinion view of their thoughts and work and answer questions about topics near and dear to their hearts. the dogs raced here are from Ireland against the cruelties of greyhound Coming topics–– or are bred from Irish dogs. racing and training––and coursing, “In 1994 I heard that the the longtime primary target of the November 14-18 World Greyhound Racing Feder- Irish League Against Cruel Sports. Bite Prevention––When a dog or cat bites someone, a person gets hurt and the animal’s life is on ation was meeting in Dublin. I “For the past seven years I the line. Yvette Van Veen of Animal Rescue Foundation Ontario answers your questions to keep decided to see what was happening,” have set up a greyhound welfare/ animals and humans (especially children) interacting safely and harmoniously. Coleman recalled. “I was not an adoption booth at the Dublin Horse November 28 - December 2 official registrant but sat in on many Show,” Coleman said. “Initially, The Vaccine Controversy––How can you prevent the spread of illness in shelters or foster homes? presentations. I became worried people would look at our booth as if How often should animals be vaccinated? Can some vaccine protocols do more harm than good? about plans to send greyhounds to we were crazy to offer greyhounds Dr. Brenda Griffin of Auburn University and Dr. Kate Hurley of the University of California, Davis, race in countries where there is little as companions. Gradually m o r e will address keeping animals in our care safe, healthy and happy. or no animal protection, including and more people have stopped to say in the Far East, Spain, and that they have taken in a stray grey- December 5-9 Morocco. Even with marginal wel- hound, or lurcher, or have adopted Pets in Prisons––Toby Young of Safe Harbor Prison Dog Program outlines the best types of fare provisions, those dogs’ fate was one from a pound. People believe programs to help homeless pets and prison inmates prepare together to rejoin society! obviously grim. And in some ways what they see,” Coleman empha- December 12-16 things have not gottten better. sized. “If there were not legions of You Went Potty Where?! Want to help animals in danger of being relinquished due to housetraining “In Ireland,” Coleman adopted greyhounds out and around issues? At your wits’ end with a critter who thinks the floor is an outhouse? Helen Colombo and said, “one major change is that there in the U.S., the greyhound welfare Dilara Parry of the San Francisco SPCA are #1 (or is it #2?) at solving potty problems! are now shelters that take grey- effort would be stunted.” December 19-23 hounds. When I started work with Coleman agreed that takng Animal spay/neuter laws and ordinances have the power to help or harm. Submit your legislation FitzGibbon in 1994, almost no Irish industry funding seems to make Irish brainstorms to Susan Robinson of Coalition for Cats & Dogs and Ledy VanKavage of the American greyhounds were rescued. Now greyhound advocates “more hesitant Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for feedback to create a winning statute. there is
helping dogs in Ireland too, and planning to add an Irish affiliate, is Dogs Trust. “I chair the U.K. Greyhound Forum and the International Greyhound Forum. Deirdre Hetherington sits on the lat- ter,” Dogs Trust chief executive Clarissa Baldwin told A N I M A L PEOPLE. “I agree it is a difficult line to walk when you accept money and then need to cajole the same people to change their ways. Dogs Trust does not accept money from the industry,” Bald-win stipu- lated. “I do, however, believe in working from within, and have spent much time with the industry bosses. Deirdre is not backward when she talks to the industry,” Baldwin avered, “and weighs in heavily when she thinks they are not doing what has been promised. “Her kennels are by no means perfect,” Baldwin contin- ued, “but I think she does her best, and she does save a lot of dogs’ lives. She turned her home over to the dogs and is very short of cash. We help her out with neutering vouchers when we can. “There is a lot of work to be done in Ireland,” Baldwin emphasized, “but there are moves afoot to do it. New greyhound breeding and transport laws are under discussion. Our frustration is with the length of time it takes! Ireland is a very rich country now, and Irish care of animals has to be improved in line with this.” ––Merritt Clifton
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New Orleans rescue ends with a storm (from page 1) ing. The state claims that local authorities can handle the prob- worked with “untrained volunteers who may have arrived the delivering them to the Best Friends shelter on the grounds of lem,” Robinson charged, “but rescuers on the ground know very morning they were deployed. Perhaps assigning them to Saint Francis Animal Sanctuary in Tylertown, Mississippi.” this is not the case. One of the hardest hit areas, St. Bernard cage cleaning or other support tasks would have been a better Confirmed Best Friends president Michael Mountain Parish, has no active animal control agency or functioning ani- use of their skills,” she suggested, noting that “When I asked on November 5, “Another 155 animals rescued from New mal shelter. The Louisiana SPCA does not have anywhere for volunteers to stay behind and help care for the animals at Orleans left the Best Friends rescue center at Tylertown last close to the staff, space, or