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Grand Prize Winner 1981 HSUS Annual Photo Contest Wild Horses and a Tarnished Dream Who Speaks For Animals? Page 10 Eleven years after passage of the act designed to protect them, wild horses face a government threat to .trim their Within the animal-welfare movement there is a great temptation to view one's own under­ numbers. standing of animal-welfare issues as the only view worthy of serious consideration. As so often with religion, there is a certitude born of personal convictions and beliefs that allows for no other view or opinions. Even when compared with those held by groups of similar persuasion, "NO VEAL THIS MEAL" Departments we are loathe to concede that someone else may possess insight and understanding we have Page4 Tracks ...... 2 missed. Federal Report ...... 16 Around the Regions . . 26 All too often, it has been this kind of exclusivity and pride that has prevented cooperative endeavor among animal-welfare groups. A recent example of that kind of intractability is the Law Notes ...... 32 position currently being taken by Friends of Animals as regards H.R. 556, one of several bills which would provide further protection for laboratory animals and accelerated development of alternatives to live-animal research. H.R. 556 is most assuredly a bill with considerable merit, and one for which The HSUS has indicated its support. But because we did not support this Why the Anti-Cat Cult? bill exclusively, The HSUS is being blamed because this bill has not been favorably reported Page20 International Day of the out of the Congressional Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology. Seal Report ...... 18

Unfortunately, FOA would have us believe this subcommittee would have approved H.R. 556 in its entirety except for the influence of The HSUS. The fact of the matter is that The HSUS and FOA are but a small portion of the various interest groups petitioning this subcom­ mittee with their particular views and concerns. To pin one's hope for favorable response on a Campaigning for Laboratory single bill, as FOA is advocating, is to tread on very thin ice. To refuse to support any other Animals bill, as FOA is counseling, is to refuse to help laboratory animals unless it is done "my" way. Page 24 Such a position is not only naive; it is also irresponsible. Cover: Tom Virtue took this picture of his 4-month·old pup Dusty and her childhood It companion Jose, the tuxedo cat, last autumn. is indeed regrettable that Friends of Animals has chosen to conduct a public campaign It won the grand prize in The HS US Photo falsely condemning The HSUS because it may not get precisely what it wants. What Friends The ESA: Are Your Contest. Other winners are on page 8. of Animals is getting is precisely what our common adversaries want-a public confrontation within the animal-welfare community which, as another animal-welfare leader has stated, fur­ Officials Representing ther confuses and confounds the Congress and frightens it at the deep disunity within the You? The Humane Society News is published quarter· humane movement. Page 30 ly by The Humane Society of the United States, with headquarters at 2100 L Street, N.W., The HSUS has continuously indicated and demon­ Washington, D.C. 20037, (202) 452-1100. strated its willingness to work in concert with our sis­ ter animal-welfare groups on various animal-welfare is­ Membership in The Humane Society sues. Indeed, the outstanding success of the Draize of the United States is $10 a year. campaign is largely attributable to the cooperative en­ deavors of both national, regional, and local animal­ DIRECTORS OFFICERS welfare groups. So, also, is the work of The Council for Livestock Protection, Monitor, and various other for­ Rosemary Benning . . Pebble Beach, CA Chairman of the Board ...... Coleman Burke Amanda Blake ...... Phoenix, AZ Vice Chairman . . K. William Wiseman mal as well as ad hoc cooperative efforts. Yet a willing­ Samuel A. Bowman ...... New York, NY President ...... John A. Hoyt ness to work in concert with others must be recipro­ Dr. Carol Browning. . . Ogden, UT Vice President/Field Services ...... Patrick B. Parkes Coleman Burke . . .. Short Hills, N J Vice President/Treasurer .. Paul G. Irwin cated in a spirit of mutual respect and cooperation. It Jack Conlon. . Cocoa Beach, FL Vice President/General Counsel .. Murdaugh Stuart Madden is only through this kind of unified effort that we can in DonaldS. Dawson ...... Bethesda, MD Vice President/Program & Communications ...... Patricia Fork an the future proceed to even greater successes in securing Dr. John Doyle...... Louisville, KY Vice President/Wildlife & Environment . . .Dr. John W. Grandy Irene Evans. . . Washington, DC Secretary ...... Dr. Amy Freeman Lee protection from suffering and abuse for animals. Anna Fesmire . . .. Greensboro, NC Harold H. Gardiner ...... Salt Lake City, UT EDITORIAL STAFF Robert W. Gilmore ...... New York, NY Deborah Salem . . . Editor Gisela H. Karlan ...... Towaco, NY Lisa B. Zurlo ...... Publications Assistant Dr. Amy Freeman Lee . . . . San Antonio, TX Julie Rovner...... Staff Writer John A. Hoyt Virginia Lynch . . San Francisco, CA Thien H uong T. Tram ...... Production Assistant Dr. Robert R. Marshak ...... Philadelphia, PA John W. Mettler, III. . ... New York, NY The Humane Society of the United States is a non-profit charitable organization, IngaPrime. . Vail, CO supported entirely by contributions from individuals. All contributions are tax­ O.J. Ramsey ...... Sacramento, CA deductible. The HSUS meets the standards of The National Information Bureau. Everett Smith, Jr...... Greenwich, CT (4/82) Robert F. Welborn. . Denver, CO Copyright ©1982 by The Humane Society of the United States. ~------penpresid~~~ e __ . K. William Wiseman . . Greens Farms, CT All rights reserved. "' "'0 jury caused by a performing an­ 0 room to exercise nor contact with aJ Another Spring other animals-for most of their imal resulted in a suit brought "' Canine Kudos against the animal's owner and '"E lives. Brought out of these cages i= For the second straight year, the host of the show where the act With the warm weather come for their performances, they are The HSUS was honored by the appeared. car, boat, and RV shows; and with subjected to the raucous environ­ Dog Writer's Association of Unfortunately, the USDA car, boat, and RV shows come Vic­ ment of crowded, noisy, public America at its annual awards doesn't ban these acts, although tor the Wrestling Bear, Willard places. It is not surprising that in­ banquet in New York. The HSUS The HSUS believes the Animal the Boxing Kangaroo, the name­ juries to the gullible public by ani­ this year shared the DWAA's Na­ mals goaded into aggressiveness Welfare Act regulations would al­ less Diving Mule and a number of tional Public Service Award with during "contests" have occured. low it to do so. Humane societies other wild animals forced into ser­ the American Animal Hospital should continue to monitor these vice as promotional gimmicks and You would think anyone foolish Association. In presenting The exhibitions and enforce anti-cruel­ novelty acts. These shows pose enough to wrestle a full-grown bear HSUS's award to staff writer to the ground for nothing more ty statutes when it's possible. If unusual problems for humane so­ Julie Rovner, DWAA spokesman than a potential broken arm their local statutes do not specifi­ Seals would be saved if the EEC passes a ban on harp seal products in member cieties because they blatantly ex­ Maxwell Riddle cited The HSUS's would deserve whatever he got, cally prohibit contact between the countries. ploit the animals used as shills and outstanding work towards ending but unqualified trainers with no public and performing wild ani­ are a serious public safety prob­ mostly novelty items, popular in dogfighting and exposing inhu­ business handling wild animals in mals, they may find allies in the lem. Performing animals may be Seal Ban in Sight Europe. Under the U.S. Marine mane conditions in the nation's the close quarters of shopping public health officials or members confined to their traveling cages­ Mammal Protection Act, harp puppy mills. The HSUS News malls and boat shows must share of civic organizations who will join often just big enough to accom­ Just as the News was going to seal pelts and products are not and two articles ("Fighting the the blame. One recent case of in- in protesting wild animal acts. modate them and offering neither press, we learned a major step permitted to enter this country. Flea," Summer 1981, and "Puppy­ towards ending the annual club­ Reaction in Canada to the Eu­ Mill Misery," Fall 1981) were bing each spring of 200,000 harp ropean Parliament action was chosen as finalists in the writing seal pups off the coast of Canada swift and strong. The legislature categories. Silver Spring Update had been taken by the European of Newfoundland, where most of Parliament. That body, part of the seal slaughter takes place, The monkeys seized from the the European Economic Commu­ passed a resolution objecting to Institute for Behavior Research nity (formal name of the "Com­ the Parliament's action and urged last September (see The HSUS mon Market") voted to ban the the Canadian government to re­ News, Winter, 1982), remain at importation of sealskins and other voke its recently signed fisheries the National Institutes of Health's Typo Revealed related seal products from Cana­ treaty with the EEC. Poolesville (Maryland) facility. da and Norway. "This vote is a tremendous step A spokeswoman for the Men­ Permanent disposition will likely Of the 190 members from 10 towards ending demand for harp nen Company has written to set be decided when Dr. Edward Taub's countries, 160 voted for the ban, seal products and one welcomed the record straight on the cos­ appeal is heard in circuit court the 10 against, and 20 abstained. by The HSUS," said Patricia For­ metic manufacturer's position on week of June 14, 1982. While the vote was not binding kan, Vice President for Program alternatives to the Draize test The HSUS is working with the and must still be ratified by the and Communications. "It is a (see "Tracks," Fall 1981 HSUS State's Attorney's office in prepa­ EEC, it seemed likely it would be great psychological victory: now News). In response to a reader's ration for the hearing and will approved. the Canadian government will letter of concern, Mennen had cover the travel expenses of out­ If the ban is imposed, it would know Europe wants the seal hunt said the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and of-town witnesses for the prosecu­ effectively choke off the major stopped and is willing to put its Fragrance Association had form­ tion. Dr. Michael Fox, HSUS Sci­ markets for harp seal products, feelings on the record.'' ed a committee to develop techni­ entific Director, is expected to ques "to maximize the discomfort testify on the lack of necessary to the animals involved in cosme­ veterinary care for the monkeys, tic testing." The Mennen repre­ the charge of which Taub was sentative tells us this was a typo­ found guilty in October, 1981. Survey Success legislative issues led the list of topics of greatest interest. Al­ graphical error; maximize should The monkeys' fate has not been have been minimize. In fact, Men­ decided. We urge HSUS members Our Fall, 1981 readership sur­ though a fair number of you said vey drew over 900 responses (some The News was distressing to read nen has pledged $15,000 to the to write to NIH and request that CTF A's fund for developing alter­ Taub's grant (paid for by tax dol­ continue to trickle in) and brought at times, most members felt cov­ us a great deal of valuable infor­ erage of problems in-depth gave natives to the Draize test. The lars) not be reinstated and that fund has already been tapped to the monkeys not be returned to mation. Seventy-two percent of them a better understanding of all respondents read The News the issues in animal welfare today. set up a Center for Alternatives his custody (Acting Director, to Animal Testing within Johns NIH, 9000 Rockville Pike, Office cover-to-cover; 79 percent rate it To all of you who said, "Keep up as excellent; captive wildlife, shel­ Hopkins University. Building #1, Room #124, Bethes­ One of the "Silver Spring 17" before its removal to the NIH facility in Poolesville, the good work!" we say "Thank da, MD 20205). MD: the monkeys' fate remains uncertain. ters, cruelty investigations, and you!"

