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Wcro Winter / Spring 1979

West Coast Regional Office

• Conviction won in Nevada cruelty case
• Working together
• HSUS gets skinning demonstration canceled
• Legislative Roundup
• Director's Desk (Char Drennon)
• Legal action taken to block importation of Rocky Mountain Elk
• Help inform the public about the truth behind rodeo ...

Alternatives To Laboratory Animals: Definition And Discussion, Andrew N. Rowan

The Institute for the Study of Animal Problems [ISAP]

The origins of the concept of "alternatives" to the use of animals in research may be traced back to the 1800's and the furore about using live animals in surgical and other experiments. Some of the animal protection societies in England were prepared to accept animal experimentation provided it was performed under anesthesia. Even Dr. Marshall Hall, who championed the spread of experimental medicine in 19th century England, considered it necessary to control and prevent unwarranted, inept and cruel experimentation (French, 1975). The concept of alternatives has developed in the 20th century to encompass not only the reduction (prevention) of …

Humane Education Happenings Winter 1979

Humane Happenings 1975-81

No abstract provided.

Revlon Advertisement, The Millennium Guild

Draize Test Campaign

How many rabbits does Revlon blind for beauty's sake?

Metcalf-Hatch Fact Sheet, Henry Spira

Metcalf-Hatch Campaign

The Metcalf-Hatch Act forces tax supported pounds and shelters to turn over unwanted cats and dogs to New York laboratories. This creates difficulties for shelters/pounds. People who are aware of Metcalf-Hatch (MH) will tend to abandon animals rather than risk having them recycled into labs. And this places additional tax burdens on communities for rounding up abandoned strays. The cost of stray animals is already $400 million a year in the USA.

Hs News Volume 24, Number 01

HSUS News 1979-88

• Humane livestock handling (Temple Grandin)
• New accreditations announced
• The pet overpopulation problem can be solved!
• Tuna boycott to continue
• HSUS aids gorilla protection effort
• The HSUS Animal Trainer's Code
• Relief sought for animal actors
• Jackrabbit roping cancelled (Mark Vogler)
• Animals or people?
• New England zoos under HSUS scrutiny
• HSUS Director wins state election
• Protests bring changes at Corpus Christi pound
• Investigator added to Rocky Mountain Staff
• Great Lakes Regional Office opens
• New laws help California criminals
• Southeast Office assisting shelters and societies
• Midwest Director checks Christmas pups at airports
• Animal rights: the search for a legal definition
• Animal rights and …

Twenty-Five Years Of Growth & Achievement: The Humane Society Of The United States (1954-1979), Patrick B. Parkes, Jacques V. Sichel

Humane Societies and Rescue Organizations Collection

The HSUS came into being because, for several years previously, a great many people throughout the United States were aware of the tremendous need for a strong humane group that would actively endorse and work towards eliminating, on a national scale, some of the more obvious cruelties and injustices imposed on animals in slaughterhouses and by uncontrolled breeding of domestic pets. They also realized the necessity for a humane organization that would act in a missionary role, to encourage and assist in the formation of humane societies in the thousands of towns and areas where none existed.

The Humane Society Of The United States 1954-1979: Twenty-Five Years Of Growth And Achievement, Patrick B. Parkes, Jacques V. Sichel

eBooks

The HSUS came into being because, for several years previously. a great many people throughout the United States were aware of the tremendous need for a strong humane group that would actively endorse and work towards eliminating, on a national scale, some of the more obvious cruelties and injustices imposed on animals in slaughterhouses and by uncontrolled breeding of domestic pets. They also realized the necessity for a humane organization that would act in a missionary role. to encourage and assist in the formation of humane societies in the thousands of towns and areas where none existed.

Livestock Grazing And Riparian/Stream Ecosystems: An Overview, William S. Platts

Ecological Impacts of Animal Agriculture Collection

No abstract provided.

