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Lots Of Talk About Ld50, Marjorie Sun

Popular Press Items

When animal rights groups protest the use of animals in experiments, one of their favorite targets is a test known as the LD50. Since the late 1920's, scientists have killed millions of animals to conduct the test, which was designed to help judge the acute toxicity of drugs, pesticides, and other chemicals. But animal rights groups and scientists in general agree that the test is now outdated and has limited value. Even so, according to animal rights activists, industry continues to perform the test to meet federal requirements, unnecessarily killing millions of animals a year. The animal rights groups have …

Humane Education Volume 07, Number 04

Humane Education 1983-5

• Footprint fantasies (Mary Jo Puckett Cliatt)
• A narrow escape
• For the love of birds (Carol O'Donnell)
• Action for humane awareness: a unique effort in humane education (Lorraine Holden)
• Author-Humane Educator Charlotte Baker Montgomery receives the Humane Society's top honor
• It's their home too! A mini unit on learning to coexist with the animals around us (Lorraine P. Holden)
• Happenings
• Research in Review: Teaching about predators in elementary education (Vanessa Malcarne)
• Familiar animal neighbors: opossum, mallard duck, raccoon, gray squirrel
• A provocative look at young people's perceptions of animals (Miriam O. Westervelt)
• Calendar
• What's a Picture Worth? : Foul play

Shelter Sense Volume 06, Number 10

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Veterinarian survey reveals humane work (Debbie Reed)
• Texans give their SHARE
• Girl dies despite rabies vaccine
• Dentists push pet care
• License campaign ups revenue, visibility
• Another dogfight raid
• Service wells trap animals
• Shelter Sense Reproducible – This winter, put yourself in their shoes …
• Just Wright: Community service means meeting community needs (Phyllis Wright)

Hs News Volume 28, Number 04

HSUS News 1979-88

• President’s Perspective: Let the dialogue continue / John A. Hoyt
• Zoo fallout
• PSA on the way
• Bear reward
• A response to a response
• Nix for Orcas
• Moving towards 1986: "Whales Alive" conference and IWC meeting chart whales' hopeful future / Patricia Forkan
• The North American Black Duck: twenty-eight years of failure in American wildlife management / John Grandy
• The HSUS introduces two new periodicals this fall
• Kind News promises a bright new approach for children
• The Animal Activist Alert rushes legislative news to activist members
• Keeping racing out of your state / Ann Church
• "Arnett vs. Loxahatchee" : a fragile …

Ijsap Volume 04, Number 04

IJSAP VOL 4

TABLE OF CONTENTS – VOL. 4(4), 1983

LETTERS

EDITORIALS

NEWS AND ANALYSIS

• Agribusiness Chicken Myth Dispelled
• Tuna Fishing and Improved Monitoring of Dolphin Mortality
• A Clear Mandate to Abolish Factory Farming
• Relief for Iguana Lizards
• Dogs Endanger Wolves
• DES in Veal
• The Welfare of Adult Pigs: The Effects of Five Housing Treatments on Behavior, Plasma Corticosteroids and Injuries
• Reflections of an Ex-Veal Farmer
• Research Into Bizarre Alternatives
• Animal Models in Biomedical Research—Some Paradoxical Findings

COMMENTS

• A Survey of Animal Behavior-Related Research and Testing Activities in North American Agricultural and Veterinary Medical Colleges – W.R. Stricklin
• Some Preliminary Thoughts on Permitting …

Humane Education Volume 07, Number 03

Humane Education 1983-5

• So you want a pet -- a mini unit on making responsible decisions about pet ownership (Lorraine P. Holden)
• Flash! Good news about Kind News!
• 1983 Humane Education Teacher of the Year -- 'The Teacher Who Cares About Animals' : Cindy Crawford (Lorraine P. Holden)
• Happenings
• Our neighbors' pets (Lorraine P. Holden and Beverly Armstrong)
• Research in Review -- Young children's beliefs about animals (Vanessa Malcarne)
• Humane Education Reader Survey
• A doggone good start (Vivian Leidy)
• Learning Center -- It's music to their ears (Lorraine P. Holden)
• The teacher's pet -- factors to consider in deciding about a classroom pet …

Shelter Sense Volume 06, Number 07

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Cats: do you handle them humanely? (Lisa J. Morris)
• Group makes free videotape
• Employees paid to volunteer elsewhere
• Journal educates public
• Adopters get free pet food
• Liver revitalizes animals
• “All One Family” is conference theme
• AKC may fund dog law revisions
• Wildlife rabies symposium
• Just Wright: Pets with two “owners” may mean trouble (Phyllis Wright)

Lethal Dosing Of Lab Animals Expected To Decline, Ernest Roberson

Popular Press Items

A national animal rights coalition leader yesterday predicted that the use of the “lethal dose 50 percent”' test (LD 50), by which laboratory animals are poisoned with increasingly lethal doses of toxic substances, will be substantially reduced in the coming year.

