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Hs News Volume 33, Number 01

HSUS News 1979-88

• Thank you, Mr. Chairman (John A. Hoyt)
• Chimps championed
• Africa bound
• New twist to NAAHE's Adopt-a-Teacher program
• The HSUS establishes new division
• Be a P.A.L. -- and get an award: The HSUS will recognize top shelter programs
• A new day in Ogden: a Utah shelter is built through collaborative efforts
• Closing in on cockfighting: a deadly blood sport is the target of The HSUS
• Cockfighting across the country
• Getting to know you: when new pet meets old pet (Ann Smalley)
• North American tortoises: a tale of four species (Dr. Susan S. Lieberman)
• The 1987 HSUS Annual Conference: Making a Difference …

An Overview Of The Issue Of Dog Aggression, Dog Bites And Social Policy, Andrew N. Rowan

Behavior and Cognition

NOTE: Segments of the report below have already been published as part of the Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy report on the pit bull terrier issue in 1988 titled Dog Aggression and the Pit Bull Terrier, edited by A. N. Rowan. The report was developed out of a workshop held at Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine on July 17, 1986. The workshop was developed after Dean Franklin M Loew suggested in June of 1986, that the Tufts Center for Animals should organize a workshop to explore the growing furore over “pit bull terriers.” The city of Lynn …

Fight Against Pets In Research Gains Momentum

Close Up Reports

Now is the time to unite to save our pets

Mineral-Deficient Diets And The Pig’S Attraction To Blood: Implications For Tail-Biting, David Fraser

Abnormal Behavior Collection

In two experiments, individually penned growing pigs were exposed daily to two "tail models” (lengths of cotton cord about the size of a pig's tail), one of which had been impregnated with pigs' blood. When fed a balanced "control" diet, the pigs chewed significantly more on the blood-covered model than on the plain one, but with Iarge individual differences between animals. Four weeks of receiving a diet lacking all mineral supplements (iodized salt, dicalcium phosphate, limestone, iron, zinc, manganese, copper, and selenium) caused a pronounced increase in chewing the blood-covered model, and 4 wk of recovery on the control diet …

Shelter Sense Volume 10, Number 07

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Pet IDs: easy to promote; can make your job easier! (Debbie Reed)
• Snakes: they can benefit people; Part two
• HSUS sponsors vicious dog workshops
• Congressional resolution names "National Prevent a Litter Month"
• Gaines offers annual journalism scholarship
• Blockade Flea Spray implicated in pet deaths
• Puppy strangles in wire crate
• Coupon, contest promote spaying and neutering
• Database software review: Q&A (Randall Lockwood, Ph.D.)
• HSUS Academy begins '88 sessions (Phyllis Wright)

Shelter Sense Volume 10, Number 06

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Billboards: big messages for a small price (Debbie Reed)
• HSUS' new campaign stresses end to pet overpopulation
• Snakes: they can benefit people; Part one
• Virginia man convicted of kitten burnings
• Free kit promotes rabies clinics
• Giant Food helps local society promote spay/neuter program
• A little help from your friends: use your user groups (Randall Lockwood)
• Animal Control Academy news
• Federal bill reaffirms wildlife sanctuaries
• Campaigns need your creativity, commitment (Phyllis Wright)

Sero Fall 1987

Southeast Regional Office

• The HSUS challenges animal sacrifice cults
• Wild-caught birds suffer and die in pet trade
• Director's Comment (Marc Paulhus)
• Region seeks to end carriage horse abuses
• Cockfighting: time to end heinous "sport"
• The HSUS tackles pet overpopulation
• Around the Region

Hs News Volume 32, Number 04

HSUS News 1979-88

• The making of an annual conference (John A. Hoyt)
• Uproar over pit bulls
• Dogs in toyland
• They've moved
• Save "Seabert the Seal"
• Progress for fur seals
• When the movement is the message: for dogs, actions speak louder than words (Ann Smalley)
• Research loophole tightens for whalers (Campbell Plowden)
• The HSUS urges everyone to "Be a P.A.L."
• Humane education: objections overruled (Patty A. Finch)
• Here today, gone tomorrow? (Dr. Susan S. Lieberman)
• What is being done, and what can you do?
• CITES meets in Canada (Dr. John W. Grandy)
• Morning light (Edward S. Duvin)
• Animal groups unite to oppose driftnet permit …

