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Shelter Sense Volume 07, Number 10

ShelterSense 1978-92

• IRS rules three Michigan clinics tax-exempt (Roger Kindler)
• Advice on ways to inform and influence local officials
• Shelters sought for heartworm study
• Postal service puts the bite on loose dogs (Debbie Reed)
• Animal returns may signal problems (Paul Miller)
• An introduction to computer terminology -- Part III: Putting it all together! (Kay Smart)
• Reproducible -- Is love the tie that binds?
• Just Wright: HSUS Animal Control Academy increases know-how (Phyllis Wright)

Humane Education Volume 08, Number 04

Humane Education 1983-5

• A holiday gift
• NAAHE Editorial -- As we await the results ... (Kathy Savesky)
• How to ask for money -- and get it! (Vicki Parker)
• Deep water, shallow water: marine animal homes (Willow Soltow)
• Educational Marine Resources -- Marine Animal Homes, A Place to Live, What is my name?
• Happenings
• Dr. Greg Topolie receives Gaines Veterinary Award
• NAAHE News
• Research in Review -- Approaches to humane education: can television make a difference? (Bill DeRosa)
• Interdependent living things (Mark Brunner)
• Middle ground: humane education for junior high students (Willow Soltow)
• Humane Education Workshop accorded full course status (Willow Soltow)
• Calendar
• Film …

Joint Position Statement On 'Project Wild', The American Humane Association, The American Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals, Animal Protection Institute, Fund For Animals, The Humane Society Of The United States, International Fund For Animal Welfare, Massachusetts Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals, People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals

Humane Education Courses and Curricula Collection

Because of the strong biases reflected in the Project WILD materials and the lack of balancing which should be provided by alternate viewpoints and representative data, we oppose the use of public funds for the future purchase, distribution, and/or promotion and use of Project WILD materials without the addition of substantial acceptable balancing material. In those States and Provinces where the materials have already been purchased and distributed, we believe the States and Provinces accepting this material should promptly distribute acceptable balancing material and have it used by those teachers who are using the Project WILD guides. We also believe …

Life History Patterns And The Comparative Social Ecology Of Carnivores, Marc Bekoff, Thomas J. Daniels, John L. Gittleman

Ethology Collection

No abstract provided.

Shelter Sense Volume 07, Number 09

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Pet registries: well-meaning, but problematic (Guy Hodge)
• Computer Talk: An introduction to computer terminology, Part II: Simply software (Kay Smart)
• Puppy express reunites pet with family
• New Jersey begins landmark program
• New test kit detects feline leukemia (Carole Conover)
• New pet service is questionable (Debbie Reed)
• Reproducible – Don’t give pets as Christmas gifts
• Just Wright: IRS recognizes society’s clinics (Phyllis Wright)

Gsro Fall 1984

Gulf States Regional Office

• Cockfight raided!
• HSUS opposes Amarillo Pigeon Shoot
• Arkansas puppy mill clean-up
• Director's Comment
• Attempt to abolish animal holding period defeated
• Louisiana enacts felony dogfight legislation
• An Update: Texas horse tragedy
• Around the Region
• Animals gain from Louisiana workshop
• HSUS seeks changes at snake farm

Isolation Of Lactoferrin And Its Concentration In Sows’ Colostrum And Milk During A 21-Day Lactation, J. I. Elliot, B. Senft, G. Ernhardt, D. Fraser

Nutrition Collection

Levels of lactoferrin, an Fe-binding protein with bacteriostatic properties, were determined in the colostrum and milk of Yorkshire sows during a 21-d lactation. Lactoferrin levels averaged 1,100 to 1,300 μg/ml near the time of farrowing, then declined sharply during the first week of lactation. Concentration of lactoferrin showed considerable variation among sows, but not among teat positions (anterior to posterior). A method for isolating high purity swine lactoferrin is described.