resources required to address a Lamar-Dixon,” the largest of the post-Katrina temporary res- week with foster groups from around the country. problem of this magnitude.” cue centers, “it was clear that many of the unskilled volunteers “We began running short of foster groups early in the Responded Louisiana SPCA executive director Laura were more interested in fulfilling their personal needs than in week,” Mountain said, “and had to stop taking in more ani- Maloney, “Please be assured that I recognize and value the doing what was most needed by the animals.” mals for a few days. Instead, we temporarily placed the new tremendous effort demonstrated by those who have given their rescues in boarding kennels.” The Tylertown rescue center was time and resources to save our animals. It would be foolish to Summing up still receiving about 20 animals per day, with about 400 on the think that the Louisiana SPCA could have handled this alone.” The Humane Society of the U.S. withdrew from New premises at any given time, according to Mountain. But Maloney noted that, “Visiting animal control Orleans in mid-October after a two-week phase-out of opera- “We’re expecting to keep the rescue center open teams and local residents are not seeing evidence of thousands tions. As the lead agency coordinating the relief efforts until through the end of this year,” Mountain said, “since the other of starving animals. We’re trapping every night and definitely then, HSUS “helped to rescue more than 8,200 stranded pets major rescue organizations are now less active in the region.” seeing strays, but we’re not seeing thousands. We have been and other animals,” summarized HSUS president Wayne “Many of the animals have special needs, such as trapping between 15 and 30 animals per day. “ Pacelle. “At peak, our Lamar-Dixon emergency shelter in high levels of heartworm, and behavioral issues arising from The longtime Louisiana SPCA headquarters on Gonzales, Louisiana housed nearly 2,000 animals, and more the conditions they have been in,” Mountain mentioned. Japonica Street in New Orleans was damaged beyond repair. than 300 people attended to their needs. Our facility at Maloney said that until a temporary Louisiana SPCA Hattiesburg, Mississippi, handled nearly 2,400 animals. Spending the money shelter in Algiers has appropriate adoption facilities, some “We helped reunite more than 800 rescued pets with Estimating that up to 80% of the dogs rescued from adoptable animals would be transferred for rehoming to the the people who love them,” Pacelle continued. “We have the Hurricane Katrina disaster area had heartworm, carried by Plaquemines Animal Welfare Society in Belle Chasse. pledged, with the American SPCA, to pay whatever costs are mosquitoes, HSUS, the ASPCA, the Humane Society of To prepare for the next phase of the post-Katrina/Rita necessary to transport animals to be reunited with their people. Greater Miami, Adopt-a-Pet, and the American Animal animal recovery effort, Maloney said, “We are deploying a More than 40 HSUS staff and a cadre of volunteers are working Hospital Association on November 4 jointly announced a subsi- multi-agency assessment team, which is visiting the city’s ani- to match lost pets with their caregivers.” dized heartworm treatment program. mal rescue hot spots. We are working two shifts, at dawn and The rescue operations had by October reached a point Subsidies of up to $500 per animal will be made dusk, when animals are most active. of steeply diminishing returns. Only about 5% of the total available for animals from more than 200 participating shelters “We always need volunteers,” Maloney added. number of animals who were rescued were recovered after who are treated by an AAHA-accredited veterinary practice. “Not everyone, however, wants to work within the system,” September, and few of those were not found loose, outdoors. Money did not seem to be an issue for the organiza- an increasing problem for the Louisiana SPCA and other local “If an animal was still home, he was on the edge of tions whose fundraising arms responded promptly to Katrina agencies as residents returned to the city. life,” Iowa State University assistant professor of veterinary and Rita. HSUS reportedly raised $18 million. The American pathology Christine Peterson told Des Moines Register s t a f f SPCA raised $13 million. Network For Good vice president Complaints writer Mike Kilen, after spending the last week of September Katya Andresen told Houston Chronicle reporter Cynthia Garza Some residents who recovered lost pets, or returned seeking animals in deserted houses. “The vast majority of them that Noah’s Wish ranked third among animal groups in funds to New Orleans with pets, complained that the animals were were dehydrated, emaciated, and had parasites.” raised, at $6.5 million, though mentioned in only 31 (5.3%) of snatched by rescuers who wrongly presumed that any animal Two dogs died for every cat, Peterson found. But the 581 print and electronic news items that ANIMAL PEO- they saw was abandoned. Some returnees threatened to shoot once she found a woman lying dead with her seven cats. PLE received about the Katrina/Rita animal relief effort. would-be rescuers who repeatedly broke into homes to search “She did not want to leave them,” Petersen told Kilen. HSUS was mentioned in 165 items, Best Friends in for animals. Tempers were additionally frayed by