The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 2 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 3 The HSUS public-awareness campaign draws nationwide attention to the plight of milk-fed veal calves.

"Before you choose veal...think cusable, particularly as industry lead­ concern has been growing about the twice," read the headline on a half­ ers have acknowledged that the color plight of all food animals raised in page ad in the New York Times last of veal has no effect on taste. To sub­ intensive-confinement systems­ December 17. That ad, describing the ject calves to the current regimen systems known as factory farming­ miserable existence of the more than partly to perpetuate what is, in es­ milk-fed veal-raising practices have one million calves raised in confine­ sence, a marketing device suggests probably drawn the most attention. ment every year to produce expensive an insensitivity to animals and dis­ In order to produce an animal with milk-fed veal, kicked off one of The regard for the sensibilities of con­ the palest flesh possible, male dairy HSUS' s biggest campaigns. Response sumers.'' calves are confined to crates and fed to the campaign-from the farm in­ The HSUS launched its campaign twice a day on a milk substitute pur­ dustry, the press, the general public, in a carefully thought-out effort to posely low in iron so the flesh does and animal-welfare supporters-has make sure the public knew how the not develop its natural pinkish color. been overwhelming. "best" veal served in the most ex­ The HSUS study, which included "The public needs to be made aware clusive restaurants was produced. a survey of all the major U.S. milk-fed­ of how its food animals are being Quite probably, their tempting, high­ veal companies, concluded methods produced, and the veal industry needs priced entree was once an animal that of veal-raising in the U.S. produce to know the extent to which the pub­ had spent all but a few days of its the most deprivation for the least lic values humaneness in animal pro­ 16-week life in a unbedded, narrow, justifiable reasons-to produce an duction. These are the goals of our wooden stall too small for the ani­ exclusively luxury food. Even more campaign," wrote HSUS President mal to take more than a single step galling is that economical alterna­ John Hoyt in a letter to the editor of forward or back. tives-including the so-called group­ Feedstuffs, a leading agricultural The HSUS veal campaign was the pen system now gaining popularity newspaper. " ... We find this industry's result of an intensive, year-long study in England-are available. continuing efforts to foster public of the veal industry conducted by Only public pressure on veal pro­ demand for pale or 'white' veal inex- HSUS staff. While, in recent years, ducers can provide an impetus for

The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 5 League. "Once the public is better Response from veal companies has American public what's going on. Richard Ottinger of New York and informed as to how the white meat is been even more vehement. Provimi, It's really an awareness problem." James Howard of New Jersey, have obtained, I feel they will demand re­ Inc., the nation's largest producer of Agricultural response to the cam­ signed onto the bill since the veal form." milk-fed veal, has called for a boy­ paign has not been completely nega­ campaign was launched, and Rep. The Humane Society of Rowan cott of The HSUS. The president of tive. We have heard from several Mottl's staff has reported a growing County (North Carolina) wrote: "We another major veal company wrote farmers who decided against or number of inquiries about it. feel the U.S. veal industry needs to in a letter to a concerned individual, abandoned the use of intensive­ The veal campaign continues. If move quickly toward exploring al­ ''All of us in the veal industry are confinement systems to raise veal you haven't already received our ternative methods, such as group portrayed as torturers, rivaling Hit­ for economic reasons. One New York veal materials, you can order them pens and more frequent nutritional ler, Torquemada, and the Shah of farmer who raises his calves in a from the publications list bound into intake, which are certainly more Iran in cruelty and sadism. Nothing group-pen system wrote, "We have this issue. If you do have the materi­ humane and seem more economical could be further from the truth." been very happy with the program. als, please write to the legislators for the producer. We do not believe "I think the abuses [of veal calves] It seems to provide a healthy envi­ and industry officials listed. Leave that expediency justifies the inhu­ are there, but they're much fewer ronment for the calves and gives the veal cards at restaurants you patron­ manity." than they're purported to be," said public a wholesome product complete­ ize offering milk-fed veal. In the While we don't have complete Howard Frederick of the American ly free of the aftermath of medica­ meantime, we will continue-and ex­ information on restaurateurs' re­ Feed Manufacturers' Association in tion so often necessary in a closed pand-our dialogue with those same sponse to the "NO VEAL THIS an interview with The HSUS News. building environment." Another legislators and industry officials, MEAL" cards, a person-to-person "I don't think it's cruel to raise a farmer using group-pens wrote he with the goal of creating humane change. Without public awareness, scribing veal calves as "animals for survey of a few of Washington, D.C.'s veal calf in a crate, but that animal raised his calves on grain instead of systems for raising all food animals. there can be no public pressure, thus, which there are limited uses," and most respected restaurants touched should not be abused. milk-replacer. "The carcass color is "Agribusiness representatives and the campaign began by bringing the veal raisers as "family farmers" who off surprisingly emotional responses. ''We in the agricultural community pink rather than white but the taste magazines have proclaimed that the facts to consumers. would be "shortsighted if they mis­ "It's just absurd," said one owner have spent the past 30 years devel­ and nutritional quality of the meat farm-animal welfare issue is the issue The first salvo consisted not only treated their animals." when asked his opinion of the cards. oping systems-and whether they're is excellent," he reported. of the 1980s and isn't going to go of the New York Times ad, but also But the farm industry was not "There are so many other atrocities, right or wrong I won't pass judg­ Another result of the campaign is away," said HSUS Scientific Direc­ smaller ads placed in city magazines alone in its quick response. Newspa­ I can't worry about that. I don't ment-that prove we can provide a renewed interest in H.J. Res. 305, tor Dr. Michael Fox. "The veal calf in New York, Los Angeles, Washing­ pers across the country printed want any protests in my restaurant.'' milk, eggs, and meat cheaply. We introduced in Congress last year by scenario is, for us, the beginning of ton, D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, and stories about the campaign. By early Another prominent restaurateur did it by taking the animals out of Ohio Congressman Ronald Mottl. The what we envision will be a major rev­ Chicago where consumption of milk­ March, The HSUS had distributed admitted milk-fed veal's color was their bucolic settings and putting bill, if passed, would create a com­ olution in public attitude towards fed veal is high. Respondents to the some 200,000 "NO VEAL THIS "a marketing gimmick," but also them inside in crates or cages. The mission to study intensive livestock­ farm animals and the ways in which ad received a fact sheet detailing the MEAL" cards. said he wouldn't stop selling it un­ problem is, we've never told the raising in the U.S. Two cosponsors, they are raised.'' humane problems surrounding the ''The campaign has tapped a vein less the government outlawed it. "If raising of milk-fed veal in this coun­ of public concern for food animals,'' I saw one or two cards I'd just say try; an action sheet including names said Peter Lovenheim, HSUS Coun­ they [people leaving cards] were and addresses of manufacturers and sel for Government and Industry crackpots," he said, but "It depends legislators to write to; and a supply Relations, who is handling the cam­ on how big the protest is. If I had 50 of wallet-sized cards with "NO paign for The HSUS. "People not pickets outside I might change the VEAL THIS MEAL" emblazoned only want to hear about how farm menu, but most people just don't across the front for consumers to animals are raised, but they also care. If they do, they just won't or­ leave at restaurants where milk-fed want to start doing something about der veal." veal is served. it." Lovenheim described the stacks Not unexpectedly, the agricultural A Close-Up Report detailing the of letters he'd received from con­ community immediately began an campaign was sent to HSUS mem­ cerned individuals anxious to report attack on the HSUS campaign. In bers, and local humane societies firsthand information about veal pro­ January, Neal Black, president of were invited to join The HSUS in a duction and marketing in their area. the Livestock Conservation Insti­ coalition opposing current veal-rais­ As of early March, almost 100 local tlJ.te and a leading spokesman for ing practices in the U.S. humane societies and animal-welfare the farming interests, called the Response to the campaign was groups had lent their names to a campaign "a slap in the face of the quick and considerable. Barely a growing list of organizations sup­ livestock industry." Wrote Black in week after our New York Times ad porting the HSUS veal campaign. a press release excerpted in agricul­ appeared, the American Farm Bureau "We salute you vigorously for at­ tural publications across the coun­ Federation countered with an ad of tacking ignorance and cruelty on so try, "Some livestock producers feel its own in the same paper. Head­ many fronts and wish you every suc­ [the veal campaign] is part of a cam­ lined "Think twice before you are cess in promoting better treatment paign to discourage the eating of mislead (sic) on veal!" the ad pur­ for the milk-fed calves," wrote the meat, with a final goal of imposing X 0 Washington (D.C.) Animal Rescue vegetarianism on the public .... " lL ported to answer our claim by de- (/j ::::J (j) I I The veal campaign continues. If you haven't already received our materials, you can order them from the publications list bound into the center of this issue of The News.

6 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 7 Grand Prize and 1981 ANNUAL First Prize, Pets, Color Tom Virtue, Denver, CO PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST Second Prize (tie) Milford Waldroup, Orinda, CA WINNERS ANNOUNCED Tom Virtue, Denver, CO Honorable Mention Now we know what many of you have been doing all year long: taking pictures of pets wildlife farm animals, and fish with enthusiasm, skill, George C. Kip Hitton, Lakewood, CO ' ' and obvious affection. Franz Peterson, Orange Park, ~L Linda Held, Redwood City, CA Cats were this year's overwhelming favorites: of the 25 photographs Irving Schlaifer, Washington, DC winning prizes in the two pet categories (color and black-and-white), 12 Terrie Jacks, Ridgecrest, CA had cats as subjects. Even our grand prize winner included a dog and a cat. Carol Garr, Tucson, AZ Sandra Kirshbaum, Lawrence, NY Some of our winners are pictured here. Other entries appear in the article Carol Thomson, Denver, CO beginning on page 20. Jeannette Maurer, San Antonio, TX All of us were struck by the good-natured cooperation you were given by your photogenic models, whether dressed in funny clothes or caught Non-Pets, Color unawares during their daily trips through your backyard. First Prize Congratulations to all winners and thank you for entering. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Pendergraft, Riverview, Ml Second Prize Peggy Bristol, Bishop, CA Honorable Mention First prize, Jim Elder, Evergreen, CO Pets, B&W: Kyle Binning, St. Petersburg, FL Marta Marla Turek, Naperville, IL (2) Robyn Michaels, Chicago, IL Sam H. Gould, Sun City, AZ Penny Marciel, Gait, CA Donna Dennis, Mobile, AL Jerry Streger, Holiday, FL Kathy Nail, Kalamazoo, Ml

