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Wcro Fall 1986

West Coast Regional Office

• Horses face injury, death in senseless suicide race
• Situation worsens as Siletz saga continues
• Director's Comment (Char Drennon)
• Code flaw exposed in cruelty trial
• Around the Region
• Pets workshop
• A joint effort
• Recognition for a special teacher
• Individuals do count

Humane Education Happenings Fall 1986

Humane Happenings 1975-81

No abstract provided.

Hs News Volume 31, Number 04

HSUS News 1979-88

• A rare opportunity (John A. Hoyt)
• James Herriot awarded Joseph Wood Krutch Medal (John A. Hoyt)
• Working together to protect and preserve (Phyllis V. Roberts)
• Lending a hand to wild birds: threats to the wild bird population--and how you can help
• Backyard sanctuary
• HSUS President John A. Hoyt to head World Society for the Protection of Animals
• Working at the roots (Edward S. Duvin)
• A unified voice for animals (Ann Church)
• Starting a federation
• Revitalizing a federation
• "Studying" whales to death (Campbell Plowden)
• NAAHE adopts new strategy against biased materials
• Publications, testimony are highlights of institute's summer
• Monitoring the Pribilof …

Shelter Sense Volume 09, Number 07

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Women's clubs adopt teachers through new NAAHE program (Bill DeRosa)
• Fall Pet Alert: Some pets still plagued by hot weather! (Yuri Kusuda)
• Educational display tempts the curious!
• Man convicted of animal cruelty
• Antique shops draw affluent supporters
• Aids and tools in selecting hardware, software, and services (Kay Smart)
• Reproducible: When you see a stray dog or cat, what should you do?
• Check around your community "hidden" sources of support (Phyllis Wright)

Cardiac Correlates Of Individual Recognition In The Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes), Sarah T. Boysen, Gary G. Berntson

Sentience Collection

The ability of a chimpanzee to recognize individuals depicted in photographs was evaluated through the use of heart rate measures. Heart rate was recorded before and during photographic projections of human caregivers, familiar individuals, strangers, and blank control slides. In the absence of explicit training or reinforcement, the chimpanzee displayed a differential pattern of heart rate response to the stimulus categories. Although heart rate responses to all stimuli were predominantly deceleratory, the photographs of caregivers yielded consistently larger responses than other stimuli. Results indicate that the chimpanzee is able to recognize individual humans from novel photographic representations and that heart …

Pet Shops: The Unseen Suffering

Close Up Reports

The HSUS exposes cruelties behind closed doors

Alternatives Sought To Save Lab Animals, Jim Detjen

Popular Press Items

No abstract provided.

Shelter Sense Volume 09, Number 06

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Adoption contracts: shelters pursue "get tough" policy (Debbie Reed)
• Advice on ways to inform and influence local officials (John McArdle)
• Choosing a database program: the basics of databases (Randall Lockwood)
• HSUS 1986 Annual Conference: All this and a sunny location!
• Pros and cons of new rabies test explained
• Society telethon brings funds, publicity
• Is your adoption program keeping up with the times? (Phyllis Wright)

Hs News Volume 31, Number 03

HSUS News 1979-88

• The benefits and consequences of animal rights (John A. Hoyt)
• On civil disobedience (Dr. Thomas H. Regan)
• What is that puppy?
• Bells ring for HSUS
• Ride from freedom
• Interacting in Boston
• The dairy cow debacle: the government mandates face branding (Dr. Michael W. Fox)
• Capitol Hill heroes (Martha Hamby)
• The tangled web of animal abuse: the links between cruelty to animals and human violence (Dr. Randall Lockwood and Guy R. Hodge)
• Trapping campaign continues, intensifies
• 1985 Annual Report - The Humane Society of the United States
• NAAHE announces changes
• Institute charts ominous trends
• 1986 Annual Conference of The Humane Society …

Shelter Sense Volume 09, Number 05

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Pet overpopulation: more spay/neuter efforts underway! (Debbie Reed)
• Proposed ordinance could help injured pets
• New registry touts mixed breeds
• T-shirt auction earns needed funds
• Do you have a communal cat room?
• Federal government to pay dog-bite victim
• "Lost and found" made easy (Randall Lockwood, Ph.D.)
• Help pet owners understand their pets' behavior (Phyllis Wright)

Dogfighters On The Run: The Hsus Spurs Police Crackdown

Close Up Reports

How can anyone derive satisfaction from watching two dogs tear each other apart? How can anyone sit for hours, not only watching but cheering every wound, every broken leg or mangled eye?