Hs News Volume 29, Number 04

HSUS News 1979-88

• President's Perspective: A strategy of silence (John A. Hoyt)
• A "Frontline" first
• Looking to the future
• Oh boy, soy!
• New home for Gina
• HSUS challenges greyhound industry
• Zoo center of Atlanta uproar
• Getting the most for your convention dollars (Georganne Keppler)
• Livestock transportation: too much cruelty, too little industry concern
• Livestock transportation: a legislative review
• You can eat humanely
• The year before "The Moratorium" (Patricia Forkan)
• USDA "launders" study showing calves suffer on factory farms (M.W. Fox)
• The Pribilof Seal Hunt: an eyewitness report (John W. Grandy)
• New investigator proves valuable to Mid-Atlantic region
• Toronto "Festival for Animals" attracts crowds …

Shelter Sense Volume 07, Number 08

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Choosing liability insurance: what you see is not always what you get (Roger Kindler)
• Advice on ways to inform and influence local officials (Debbie Reed)
• Society, festival officials prevent pet problems
• November adoption workshop
• Warning about cats and clothes dryers
• Group recognized for educational efforts
• Coalition to infiltrate humane groups (John McArdle)
• Computer Talk: An introduction to computer terminology – Part 1: Here’s to hardware! (Kay Smart)
• Reproducible – Proper wildlife handling can prevent rabies exposure (Donald Ford, D.V.M.)
• Just Wright: Lost pets mean work for pet owners and you (Phyllis Wright)

Humane Education Volume 08, Number 03

Humane Education 1983-5

• Best of friends
• NAAHE Editorial -- An attempt at definition (Kathy Savesky)
• Pet problems at home: pet problems in the community (Willow Soltow)
• Teaching about euthanasia
• Caring means looking ahead
• Who's responsible?
• Too many pets: too few homes
• A cat without a home (Willow Soltow)
• Helping children help animals (Vicki Parker)
• Happenings
• Making humane education a reality: The 1984 Humane Education Teacher of the Year
• 1984 Humane Education Teacher of the Year Finalists
• Research in Review -- Differences between boys' and girls' attitudes toward animals (Bill DeRosa)
• Parties with a Purpose -- classroom parties that teach about animals (Christine Donovan) …

Hsus Exposes Livestock Transportation Cruelty

Close Up Reports

After a massive investigation covering nine months, twenty states, and more than 20,000 miles, The HSUS has documented that every day and every night, thousands of cattle, pigs, sheep, chickens, and other animals are being crowded, beaten, electrically shocked, trampled--or even killed--during miserable journeys that ultimately end at the slaughterhouses of this country.

Animals are injured during loading, then forced to negotiate dark truck interiors, steep ramps, narrow doorways, sharp turns, and slippery flooring. They are loaded so hurriedly that they knock down or climb onto those animals ahead of them and are crowded so tightly that they injure or …

Shelter Sense Volume 07, Number 07

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Workshops: to benefit, you must participate! (Carroll Thrift)
• Computer Talk
• Items
• Donated ads up spay/neuters
• Network exposes pet theft
• Now it’s time for humane bat control (Debbie Reed)
• Materials
• Reproducible – Smart students protect their pets!
• Job announcements
• Just Wright: Know your board members before they are elected (Phyllis Wright)

Hsus Exposes Livestock Transportation Cruelty

Close Up Reports

No abstract provided.

Some Factors Influencing The Availability Of Colostrum To Piglets, D. Fraser

Physiology Collection

Five experiments, involving the hand milking of 53 farrowing sows, examined aspects of colostrum yield during and soon after farrowing. The initial and abundant yield of colostrum from a teat (averaging 6 to 10 g/min) declined after several minutes of continuous milking. Thereafter, most colostrum was released in discrete ejections, possibly caused by discrete releases of oxytocin. Colostrum ejections varied greatly in their yield and duration, and were sometimes associated with the birth of a piglet, sounds of other sows nursing, or other factors.

Teats varied greatly in their yield. During the initial minutes of milking, the most anterior teats …

Humane Education Happenings Summer 1984

Humane Happenings 1975-81

No abstract provided.