First prize, Pets, Black and White Non-pets, B& W: First Prize Diane Trumbull Marta, New Orleans, LA Second Prize Margie Bell, Arlington, VA Honorable Mention Joseph R. Spies, Arlington, VA (2) Stephanie Rodgers, Pennington, NJ (2) Amber Francis, Oroville, CA Sterling Vinson, Tucson, AZ Second prize, Cindy Bidagain, Tucson, AZ Non-pets, Shirley Levine, Phoenix, AZ B&W: Debra Thoren-Roth, Denver, CO Mike Roy Hildegard Adler, Madison, WI Non-Pets, Black and White First Prize Diane Trumbull, St. Petersburg, FL Second Prize Mike Roy, St. Petersburg, FL Honorable Mention Will and Angie Rumph, Pacifica, CA Second prize, Pets, B& W: Margie Bell Shirley Levine, Phoenix, AZ Robert M. Priddy, Felton, CA Valerie Matthews, Canyon Lake, TX Pamela Pitlanish, Detroit, Ml Elizabeth Stallard, Lancaster, OH (2) Joseph R. Spies, Arlington, VA (3) ·

8 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 9 the government agency responsible wild horse was in need of protection A crucial stipulation was that ex­ tection for these animals-between for administering the Act, proceed­ is evident: although there were mil­ cess horses were to be relocated only 7 and 10 of the original 20 were run ed to bungle its job in an all-too­ lions of wild horses roaming the to those areas where wild horses ex­ over cliffs to their deaths, according Eleven years after passage of the act often illegal, callous, and unprofes­ plains in the mid-19th century, by isted at the time of the Act's pass­ to HSUS Chief Investigator Frantz designed to protect them, wild horses sional series of bureaucratic mis­ 1967, only 9,500 would remain, ac­ age; be humanely destroyed; or placed Dantzler's eyewitness account. The haps. The HSUS and other organiza­ cording to some BLM estimates. in private custody. The BLM and "Howe Massacre" prompted an out­ face a government threat to trim tions that fought so hard for the Tough, wily little mustangs were the Forest Service were to adminis­ raged HSUS and American Horse Act's passage have been rewarded blamed for deteriorating range con­ their numbers and send thousands ter the Act. At the time, no one de­ Protection Association to file suit by ten years of court battles, scienti­ ditions and thought to compete for fined what constituted an "excess" against the Department of tbe Inter­ to an uncertain fate. fic controversies, and legislative ma­ forage on public lands with the do­ horse-the BLM was allowed to use ior for failure to enforce the 1971 neuverings threatening to undo what­ mestic cattle and sheep there under its own judgment. This would prove Act by allowing illegal round-ups to ever good the Act has brought about. provisions of the Taylor Grazing to be a critical omission, the basis of take place. (This suit was eventually Now, a new threat looms: weaken­ Act. As a result, ranchers encour­ bitter controversy in subsequent settled by having the surviving ing amendments to the Act, proposed aged their destruction, capture, and years. horses placed in AHPA custody, by BLM Director Robert Burford, slaughter. then in adoptive homes.) In 1976, a BLM Management Breaks Down Anyone involved in animal protec­ are winning support not only from hard-fought battle by those organi­ tion ten years ago will remember the pro-ranching interests but also from The Act is Passed Within months of the Act's pass­ Enter Wild Horse Annie. In the zations resulted in a permanent in­ elation and satisfaction that followed some conservation groups that his­ age, the BLM proved itself a poor junction against the ELM's round- passage of the Wild, Free-Roaming torically have opposed protection of early 1950s, she marshalled support steward. In 1973, Idaho ranchers Horse and Burro Act of 1971. Tre­ what they consider a "non-indige­ for a federal law to protect wild using snowmobiles and aircraft mendously popular legislation de­ nous, feral species." The HSUS is horses bound for the pet food pro­ rounded up horses with BLM ap­ signed to protect a vanishing part of fighting these amendments and cessors. By 1971, she had gathered proval. The Act provided little pro- America's heritage, the Act was a hopes other animal-welfare groups enough support from sympathetic milestone in the history of species will stand fast in their support of individuals and organizations like preservation. The twenty-year-long wild horses protected by the Act. The HSUS to see the Wild, Free­ fight to save dwindling herds of wild Roaming Horse and Burro Act sign­ horses holed up in the canyons of the The World of the Wild Horse ed into law. The Act prohibited: Western states was legendary. It Before 1971 • removal of wild horses or burros created its own heroines-people like The horse is not considered a na­ from public land without authority; Hope Ryden and "Wild Horse An­ tive of America: although it evolved • acquisition of wild horses or bur­ nie" Velma Johnston-and its own here, it is a species that disappeared ros by private individuals without villians-the mustangers and pet mysteriously 10,000 years ago, just government permission; food suppliers who herded horses after man appeared in this hemis­ • malicious death or harassment from airplanes, ran them to death phere. The horse didn't return until of such animals; over cliffs, and wired their nostrils he was brought back by the Spanish • processing or permitting the pro­ shut after capture to make them conquerors in the 16th century. Be­ cessing of an animal or its remains more tractable during their trip to cause of that brief interruption, the into commercial products; the slaughterhouse. horse is not considered a "wild" ani­ • sale of an animal or its remains; Unfortunately, the initial euphoria mal indigenous to the U.S., but a fer­ and quickly turned to disappointment. al species not covered by laws de­ • violation of regulations issued The Bureau of Land Management, signed to protect wildlife. That the to carry out the Act.

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up was even necessary. The court constituted an "excess" wild horse. agreed. (Although the injunction Was the BLM to decide? On one has been modified over the years, it hand, it complained that there were basically still stands.) In 1978, Dant­ 58,000-70,000 horses (1977 estim­ zler inspected the BLM holding fa­ ates)-many more than the range cility at Palomino Valley, Nevada, could support-thus, removal ef­ and was profoundly disturbed by forts should be stepped up. When what he saw: at least 300 of 2000 the BLM was confronted with the wild horses being held for possible biological impossibility of such an adoption had died in the facility in increase given the 9,500 horses es­ the preceding 14 months. It wasn't timated to need protection in 1971, hard to see why: sick horses mingled it argued the original figure must freely with healthy animals for have been much greater than it months on end in filthy, mud-choked, thought previously. But when the :i5 overcrowded pens. The horses had BLM asked for the numbers of wild ~ to eat hay thrown on the ground and horses to be reduced to 1971 levels, it ~ developed sand colic; many were estimated that the 1971 figure must :r: < destroyed as a result. Once again, have been far lower than the 9,500. * 1 The HSUS and AHPA sued Interior Apparently, the BLM wanted as few Mares and foal on a mountainside are part of the Pryor Mountain herd. for mismanagement and cruelty in protected wild horses as possible, ., its Nevada wild horse operation. through one argument or the other. ~ ing up of wild horses in Challis, (The courts found against us in this It became clear that the BLM ~ , Idaho. In that suit, The HSUS and suit, but it remains on appeal.) could not find enough adaptors for ~ AHPA contended the BLM failed to In 1971, an organization called all the animals it considered "ex- I cess.'' The agency wanted the option take adequate steps to minimize WHOA! (Wild Horse Organized As­ The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Every adopter dreams the wild horse he will chances of the horses' injury and sistance) had received BLM permis­ of outright slaughter, anathema to claim from the government will look like this one. Increased adoption fees proposed possible deaths and lacked hard sion to care for starving foals born in The HSUS, which had fought so hard by the BLM could drastically limit the number of people able to afford a wild horse. data to determine whether a round- the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse to get slaughter-for-profit out of Refuge and, in spring of 1972, had wild horse management originally. placed the foals in carefully selected foster homes. This was the begin­ Legislative Onslaughts Wild Horse Reading List ning of the Adopt-A-Horse program, Two important legislative devel­ An excellent account of wild­ a plan the BLM took over officially opments changed the original Act. horse history prior to 1971 can be in 1975 and turned into its primary In 1976, the Federal Land Policy move excess animals so as to restore found in America's Last Wild means of placing "excess" wild and Management Act provided the a thriving natural balance... " by Horses by Hope Ryden, available horses in private hands. BLM with the authority to use heli­ either destruction or adoption (also in paperback from E.P. Dutton. The Adopt-A-Horse program ran copters for capturing animals, sup­ opposed by The HSUS, since it allow­ ed the Secretary to determine by The very recent history of The into trouble as well. It fell prey to posedly because there were not HSUS's involvement in the wild­ bureaucratic snarl-ups and misman­ enough experienced hands to round subjective judgment what animal was "excess"); and horse controversy has been describ­ agement once the BLM took over. up wild horses in rough terrain. The ed in the issues of The HS US Horses adopted-sometimes by the HSUS opposed this change, remem­ • limited to four the number of News listed below: hundreds-by supposedly well­ bering the Howe Massacre. In 1978, horses any one person could adopt (supported by The HSUS). "Wild Horses Threatened by screened individuals mysteriously the Public Rangeland Improvement U.S. Government Bias," ended up in slaughterhouses or dis­ Act was passed. It: Finally, and perhaps most impor­ Winter 1976 appeared completely. Costs skyroc­ • allowed adopters to receive final tantly, the Act mandated the Na­ Legislative Round-Up, Fall1977 keted. Horses held for months title to their adopted horses after tional Academy of Sciences estab­ "Wild Horses Victimized by awaiting adoption ran up substanti­ one year of humane care (opposed by lish an impartial program to in­ BLM," Spring 1978 al feed bills before being placed or The HSUS, fearing horses would even­ vestigate wild horse populations "HSUS Sues to Protect Wild destroyed. In January of 1979, with tually end up in slaughterhouses and report its findings by January, Horses," Summer 1978 the help of Dantzler, the television once they were no longer owned by 1983. The claims about wild horse Federal Report, Fall1978 program "20/20" exposed the BLM's the government); populations, their reproduction Law Notes and Federal Report, mismanagement of the wild horse • allowed the Secretary of the In­ rates, and their impact on public Winter 1979 program. Senate oversight-commit­ terior to determine whether an over­ lands would finally be addressed by a "ABC Exposes Plight of tee hearings to determine the extent population existed, then required neutral scientific body. The HSUS Wild Horses," Spring 1979 of BLM bungling followed. the Secretary to "immediately re- applauded this amendment. "Senate Investigates Wild There was never agreement on In 1980, the new administration's Horse Program,'' and how many horses had been on public pro-rancher, pro-exploitation atti­ *"... The 1971 count of such animals /wild horses and tude and budget cuts spawned ef­ Law Notes, Summer 1979 lands when the Act was passed, how burros] on public lands was too low. '' George L. Tur­ Law Notes, Fall1979 many more there were at any one cott, Acting Director, BLM, Defenders, February, forts to "make the [wild horse] pro­ time or in any one place, or what 1978, p. 55. gram self-sufficient." The HSUS