We can only guess the answers to such questions. What we do know is that every weekend, hundreds of men, women, and children attend dogfights, enjoying the blood and excitement of dogs matched to the death and even wagering on the outcome. Virtually anyplace--a vacant garage, warehouse, apartment building basement, or city park--can house a dog pit. A picturesque farmhouse or barn may hold hundreds of spectators brought …

Variation In Piglet Weights: Development Of Within-Litter Variation Over A 5-Week Lactation And Effect Of Farrowing Crate Design, B. K. Thompson, D. Fraser

Ontogeny Collection

Piglets from 51 litters were weighed weekly over a 5-wk lactation in an experiment that studied the effects of farrowing crate design and other factors on variation in piglet weight. Of two farrowing crates used, one had low horizontal bars that tended to impede access to the upper row of teats, while the other had angled vertical bars which permitted freer access. Fourteen-day weights were more uniform in the vertical-bar crates than in the horizontal-bar crates (P < 0.025), but the difference waned by day 35 (P > 0.05). There were no significant differences in mean body weight owing to crate type (P < 0.05) for any of the weekly measurements but, by day 14, there was a significant linear trend (P < 0.05) at decreasing main body weight with increasing litter size. The interaction between crate type and litter size was significant at the later ages (P < 0.01 at day 35) because the linear trend was more pronounced for horizontal-bar crates than for vertical. Litters differed greatly in the uniformity of their body weights. Much of the variation became established in the first and, to a lesser extent, the second week after birth. In those weeks, weight gains were highly variable and were not closely related to weight at the beginning of the week. Thereafter, the established differences tended to be perpetuated to 35 d, because weight gains were largely proportional to body weight. Within-litter competition appeared to influence weight gain considerably.

Dogfighters On The Run

Close Up Reports

The HSUS spurs police crackdown

Shelter Sense Volume 09, Number 04

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Your volunteers need your support! (Debbie Reed)
• Cruelty within shelters can be avoided (Yuri Kusuda and Debbie Reed)
• Teen Board boosts local humane society
• Man sentenced for cruelty to pony
• Advice on ways to inform and influence local officials (Yuri Kusuda)
• Cornell program helps diagnose animal illnesses (Debbie Reed)
• Before next fall, review your education program! (Phyllis Wright)

Shelter Sense Volume 09, Number 03

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Pet overpopulation: spay/neuter efforts continue to reduce animal births (Debbie Reed)
• Feline test required for adoption (Yuri Kusada)
• Two men extort money from lost-pet owners
• Selecting a printer (Randall Lockwood, Ph.D.)
• HSUS workshops: better than ever! (Phyllis Wright)

Glro Spring 1986

Great Lakes Regional Office

• GLRO traces pet sent to research
• Taskforce offers animal-fighting reward
• Legislative Roundup
• Dogfighting still rampant in region
• Around the Region
• Director's Comment (Sandy Rowland)
• HSUS investigates exotic pet auctions

Maro Spring 1986

Mid-Atlantic Regional Office

• New Yorker wins national award
• HSUS attacks dog racing in Penn.
• HSUS fights to keep ban on leghold traps
• Region holds open house
• Around the Region
• Ready and Abel
• Court bars dealer from commerce in pet animals
• Director's Comment (Nina Austenberg)
• HSUS continues to seek end to Great Swamp Hunt

Wcro Spring 1986

West Coast Regional Office

• Mountain lions face uncertain future
• Dogs seized in kennel raid, owner charged
• Dog pound improvements sought
• Director's Comment (Char Drennon)
• North California ravaged by floods
• Around the Region
• Legislative Update

Humane Education Happenings Spring 1986

Humane Happenings 1975-81

No abstract provided.

Trapping Agony Continues: The Hsus Fights To End The Anguish

Close Up Reports

Despite the fact that the steel-jaw leghold trap has been outlawed in dozens of civilized nations, each year in the United States, its vicious jaws maim and kill an estimated 15 million animals. For wild creatures that have no owners awaiting their return, their cries of anguish go unheard and unanswered.