Hs News Volume 29, Number 03

HSUS News 1979-88

• President's Perspective: A success in the making (John A. Hoyt)
• Survey confirms: people care about animals
• Survey confirms: teenagers don't care about animals
• A hot time, again
• Taking a stand against wildlife refuge exploitation (Nina Austenberg, Jennifer Lewis, and Ann Church)
• A month of rallies: the Mobilization for Animals demonstration against trapping and the World Day for Laboratory Animals observance brought animal-welfare supporters together in April
• Member response boost "Pet Action Line"
• Keep your cat indoors! (Deborah Dasch)
• The HSUS takes new steps to save seals
• The Humane Society of the United States 1983 Annual Report
• Dead birds, a stream, …

Humane Education Volume 08, Number 02

Humane Education 1983-5

• Eye to eye with nature
• The feline mystique: dispelling the myth of the Independent Cat (Willow Soltow)
• Before it's too late: teaching about endangered animals (Willow Soltow)
• How do you feel about it?
• What's your verdict?
• Who am I? I am an endangered animal! (Vicki Parker)
• Happenings
• Hurray for PBS!
• NAAHE News -- New editor joins NAAHE staff
• NAAHE reviews children's books (Bill DeRosa, Vicki Parker, Kathy Savesky, and Willow Soltow
• Productive Partnerships -- Pilot program brings teachers and SPCA together (Judi Kukulka and Willow Soltow)
• Research in Review -- Extending humaneness from animals to people: a look at the …

The Hsus Condemns Psychological Experimentation On Animals

Close Up Reports

For almost a century, millions of cats, dogs, monkeys, and other laboratory animals have fallen victim to the misguided notion that by torturing animals we may someday find the golden key that unlocks the dark corners and passageways of human psychology. Heedless of any relevance the experiments may have to the human condition or of the differences between humans and other animals, experimental psychologists are exercising unbridled on animals the whole range of suffering, from emotional trauma, like that experienced by the doomed infant monkey, to outright physical torture. Animals have been blinded and returned to the wild to test …

Shelter Sense Volume 07, Number 05

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Key Communicators: a powerful idea that works (Don Bagin)
• Your help furthers HSUS efforts (Debbie Reed)
• Chicago steps forward for animals
• Spay Inc.: where more means less …
• Reproducible – Hot cars are deadly!
• Just Wright: Let people power help you and animals (Phyllis Wright)

The Hsus Condemns Psychological Experimentation On Animals

Close Up Reports

No abstract provided.

Shelter Sense Volume 07, Number 04

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Strict adoption policy curbs animal problems (Lisa Morris)
• Advice on ways to inform and influence local officials (Ann Church)
• Havahart traps subsidize cruelty
• Science exhibits may harm animals (Lauren Nethery)
• Shelters face adoption dilemma (Roger Kindler)
• New TV series begins
• Fund-raising freebies
• Reproducible – A healthy pet is a happy pet; What about yours?
• Just Wright: Shelters determine adoptions’ success (Phyllis Wright)

New Jersey Outlaws Steel-Jaw, Leghold Trap

Close Up Reports

It took almost two decades of dedicated struggle and hundreds of thousands of dollars, but we finally did it! The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), with the help of our members, other organizations, and local humane groups, succeeded in getting New Jersey to outlaw the steel-jaw, leghold trap! By the fall of 1985, it will be illegal for anyone to manufacture, sell, possess, or use the trap in that state. New Jersey's wildlife will be able to roam the woodlands and bogs free from the threat of trap-caused mutilation or death.

As monumental as New Jersey's victory is, …

Social Play Behavior, Marc Bekoff

Ethology Collection

Recent studies clearly indicate that animal play is an important behavioral phenotype, and that detailed analyses of the phenomenon are useful for furthering our understanding of the evolution of social behavior and the interaction of phylogeny, ecology, and behavioral development. This article is concerned mainly with evolutionary, ecological, and developmental aspects of social play behavior in mammals.