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feared this admirable gesture to­ to be lost on Westerners who are and other grazing programs! Final­ wards fiscal responsibility was a busy complaining about the rest of ly, thousands of trespass animals thinly disguised attempt to legiti­ the country's meddling in the man­ owned by ranchers and turned loose mize commercial slaughter of wild agement of America's public lands. illegally on public lands easily out­ horses and counseled waiting for the By attempting to link the wild number all protected wild horses; results of the NAS study. horse issue to regional conflicts, strict enforcement of the Taylor The BLM didn't give up. In Octo­ ranchers with grazing permits have Grazing Act could limit rangeland ber of 1981, Director Burford recom­ actually prompted greater outside damage being done by these animals. mended amendments to the Act that scrutiny. Their claims that wild The Present Crisis would virtually gut it. At the same horses and burros are a major cause time, officials in the Department of of range deterioration can easily be Despite opposition from environ­ mental and animal welfare groups, , ~ the Interior, the ELM's parent agen­ disproved. Government biologists ii cy, convinced Senator Ted Stevens state that 135 million acres of public the Administration will likely con­ 0 tinue to pressure Congress to amend ~ to propose an amendment to the In- grazing lands are in fair condition or the Wild Horse and Burro Act. The ~ terior Appropriations bill seeking to worse.** But wild horses and burros ELM's Robert Burford, himself a cat- 1 repeal the Wild Horse Act outright! inhabit only a small fraction of this Only quick action by Senator Henry total acreage, making their impact tle rancher, threatens us with an un­ Jackson saved the horses that day. insignificant when compared to the palatable choice: either accept his in- § Ironically, despite all the rhetoric rangeland destruction caused by 7 judicious amendments to the Act or ~ the BLM will eliminate excess horses :;; about Easterners meddling in west­ million domestic cattle and sheep. U5 ern affairs the fact is that only 4 per­ Nor can the ranchers credibly ob­ by shooting them on the range. ~ cent of all cattle and 28 percent of all ject even if the wild horse program The HSUS will continue to fight ~ sheep raised for consumption in this is not cost-effective. Livestock graz­ rather than acquiesce. The proposed t country ever graze on public lands.* ing on public lands is heavily sub­ amendments offer us no reasonable ~ choice. The BLM wants Congress to 1 Western ranchers enjoy incredibly sidized by the U.S. taxpayer, under authorize the direct sale of unadopt- B_efore the BZ:M separated stallions from mares and foals in their holding pens, herd low public-grazing-land fees for their the Taylor Grazing Act. Ranchers in ed wild horses to slaughterhouses. szres would fight one another in the close confinement to protect their harems. In- 1982 will pay a paltry $1.86 per livestock-a luxury not afforded the This would contradict the original juries often resulted. vast majority of producers without month for grazing one adult cow or access to public lands. That seems five sheep-less than one-third of purpose of the Act and put the gov- ernment in the pet food business. To the total cost for soil and water de­ What You Can Do velopment, predator control, fencing, increase revenues, the BLM has re­ cently raised the fee for adopting a The fate of wild horses and bur­ *According to the ELM's own study, Managing the Nation's Public Lands, January 31, 1981, p. 2. **Ibid., p. 49. wild horse to $200.00, and $75.00 for ros has never been more uncertain. a burro. When veterinary and trans­ You can assist us in protecting portation fees are added, many po­ these magnificent animals by writ­ tential adopters will be priced out of ing to your congressman and sen­ the market. ators urging them to oppose any In other ways, the BLM amend­ changes in the Act until the N a­ ments would hamper our ability to tiona! Academy of Sciences study assess BLM performance or restrain is completed. its excesses through the courts. Below are the names of the They would, for example, eliminate chairmen and ranking minority the need for the Interior Secretary members of the House and Senate to report program information di­ committees likely to consider any rectly to the Congress. The BLM 's changes in the Act. Write them as past record presents a compelling well. argument for the continuation of this Senate Committee on Energy accountability to Congress. and Nat ural Resources The BLM seems desperate for these changes to be made; perhaps it fears James A. McClure, Chairman the N AS study will not report favor­ ably on past and current BLM wild­ Henry M. Jackson horse-management schemes. Now, the BLM wants Congress to amend House Committee on the Act and delay the N AS study Interior and Insular Affairs until 1985. It favors a cruel and wasteful approach to horse manage­ <1: Morris K. Udall, Chairman o._ ment over use of objective, scientific I <1: I data. It should not be given the Manuel Lujan, Jr. chance to have its way. Photo on p. 11 by Wunch/AHPA A stallion leads his band across a butte.

The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 15 14 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 Four Cheers While most members of Con­ gress spent the early part of this year trying to sort out budget pro­ posals, these members and their to animal welfare counter-de­ efficient staffs spent considerable MMPA Given New Life mands on this issue, Congress 1080 Update time and effort on legislative mat­ A W A Budget Axed legislation designed to halt abuse ters related to animal welfare. provided financial assistance of Tennessee Walking Horses, After almost a year of bat­ for research into new methods The Reagan administration con­ Please take a few minutes to thank However much we complain would be cut nearly in half. them for taking a stand. tling and negotiations, the Ma­ of catching tuna without the tinues to pump for reauthoriza­ about the inadequacies of the Ani­ The HSUS believes adequate • Senator Lowell W eicker for rine Mammal Protection Act incidental destruction of ma­ tion of the use of compound 1080 mal Welfare Act (A W A) and its enforcement of the A W A cannot introducing and getting passed a was reauthorized for an addi­ rine mammals. to poison coyotes. On January 29, enforcement by the U.S. Depart­ be achieved unless the enforce­ resolution to declare March 1, tional three years when Presi­ Another major change simpli­ Reagan reversed President Nixon's ment of Agriculture, it remains ment agency is adequately funded. 1983, National Day of the Seal; dent Reagan signed Public Law fied procedures for return of 1972 executive order banning 1080 one of the most important animal While 1982's funding was not near­ 97-58 last autumn. The HSUS management of marine mam­ because it posed extreme dangers • Congressmen James Jeffords programs administered by the fed­ ly enough for effective enforce­ of Vermont and Don Bonker of worked with a coalition of mals to the states. Alaska, in to human health and caused the eral government. If the Reagan ment, 1983's reduction would be­ groups to obtain renewal of this particular, lobbied to make deaths of hundreds of thousands Washington for introducing in budget for fiscal 1983 is accepted unquestionably- disastrous. the, House a resolution to make vital conservation law. Although state management more expedi­ of nontarget animals, including by Congress, however, AWA en­ APHIS's total funding would be March 1, 1982, National Day of amendments were adopted that ent by eliminating certain hear­ eagles, hawks, owls, and badgers. forcement as we know it will cease cut by more than two-thirds, to 1.5 the Seal; and will lessen the protection origi­ ings in which The HSUS and While the president's acti6n did completely. The Animal and Plant million dollars. Horse Protection • Senator Alan Cranston of Cal­ nally provided for marine mam­ other animal-welfare groups not immediately clear the way for Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Act funding would be cut from ifornia, for his strong and consis­ mals in the act, happily, many had previously participated. the poisonings to resume, it did responsible for enforcement of the $242,000 this year to $148,000. tent leadership in the fight to pre­ even more objectionable amend­ These changes will make it mark the first time Reagan had A W A, would have its budget re­ Please write your representa­ ments were not. much more difficult for us to actually gone on record support­ vent renewed use of compound duced by 70 percent from fiscal tive and senators and urge them 1080. The legislation retains the monitor protection of marine ing the anti-wildlife policies of his 1982 levels. to fight these attempts to gut the act's original goal of reducing mammals because quota deci­ Secretary of the Interior. An addi­ A USDA budgetary summary A W A. Also write the chairmen of the accidental deaths of por­ sions will be made in the states tional worry: although 1080 is cur­ released in February reported that the House and Senate Agricul­ poises caught during yellowfin­ themselves. The moratorium on rently banned under a separate ac­ APHIS would no longer be able ture Appropriations subcommit­ tuna fishing operations to levels killing these animals will end, tion by the Environmental Pro­ to conduct routine compliance in­ tees: The Hon. Jamie Whitten, Lab Changes Sought approaching a zero-mortality in most cases. tection Agency, there were signs spections of zoos, puppy mills, House Subcommittee on Agricul­ In February, The HSUS filed a rate. However, a new amend­ We are disappointed Con­ that the EPA might be going the and laboratories under the pro­ ture Appropriations, 2362 Ray­ petition seeking changes in regis­ ment added language specifying gress chose to weaken an act way of the administration. EPA posed budget. Procedures designed burn House Office Building, Wash­ tered research facilities' reports that this goal can be satisfied that was working so well and hearings on the ban, first step in to implement sections of the A W A ington, D.C. 20515; and Senator to the USDA on the animals they through the use of ''the best remains so important to the the complicated process necessa­ banning dog- and cockfighting Thad Cochran, Senate Agriculture use in painful experiments. The marine-mammal safety tech­ American public. That it wasn't ry to lift it, were scheduled for would not be developed as plan­ Appropriations Subcommittee, 39-page document, the result of niques and equipment that are weakened further is testimony late March. HSUS Vice President ned. Funding for APHIS's enforce­ 1320 Dirksen Senate Office Build­ over a year of HSUS staff labor, economically and technologi­ to your tremendous help. We for Wildlife and Environment John ment of the Horse Protection Act, ing, Washington, D.C. 20510. suggests ways in which to improve cally practicable.'' Thus, the cur­ owe special thanks to Congress­ Grandy, who served on the Preda­ the quality of information given rent allowable kill of 20,500 por­ man Jim Oberstar and Senator tor Control Advisory Commission USDA without spending any more poises per year over five years Bob Packwood as well as to the under President Carter's Interior of the taxpayers' money. The pe­ will not have to be reduced any many Action Alert members Secretary Cecil Andrus, was ex­ tition specifically seeks to define further unless there is a tech­ who responded each time we pected to testify as an expert wit­ "pain" and "distress" in USDA nological breakthrough making needed urgent assistance on an ness at these hearings. regulations and guidelines and ing the Marine Mammal Protection it "practicable." Responding upcoming vote. Setting the Agenda asks that USDA require research Act), time is running out for other facilities to provide more com­ important bills. Although there is, plete information on why pain-re­ Now that the 97th Congress has in most cases, widespread support lieving drugs are withheld from returned from its mid-term recess, for animal-welfare legislation, Con­ ticle on the ESA on page 30). an fur markd as to make CITES some animals during painful ex­ Grandy Testifies for ESA we hope its members will devote gress has many more thousands In response to criticism of the protection for this cat a necessity. periments. On February 22, 1982, HSUS expense to protect such species as " ... It follows logically that the more time and effort to enacting of bills to consider than it can pos­ Vice President for Wildlife and the bobcat from international ex­ cost necessary to provide the type legislation on crucial animal-wel­ sibly accomodate, and we fear im­ the Environment John W. Grandy ploitation, Grandy said, "You of management program which is fare issues affecting laboratory portant legislation could get lost presented testimony before the must recall that it was neither... clearly necessary to meet our in­ animals, drugs in horse racing, in the shuffle. Issues that will def­ For complete discussions of other House of Representatives Subcom­ The Humane Society, the U.S. ternational obligations under humane transportation of horses, initely see action include the Ani­ crucial bills facing Congress and mittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Court of Appeals, nor CITES it­ CITES is best and most appropri­ and factory farming. While this mal Welfare Act 1982 budget and for information on to whom to Conservation and the Environ­ self which required CITES pro­ ately borne by those who are reap­ Congress has made some progress the Endangered Species Act, which write to protest potential legisla­ ment in strong support of reau­ tection for the bobcat .... It was the ing the substantial profit from in the fight to help animals (by en­ must be reauthorized this year. tive changes, see the article on the thorization of the Endangered Spe­ furriers, trappers, and associated mass and inhumane exploitation acting Lacey Act amendments to Other issues will go unaddressed Wild, Free-Roaming Horse and cies Act (ESA) and the Conven­ interests which killed or directly of this species." increase penalties for the illegal unless you let your legislators Burro Act on page 10 and the arti­ tion on International Trade in Wild contributed to killing such large Hearings will continue during taking of wildlife and reauthoriz- know you want action taken. cle on the Endangered Species Flora and Fauna (CITES) (see ar- numbers of bobcats for the Europe- the spring. Act on page 30.