Shelter Sense Volume 10, Number 05

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Purebred dogs: an update (Jane Hutchinson)
• NAAHE introduces a new direct-action campaign
• First national competition seeks unusual, pet tags
• Ideas for preventing "hot car" hazards
• Good ideas to share ...
• Computerizing an animal shelter: a consultant's experience (Reid Lewis)
• Accurate, daily records minimize problems and improve programs (Phyllis Wright)

Hs News Volume 32, Number 03

HSUS News 1979-88

• The Versailles Initiative (John A. Hoyt)
• Frogs here ...
• ... and abroad
• Hit movie, hurt animals
• Georgia man convicted of manslaughter in dog attack
• The animal-patenting decision: should people own new forms of life?
• Will Congress stop animal patenting?
• Predator control, European style: American sheep raisers successfully guard their flocks using Old World dogs instead of deadly poisons (Jennifer Lewis)
• Charitable animal hospitals: guaranteeing every animal's right to medical care
• The HSUS boycotts Gillette office products
• 1986 Annual Report - The Humane Society of the United States
• NAAHE announces 1987 Teacher of the Year
• Institute for the Study of Animal …

Shelter Sense Volume 10, Number 04

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Horses, ponies suffer, too. How can you help? (Debbie Reed)
• Send mice and rats scurrying ... humanely!
• Database software review: PFS Professional File (Randall Lockwood, Ph.D.)
• Manufacturer responds to cage defect
• Make a difference at The HSUS Annual Conference
• Georgia's first animal control seminar
• Reproducible -- Your pet needs a rabies vaccination, NOW!
• Be aware of all animals in your community (Phyllis Wright)

The Scientific Disadvantages Of Using Random Source Animals For Research And Testing

Annotated Bibliographies

The term "random source" refers to animals used in laboratory work which were not bred specifically for that purpose. The use of such animals (including unclaimed pet animals from pounds and shelters) for research and testing is a longstanding tradition, a practice still strongly defended by many scientists. In the preparation of this paper, several of these individuals at the National Institutes of Health and other research facilities were invited in writing to provide published evidence supporting this position. Many opinions were offered, but no empirical evidence. Not one research study was forthcoming to support the claim that random source …

Meeting Offers Hope For Fewer Animal Tests, Iver Peterson

News Reports

No abstract provided.

Wcro Spring 1987

West Coast Regional Office

• Millions of hogs, chickens suffer in food production
• Trophy hunters take aim at mountain lion
• What you can do
• Director's Comment (Char Drennon)
• HSUS fights plan to build research lab
• Around the Region
• New Legislation

Attraction To Blood As A Factor In Tail-Biting By Pigs, David Fraser

Abnormal Behavior Collection

Canvas models, about the size of a pig's tail, were impregnated with pigs' blood or left plain, and were presented to pigs for 12 days in a 2-choice preference test. The pigs showed large, consistent, individual differences in response: some pigs chewed the models continuously while others chewed only slightly; some chewed much more on the blood-covered model, while others showed no preference. On average, the pigs chewed considerably more on the blood-covered model than on the plain one. In a second experiment, pigs presented with a choice test involving a blood-covered and a plain model showed a significant increase …

Hs News Volume 32, Number 02

HSUS News 1979-88

• James Herriot Award (John A. Hoyt)
• Magazine of the Year
• Fur is for death?
• Why not settle for skiing?
• Standing up to be counted
• Beyond the genetic threshold
• Africa bound
• Return of the Roman Circus?
• "Reason for surrender" : a shelter worker behind the receiving counter faces a bewildering, often frustrating, litany of explanations from pet owners giving up their companion animals (Steve Grunow)
• State--subsidized spaying and neutering: taking a giant step forward in New Jersey (Ann Church)
• A magical place called Earth (Edward S. Duvin)
• HSUS hog, hen campaign gets a great start!
• Joan R. Blue
• Viewers talk back …

The Movement Action Plan: A Strategic Framework Describing The Eight Stages Of Successful Social Movements, Bill Moyer

Strategy and Social Movements Collection

Social movements are collective actions in which the populace is alerted, educated, and mobilized, over years and decades, to challenge the powerholders and the whole society to redress social problems or grievances and restore critical social values. By involving the populace directly in the political process, social movements also foster the concept of government of, by, and for the people. The power of movements is directly proportional to the forcefulness with which the grassroots exert their discontent and demand change. The central issue of social movements, therefore, is the struggle between the movement and the powerholders to win the hearts …

Animal Brutality For Fun And Profit

Close Up Reports

HSUS field staff cracks down on bizarre animal spectacles

Activity Vs. Productivity: Strategies Of Social Protest, Henry Spira

Commentaries and Editorials

No abstract provided.

