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Gsro Spring 1982

Gulf States Regional Office

• New shelters become reality
• Oklahoma combats dogfighting
• Humane euthanasia method available to all Texas shelters
• Director's Comment (Bill Meade)
• HSUS stops cruel killing
• Why rodeo is wrong
• Arkansas teacher receives award
• Around the Region

Nero Spring 1982

New England Regional Office

• Rodeo problems persist
• Inman resigns
• New England Conference program set
• Annual Conference to be held in New England
• Getting the word out
• Coyote protection proposed
• Legislative Update
• New England Region hosts federation meeting
• Shelter design slide show available
• You're invited to a whale watch!

Wcro Spring / Summer 1982

West Coast Regional Office

• Rodeo -- cruelty disguised as sport
• HSUS and AHA issue joint policy statement on rodeo cruelty
• Shelter studies completed
• Director's Desk (Char Drennon)
• An education in illegal animal fighting ventures at Cerritos Community College
• It's free!
• AB 2600 is dead, but the momentum is alive ...
• NAAHE on the West Coast
• High marks for HSUS Academy and students

Estimation Of Harvest Rate Of Black Bears From Age And Sex Data, David Fraser, James F. Gardner, George B. Kolenosky, Stewart Strathearn

Wildlife Population Management Collection

No abstract provided.

Hs News Volume 27, Number 02

HSUS News 1979-88

• President’s Perspective: Who speaks for animals? (John A. Hoyt)
• Another spring
• Silver Spring update
• Seal ban in sight
• Survey success
• Canine kudos
• Typo revealed
• "No veal this meal" : The HSUS public-awareness campaign draws national attention to the plight of milk-fed veal calves
• 1981 annual photography contest winners announced
• Wild horses and a tarnished dream: eleven years after passage of the act designed to protect them, wild horses face a government treat to trim their numbers and send thousands to an uncertain fate
• MMPA given new life
• 1080 update
• Grandy testifies for ESA
• AWA budget axed
• Setting the agenda
• Four …

Shelter Sense Volume 05, Number 03

ShelterSense 1978-92

• New vehicles improve animal handling
• Keeping track while you're making tracks
• Rescue program
• Checklist poster [Our PET Procedure for Incoming Animals]
• Computerized licensing
• Parvovirus
• Simple justice
• Meetings
• Reminders
• Guard dogs regulated
• Shelter maintenance
• Just Wright – Be a pro (Phyllis Wright)

Is Your Pet Safe From Laboratory Experimentation?

Close Up Reports

Researchers still claim need for shelter animals as test subjects

Is Your Pet Safe From Laboratory Experimentation?

Close Up Reports

In the U.S., the path from public or private shelters to laboratories is treat too often by dogs and cats. In a few states, so-called "pound seizure" laws require shelters to turn over unclaimed or unwanted dogs and cats to researchers. In other states, shelters may voluntarily sell dogs and cats to "bunchers" who travel around a state or states, bunching animals together to resell to research facilities. Even in the handful of states that prohibit release of animals for research purposes, unscrupulous profit seekers can find animals and sell them for research across state lines.

Many scientists claim these …

Shelter Sense Volume 05, Number 02

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Spring cleaning (and inspecting and fixing)
• Easter pets
• Celebrity auction
• Police officer falls for feline
• Academy associate featured
• Police get training
• Training
• Profits from bazaars
• Vaccination clinics held
• Each dog owner gets a folder to record vaccinations and keep pet papers
• Reporting success stories
• Clinic opens
• Focus on cruelty investigation
• Laws published
• Cruelty conviction
• Cruelty investigator gets public attention
• Shelter Sense Reproducible – Don’t wait … the animals can’t
• Just Wright – The cruelty complaint (Phyllis Wright)

Predation By Wild Coyotes: Behavioral And Ecological Analyses, Michael C. Wells, Marc Bekoff

Ethology Collection

Predatory behavior of coyotes (Canis latrans) was studied between 1977 and 1980 in the Grand Teton National Park, Jackson, Wyoming. Major prey were voles (Microtus spp.), Uinta ground squirrels (Spermophilus armatus), pocket gophers (Thomomys talpoides), and grasshoppers (Locustidae). Coyotes typically rushed and ran down squirrels; when hunting mice, coyotes pounced and stabbed at them with their forepaws. Sequence structure was similar, though sequences directed to squirrels were significantly more variable. When juvenile coyotes hunted mice, sequences were similar to those performed by adults that hunted mice. Adults and juveniles were about equally successful. The size of prey last eaten influenced …