Hs News Volume 29, Number 02

HSUS News 1979-88

• President's Perspective: A dim but certain light (John A. Hoyt)
• Sam, Pepper top '83
• Pet win
• Feeding starving animals
• Meat-eating danger?
• HSUS survey find LES means fewer sheltered animals (Deborah Reed)
• Improving things in paradise
• Hot Springs solution
• The curious world of Krumeich's Cats (Deborah Salem)
• Nineteenth century custom leads to twentieth century cruelty
• Genetic engineering: cornucopia or Pandora's Box? (Dr. M.W. Fox)
• Seal Day celebrated across the country
• Psychological experimentation on animals: not necessary, not valid (Dr. John McArdle)
• Mobilization against psychology experiments
• New scientific group has humane focus
• New Jersey trapping triumph rewards animal welfarists (Ann Church)
• Update: …

Shelter Sense Volume 07, Number 03

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Community effort succeeds: low-cost spay/neuter clinic established (Dorothy Frary)
• Advice on ways to inform and influence local officials (Ann Church)
• You can prevent animal fund-raisers
• Volunteer assists long-distance adopters
• World Congress to convene
• Cat dealers fined
• $12,000 electrical system donated
• Rabies requires prevention, not panic (Guy Hodge)
• Reproducible – Real Easter bunnies are not toys …
• Just Wright: Elected officials work for you (Phyllis Wright)

New Jersey Outlaws Steel-Jaw, Leghold Trap!

Close Up Reports

New Jersey's wildlife will soon roam the woods free from the threat of steel-jaw, leghold traps.

Humane Education Volume 08, Number 01

Humane Education 1983-5

• Thou canst not stir a flower without troubling a star. -- Francis Thompson
• NAAHE Editorial -- A year for productive partnerships (Kathy Savesky)
• From 'Ick' to Interesting: building an awareness of and appreciation (Vicki Parker)
• Caring about the curious and creepy creatures -- a mini unit on appreciating traditionally maligned animals (Lorraine P. Holden)
• Happening
• NAAHE News -- NAAHE welcomes new staff
• Clip Art
• A special symposium looks at empathy, animals, and education -- Can Love Be Taught? (Kathy Savesky)
• A look at humane education summer camps (Patty Finch)
• Research in Review -- Do we act the way we feel? …

An Attempt To Estimate Teat Quality Of Sows By Hand Milking During Farrowing, D. Fraser, C. S. Lin

Anatomy Collection

For 21 sows, teats were hand milked individually in a standard way during farrowing in an attempt to produce an index of teat quality. The piglets' teat selection and 14-day weights were then compared with the hand milking results. Of within-litter variation in 14-day weight, 38.67% was explained by 1-day weight, and only 4.6% extra variation by the index derived from hand milking. Use of the index gave no improvement over previous models involving 1-day weight and teat number (anterior to posterior). Hand milking showed a pronounced decline in colostrum yield from the most anterior teat pair (46.8 g) to …

Shelter Sense Volume 07, Number 02

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Humane trapping in your responsibility (Debbie Reed)
• Advice on ways to inform and influence local officials (Ann Church)
• Organizing a long-term development program (Carroll S. Thrift)
• Yellow pages group pet listings
• April is PAW Month
• Landmark conviction in Casper
• Alabama statute
• SUNY sponsors animal course
• Just Wright: Make spring “Spay/Neuter” season! (Phyllis Wright)

The Hsus Petitions U.S. Government To Protect Fur Seals

Close Up Reports

Since the 1960s, The Humane Society of the United States has vigorously protested this brutal clubbing of the North Pacific fur seals. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, HSUS investigator Frank McMahon repeatedly documented this slaughter and worked with government officials and others to stop it. In 1980, HSUS chief investigator Frantz Dantzler returned to continue the work. Unhappily, these constant efforts, though successful in calling this brutal activity to the attention of the American public, failed to achieve our goal of bringing the Pribilof "harvest" to an end.

Now, we have undertaken a different strategy: on Thursday, January …