16 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 17 Capitol rally headlines second Day of the Seal

needs to live," Vermont Congress­ Participants in the Capitol Hill man Jim Jeffords had said last De­ rally were treated to helium-filled cember while introducing H. Con. balloons imprinted with harp seal in­ Res. 236, to declare March 1 N a­ signia while they listened to the tiona! Day of the Seal. "In a few music of Paul Winter and members cases, this plundering of seal popula­ of the Winter Consort. The HSUS tions is driving some species toward was represented by President John the brink of extinction.... We cannot A. Hoyt, who acted as master-of­ allow this trend to continue; not on­ ceremonies, and Vice President for ly for the future of the seals, but for Program and Communications Patri­ the future of ourselves as a species." cia Forkan, among others. "We are Although the resolution was not here to celebrate seals, not club considered by the full U.S. House of them," Forkan told the crowd. "Cer­ Representatives in time for Seal tainly these animals have committed Day, it did attract more than 100 co­ no crime to deserve such treatment. sponsors. Bureaucratic tie-ups pre- Their only sin is being beautiful. gJ vented a companion resolution, S. "Should these animals be reduced '3 Res. 266, introduced by Connecticut to mere things with no value beyond ~ Senator Lowell Weicker, from reach­ the price of a pelt?" she asked. "For, ~ ing the floor in time for this year. in all the seal hunts, the principal I However, on March 4, the full Senate products are luxuries rather than Some of the HSUS staff members who helped make National Day of the Seal a success Musician Paul Winter entertained and in­ amended the resolution and, without necessities ... with cruelty as a by­ posed in front of the Capitol just before the noon rally on March 1. spired National Day of the Seal observ­ objection, declared March 1, 1983, product." ers from the steps of the Capitol. National Day of the Seal. Also speaking at the rally were Congressman Jeffords and Rhode Island Congresswoman Claudine Schneider. Jeffords movingly de­ scribed his trip to the Canadian seal hunt as a member of a congressional delegation in the early 1970s. "As I The HSUS's rally on the steps of tor Nina Austenberg watched Gov­ stood there in the pristine arctic the U.S. Capitol, featuring musician ernor Thomas Kean sign a proclama­ beauty, I was shocked at the brutal Paul Winter and members of his Win­ tion on behalf of the citizens of New killing to obtain seal skins," he said. ter Consort, highlighted the second Jersey to make March 1 National Even though Seal Day is over for annual International Day of the Seal Day of the Seal. Nevada Governor another year, The HSUS will con­ on March 1. While more than 250 spec­ Robert List also proclaimed March 1 tinue to protest seal hunts taking tators braved Washington, D.C.'s chil­ National Day of the Seal, and as a place not only in Canada, but also in ly winds, thousands of people across result of efforts by the West Coast South Africa and Alaska, where some the country helped celebrate the Regional Office, a resolution was in­ 25,000 North Pacific fur seals are to births of nearly half a million harp troduced to that effect in the Califor­ be clubbed in late June. seal pups off the coast of Canada. nia state legislature. Public rejection of the cruelty in In cooperation with The HSUS's Other protests, rallies, and candle­ these unnecessary "harvests," which Great Lakes Regional Office, the Co­ light vigils were scheduled through­ produce such products as key fobs lumbus (Ohio) Zoo presented a day­ out March to increase the general and glove linings for the European long film festival featuring seals and public's awareness of the plight of market, is still our best hope for end­ other marine mammals, and, in Fort the harp seal pups and the value of ing seal hunts all over the world. Wayne, Indiana, the staff of the Fort the world's 33 species of seals. Events such as Seal Day can mobilize Wayne shelter presented the mayor "For centuries, man has preyed public sentiment against all hunts. with an HSUS "Club Sandwiches, upon the seal for its prized fur, for Not Seals" T-shirt. In New Jersey, its meat, or because he believed it HSUS Mid-Atlantic Regional Direc- competes with him for the fish it HSUS President Hoyt (left) introduced Rep. James Jeffords to the crowd.

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:W!~Sl:!i;tl:(Jitie~:j't;)!;sl.ht9;U§e.dij!~.. 'ncem those in unprediCtable, inscrutable, and sub­ 'thecar­ the ani:mal•welfare. community: they tle. Some people. appreciate their in­ t~on scene would. in" believe impressionable people, . es- dependence and envy their self-reli­ spir~ a series of books and noveities peci.ally children,, will be encouraged ance. Others interpret their indepen- .• pfO;tJlpts ~ , : ·:.. · ·.· respo~se Untrue, says Sue Wamer;\v),lo has that would earn him the hatred ()f to torture cats. dence as aloofness." owned m~!ly. ·cats o~er · th:.e y~ars. animal lovers all over the country. Wrote llSUS President John Hoyt Fox also thinks people may hate frgm. ca.t lovers. and ''They're not ·hypocritical, they're His two ''I Hate Cats" books and "I in a letter to the ptiblisl:ter of The Of- cats because they can't be control­ merely ·discriminatib.g ... And ··when Hate Cats.'' calendar,·each depicting ficial I Hate Cats Book, "I'm sure led. "Dogs are less dualistic than feline~phobes ·alike~ .· they choose you, it mal:res yo:u feel ' ' " imaginative ways to torture felines, you would have readily rejected a cats. They're loyal, obedient, trust­ speCial. I like cats .because t~ey're became instant best-sellers. They, in manuscript that fostered the abuse worthy, and predictable. Many peo­ small, quiet, and under control. They turn, inspired 101 Uses for a Dead of children. Yet, surprisingly enough, ple only love those they can control can make their own entertainment, Cat (also a best-seller) and The Cat­ you have published one which fos- or who need them. Cats are neither." and, u~like dogs, ·they d,on~t · wilt Hater's Calendar. ters the abuse of animals." "Cats frustrate people a whole wheri you leave thein.and gyrate when It was the latter that blew the top Since publication of The Official I lot," says Morrow (who admits to you come home." off the bubbling pot of anti-cat hys­ Hate Cats Book in early 1981, The owning two cats of his own and ac­ '!'here. are two types of people in teria. While Morrow and the "101 HSUS has received dozens of letters tually liking them). "The cat is one the world-eat lovers and cat haters. Uses" author used cartoon images, protesting cat-hating paraphernalia. of the few domestic animals that