Shelter Sense Volume 01, Number 05

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Christmas pets and pets at Christmas
• HSUS expansion
• The Animal Welfare Act and you (Margaret Morrison)
• Chamber outlawed
• New HSUS material
• Investigative photography (Frantz Dentzler)
• Cruelty cases
• Telephone tips
• Shelter Sense reproducible -- Does your pet know your name and address?
• Just Wright: Pet sterilization: a good deal all around (Phyllis Wright)

Food Animals Are Suffering: Hsus Intensifies Campaign To Eliminate Cruelty On 'Factory Farms'

Close Up Reports

Annually, our food delivery system processes more than 4 billion animals through a chain of events fraught with cruelty. As consumers, we first meet the cattle, chickens, pigs, sheep, and dairy . products at our local supermarkets. The meat is wrapped in clear plastic. The eggs are attractively displayed. The butter comes in cubes. And the veal is already breaded for our quick consumption. The animals that suffered for our daily meals are anonymous creatures we'll never meet.

Our food delivery system is one of the most efficient in the world. The large corporate farms that produce most of our …

Hs News Volume 23, Issue 04

HSUS News 1978

• New logo
• On target: some views on sport hunting
• Flying gravel poses danger to racehorses: HSUS investigates gravel track in West Virginia
• The Animal Welfare Act: a need for effective enforcement (Margaret Morrison)
• Accreditation: a problem solving process (Kathie Flood)
• New staff member added to accreditation program
• Greyhound racing industry wounded by HSUS onslaught
• A Shelter Sense sampler
• Whales: a report on the '78 Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (Patricia Forkan)
• Dog cruelty case results in "justice" for Smiley
• Update: the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems--a report on the activities and future plans of ISAP
• Rocky Mountain …

Shelter Sense Volume 01, Number 04

ShelterSense 1978-92

• To find a good home
• New program for animal educators
• Company issues animal warning
• A place to rest
• A sensible gift idea
• Good health for cats
• Successful spay/neuter programs
• Ideas for you
• Shelter benefits from open door policy (Phil Steward)
• West German city sells scoop set
• First aid course available
• Shelter Sense reproducible -- If you've lost your pet ...
• Just Wright: Is a good home good enough? (Phyllis Wright)

Food Animals Are Suffering

Close Up Reports

HSUS intensifies campaign to eliminate cruelty on 'factory farms'

(No. 45) -- Congress Approves Humane Slaughter Bill, Humane Information Services, Inc.

Report to Humanitarians

• Congress approves Humane Slaughter Bill
• The decompression chamber
• Expressions of sympathy ...

Euthanasia Of Dogs And Cats: An Analysis Of Experience And Current Knowledge With Recommendation For Research, T. Carding, The Institute For The Study Of Animal Problems

Euthanasia Collection

While it may be regarded by some as inhumane or unethical to take any life, mankind, as responsible stewards of animals, is obliged to do so for many reasons: for food, health, population control, to alleviate incurable suffering, etc. Yet beyond the ironies and ethical dilemmas of the right to life versus the right to take life, lies the necessity to destroy life. This entails an enormous ethical responsibility relevant to the times, and also the moral injunction that the method of killing be humane, in other words, causing the least possible distress, physically and psychologically. This injunction implies, therefore, …

Shelter Sense Volume 01, Number 03

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Eye to eye with snakes (Walter E. Killroy)
• Conference reminder
• Pamphlet power
• Laws for animals and people
• Course for investigators
• HSUS accredits societies and agencies
• The case for neutering (Susan MacKenze, VMD)
• Public service announcement issued
• Are you preventing heartworm?
• Pethood ... or parenthood?
• Shelter Sense reproducible -- Your dog should be a school dropout!
• Just Wright: Blow your own horn (Phyllis Wright)

Euthanasia Of Dogs And Cats: An Analysis Of Experience And Current Knowledge With Recommendations For Research, T. Carding, M. W. Fox

eBooks

1978 Special Report prepared by the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems

Sero Summer 1978

Southeast Regional Office

• HSUS opens regional office for Southeast
• Workshop
• Meet the Staff
• HSUS responds to Puerto Rico
• Cockfighting proposal killed
• From the Director's Desk (Donald Coburn)
• Bernie Weller saves Fred Turtle

Wcro Summer / Fall 1978

West Coast Regional Office

• Ending inhumane euthanasia!
• Help for the Northwest
• HSUS to make unannounced inspections at U.C. Davis
• Animal shelters in the news
• Cockfighting: an update
• Director's Desk (Charlene Drennon)
• Getting results
• First Western Humane Educators' Association workshop
• Legislative Highlights
• Hope for the California Condor?