rescuers who “It was not easy to see.” 104, and the ASPCA in 95. spray-painted houses or even parked cars to identify the loca- Added animal control officer Michael Melchionne, As well as helping humane societies hit by Katrina tions of animals for others. of Stafford, New Jersey, to Asbury Park Press staff writer Joe and Rita to rebuild, the ASPCA offered incentive grants of The Louisiana SPCA and animal control agencies Zedalis, “You can’t believe how many animals we found dead $500 “to each rescue site that reunites a pet and owner, as well found themselves on the receiving end of countless complaints on the beds of their people or at the front door, waiting for as grants to pay for the cost of the return of the pet.” about the actions of rescuers they knew nothing about. them to return.” “Sadly, we were forwarded emails where people After encountering so much death, many rescuers Lessons learned mentioned testing us with false reports to see how fast we compulsively sought live animals, whose recovery might bring “I find myself struggling with the nagging fear that would respond,” Maloney told ANIMAL PEOPLE o n them some consolation, even long after there were any to be we could have saved more animals,” wrote American Humane November 13. “Yesterday, one of our visiting teams respond- found. The syndrome was familiar to disaster relief veterans, Association disaster relief coordinator Dick Green in an online ed to a call only to see an ‘animal rescue’ vehicle flee when but difficult to counter. blog. “If there had just been more hours of daylight, no cur- they approached. I would hope that rescuers wouldn’t waste Remaining rescuers hopes were raised, for example, few, better intelligence, more trained responders, better coop- valuable resources playing games with animals’ lives.” when Kim Campbell Thornton reported on November 3 for eration…If there is any consolation, it is that our country is “An unfortunate reality,” Maloney continued, “is MSNBC that, “More than two months after Hurricane Katrina, beginning to understand how intricately connected the safety that we will never know how many more animals might have animals are still being found alive in New Orleans, pulled out and well-being of humans and animals are.” been saved had unsanctioned rescuers been willing to work of attics and from beneath flooring, or” in all but a handful of “We had an emergency plan, but I have learned it is cooperatively with regional and state authorities. Precious time cases, “off of the streets.” not enough,” Humane Society of the Nature Coast executive and resources have been wasted through working at cross-pur- Since October 1, Thornton said, when the HSUS director Joanne Schoch told St. Petersburg Times staff writer poses and duplicating services.” rescue centers quit taking animals, “volunteers with Animal Beth N. Gray. Schoch made three trips to assist in the Maloney noted that some ad hoc rescue groups Rescue New Orleans have rescued more than 400 animals, Katrina/Rita disaster zone. ––Merritt Clifton
ABOVE LEFT: Alley Cat Allies volunteer Diane Blankenberg and national outreach director Bonney Brown rescue a cat. (Photo by James Davis.) ABOVE CENTER: After several rescuer break-ins, the occupants of this house threatened to shoot rescuers. (Photo by Laura Maloney.) RIGHT, TOP & BOTTOM: Spray-painted notes sometimes helped rescuers to find animals, and other times just annoyed New Orleans residents, as when someone painted this car to point out a sign on the house behind it. (Photos by Laura Maloney.) Coastal pastures became better habitat for sea cows than cattle Hurricanes Katrina and Rita “The Army used helicopters to Bayou cattle ranch manager Kent between them submerged as much as a search for thousands of cattle feared LeDoux told Doug Simpson of third of the cattle grazing land in stranded in high water, amid reports that Associated Press. “With the salt on the Louisiana. Rainfall from Wilma perpetu- more than 4,000 may have been killed in pastures, we don’t know how long it will ated conditions that had Debra Barlow of Cameron Parish alone,” Associated take to recover.” Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue wishing Press reported after Rita hit. “Not even the surviving cattle for an ark. Louisiana Cattlemen’s Associ- are worth much,” Simpson wrote. “The “We are a horse rescue organi- ation representative Bob Felknor predict- animals are known as ‘storm cows,’ less zation, but have opened our arms to ed that more than 30,000 cattle might be valuable because their health is threat- include all the livestock we can help,” in trouble. ened by pneumonia and digestion prob- Barlow e-mailed to Brenda Shoss of “An estimated 135,000 farmed lems from swallowing salt water and Kinship Circle, whose daily bulletins animals were impacted in southwest going without fresh water.” throughout the fall 2005 hurricane season Louisiana alone, with many of them now GREYHOUND TALES made her the unofficial dispatcher for roaming free but trying to escape the rescue efforts from Alabama to Texas. flooded areas,” Farmed Animal Watch TRUE STORIES OF RESCUE, “We have rescued emus, cat- reported. COMPASSION AND LOVE tle, horses, you name it,” Barlow con- About 5,000 cattle were strand- edited by Nora Star, tinued. “The rescued animals have been ed on Pecan Island, Vermilion Parish with introduction by Susan Netboy. put in holding pens since they