20' The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 21 them not only great respect in life, usually reacting to irrational fears, "They're fine when they're alone, but also after· death, burying them according to Ross. and when you come home they pay in magnificent crypts. Ross says that while she treats attention to you." Excellent mousers, cats were con­ comparatively few cases of ailuro­ Says Phyllis Wright, cat owner and sidered valuable commodities in phobia, she's sure it is not an uncom­ HSUS director of sheltering and ani­ u; mon condition. Many people don't mal control, "Cats are easier pets cQ) Europe during. the Middle Ages. In 0 () tenth century West Wales, a hamlet seek treatment, since it is an ailment than dogs. They don't need to be 0 0 was legally a hamlet only if it con­ unlikely to affect a person's daily walked. They're much better for J:: a. tained a cat. In one famous story, a living. Fear of cats is "socially ac­ apartments, and they're superb com­ c g king with a rat problem was said to ceptable. All phobias are fears of the panions.'' c Q) have paid a fortune in jewels for a unknown, and cats have that aura of Even with all the current media ::;; Q) single cat. being sneaky and mysterious which hoopla, it's likely that, like hula :0 ~ 0 The post-renaissance "war on witch­ prompts that fear." hoops and pet rocks, cat-hating in c 0 craft" was probably the origin of the Of course there are a lot of cat print will fade away. But you can be I modern problem of cat abuse. Cat lovers out there, too. Current estim­ sure cats won't. Says HSUS Presi­ ~ Ol u" ates show there is a minimum of 27 dent Hoyt, "Long after the public has 0 historian Muriel Beadle writes that, a: million owned cats in the U.S. (as op­ ditched those pathetic scribblings in (ij at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth ::> (fJ I, a dozen cats were stuffed into an posed to 45 million dogs). Perhaps a the back-alley trash cans, cats will I effigy of the pope, paraded through positive effect of the anti-cat books, be with us. After all, some authors I the streets, and incinerated. Cats and certainly one the authors never come and go because the public real­ What's wrong with a cat liking its were burned in bonfires, their ashes intended, is that they are bringing izes who has talent and who's out to creature comforts? The simple pleasure doled out to townspeople to take cat devotees out in droves to defend make a fast buck. On the other hand, of enjoying a sunny afternoon on a win­ home as good luck charms. their precious pets. cats manage to have plenty of con­ dow sill cannot be denied. Probably the most horrifying cat "I love cats because they're quiet sistent fans-because they have so doesn't speak the same language we ritual was the cat organ, a device and under control," Sue Warner says. many worthwhile qualities." do. Can you imagine having a full­ which involved tying the tails of 20 fledged conversation with your cat? or so cats to cords attached to a key­ I can't." board. When the keys were pounded Morrow didn't realize how sensi­ (usually by a trained bear) the cats' tive was the nerve he was hitting tails would be pulled, and they when he first began to circulate his would mew. This "entertainment" drawings where he worked as a musi­ continued to be popular for more cian. After all, he admits, the book than 100 years. was almost called I Hate French Cat abuse is still a real problem, Poodles. People always identified with or without what one columnist most strongly with the doodle of his calls the "cat-bashing books." Re­ friend nearly strangling his cat. ports of drowning, burning, and other Let Your Will "They'd take one look and say 'I've more "imaginative" tortures are not Recently, The Humane Society of the United States received always wanted to do that to a cat."' uncommon at local animal shelters. to Help Animals contributions from two members who are employed by companies Cats have only been kept by hu­ According to Dr. Fox, most cat with matching-gift programs. In these instances, both companies' mans since about 1,500 B.C. Scien­ abusers are people who need to feel Live on Through programs matched the HSUS members' contributions two-for-one. tists aren't exactly sure how cats be­ superior. "Abusing cats gives you a One member's $100 gift became a $300 contribution and the came domesticated, but it may be sense of power and control,'' he says. Your Will other's $1500 gift was increased to $4500. correct that, as novelist Rudyard Cats are also unpopular with a Educational institutions, hospitals, arts organizations, and other Kipling theorized, they domesticated growing number of people who suffer such groups may participate as recipients in a company's matching­ themselves. According to Kipling, wo­ from ailurophobia, a morbid fear of We urge you to include in your will gift program if they are non-profit and tax-exempt. (All matching­ man domesticated man, dogs, horses, cats. a bequest to The Humane Society gift programs, however, may not have a two-for-one feature.) and cows, but not cats. While the Jerilyn Ross, clinical director of of the United States. Your decision other animals offered loyalty in ex­ the Phobia Program of Washington We do not have a list of companies with such programs, nor do will be important to these we serve change for food and shelter, the cat (D.C.), reports treating cases of cat we know where our members may be employed, but our guess is -the animals. killed mice and amused children in ex­ phobics. "A tremendous number of that many of you may be affiliated with companies involved in change for the right to sit by the fire people are frightened by cats," she matching-gift programs. We wanted you to be aware of this but refused to give up its freedom. says. "People who are phobic tend potential opportunity for increasing your contributions to The HSUS and its important work. However domestication came about, to have very controlling personali­ Send for our new booklet: it's clear the early Egyptians rever­ ties, and they see cats as unpredicta­ We suggest you ask your company's employee-relations manager ed cats (who, by the way, just hap­ ble." Unlike people who are afraid of "Your Will to Help Animals" or personnel department whether such a program exists and what pened to be useful at keeping rodents dogs because they might bite or .. The HSUS the procedure is for participation. If no such program exists out of the granaries), and accorded knock them down, cat phobics are Donald K. Coburn where you work, why not suggest one? 2100 L Street, NW For more information, contact Donald K. Coburn, The HSUS, Washington, DC 20037 2100 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037.

22 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 23 A third triumph was the schedul­ animals. The HSUS is giving high We believe you, our members, want ing of Congressional hearings on the priority to sitting down with con­ us to get the most effective legisla­ subject of laboratory animals in gen­ gressional staffers, the congressmen tion possible so we can move on to eral. These were held by the Science, themselves, and other humane groups promoting alternatives to live-ani­ Research, and Technology Subcom­ to provide input on the new bill. We mal research more widely and im­ mittee of the House Science and Tech­ have been working, virtually on a proving the desperate state of ani­ nology Committee. We had, for years, daily basis, with no fewer than seven mals now in labs. pressed for such hearings, knowing major, national, animal-welfare full well that NO legislation of any groups toward this end. The 556 and 4406 Legacy kind in either house could ever be We are fighting to keep the heart passed without them. The hearings What Next? of both of these early bills in the sub­ which took place last October, al­ The HSUS will not give up the committee's version. We are anxious though tied directly to neither H.R. fight to help lab animals simply be­ to see a coordination center for alter­ 556 nor H.R. 4406, were welcomed cause the bills we originally sup­ natives established; provide train­ by The HSUS. Our staff presented ported may not win committee ap­ ing in alternatives to researchers; extensive testimony (as described in proval. Even the President of the fund the development of alterna­ Federal Report, Winter 1982 HSUS United States has to make changes tives; disseminate information and News). in the bills he submits to Congress, end duplication in research; estab­ That these hearings took place at and we can expect no different treat­ lish a strong animal-care committee all is a great victory in the long, ment! Our next task· is to get as within laboratories; and create a often discouraging fight to help the strong a bill as possible supported mechanism by which research pro­ laboratory animals in this country. by the House Committee on Science jects can be evaluated in terms of No hearings of any kind had been and Technology, which held the Oc­ the potential animal suffering in­ held since 1970-almost 12 years tober hearings. That bill will then go volved before they are undertaken. ago-and much has changed in labo­ to the full committee, where we have We know your commitment to this ratory research in that time. However another chance to have it strength­ important work is there. The out­ gratifying the two days of hearings ened further. Once it has passed the pouring of letters in support of H.R. were, we knew that they were only the full committee, it will then go to a 556 and H.R. 4406 provided a great first step in a long, difficult, and, all vote by the entire House of Repre­ deal of the impetus behind Congress's too frequently, disappointing legis­ sentatives, where additional amend­ decision to hold the 1981 hearings. lative process. We had been through ments can be added before passage. We shall continue to persevere and by Patricia Forkan a similar struggle on the trapping Simultaneously we will work to find see the process through to what we issue. a Senate sponsor for the bill and be- hope will be ultimate success. Eliminating animals in biomedical Over the last few years, several ex­ traduced it in early 1980) would have Working on national legislation is research and testing has been a goal tremely important bills have been in­ amended the Animal Welfare Act to only for the stouthearted and truly of The HSUS since its founding 28 troduced in the U.S. Congress, each reduce painful experiments in labs; devoted. It is rare-if not impossi­ years ago. Seeking to ameliorate the addressing one of these crucial con­ provided protection (for the first ble-to push any bill, no matter how pain and suffering of animals now cerns. House Bill 556, the "alterna­ time) to rats and mice; and set up an worthy or carefully constructed, The HSUS will not give up the fight to help lab being used is our constant endeavor. tives" bill, was originally introduced animal-care committee to oversee through a legislative body unmodi­ animals simply because the bills we originally Our work and program on behalf of in 1979. It would have provided fund­ standards of care in laboratories. fied. That is how the legislative pro­ laboratory animals has a dual focus: ing for developing and using alterna­ These bills were introduced as a cess in this country works. supported may not win committee approval. Following the October lab-animal 1. to provide immediate relief for tives to live animals in research and direct result of the vigorous work of hearings, therefore, we were not sur­ animals currently used in labs and would have set up a center for the dis­ humane societies and pressure on semination of information on alter­ Congress from animal-welfare or­ prised to learn that some bill on the 2. to develop alternatives to ani­ natives and elimination of research ganizations and concerned citizens. subject of lab animals might be pos­ mals in laboratory experiments. duplication. House Bill 4406, called The HSUS felt that both bills could sible, but not either of the two bills gin the entire process again there. At The subcommittee bill is being We believe both goals are of equal the "Schroeder" bill (after its spon­ have been stronger but, neverthe­ as then structured. Even though H.R. all of these junctures, support from drafted right now. Within a few merit and importance. sor Rep. Pat Schroeder who first in- less, gave them our support. 556 and H.R. 4406 would most prob­ you, our members, will be needed. weeks, we shall be contacting all ably disappear as we knew them, the members if this new bill is worthy of subcommittee would write a whole Is the Effort Worth It? our support. In this way, all of us new bill. The legislative process is compli­ can continue to translate our general The task before us was to make cated, and one that offers no guaran­ concern on this crucial issue into sure the subcommittee's version tee of a perfect bill at its end. There specific action. There will always be the temptation to take a non­ was both as strong and as meaning­ will always be the temptation to ful as possible. We took encourage­ take a non-negotiable position, to negotiable position, to say to the legislature, "Take ment from the fact that a number of say to the legislature, "Take this bill Patricia Forkan is Vice President for this bill in our form or not at all." legislators, Subcommittee Chairman in our form or not at all." To do that Program and Communications for Doug Walgren, Rep. George Brown, is to risk the possibility that our The HSUS and has directed the or­ and Rep. Tom Lantos among them, next chance to help lab animals will ganization's legislative programs very much want to help laboratory not come along for another 10 years. since 1976.

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24 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 25 forts to make local dogfighters, L G1reat Lakes so complacent that they thought nothing of staging matches in broad daylight, think twice about The HSUS Cleans Up having their fun so close to home in at the Dogfights the future. The HSUS's Great Lakes Regional Office, The Hu­ November 28, 1981, was a typi­ mane Society of Huron Valley, and cal late-fall day in Freedom Town­ the Wisconsin Humane Society can ship, Michigan, a rural community share the credit for this very suc­ 15 miles outside of Ann Arbor. cessful effort. Agents under con­ Cold, windy-a good day to catch a tract to The Humane Society of college football game or put up the Huron Valley infiltrated the clos­ storm windows. But for the 23 peo­ ed, secretive world of dogfighters ple who gathered at noon in the in Michigan, actually renting the basement at 3944 Rentz Road to house where the November 28 raid took place; agents working for Wis­ watch pit bull terriers maul one an­ Q) Q) c: c: consin Humane tracked down par­ ::l ::l other, it turned out to be a bad day _() _() An HSUS agent holds one of the fight­ at the dogfights. ticipants in the Milwaukee area; != ~ ing dogs seized in the Great Lakes raid. "0 "0 c: c: By four o'clock, 19 men, 3 women, and Great Lakes Regional Director Q) Q)