Ijsap Volume 04, Number 03

IJSAP VOL 4

TABLE OF CONTENTS – VOL. 4(3), 1983

LETTERS

EDITORIALS

• The Question of Atheism and Communism in the Animal Welfare/Rights Movement – M.W. Fox
• Sex Roles, Companion Animals—and Something More – D.H. Murphy
• The State of the Economy and Animal Welfare – M.W. Fox

NEWS AND ANALYSIS

• Pet Foods and Animal Health and Welfare
• More Money in Support of Taub
• Should Immunocastration Replace Surgical Castration?
• Predicting Carcinogenic Potential with Mathematics
• Vancouver Spay/Neuter Clinic Finds Unexpected Benefits
• New Treatment for Cat Allergies
• For Dogs, Chocolate Can Be Deadly
• Rabies Diagnostic Technique for Live Animals
• Socialization by Humans Reduces Health Risks Among Chickens …

Experiments Raise Hopes On Curbing Use Of Animals In Laboratory, Bayard Webster

Popular Press Items

Growing awareness of the sensitivity of animals has recently been touched off by wide publicity surrounding some examples of apparently extreme cruelty to primates in a Maryland laboratory. Many scientists as well as animal welfare advocates have been led to seek more humane ways of conducting drug testing and medical research with live animals and to investigate ways in which their use could be curtailed, if not eliminated.

Humane Education Volume 07, Number 02

Humane Education 1983-5

• Try a little tenderness
• What is a nature center? (Thomas H. Livers)
• Programs for preschoolers (Christine S. Donovan)
• Mimicking, imagining, chatting, discovering: Behavior patterns of the preschooler (Hannah London)
• Happenings
• Research in review (Vanessa Malcarne)
• Don't stay between the lines! (Vanessa Malcarne and Beverly Armstrong)
• Selecting Humane Education books: sorting through the stacks (Kathy Savesky)
• NAAHE reviews children's books (Lorraine Holden, Vanessa Malcarne, Kathy Savesky)
• Humane Education Celendar
• Film reviews (Argus Archives)
• What's a Picture Worth? : They left me behind

Shelter Sense Volume 06, Number 03

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Euthanasia – the hardest part about being humane (Nancy S. Burby)
• A happy ending
• Hildee’s handicap
• Kennel Permit laws
• Conference highlights grief
• Recycling for money!
• Legislative hotline
• Sew necessary …
• Fundamentals of search and seizure: gaining consent (Tim Greyhavens)
• Circus Watch: an update
• Just Wright: Investigations have limits; know them! (Phyllis Wright)

Ijsap Volume 04, Number 02

IJSAP VOL 4

TABLE OF CONTENTS – VOL. 4(2), 1983

LETTERS

EDITORIALS

• Aquaculture—Now, Factory Fish Farming – M.W. Fox
• Achieving a Concensus on Dog Control Strategies: A Brief Primer – D.B. Wilkins

NEWS AND ANALYSIS

• New Assaults on Dogs in the USSR
• Just How Free Is a “Free-Range” Chicken?
• The Dutch Announce Potential Alternatives to the Draize Test
• Art for Whose Sake?
• Mysterious New Cat Disease in the U.K.
• Sleuthing Down the True Facts—Provimi Group Housing Trial
• Where There’s a Whale There’s a Way: Japanese History and Her Intransigence on Whaling

FOCUS

• Too Much of a Good Thing: Protein and a Dog’s Diet …

Environmental Psychology And Great Ape Reproduction, Terry L. Maple

Zoos and Aquariums Collection

At the 1980 Great Ape Infertility Workshop, we concluded that "physical and social environments must be improved if not optimized if great apes are to reproduce satisfactorily ... " In 1982, the trend toward improvement continues and there are some promising signs that reproduction has been enhanced as predicted. The problem of designing and evaluating captive environments which will facilitate interaction, reproduction, appropriate parenting, and socialization is well within the scope of Environmental Psychology. I intend to illustrate the promise of this applied research field in the remarks that follow.

Abundance And Distribution Of Large Mammals In The Upper Ogun Game Reserve, Oyo State, Nigeria, T. A. Afolayan, K. R. N. Milligan, S. O. Salami

Nature Collection

In this study, three indirect methods [counts of animal droppings, footprints, and tracks) were used as indices to estimate the abundance and distribution of large mammals in the Upper Ogun Game Reserve, which is located in a typical Southern Guinea savanna zone of Nigeria. Thirteen animal species were recorded; kob, bushbuck, hartebeest, roan antelope and duicker were the most abundant. The distribution of large mammals appears to be controlled by several factors: accessibility to the River Ogun [the main source of water in the reserve), availability of food and cover, and the extent of illegal hunting.

An analysis of questionnaires …

Biological Control Of Aleutian Island Arctic Fox: A Preliminary Strategy, Edward W. West, Robert L. Rudd

Hunting Collection

No abstract provided.