(No. 44) -- H.I.S. Death Of President Thomsen, Humane Information Services, Inc.

Report to Humanitarians

• Humane Information Services mourns death of President Thomsen
• Our plans for the future
• In Memoriam
• Some personal reflections about Fred Myers, the "Miracle of Birth" and pet population control (Frederick L. Thomsen)

Hs News Volume 23, Issue 03

HSUS News 1978

• Charter of Man's Duties Towards Animals
• President's Perspective: Of human duties and animal rights (John A. Hoyt)
• HSUS sues to protect wild horses
• Zoo stories: reports of cruelty or mismanagement recently brought HSUS Director of Wildlife Sue Pressman to these four zoos
• Tuna boycott: a reevaluation
• USDA weakens transport standards for animals
• Ohio pet store owner charged with cruelty to animals
• Death continues to be par for the course in coursing
• HSUS testifies on humane slaughter
• Southeast Office plans workshop in Alabama next fall
• Proposition 13 causes cutbacks in animal services in California
• Kansas City passes new animal control law …

Hsus Update Volume 6, Number 1

HSUS Updates 1973-78

• Pet Statistics
• Horseback Riding For the Handicapped
• Guide to Dog Kennel Facilities
• Horse Industry Directory
• Power Transmission Lines Threaten Birds
• Interstate Equine Health Requirements
• Horse Race Betting
• Dog Race Betting
• 1977 Pet Food Sales
• 1976 Rabies Incidents
• Impact of Exotic Big Game Animals
• Texas Animal Bites

Hsus Investigation Leads To Fifty Arrests In Cockfight Raid

Close Up Reports

Because cockfighting is illegal in California, cockfights are held in the strictest secrecy. An HSUS undercover informant, posing as a cockfighting enthusiast, managed to win the confidence of some members of the cockfighting fraternity near Sacramento, California. After several months of undercover work, he was finally invited to a major Derby meet on Sunday, April 23rd. He immediately began arrangements to have the fight raided and participants arrested. Three members of the HSUS Investigations Department, Frantz Dantzler, Phil Steward, and Marc Paulhus, flew to California to set up the raid.

Shelter Sense Volume 01, Number 02

ShelterSense 1978-92

• Vancouver Clinic reports on first year
• How to obtain sodium pentobarbital
• Humane Ed. workshop
• Information service begins
• Adopters forfeit fewer deposits
• Spay/neuter system works
• Not fit for a dog
• Ideas for you
• Spay/neuter week successful
• Change your image by videotape
• HSUS conference
• Working with the media (Mary Scriver)
• Shelter Sense reproducible -- This is a leash
• Shake hands & come out fighting (Phyllis Wright)

Hsus Investigation Leads To Fifty Arrests In Cockfight Raid

Close Up Reports

Participants fined up to $500

Gsro Spring 1978

Gulf States Regional Office

• Guadalupe County Fair: cruel 'Coon Games called off
• Regional Round-Up
• PAAL Workshop held
• PAWS formed

Mwro Spring 1978

Midwest Regional Office

• Midwest Region investigates Kansas City Zoo
• Horse neglect: Seneca Kansas public officials unconcerned
• Missouri & Kansas Federations -- "Meeting of the Minds'
• Kind Clubs help animals
• New Midwest Region -- a humane community

Nero Spring 1978

New England Regional Office

• Solving animal problems in your community
• Trapping debate in New Hampshire
• Improvement called for at Hartford pound
• HSUS continues opposition to seal clubbing
• Connecticut animal welfare groups discuss legislation needs
• Quick Notes
• Director's Message (John Dommers)

Oil-Soaked Birds Saved: Hsus Participates In Historic Bird Rescue

Close Up Reports

As the world watched the black tide of crude oil from the Amoco Cadiz devastate bird life along the French coast, HSUS staffer Guy Hodge was reporting to Congress about efforts to save oil-soaked birds in a recent Chesapeake Bay oil spill. A barge (ATC- 133) carrying nearly 500,000 gallons of crude had run aground south of the Maryland-Virginia border. Some of its cargo spilled into this North American waterfowl wintering area.

Together with HSUS cruelty investigator Phil Steward, Hodge had assisted in the most successful on-site bird rescue operation in history. One out of every three rescued birds was …