Sandy Rowland and Investigator L: "'L: and 1 teenage boy were in police "':; :; in the Great Lakes region previous­ 0 0 custody. Six were charged with a Tim Greyhavens spearheaded the (j) (j) felony-dogfighting-the other 17 investigations in the Toledo area. ly had been little troubled by local I I with attending a dogfight, a misde­ Police in all three states were in­ prosecution. Humane societies, shar­ Sportsmen in the Great Lakes region can't seem to have any fun these days-hot on the heels of the dogfight raid reported meanor. volved as well. ing information and coordinating on the facing page was a cockfight raid carried out in January by the Lenawee County (Michigan) Sheriff's Department and The result of months of effort by A few hours after the Michigan their activities with law enforce­ the Great Lakes Regional Office. Thirty-three men and women were arrested right in the midst of a fight taking place about Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan law­ raid, search-and-seizure warrants ment officers, are changing all that. 15 miles outside of Adrian, Michigan. Seventeen dead and 20 live cocks were confiscated along with the usual fighting para­ enforcement officers and humane issued for five Toledo houses yield­ "Now, dogfighters realize that they phenalia (including carrying cages for fowl, above, right). Since it is a felony under Michigan law not only to own or maintain societies, the raid and related acti­ ed a gold mine of evidence. Police have no safe place to go in the animals and birds for fighting purposes but also to own, maintain, or rent the premises where fights take place, authorities dismantled the cockpit itself and surrounding concession stands to use as evidence. Twenty-five felony charges have been vities in those states yielded 60 found treadmills, a dogfighting pit, whole area," 'laid Greyhavens. "One of the greatest benefits of a filed against participants. dogs, an additional 32 misdemeanor 12 pit bull terriers, and other dog­ The HSUS's Frantz Dantzler, Sandy Rowland, and Tim Grey havens took part in this unannounced visit to another of Mi­ charges, and 14 felony indictments. fighting paraphenalia at all loca­ raid such as this is the response of chigan's exclusive nightspots. For the first time, organizations tions. neighboring states," added Frantz in three states combined their re­ Despite felony laws on the books Dantzler, Director of Investi­ sources and coordinated their ef- in Michigan and Ohio, dogfighters gations for The HSUS, who was al- so involved in the Michigan sweep. Bunching Decision unless they are released to Ohio "State legislatures that previously nonprofit organizations or institu­ thought there were no dogfighting Upheld tions that are certified by the Ohio problems in their area seek to enact On another day in what proved Health Council as being engaged in statutes making dogfighting a fel­ to be a banner autumn for the Great teaching or research concerning ony in their jurisdictions." Only Lakes Regional Office, the Cham­ the prevention and treatment of eight states at present hold dog­ paign (Ohio) County Common Pleas diseases of human beings or ani­ fighting a felony. Court ruled that the pro-HSUS de­ mals. Kiser Lake did not qualify Although a provision in the Ani­ cision handed down against Kiser under these restrictions. mal Welfare Act makes dogfight­ Lake Kennels last summer should Commented Great Lakes Regional ing a felony nationwide, lack of en­ stand (see Around the Regions, Fall Director Sandy Rowland, "This fa­ forcement by federal agencies has 1981 HSUS News). vorable ruling serves as notice to all forced The HSUS to seek time-con­ Kiser, found to be bunching (col­ county commissioners as well as to suming state-by-state legislative lecting dogs or other animals at other officials that The HSUS is action and prosecution instead. one location for sale to research determined to use every means pos­ These efforts seem to be paying facilities for experimentation) and sible to see that animals are cared off. As of early winter, four of the using county pounds as sources, for according to the law. HSUS misdemeanor cases had gone to trial, was in violation of the Ohio Revis­ members can be proud that this de­ Police got there too late to stop Pinto's with all four defendants found guil­ ed Code. Section 955.16 prohibits cision will benefit thousands of ani­ fight. The bloody dog was seized along ty. All felony charges remained to the release of dogs from animal mals in pounds in Ohio and else­ Local police officers search and handcuff participants in the Michigan dogfight. with a number of other pit bull terriers. be tried. shelters or pounds for research where."

26 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 27 Bunny Bop Blows Up In response to plans by farmers in Mud Lake, Idaho, to stage a In what has become a yearly tradi­ Trap Ban Sought series of rabbit drives and club­ tion, protesters, including represen­ bings, the West Coast Regional tatives of The HSUS, demonstrated Assemblyman Sam Farr intro­ against the Great Swamp National duced AB 2600, based on The Office called the killing nothing Wildlife Refuge deer hunt held in De­ HSUS's model bill to outlaw use short of cruel blood sport. cember in Morris County, New Jer­ of steel-jaw traps in California. Blaming five million dollars in sey. According to wildlife officials, ap­ The West Coast Regional Office crop damage on an overpopulation proximately 250 of the refuge's 500 to began the campaign to get this of jack rabbits, farmers conduct­ 600 deer had to die either through the bill passed by forming a steering ed mass killings, resulting in the hunt or other means to thin out the committee comprised of humane slaughter of over 100,000 rabbits, herd and avoid starvation among the societies long known for their op­ in December and January. Virtual­ deer population. Regional Director position to the trap. It seeks the ly anyone who wanted to could Nina Austenberg, rejecting this logic, get in on the kill, using his choice The Great Swamp deer hunt by ama­ tion. There are more deer than ever at support of all concerned citizens told a national television audience, of baseball bats, tire irons, axe "The Fish and Wildlife Service is ma­ teur sports hunters has proved inef­ the Great Swamp after seven years of and has materials available to ed­ nipulating habitat to create a surplus. fectual in controlling the deer popula- hunting there. " L ate the public and press about Pound-seized: this pup was part of a handles, and golf clubs as weapons. the suffering caused by this device. January, 1982, UCLA (California) De­ News sources reported rabbits Californians should contact leg­ partment of Nuclear Medicine research being crushed beneath the wheels islators from their own districts project on cardiac metabolism. UCLA of round-up vehicles and others Plymouth, MA. HSUS President obtains all of its dogs for experiments skinned alive. "It is particularly Regional Calendar and urge them to pass this much from local pounds. John Hoyt and other staff mem­ needed legislation. Any organiza­ disturbing," said HSUS field in­ West Coast bers will be on board the "Cape tion may join the coalition by con­ vestigator Eric Sakach, "that so Cod Princess" along with expert many of those participating in the Spring Assault tacting the West Coast Regional The Northwest Humane Educa­ marine mammal and seabird bio­ Office. Medical Association oppose SB carnage take obvious delight in The Gulf States Regional Office tors will sponsor a NAAHE/HSUS logists to identify species seen on 1438. such a brutal act, even allowing is gearing up for a major assault Humane Education meeting at the trip. Contact the New Eng­ In 1980, California research in­ children to participate.'' on rodeo cruelty. Documenting all the Airtel Hotel in Portland, Ore­ land Regional Office, P.O. Box Pound-Seizure End? stitutions received over 297 mil­ The "bunny bops" aroused and facets of rodeo abuse, including gon, on May 14-15, 1982. Pre­ 362, East Haddam, CT 06423, for California State Senator David lion dollars from the National In­ angered citizens and humane animal training and transporta­ registration, including two lunch­ more information. Roberti, along with 10 co-authors, stitutes of Health, just one of the groups from coast to coast. HSUS tion, in larger and smaller, "bush eons, is $30, $35 at the door. Space has introduced SB 1348 to prohib­ sources of biomedical-research fund­ President John A. Hoyt called up­ league" events will be the goal. is limited; reservations should be it animal shelters from releasing ing in California. on Idaho Governor John V. Evans The spring HSUS regional meet­ made through the West Coast Re­ Great Lakes dogs and cats to laboratories and The West Coast Regional Office to intervene and urge the farmers ing and workshop in Shreveport­ gional Office, 1713 J Street, Suite The Michigan Federation of research centers where they can provided Sen. Roberti with back­ to seek alternative methods of Bossier City, Louisiana, was held 305, Sacramento, CA 95814. Humane Societies will sponsor a currently become the subjects of ground materials and sent an alert controlling rabbit overpopulation in March. The two-day program workshop for humanitarians on cruel experiments. to every HSUS member in Cali­ and crop protection. The HSUS attracted an enthusiastic crowd. New England April 23-25, 1982, in Lansing. The campaign, headed by the fornia urging action to help to recommended fencing rabbits out HSUS staff members Michael Guest participants include HSUS Committee for State Prohibition pass this legislation. of potential damage areas, allow­ Fox, Kathy Savesky, and John President John Hoyt and staff of Pound Seizure, has the support West Coast Regional Director ing natural predator populations Dommers will be among the speak­ members Phyllis Wright, Sandy of over 100 humane organizations. Char Drennon said, "We know to grow, and finding a humane ers at the New England Federa­ Rowland, and Tim Greyhavens. A document signed by almost 20 from experience people dump ani­ method of disposing of the rab­ tion of Humane Societies annual Topics will include Michigan's anti­ California physicians, veterinari­ mals rather than take them to shel­ bits if necessary. The HSUS be­ conference to be held May 19-21, cruelty laws, lobbying for animal­ ans, and scientists states, "Pound ters which turn them over to re­ lieves it is a cruel and expensive Dommers Named Director 1982, at the Framingham Motor welfare legislation, shelter man­ seizure perpetuates inferior re­ search. For years, The HSUS has lesson in what can happen when Inn in Framingham, Massachu­ agement, dogfighting, humane search and is damaging to the done everything it can to help up­ natural predators are constantly John Dommers, HSUS Coordi­ setts. Conference topics include education, and membership devel­ good name of science." grade the care and handling of an­ gunned, trapped, poisoned, and nator of Multi-Media Materials intensive livestock farming prac­ opment. Contact Margaret Sarna, Roberti said, "By authoring this imals in shelters. Pound seizure denned out of an area. and Production, has been named tices and the newly-published na­ 1561 Caliper, Troy, MI 48084. bill, I am not questioning animal destroys the public's confidence in "Until they start respecting the Director of the New England Re­ tional curriculum guide prepared The HSUS and the Humane So­ experimentation, judging it bad the credibility of animal control." role each animal plays in nature, gional Office serving Connecticut, by The HSUS. Contact the New ciety of Huron Valley will sponsor or good. Instead, this bill deals In 1981, Los Angeles City, and people will continue to have crop Massachusetts, New Hampshire, England Federation of Humane a session of The HSUS's Animal with the source of the animals Orange and Ventura counties ban­ losses in Idaho, and the animals Rhode Island, Vermont and Maine. Societies, P.O. Box 255, Boston, Control Tr8ining Academy at the and their validity as experimental ned pound seizure. However, be­ and environment will suffer for Dommers, who has been with The MA 02117. University of Michigan in Ann Ar­ subjects." cause county officials have refus­ it," Sakach said. The HSUS urges HSUS since 1972, will continue to The New England Regional Of­ bor on May 10-21, 1982. Contact According to Roberti's office, ed to outlaw it in numerous other its members to write to Governor head the multi-media activities of fice will sponsor a Whale Watch Phyllis Wright, HSUS, 2100 L the California Veterinary Medical communities, this state law is nec­ John V. Evans, State House, 700 the society. on June 12, 1982, to depart from . St., NW, Washington, DC 20037. Association and the California essary to protect people and pets. W. State Street, Boise, ID 83720.