Selecting A Spay/Neuter Program For Animal Control In The City Of Charlotte, Diane Quisenberry, Mary Elizabeth Clapp

Hunting Collection

The City of Charlotte, NC, in attempting to determine the best kind of program for reducing its increasing populations of unwanted dogs and cats, examined a full range of possible options for limiting these populations. Five measures for population control were considered: spay/neuter surgery, euthanasia, physical restraint, mechanical contraception, and chemical contraception. It was concluded that a spay/neuter program that incorporated educational and legislative components would be the most effective means of large-scale population control, although other methods like euthanasia would still have to be used. Based on a survey of a number of cities with spay/neuter programs in place, …

Ethologic And Economic Examination Of Aviary Housing For Commercial Laying Flocks, D. W. Fölsch, Chr. Dolf, H. Ehrbar, T. Bleuler, H. Teijgeler

Agribusiness Collection

The result of our work shows that appropriate housing is necessary for intensively kept hens and that the housing has to correspond to the vital needs and the nature of the animals.

This is important for two reasons: a) the innate needs of the birds must be satisfied; b) for the proper development of the animal and successful egg production.

The housing facilities should allow the following functional cycles without restrictions:

Social organization: the structuring of a group or unit of animals.

Locomotion: walking, running, fluttering, flying.

Feeding behavior: search for food and water, food and water pecking, ground scratching, …

A Different Approach To Horse Handling, Based On The Jeffery Method, Judith K. Blackshaw, Des Kirk, Sharon E. Cregier

Equines Collection

A method of horse training is discussed which is based on an old technique known in Australia as the "Jeffery method." It makes use of several behavioral principles, including understanding of horse behavior, reinforcement for desired behavior, and use of flight distance principles.

Letter To Editor: Animal Suffering: Ethical Dimensions, Judith E. Hampson

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

The author comments that the report (in IJSAP 3(3):254) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) meeting has a misleading description of her exchange with Professor Dollery. The relevant text in the BAAS proceedings of the meeting is quoted.

Letter T Editor: A Role For The Clergy In Animal Welfare?, Charlotte B. Parks

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

The author asks what role the clergy in Judeo-Christian religions should play in advancing animal welfare.

Letter To Editor: Firm Support For Culture Training, H. C. Rowsell

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

Dr. Rowsell corrects a report in the Journal (IJSAP 3(3): 185) regarding official funding support for a tissue culture training course offered by Professor Sergey Federoff at the University of Saskatchewan.

Occlusion Of Vision In Old English Sheepdogs, Michael W. Fox

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

It is common for owners of Old English Sheepdogs to allow the dog’s facial hair to cover the eyes. This practice is often justified by a claim that Old English Sheepdog eyes are very sensitive to light because, when the hair is cut away, the dog may blink its eyes, and the eyes may water. However, any animal whose eyes are not exposed to daylight will demonstrate photophobia when the eyes are exposed. The hair screen over the eyes may also lead to chronic conjunctivitis. Finally, the dog often shows a significant positive temperament change when the hair screen is …

The Effects Of Ethostasis On Farm Animal Behavior: A Theoretical Overview, A. F. Fraser, M. W. Fox

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

Ethostasis – the effect of constraining husbandry practices on animal behavior – is described and discussed. The review describes specific husbandry practices that may give rise to behavioral anomalies and how these anomalous behaviors may be of diagnostic value. Ready identification may facilitate correcting problems leading to lower productivity, diseases, and economic losses.

News And Analysis

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

Includes reports on the humaneness of electro-immobilization, humane enforcement in New Jersey, methods for killing unwanted baby chicks, attitudes to companion animals, downer cows, non-human primate mortality in transport, the development of a “Disturbance Index” to assess the welfare of different laboratory procedures. Laboratory animal trends in Great Britain and the use of alternatives to animals in NIH-supported research.

Meetings And Announcements

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

A report of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science annual meeting held in Washington, DC, in October 1982 is provided. The meeting included sessions on the care and use of farm animals, current US Federal regulations on laboratory animal use, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees, and the use of pound animals in laboratories. Other meeting reports include one on the ethical dimensions of animal use in veterinary education and another in Denver on “The Place of Animals in Religion.” Several books are briefly reviewed, including one on the Canadian Seal Hunt, the Proceedings of an NIH meeting on …

Letter To Editor: Exceptions To Vertebrate Pest Conference Report, Dale Kaukeinen

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

The author responds to a description of his owl mortality presentation. He notes that only one of the six owls that had died had any trace of the brodifacoum rodenticide in its tissues and that owl was electrocuted. The rodenticide was not the cause of its death. The author calls for more dialogue between humane organizations and those involved in pest control.

News And Analysis

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

The section includes brief reports on anti-dog sentiment in Russia, defining the term “free-range” for poultry, a potential alternative to the Draize eye test, an art project by Christo in Biscayne Bay, a new cat disease described in the UK, an update on the Provimi group housing project for veal calves and a history of Japanese whaling.

Too Much Of A Good Thing: Protein And A Dog's Diet, Dana Murphy

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

Murphy examines messages promoting the benefits of high-protein dog foods and then discusses the health effects of too much protein in a dog’s diet.

Letter To Editor: Responsive Chord On Pets And Therapy, Jean Grover

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

The author comments on concerns regarding caring for the animals in a nursing home and the very positive reactions the animals elicited among residents.