Hs News Volume 31, Number 02

HSUS News 1979-88

• Dian Fossey--a remembrance (John A. Hoyt)
• WSPA aids sheep
• Magazine of the Year
• Cold weather comfort
• Grants for good
• Awards are wonderful
• Food for thought
• One small step for animals
• Pet-facilitated therapy grows up: many humane organizations are reevaluating their role in PFT (Randall Lockwood, Ph.D.)
• Dian Fossey: a tribute
• Moving nature off its course: commercially manufactured hormone threatens welfare of dairy cattle (Dr. Michael W. Fox)
• The layman's guide to alternatives
• S.I.S. (Patty Finch)
• There's more than one way to speak out for animals (Ann Church)
• One person can make a difference
• Racing on Indian lands
• Court stops park …

A Strategy Of Compassion, Henry Spira

Commentaries and Editorials

While welcoming the escalating interest and discussion concerning the LD50 and Draize campaigns as spotlighted in "Making Compassion the Fashion" (Cover, December 1985), I believe that AGENDA'S call for further ultimatums to the cosmetics industry may well be counterproductive. It seems to me that when an industry or corporation is responsive, we want them to continue to be responsive and use their responsiveness as an example for others. Why spend your energies hitting people who are working with you on common goals?

Trapping Agony Continues

Close Up Reports

The HSUS fights to end the anguish

Shelter Sense Volume 09, Number 02

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Sheltered wildlife has special needs (Debbie Reed)
• Advice on ways to inform and influence local officials (Yuri Kusada)
• AVMA seeks award nominations
• Fund-raising seminar held in New England
• Cat claw kits could be hazardous
• HSUS opens new regional office
• What to look for in a word processing program (Randall Lockwood, Ph.D.)
• Animal Control Academy announces 1986 sessions (Phyllis Wright)

Variation In Piglet Weights: Relationship To Suckling Behavior, Parity Number And Farrowing Crate Design, David Fraser, B. K. Thompson

Ontogeny Collection

Suckling behavior and weight change of piglets were studied during the first 2 wk after birth. Thirty-six litters comprised a balanced comparison of parity number (first or second), litter size (8, 10 or 12), and two farrowing crate designs, one of which had a low horizontal bar that tended to impede the piglets' access to the udder. Piglets showed the expected preference for the anterior teats although the preference was more apparent in the second parity than in the first. Teat fidelity was most pronounced at the two ends of the udder; piglets occupying the middle positions did more fighting …

Shelter Sense Volume 09, Number 01

ShelterSense 1978-92

• New HSUS training program begun (Debbie Reed)
• Humane education programs that work! (Willow Soltow)
• Cruelty convictions bring harsh penalties ...
• Shelters battle floods to rescue animals
• Pros and cons of mail order hardware and software (Randall Lockwood, Ph.D.)
• Reproducible -- Where are these kittens now?
• Make spring's spay/neuter program better that ever! (Phyllis Wright)

A Case Against Animal Rights, Jan Narveson

Animal Welfare Collection

Down through the past decade and more, no philosophical writer has taken a greater interest in the issues of how we ought to act in relation to animals, nor pressed more strongly the case for according them rights, than has Tom Regan, in many articles, reviews, and exchanges at scholarly conferences and in print. It is a pleasure to join him on this symposium, to explore this interesting and important set of issues.

I shall begin by outlining, as fairly as I can, Regan's view of the matter, and then sketch my alternative. Regan has in fact criticized certain aspects …

The Case Against The Use Of Animals In Science, Donald J. Barnes

Experimentation Collection

As a scientist long committed to the understanding, prediction, and control of biological, physiological, and behavioral events, I have no objection to the animal as a legitimate focus of science. As a parent, a son, a sibling, and the proud recipient of unconditional positive regard from a few special people, I am vitally interested in matters of health and in the most ethically efficient use of available resources. As a member of a species which has evolved sufficiently to allow the relatively broad perspective of a "web of life" and at least a rudimentary concept of altruism, I have laboriously …

The Case For The Use Of Animals In Science, James A. Will

Experimentation Collection

Animals are now used extensively in research and teaching, and the appropriateness of their use appears to be questioned. Some people believe that we are in a new era where the animal activists have become much more influential, and that the antagonism between the scientists and these groups is worse than it ever has been. This does not appear to be the case. The preeminence of various influences seems rather cyclic, even perhaps influenced by such things as economic conditions or wars. At present, the question is often asked, "Should we continue to use animals in science?" The real question …

The Significance Of Alternative Techniques In Biomedical Research: An Analysis Of Nobel Prize Awards, Martin Stephens

Experimentation Collection

No abstract provided.