Industry Toxicologists Keen On Reducing Animal Use, Constance Holden

Profiles

No abstract provided.

Hs News Volume 32, Number 01

HSUS News 1979-88

• Achieving strength through unity (John A. Hoyt)
• Dogged and determined
• For the photogenic only
• While supplies last
• There ought to be a law
• Twelve winners
• Washington State's suicide rate: sixty seconds of brutality, injury, and danger
• The responsibilities of cat-keeping (Dr. Michael W. Fox)
• The HSUS Annual Conference: Kinship With All Creatures
• How you can make a difference (Paul Tsongas)
• Training man's best friend: a consumer's guide (Curtis B. Hane)
• "Living With Animals" celebrates its first anniversary
• New Jersey trap-ban trial ends in victory
• Profile of a pigeon shoot: Labor Day leads to death of thousands of pigeons in Hegins, …

Animal Rights Coalitions Coordinator's Report '86, Animal Rights Coalitions

Animal Rights Coalitions

• New strategies fuel progress, promise even greater gains
• Milestones
• On a personal note
• Here's what you can do to make a difference
• Promoting animal rights at the community level (Ann T. Koros)
• Animal care communities and Sunshine Laws
• Alternative testing joins the scientific mainstream (Susan Fowler)
• The media passes on the mesage
• Computers as alternatives
• Non-violent alternatives,--the emerging new science

Shelter Sense Volume 09, Number 10

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Academy graduate ponders future of British Animal Control (John Shaw)
• Man kills stray dog, is convicted
• When a pet adopter can't read ...
• Dog dies, owner sentenced to jail
• Animal Control Academy news (Yuri Kusuda)
• NAAHE begins pet licensing program in February (Bill DeRosa)
• Shelter Sense Computer Survey
• Art auction's success proves that planning does pay! (Yuri Kusuda)
• IRS proposes lobbying regulations (Roger Kindler)
• Plan today for a successful 1987! (Phyllis Wright)

Shelter Sense Volume 09, Number 09

ShelterSense 1978-92

• The media: making an impact! (Renée Blake)
• Holiday programs help animals and people! (Debbie Reed)
• A dime a day is all you pay ...
• Animal Control Academy news (Yuri Kusuda)
• Database software review: R:Base 5000 (Randall Lockwood, Ph.D.)
• Things to do before December 31 (Phyllis Wright)

The Case For The Use Of Animals In Biomedical Research, Carl Cohen

Morality and Ethics of Animal Experimentation Collection

No abstract provided.

Shelter Sense Volume 09, Number 08

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Pet shop puppies -- are you getting the best dog for your dollar when you buy from a pet shop? (Edy Sammon)
• Billboard advertisements: educated the public without spending a fortune! (Debbie Reed)
• Animal control and Boy Scouts explore teen career choices
• Surgeons volunteer to save neglected dog
• Veterinarians donate free medical procedures
• Animal Control Academy News (Yuri Kusuda)
• Aids and tools in selecting hardware, software, and services (Kay Smart)
• Discover what 847 Animal Control Academy graduates have learned ... (Phyllis Wright)

Glro Fall 1986

Great Lakes Regional Office

• GLRO exposes deficiencies, zoo closes
• Betsy the Beaver
• How much is that doggie in the window?
• Legislative Roundup
• Director's Comment (Sandy Rowland)
• Around the Region
• Pulling contests cause suffering

Gsro Fall 1986

Gulf States Regional Office

• HSUS launches drive against cockfighting
• San Antonio needs better animal control
• Sheep and goats suffer cruelly on way to Mexico
• Oklahoma enacts spay-neuter law
• Director's Comment (Bill Meade)
• HSUS fights 1080 poison
• Animal train touted while horses suffer
• Around the Region
• HSUS protest stops greased pig contest
• Charro rodeos under attack

Maro Fall 1986

Mid-Atlantic Regional Office

• Protests, publicity curtail animal acts
• Pennsylvania may make animal fights a felony
• MARO extends outreach
• Pets-in-Housing bill clears Senate
• Director's Comment (Nina Austenberg)
• New York bird law needs your support
• Trial over N.J. trap ban ends
• Carriage horses at risk in N.Y.

Sero Fall 1986

Southeast Regional Office

• Pound seizure: needless suffering we must stop
• Legislative Update
• The HSUS is working to achieve the solution
• Director's Comment (Marc Paulhus)
• Demonstrators attack Norwegian whaling
• Around the Region