Shelter Sense Volume 05, Number 01

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Supersize pets entertain and educate
• Thank you.
• Booth successful
• Training
• The system works!
• Absenteeism down
• Yogurt containers hurt animals
• Tax time
• Courting corporate contributions
• Shared shelter program begins
• Shelter maintenance: protecting your investment
• Rabies update (information provided by Dr. Greg Parham and Dr. Tom Sayvetz)
• Shelter Sense Reproducible – We don’t expect you to endanger your own life to save an injured animal on a busy street. But there is plenty you can do …
• Just Wright – Protecting yourself in the field (Phyllis Wright)

A Chronology Of Significant Events, Meetings, And Publications Concerning The Welfare Of Laboratory And Farm Animals, Andrew N. Rowan

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

The author reviews the development of animal protection concerns in the UK and the USA. Such developments include publications on animal rights, changes in legislation on laboratory and farm animals on both sides of the Atlantic, and the mention of noteworthy scientific publications.

Letter To Editor: Turtle Excluder Device, James Sternberg

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

The author comments on a previous article describing devices (excluder devices) that protect sea turtles during shrimping operations and corrects a few errors.

The "Show Dog" Syndrome, M. W. Fox

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

The Show Dog Syndrome appears to be similar to reactive depression in humans. Overmeier has demonstrated such a syndrome – which he labeled “learned helplessness” – in dogs and argued that insecurity and an inability to predict and control traumatic environmental stimuli underlies the development of such a syndrome.

Letter To Editor: Equine Behavior Problems, Sharon E. Cregier

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

The author comments on two specific equine behavior problems – cribbing and pawing and suggests causes for each.

Animal Liberation -The Modern Revival, Andrew N. Rowan

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

People have questioned why there has been such an explosion of interest in animal welfare and animal rights during this period. One fortuitous event was the gathering of a small group of vegetarians at Oxford University at the end of the 1960s.

Journal Developments, Andrew N. Rowan

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

The development of the ISAP journal is described together with some changes in staffing and journal production.

The Oxford Vegetarians- A Personal Account, Peter Singer

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

Peter Singer describes his encounters with a small group of vegetarians at Oxford University from 1969 to 1971 and some of the developments launched by those encounters with fellow philosophy students, including Richard Keshen, John Harris, and Roslind and Stanley Godlovitch. Others in Oxford at the time included philosopher Stephen Clark, theologian Andrew Linzey, and psychologist Richard Ryder. Members of the group have produced several landmark publications addressing the moral status of animals, including the initial volume, Animals, Men and Morals (edited by the Godlovitches and John Harris and published in 1971), Singer’s landmark volume, Animal Liberation in 1975, …

Laboratory Animals: Unification Of Legislation In Europe, H. Rozemond

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

A committee of experts, Comite Ad Hoc pour Ia Protection des Animaux (CAHPA), has been convened by the Council of Europe to prepare a European convention on the protection of laboratory animals. The chief goal of the Council of Europe is to implement peaceful cooperation concerning cultural, economic, and social affairs in Europe. Matters of military concern are excluded. The countries represented on the Council include Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Greece, Great Britain, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Turkey, Sweden, and Switzerland. The Council holds conventions on various topics …

Horse Racing And Drug Abuse: Untangling The Issues Involved, Dana Murphy

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

During mid-January, hearings on a new bill intended to stop the misuse of drugs in racehorses will be held in the U.S. Senate. The Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) wholeheartedly supported the bill and worked with the American Horse Protection Association as one of the co-authors of its specific provisions. But to many sectors of the racing industry, the bill is anathema. They believe that enactment of this legislation will surely spell financial ruin for the racetracks of America, given the costs that will be entailed in foregoing the alleged benefits of drugs and in setting up the drug …