can’t graze Office of Emergency Preparedness direc- Learn more about these animals and the saltwater-saturated alfalfa fields. The tor Robert LeBlanc said. how you can help them. salt content made the animals dehydrated Emergency feed was trucked in Send $15.95 to: If you know someone else who might like to and delusional. We are hoping to flush from Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. Nora Star the saltwater absorbed out their systems “We’re probably years away 9728 Tenaya Way, read ANIMAL PEOPLE, with feed, clean water and hay.” from getting back to normal,” Johnson Kelseyville, CA 95451 please ask us to send a free sample. ANIMAL P E OPLE, November 2005 - 19 Hurricanes Stan, Tammy, Wilma, & unnamed twisters add to catastrophe WEST PALM BEACH– – H u r r i c a n e funding to Bahamas Humane, and the Pegasus Charley. A pregnant parma wallaby died from The fall tropical storm season had an Wilma, after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Foundation wired $1,000 to the Kohn stress, zoo director David Tetzlaff said. The impact as far north as Woonsocket, Rhode might have seemed anticlimactic to those who Foundation, a Colorado charity that acts as a zoo was closed for repairs that were expected Island, where the October 15 opening of a were not hit by it. To those who were, includ- fiscal agent for the Humane Society of Grand to take up to two months. flood control dam due to torrential rain forced ing Pegasus Foundation program officer Anne Bahama. The World Society for the Protec- animal control officer Paul Rose to evacuate M. Ostberg, whose organization specializes in “At this end,” Osteberg added, “the tion of Animals was already funding emer- seven dogs, ten cats, and the reptile collec- assisting humane work in island nations, it barn at the Pegasus Foundation’s animal sanc- gency vaccination and feeding in Costa Rica tion he uses on educational visits to school- was the real thing. tuary in Florida lost part of its roof, but the and El Salvador and investigating situations in rooms. The animals were temporarily housed Wilma hit the west end of Grand animals and people were unhurt. The building Guatemala and Mexico, after hurricanes Stan by the Lincoln Animal Shelter and the Bahama island on October 24, displacing as where our West Palm Beach offices were and Tammy, when Wilma swung south, Providence Animal Rescue League. many as 4,000 people and their animals. The located was badly damaged, but again, no spokesperson Celia Wood said. The last of the series of disasters to Humane Society of Grand Bahama suffered one was hurt.” WSPA also helped the Society for hit the U.S.––rescuers hoped––may have been only damaged fencing, Ostberg e-mailed, As Wilma approached Florida, the the Protection of Animals in El Salvador to the October 29 tornado that killed 22 residents based on a report from director Elizabeth Humane Society of Broward County in Fort built a temporary cattle shelter near the of the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park near Burrows, but needed urgent help to feed and Lauderdale received an influx of 19 cats and Llamatepec Volcano, Wood added. Evansville, Indiana. Evansville Animal water displaced animals. 23 dogs from evacuees. The Suncoast After Wilma, Juan Carlos Murillo Control and the Vanderburgh Humane Society “The Bahamas Humane Society in Humane Society in Englewood received an of WSPA directed two veterinary field teams recovered more than 70 dogs, cats, reptiles, Nassau sent inspector Carl Thurston to Grand additional 50 animals. on a two-week mission to Quintana Roo state, rabbits, birds, and other animals from the Bahama on November 1 to spend four days But the Florida crisis was brief. Mexico. The Humane Society of the U.S. sent scene, reported Evansville Courier & Press assisting,” Ostberg said. “Inspector Thurston Other than the Pegasus Foundation, the only six staff members, some of whom had already staff writer Jimmy Nesbitt. also delivered supplies and equipment. animal facility to report extensive damage was assisted an HSUS Rural Area Veterinary Two cats and three dogs were found Humane Society International provided some the Naples Zoo, also hit in 2004 by Hurricane Services team in the vicinity. dead in the rubble. Wildlife in the hard-hit Gulf region is most imperiled by human activity Hurricane Katrina first hit wildlife on Caribbean islands and along the coast of Herald––but 31 of the 35 observation posts on cost the state hunting and fishing industry $2.3 along the east coast of Florida. Mexico. the refuge were damaged or destroyed. billion over the next two years––about 16% of “About 200 loggerhead sea turtle “Sea turtles are well-adapted to sur- “The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the expected gross. hatchlings born on Hutchinson Island were vive even intense natural disasters such as hur- in charge of 16 now-closed refuges along the Two weeks before the November 1 unable to crawl through deposits of sea grass ricanes,” noted Janice Blumenthal of the Louisiana coast, said the storms reduced the opening of the 2005 Louisiana deer season, washed ashore by the storm,” Palm Beach Cayman Islands Department of Environment. Breton National Wildlife Refuge from more basic hunting license sales were down 56%, P o s t staff writer Kimberly Miller reported. “It is human impacts such as accidental cap- than 18,000 acres to barely 9,000, and