28 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 29 Appearances can be deceiving. No­ know that? The state fish and wild­ w here does this aphorism hold more life agency in your state supposedly truth than in the attitude of state fish represents you and the governor, and wildlife agencies toward the En­ but is taking this position without dangered Species Act (ESA), one of determining your wishes or even in­ this country's most important and forming you of its position. Is this influential wildlife-protection laws. any way to run a democracy? State fish and wildlife agencies are You almost certainly do not sup­ those organizations in individual port unlimited killing of bobcats for states charged with the responsibili­ the European fur market and you ty of protecting, preserving, and man­ most probably support this nation's aging wildlife and wildlife habitat. commitments to protect bobcats Because they have been funded, in and other wildlife through CITES most states, from hunting and trap­ and the ESA. Yet your own state fish ping licenses and fees and not from The and wildlife agency (through the In­ general tax revenues, these agencies ternational Association) supports have received little attention from exactly the opposite position! If you governors and other elected offici­ Endangered want your state's position (and that als. The agencies have tended to act of your fish and wildlife agency) on a little like independent fiefdoms, the ESA changed, you will have to taking political actions and posi­ Species Act: write, call, or mailgram the governor. tions of which elected state officials (Sadly, the governor probably does and citizens (whom state governments not realize his state fish and wildlife are supposed to serve) are unaware. agency has taken such a position!) These actions have often been influ­ Are Your Officials Your letter should: enced by the pro-hunting, pro-ex­ • Tell the governor the Interna­ ploitation attitudes of the state fish tional Association of Fish and Wild­ and wildlife professionals themselves Representing life Agencies which purports to rep­ and not by the opinions of citizens resent your state fish and wildlife state-wide. agency is taking a position that This tendency is made more pro­ Your Views? would weaken bobcat protection un­ nounced at times by the existence of der the Convention on International the International Association of Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fish and Wildlife Agencies. The In­ Flora and Fauna and would weaken ternational Association is a loose as­ U.S. implementation of CITES. sociation of the fish and wildlife by John W. Grandy • Tell him/her you do not support agencies of individual states in the the positions of the fish and wildlife U.S. and similar agencies in Canadi­ agency. an provinces and Mexican territories. • Tell him/her you strongly sup­ It is also the group which normally port protection for the bobcat and and nominally represents individual other wildlife under CITES and urge state fish and game agencies in lob­ ·c_""' his/her administration to support the (f) bying efforts before the Congress. Ui bobcat and the CITES treaty. ::> Cll­ The positions taken by this group, I • Ask him/her to direct the state presumably on behalf of individual I wildlife officials to go on record sup­ citizens in the fifty states, are very porting (1) a stronger Endangered Spe­ likely to be dictated by those same cies Act and (2) the CITES agree­ pro-hunting attitudes of the state ment as interpreted by the courts, and fish and wildlife officials who make (3) bobcat protection under CITES. up its membership. These positions The state fish and wildlife agen­ carry a fair amount of weight in the cies, and the governor, are supposed halls of Congress and with the ad­ protection under CITES, thus, it re­ unlimited mass export of bobcat skins pelts." Obviously, the court imposed authorization process (taking place to represent you and your desires. ministration and are taken, in many ceives certain protections under the (permitted by most states) would not reasonable requirements to protect a this year) the addition of language The only way for the governor to cases, without the knowledge of the ESA. During the past few years, be detrimental to the very survival beautiful native American cat which that would, in effect, overturn previ­ know what you want is for you to governors and citizens wildlife of­ lawsuits have been filed in U.S. courts of bobcats in this country. The courts has been extirpated from a number ous court decisions made under tell him or her, as specifically as you ficials represent. on behalf of bobcat protection under further ruled that, in allowing export, of states already and has been sub­ CITES, so that unlimited killing and can, what your position on CITES A timely example is the question the CITES/ESA agreements. These "any doubt whether the killing of a ject to virtually unlimited destruc­ export of bobcats may once again and the ESA is and what you want of bobcat protection and this nation's lawsuits have resulted in the courts particular number of bobcats will tion for its skin. occur! done about it. Remember, the En­ international commitments under the sharply restricting exports of bobcat adversely affect the survival of the Enter the International Associa­ The state fish and game agency dangered Species Act must be reau­ Convention on International Trade pelts to fur markets in Europe. This species must be resolved in favor of tion of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. which oversees wildlife in your state thorized this year. Time's awasting. in Endangered Species of Wild Flora restriction was not some arbitrary protecting the animals and not in The International Association has is taking a position, through its and Fauna, known as CITES. The judicial ruling; rather, it was the favor of approving the export of their as its major goal during the ESA re- membership and· support of the In­ United States fulfills its commit­ consequence of the complete failure ternational Association, that would John W. Grandy is Vice President ments under CITES through the of the federal government and most allow unlimited killing of bobcats for Wildlife and the Environment for ESA. The American bobcat receives state fish and game agencies to prove and would cripple CITES! Did you TheHSUS.

30 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 The Humane Society News • Spring 1982 31 1182HSUS ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Tax Deductions and an adoption demand by qualified in­ or inhumane treatment." The IRS N on-ltemizers dividuals does not exist. rejected the society's argument that The Economic Recovery Tax Act Prior to January, 1982, the BLM profits from the veterinary clinic sup­ of 1981 makes deductions for charit­ regularly made efforts to find adopt­ ported the animal shelter and other ''Protecting Animals able contributions newly available ers for rounded-up horses and usual­ clearly exempt activities, saying the to individuals who do not itemize de­ ly destroyed only old, sick, or tem­ organization's need for funds or the ductions on their tax returns. They peramentally unsuitable animals. use it makes of the profits from the in Today's World'' now can directly deduct a percent­ Under the new policy, the BLM des­ trade or business does not convert age of their charitable contribution troys all horses held for more than the income from unrelated business in calculating their taxable income. 45 days without being adopted. to tax-exempt income. In 1982, the non-itemizer can deduct The suit alleges a large adoption The events of the past several months have confirmed that the chal­ 25 percent of his contributions up to demand exists but that the BLM has HSUS Opposes USDA Move lenge to animal welfarists is greater than ever before. The abuse and stopped making good-faith efforts suffering being inflicted on animals in almost every segment of society $25.00. For example, if a taxpayer The Winter issue of The HSUS contributes $80.00 to a charitable to match animals with interested in­ is unparalleled in modern history. Both locally, and nationally, the dividuals willing to adopt them. It News reported on the lawsuit The protection of animals in today's world demands an informed, dedicated, organization, he can deduct $20.00 HSUS brought against the United on his return, even though he does also alleges that the BLM has shipped and concerted response. We invite you to join with fellow HSUS mem­ horses to private zoos where they States Department of Agriculture for bers, directors, and staff to explore these issues in depth and formulate not itemize other deductions. The its failure to enforce the humane-care new law does provide for a yearly in­ are slaughtered and fed to the zoo's ways in which to ensure the protection of animals more effectively. great cats. The HSUS and AHPA requirements of the Animal Welfare crease in the percentage of the con­ Act at the Institute for Behavioral Program moderator for the conference will be Roger Caras, noted tribution deducted, until 1987. Then, contend such a practice is contrary author, lecturer, and television commentator. The keynote address will to the BLM's own regulations for­ Research (IBR) and at other research a taxpayer will be able to deduct the labs across the country. The USDA be presented by Dr. Amy Freeman Lee, artist, educator, and lecturer full amount of the contribution with­ biding commercial exploitation of preeminent. wild horses and burros. has moved to dismiss the suit, argu­ in the limit of 50 percent of his ad­ ing The HSUS is merely a "concern­ Special conference events will be two "dilemma" forums discussing justed gross income. At every stage, ed bystander" which has sustained laboratory animal and intensive farming issues; a mock trial; and an however, the taxpayer must be able IRS Clinic Ruling only "abstract injury" because of optional trip to historic Boston and the New England Aquarium. The to document the contributions for In late 1981, the Internal Revenue the USDA's actions at IBR. annual awards banquet on Saturday evening will conclude the which he is claiming a deduction. Service ruled the operation of a full­ The HSUS is opposing USDA's dis­ conference events. The HSUS provides receipts for all service veterinary clinic by a humane missal motion, arguing the efforts of Workshops will be presented on a wide variety of topics of interest to contributions over $10.00. society was not an activity promot­ HSUS members and employees and ing the society's exempt purpose but animal-welfare activists, including sessions for persons working in its expenditures in providing for the specialized areas. rather an unrelated business activi­ IBR monkeys and in supporting the Watt and BLM Sued ty whose income was fully taxable. prosecution of IBR scientists give Make plans now to visit beautiful New England and attend this year's stimulating On February 26, 1982, The HSUS The ruling was specifically direct­ The HSUS a direct stake in the out­ and informative conference on November 3-6, 1982. and the American Horse Protection ed at a local humane society in Mi­ come of the suit. The HSUS also ar­ Association (AHPA) filed a lawsuit chigan but has legal implications for gues it suffered an "organizational against Secretary of the Interior any society operating a veterinary injury" (its efforts are diverted to James Watt and the Bureau of Land clinic offering a full range of veteri­ protecting animals the USDA has a Management (BLM) to stop the ille­ nary services to the general public. statutory obligation to protect and Danvers (Boston) gal policy, adopted by the BLM in (Organizations operating clinics of­ away from other animal-welfare mat­ January, 1982, of killing excess wild fering only spaying/neutering opera­ ters not covered by a federal pro­ Massachusetts horses and burros removed from the tions are unaffected by the ruling, al­ gram). The HSUS contends its suit public lands in spite of the existence though any organizations consider­ is brought on behalf of the IBR mon­ of a large demand to adopt the horses. ing expanding their services beyond keys, which have a statutory right November 3-6, 1982 (See major article on page 10 of this spaying/neutering should take heed to humane care under the Animal issue.) of this restriction.) Welfare Act but cannot sue in their The Wild, Free-Roaming Horse and The IRS memorandum, noting the own behalf. The HSUS is attempting Burro Act of 1971 allows the BLM veterinary clinic is a "very substan­ to persuade the Court its status as to remove wild horses and burros tial part" of the organization's acti­ an animal-welfare organization gives from public lands when an overpopu­ vities, concluded that "[p]roviding it an "advocacy relationship" with lation exists in a given area, and to of­ veterinary services for a fee to owners animals that should allow it to repre­ fer excess horses for adoption to quali­ of pets is an ordinary commercial ser­ sent and promote animal rights in fied individuals who can provide vice which has no causal relationship the courts. them with humane care and treat­ to the prevention of cruelty to ani­ ment. The BLM is further granted mals. The animals for which the ser­ Compiled by Murdaugh Stuart Mad­ the authority to destroy humanely vices are provided are neither un­ den, HSUS General Counsel, and horses removed from the range when wanted nor the victims of any cruel Roger Kindler, Associate Counsel.

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