From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012: Political intervention weakens new puppy mill legislation in four states AUSTIN, HARRISBURG, OKLAHOMA CITY, SPRINGFIELD–Recently passed laws meant to curb puppy mills appear to have been crippled by political intervention in four states. The Pennsylvania Dog Law Advisory Board on April 25, 2012 met for the first time since [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012: No deal for Macau greyhounds MACAU–It was a cruel April Fool for dozens of greyhounds, the U.S. organization Grey 2K, Animals Aust-ralia, and the Macau animal rescue society Anima. Macau media reported on April 1, 2012 that Anima and the Macau Yat Yuen Canidrome Company Ltd. had signed an [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012: Many of the 216 surviving pit bulls seized in a March 30, 2012 dogfighting raid in San Pablo, Laguna, the Philippines, “are not in need of rehabbing, as they were bait dogs,” Island Rescue Organization founder Nena Hernandez asserted in an April 4, 2012 e-mail to 25 other dog [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012: Obituaries “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.” –William Shakespeare F. Barbara Orlans died on June 18, 2010. ANIMAL PEOPLE learned of her death on April 5, 2012. A noted biomedical [...]
A special note from Kim Bartlett—President of Animal People ANIMAL PEOPLE supporters are slightly different from average donors to animal protection efforts. While they are just as passionate about rescuing and sheltering needy animals as anyone else, they also believe as Plato did that “Ideas rule the world.” They do your part to change [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012: CAP-AUX-MEULES, Quebec– Seal clubbing and shooting started on March 22, 2012 for Iles-de-la-Madeleine vessels, five days ahead of schedule, because ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence were receding so rapidly that Quebec sealers were at risk of finding no seals to kill. Canadian Fisheries Department area director [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012: Meredith Marie Lowell mugshot (mugshots.com) CLEVELAND, Ohio–The Federal Bureau of Investigation on February 21, 2012 arrested Meredith Marie Lowell, 27, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, for allegedly trying to use a Facebook account accessed from a public library computer to solicit the murder of “someone who is wearing fur.” According to [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012: BANGKOK, PHUKET–Soi Cat & Dog Rescue, of Bangkok, and the Soi Dog Foundation, of Phuket, on February 28, 2012 announced a merger. Often confused with each other, SCAD and the Soi Dog Foundation have parallel programs, emphasizing dog and cat sterilization, and have parallel histories. British expatriate Sheridan Conisbee [...]