caused and big game permit sales were down 65%. “Beachgoers from Delray Beach south found ture in shrimp nets, hunting turtles and eggs, $94 million worth of damage to facilities,” Near Cameron, Louisiana, high about two dozen hatchlings that experts long-line fishing, and loss of nesting and feed- wrote Dina Capiello of the Houston Chronicle. water made state highway 27 an evening haunt believe made it into the water, but were spit ing habitat which threatens sea turtles with While missing major cities, Rita of turtles and alligators, the latter apparently back worn out onto the beach by the waves.” extinction.” actually hit protected habitat harder than hunting nutria, reported Jennifer Steinhauer of Treated for dehydration and exhaus- “Hurricane Katrina washed away sea Katrina, “wreaking havoc on more 300,000 Associated Press. tion by the Gumbo Limbo Environmental turtle eggs, tore holes in beaches and drowned acres of state and federal wildlife refuges in At Moss Point, Mississippi, the Complex in Boca Raton and the Marinelife alligator nests in the Everglades,” observed southwest Louisiana, pushing the salty Gulf of Gulf Coast Gator Ranch lost about 200 alliga- Center in Juno Beach, most were returned to David Fleshler of the Florida S u n - S e n t i n e l . Mexico into freshwater marshes, washing tors. About 80 were recovered during the next the sea within days. “But scientists and environmental officials away levees, killing animals, and possibly six weeks. The same ranch lost 30 alligators There they encountered a new threat. expect most of the effect to be temporary.” further eroding fragile coastal areas,” wrote during Hurricane Georges in September 1998, After hurricanes the National Marine Fisheries Agreed Florida Fish and Wildlife Richard Burgess of the Baton Rouge Advocate. Associated Press recalled. Service often suspends the requirement that Conservation Commission biologist Thomas “The largely rural region hit by Rita “The manatees who grazed in Lake shrimpers must use turtle exclusion devices Eason, “Wildlife in Florida have co-evolved is home to four federal and three state Pontchartrain before Hurricane Katrina haven’t (TEDS) on their nets, because floating debris with hurricanes for thousands, if not millions refuges,” Burgess wrote, “from the 124,511- been seen since,” Janet McConnaughey of often fouls TEDS and tears nets. of years. Bears, deer, and panthers hole up acre Sabine National Wildlife Refuge in Associated Press noted on October 13, “but The timing of Hurricanes Katrina, on some high ground or find a safe spot and Cameron Parish to the 9,000-acre Bayou eight dolphins were leaping in the lake this Rita, and Wilma meant that the TED rule was weather the storm. Butterflies wedge them- Teche National Wildlife Refuge, set aside in week.” continuously suspended from September 26 to selves into tree hollows, sharks head to open 2001 as habitat for the Louisiana black bear.” Observed Lake Pontchartrain Basin November 23. water, and migratory birds delay flights.” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Foundation executive director Carlton Meanwhile, as Katrina roared west- Among the 120 nonmigratory spokesman Tom MacKenzie guesstimated that Dufrechou, “If the big critters are back, the ward, about 50 sea turtle nests were destroyed Mississippi sandhill cranes at the Mississippi the damage from Rita would cost about $41.7 lake is definitely coming back.” along the Alabama coast. Habitat for the Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge in million to repair. Dufrechou pointed out that the dol- endangered Alabama beach mouse and red- Gautier, 31 of 32 with radio transmitters sur- Louisiana Department of Wildlife & phins and flocks of pelicans soaring over the cockaded woodpecker was also destroyed. vived Katrina and Rita, biologist Scott Fisheries staff told Jason Brown of the lake appeared to be feeding successfully, an Rita and Wilma did similar damage Hereford told Gary Holland of the Biloxi Sun Lafayette Advertiser that the hurricanes might indication that the food chain had survived. Fate of rescued animals goes to court Pasado’s Safe Haven, of dogs arrived at Hanson's shelter on charges in Cass County, Missouri, Sultan, Washington, directing one October 17, delivered in individual after 132 dogs were found at their of the major ad hoc rescue centers cages that were lined up on a gravel former home near Belton, Missouri. near New Orleans, suffered a major road inside the shelter entrance. Tammy Hanson, then embarrassment after sending 61 pit Apparently the animals and the known as Tammy Doneski, was in bull terriers to Every Dog Needs A cages had not been moved since 1994 convicted in Chicago of felony Home, also known as the EDNAH their arrival,” Stewart wrote. impersonation of a medical doctor. Animal Rescue & Sanctuary, in Pasado’s cofounders Mark Steinway eventually led a Gamaliel, Arkansas. Steinway and Susan Michaels said team from Pasado’s who joined Another 18 pit bulls were they found Hanson “through quali- other volunteers in looking after the sent to EDNAH by the Humane fied independent word-of-mouth dogs at EDNAH pending court Society of Louisiana, which since resources,” citing two veterinarians, determination of their disposition. losing its own facilities to Katrina among others. has operated from a corner of the St. However, three rescuers Rescuer “theft” Francis Animal