A Strategy For Dog-Owner Education, Ian Dunbar

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

The author responds to an article by Graham Henderson of the Toronto Humane Society (lJSAP 2(6):305-309, 1981) commenting on his proposal regarding the education of dog owners. He agreed with many of Henderson's statements and was pleased that Henderson, in turn, agreed with most of the author's points. However, he notes that he found Mr. Henderson's article to contain several inaccuracies and contradictions addressed here. The author recaps his proposed program of Dog Owner Education and reemphasizes some of its major points. The primary intention is to promote an early license application: preferably before the owner acquires a dog, but …

A Message From Pano, William G. Conway

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

William Conway, the CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society, was an innovative Zoo Director who, at times, presented his ideas in unusual ways. The Conway article reprinted in this issue of IJSAP is in the form of a memorandum from a field agent of the chimpanzee species to the “Most High Primate” resigning from his position. In Conway’s description, the memo was found in an unstamped envelope with no return address on the grounds of the Bronx Zoo. The memorandum appeared to have been written by a chimpanzee on assignment from a clandestine organization in Africa that sent undercover chimpanzees …

Experiences In The Protection Of The Large Predators In Finland, Erkki Pulliainen

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

During the nineteenth century, the large predators of Finland- wolf, bear, lynx, and wolverine- were exterminated in the southern and western regions of the country. There were almost no lynx by late 1950. However, a protection order issued in 1968 resulted in a steady increase in their number, to about 300 by 1980. A breeding wolverine population existed until the late 1960s. In the 1970s, most were killed by snowmobiles. It is now thought only 10-30 inhabit the frontiers between Finland and the USSR and Finland and Norway. Bears, in the 1970s, tended to immigrate to Finland from the east; …

Attitudes Toward Animal Suffering: An Exploratory Study, John Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

A total of 302 undergraduates in the social sciences and the humanities at two Australian universities were given a questionnaire designed to explore public attitudes toward animal suffering. Though preliminary, the results strongly suggest that attitudes may greatly support animal welfare and animal rights. However, as reflected in the answers to the questionnaire, actual behavior does not always follow suit. The recommendation is made that the animal welfare/animal rights movement should perhaps emphasize raising people's awareness of the inconsistencies between their attitudes toward animals and their behavior.

Meetings & Announcements

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

The first international meeting on the Human/Companion Animal Bond was held at the University of Pennsylvania during October 5-7, 1981. The meeting brought together persons concerned about animal welfare and a broad spectrum of healthcare professionals. Two symposia were held in Europe in late 1981 (The Netherlands and Sweden) on the LD50 test. In October 1981, a symposium was organized in Switzerland on using animals in research and testing. At the end of 1981, the National Society for Medical Research organized an “adjunct” methods seminar. Finally, the Scientists Center for Animal Welfare organized a conference on the regulation of animal …

News And Review

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

Identifying Feeder Pig Stress. Debates in Europe over Standards for Battery Hens. Farm Animal Research – Is it for Producers or the Animals?

Book Review Of "Animal Rights And Human Morality", Harlan S. Miller

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

Harlan Miller comments in his review that almost all readers of this journal will probably find something in Rollin’s book with which they would disagree, but he also judges the book as “a first-rate piece of work” and urges people to buy it and read it.

Legislation And Regulation

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

The idea of new federal regulation on the care and use of animals in research is no longer novel; bills that would control and refocus the conduct of animal experimentation in the U.S. have been pending since the last session of Congress. Last autumn, however, a new phase in the process began. On 13-14 October 1981, the House Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology held information-gathering public hearings to evaluate existing bills and possibly formulate its own legislation.

Book Review Of "The Question Of Animal Awareness" And "Animals Are Equal", W. C. Mcgrew

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

McGrew reviews two books addressing what lies behind the behavior of nonhuman species. Griffin's book caused considerable discussion when it first appeared five years earlier. The book has become the cornerstone of a new discipline – cognitive ethology. Three new chapters (on mental experiences, semantics, and evolutionary continuity) have been added to the original eight in the first edition. Almost a third of the cited studies have appeared since the first edition's publication, illustrating the unexpected richness of the new findings. Griffin emphasizes that animal communication is the richest source of material, leading to inferences about animal minds. Griffin is …

Letter To Editor: Producers Respond To Hsus Veal Campaign, Neal Black

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

An advertising campaign by The Humane Society of the United States against veal consumption is a slap in the face of the livestock industry, which has attempted to explore the concerns of animal welfarists about confinement production of livestock and respond to them.