Sanctuary in told ANIMAL PEOPLE before the “The threat of legal action Tylertown, Mississippi. arrests that they had developed mis- against Walt and Faye Peters of An October 21 visit to givings about EDNAH. Contented Critters in Makinen EDNAH by Baxter County Sheriff Where Angels Run found- appears to have stalled,” Jana A happy reunion for Dusti the cat and Aretha Parker. (Kate Howard) John Montgomery found more than er Desiree Bender of Little Rock, Goerdt of the Duluth N e w s - T r i b u n e 400 dogs packed into a two-acre lot, Arkansas, beginning on October 12 reported on November 8, “because the right of possession of rescued after other board members deter- as many as 75 of them running tried to alert Steinway and others to no one has come forward to claim animals, whose former caretakers mined that one of the dogs, a loose. One dog was found dead. the developing problems at EDNAH. the twelve dogs and one kitten they have not been identified, former German shepherd mix, may be dan- Founders William Hanson, “Desiree,” responded Steinway on brought back from Louisiana.” Colorado Animal Rescue board gerous. The dog bit CARE execu- 41, and his wife Tammy Hanson, 38, October 16, “you need to cease and Many rescuers removed member Sue Schmidt of Silt, tive director Leslie Rockey during were charged with cruelty and desist with this character defamation animals from Louisiana before the Colorado, on November 7 sought a an attempted examination. released on $1,000 bond each. or you will soon be facing legal mandatory holding time for identifi- court order to prevent CARE from Please make the most “It's definitely not the type action the likes of which you never cation expired, but Walt and Faye transferring, relocating, assessing generous gift you can of facility that we thought it was,” dreamed of.” Peters were apparently the only res- or euthanizing six dogs she brought to help ANIMAL PEOPLE Pasado’s representative Diane But a quick search of cuers from whom animals were back from Louisiana in October. shine the bright light Goodrich told Jane Stewart of the
(Donations 20 - ANIMAL P E OPLE, November 2005 Remoteness of deadly Pakistan earthquake thwarts aid K A R A C H I ––An earthquake mea- stock. At this time of the year,” Omar added, sets in at the end of November. Snow is president Khalid Mahmood Quereshi e-mailed suring 7.6 on the Richter scale killed more “the yearly migration of people and their ani- already falling in some areas. More mobile to ANIMAL PEOPLE an urgent request for than 30,000 people and countless animals on mals from the mountains to the plains is under- veterinary teams need to be sent out to the aid, intended that the request should be circu- October 5, 2005 in the North West Frontier way. On the main road from Kaghan/Naran to remote villages, and most importantly, the lated to the major charity representatives at the Province of Pakistan. Mansera, we saw many families on the move, Pakistani veterinary community needs to be International Companion Animal Welfare The remoteness of the region, lack usually with a few donkeys, cows, buffaloes, encouraged to play their role.” Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia. of established animal welfare infrastructure goats, sheep, and a dog or two. Baby goats The Brooke Hospital for Animals, Apparently presuming that even ani- anywhere in Pakistan, and lack of official and lambs born on the move were often carried maintaining a veterinary mission in Pakistan mal welfare charities would put human needs interest in helping animals thwarted prompt on donkey’s backs, or were carried by the since 1991, dispatched a reconnaissance team first, Quereshi including nothing on his item- response by international organizations. people in their arms. Pregnant animals get no to Balakot on October 11. ized list of needs for human victims that any of “I just got back to Karachi after rest. Neither are they able to receive any vet- “The Brooke is the largest animal the participants could have funded with money spending two weeks filming in Balakot.” e- erinary care along the way. welfare organisation in Pakistan,” said Brooke donated to help non-humans. mailed Pakistan Animal Welfare Society rep- “At night they move in pitch dark. public relations chief Nikki Austin. “Last year Humane Society International repre- resentative and Geo TV assistant producer Sometimes they stop by the side of the high- we helped a quarter of a million working hors- sentative Sherry Grant hoped to help in Mahera Omar on November 11. way. They burn discarded relief clothing for es, donkeys, and mules across five regions of Pakistan after completing a commitment to Omar, more than a month after the warmth. Shepherds often collect the sweaters the country, including Peshawar, a large city assist in the aftermath of a cyclone and flash earthquake, was nonetheless among the first and shirts and put them on their goats. Many close to the affected regions, and over the bor- floods that in October repeatedly struck the pro-animal representatives to bring back first- goats we saw were constantly coughing. The der in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Visakha SPCA in Visakhapatnam, India. hand testimony about what is needed. shepherds too are facing a crisis,” Omar “The Brooke has helped such com- Stopping in Sri Lanka, en route to “Balakot is a small town in the North noted, “as the price of their animals has fallen munities in the past,” Austin continued, Visakhapatnam, Grant applied for a visa to West Frontier Province, about 60 miles north drastically,” since no one has any money. “when it sent veterinary teams to Gujarat, enter Pakistan, and while waiting to be inter- of Islamabad,” Omar explained. “Located “They do not know how they will survive. India after a devastating earthquake in 2001, viewed, “managed a friendly chat, unknown near the quake’s epicenter, it is said to be “The international animal welfare and in 2002 aided the animals of Afghan to me at the time, with the High among the worst devastated. community needs to be urgently mobilized to refugees in camps along the Pakistan border.” Commissioner of the Pakistan Consulate,” she “We visited a few small villages up provide assistance to the animals in the affect- WSPA deployed five veterinary e-mailed to supporters. in the mountains around Balakot,” Omar ed areas,” Omar opined. “Apart from the teams to Pakistan on October 14, said “I must have said something right recounted. “The people in these areas depend World Society for the Protection of Animals spokesperson Sarah Pickering. about the work we have done in Sri Lanka and on subsistence farming and their livestock. and the Brooke Hospital for Animals, “Working from two base camps family values,” Grant guessed, as she got a Many of the livestock have been killed. The no other animal welfare organizations that I shared by military personnel and other interna- visa while another charity representative inter- rest are without any sort of shelter. Many peo- am aware of are providing disaster relief. tional NGOs in the heart of the affected area, viewed just ahead of her did not. “There was ple are still without tents. Some have provided Omar was aware of rescue work WSPA is delivering emergency veterinary first concern and aggravation that I would want to makeshift shelters for their animals, using individually sponsored by Pakistani/American aid, vaccinating animals against leptospirosis work with animals over people,” Grant contin- cloth or plastic sheets. Without shelter, their veterinarian I.M. Kathio, who operates dog- and rabies, and providing food supplements,” ued. “I explained the connection.” livestock will not survive the harsh winter. and-cat sterilization clinics in both nations. Pickering said. CONTACTS: Both the P a k i s t a n The animals also require veterinary care. “Food is now available for both peo- Other organizations’ efforts to assist Animal Welfare Society and I.M. Kathio, “Tent villages have been established ple and animals in most places,” Omar in Pakistan ran afoul––in different ways––of DVM, are presently best accessed by e-mail, in the towns,” Omar said, but “the majority observed. “Providing shelter ought to become the local utilitarian view of animals. at
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Suite 201, New York, NY 10003), 2005. chemical-laden foods, we find our grocery stores filled 318 pages, paperback. $20.00. with similarly toxic products posing as food.” This marvelous collection etable bisque, toast caps with Our meat-eating choices are inherited from of vegan recipes might be called a cilantro pesto, Italian vegetable and Will Tuttle is a professional pianist and our parents. This indoctrination is reinforced by social fusion cookbook, since the recipes potato stew, and stuffed bell peppers teacher with a strong background in Zen Buddhism. and market pressures as well as by acquired taste. To explore a wide variety of sources, with tofu and vegetables. For He argues for a broader understanding of the implica- break out of the rut requires conscious effort, a desire among them Italian, West African, desserts there were blackberry and tions of our food choices. He promotes veganism to all to leave home‚ in the sense of wishing to achieve a and Mexican. raspberry flummery and apple cinna- people of conscience, whatever their religion, as the higher set of moral values: Not being qualified cooks mon crisp. Vegan butter was provid- vital first step to allow our species to break out of the “In a herding culture nothing is more subver- ourselves, we gave Dining With ed for the bread. cycle of violence, poverty and destruction. sive to the established order of exploitation and privi- F r i e n d s to Leroi Willmore, the The doubters were pleas- Unlike most other authors on vegetarianism, lege than consciously refusing to participate in buying gourmet chef who also runs the antly surprised. The average rating Tuttle does not content himself with listing the physical and eating the animal foods that define that culture.” Barnyard Donkey Sanctuary, near on every dish exceeded 8 out of 10. harm done to our bodies from meat/dairy consumption. Tuttle is at his best when describing the George in the Cape Province of Anyone who thinks that He contends that the harm from meat eating is much plight of farmed animals and linking it to our physical South Africa. vegan cooking is boring, bland or broader and deeper than we realise, and has important and emotional well being. We learned much that other Explains Willmore, “The tasteless should try these recipes. emotional and spiritual ramifications. He believes that books have failed to tell us. However, when he dis- Sanctuary was started in 1995, as a Actually, everyone should try them. our relentless cruelty to animals, principally for meat- cusses the metaphysical consequences of animal cruel- direct result of our history and Our one constructive criti- eating, is the fundamental cause of a global crisis ty, there are logical jumps which elude us. involvement with the National SPCA cism of Dining With Friends is that today, and not merely a symptom of human limitations. For example, Tuttle links meat-eating direct- over the years. We found a need to there should be a photograph of each “If we cannot stop eating meat,” Tuttle ly to specific phenomena such as alcoholism and mili- care for the amazing amount of dish, so that one can use the visual argues, “how can we possibly develop the sensitivity tary spending: “Every minute our slaughter houses kill abused and neglected donkeys we aid to decide which recipe to choose. which is essential for spiritual maturity?” 20,000 land animals and the Pentagon spends came across in the townships and We doubt that our guests The argument is logical but it discounts $760,000.” While we can be convinced that meat eat- poorer parts of the country. will change to a vegan lifestyle, as examples like the Dalai Lama, who ate meat for ing can contribute metaphysically to the massive “Only when the donkeys this involves making a philosophical decades before briefly going vegetarian in 1995 and expenditure on armaments, the corollary to Tuttle’s learn to trust humans again do we put choice involving much more than finally going veg for keeps earlier in 2005. The Dalai argument is that if people stopped eating meat then the them up for adoption. We have diet. But none of them will ever feel Lama was widely regarded as spiritually mature long armaments industry would collapse. homed thirty-eight donkeys since the compelled to ask again, as one guest before eating meat visibly troubled him. ––Chris Mercer inception of the sanctuary and have did before we started, “If you take all had to repossess only two donkeys the meats and dairy products out of a from foster homes. The restaurant is meal, what is left?” Gods In Chains among the appendices, “Chained in nizes that Indian cultural pressure to an effort on our part to raise funds to ––Chris Mercer & Bev Pervan by Rhea Ghosh Delhi” and “Living Gods in a living use and display elephants for a vari- cover our day-to-day expenses.” Cape Town, South Africa. hell.” The Jaeggi articles might just ety of ceremonial and symbolic pur- We subjected Dining With
money to build the middle. true! Mark your donation for KAPS Shelter Fund, and send to: International Aid for Korean Animals / Korea Animal Protection Society POB 20600, Oakland, CA 94620 22 - ANIMAL P E OPLE, November 2005 KATZ ON DOGS: A COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO TRAINING AND LIVING WITH DOGS by Jon Katz MEMORIALS Villard Books (299 Park Ave., New York, NY 10171), 2005. In memory of Thistle, feline companion 240 pages. $24.95 hardcover. of Susie Anthony for 20 years. ––Northwest Animal Companions Dogs have their place in Jon Katz’s to sentimentalise dog behaviour. Referring to family, but Katz, author of A Dog Year and the belief among many dog guardians that –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– In memory of all farmed animals who suffer The Dogs of Bedlam Farm, neither treats their animals suffer separation anxiety‚ when at the hands of man. Your lives do matter. them as children nor accords them equal status apart from each other, Katz writes: “Tech- ––Dianne & Michael Bahr with humans. He views no-kill shelters with nically, the term applies to the anxiety a small –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– disfavour, arguing that there is little reason to child feels when separated from a parent.. keep potentially dangerous, un-adoptable dogs .there is no equivalent response in a dog.” in a lifetime of crowded, noisy confinement. We believe this statement is too Katz offers guidance both from his sweeping. We know from our own experi- NIMAL OBITS own experience and from case studies about ence, especially during our years of managing A what kind of dog to adopt, how to train and the Kalahari Raptor Center, how anxious ani- J o s é, a four-month old blackfooted feed the dog, and how to build a healthy rap- mals become in separation, especially social ferret who was raised at the Cheyenne port with a dog. Handling the complexities of animals such as dogs, lions, and meerkats. Mountain Zoo and released into the wild near multi-dog families is also discussed, as well All of them exhibit obvious anguish when sep- Wolf Creek, Colorado in late October 2005, as some ethical and spiritual issues. arated from their packs, prides, or den mates, was killed by a coyote or badger just three days later. "We found only his radio transmit- Though centered on useful informa- and display unmistakable joy and relief when Bear & BeeGee (right) tion about dog care, Katz On Dogs also dis- re-united––including with humans whom they ter, and it was all chewed up," Bureau of In memory of BeeGee, beloved cat of Lindy, cusses the changing roles of dogs in modern have admitted into their social circles. Land Management biologist Brian Holmes told Marvin, and Melinda Sobel, whose brave American society, and how increasing stresses ––Chris Mercer Dave Philipps of the Colorado Springs and loving heart will remain an inspiration on families affect dogs.
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