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Special Report On The Use Of Animals In School Science Projects

Special Reports

When 28 students are rewarded in national competition for projects that caused pain to animals, it is clear that humanitarians still have a great deal of work ahead of them.

Special Report On The Use Of Animals In School Science Projects

Special Reports

When 28 students are rewarded in national competition for projects that caused pain to animals, it is clear that humanitarians still have a great deal of work ahead of them.

Special Report On The Cruelties Involved In Wild Animal Trapping

Special Reports

Great numbers of Americans who buy and wear the furs of wild animals are unaware of the enormous cruelty and suffering that goes into producing them.

Glro Summer 1974

Great Lakes Regional Office

• Ohio group seeks trap ban
• Large animal seminar held
• Our work expands (John W. Inman, Jr.)
• Societies in Illinois revive federation
• Animal Alliance works to stem pet population
• HSUS Animal Control Ordinance
• Two Ohio societies improve shelters
• After the storm
• Low-cost neutering
• A fashion first
• This is your region (John A. Hoyt)

Gsro Summer 1974

Gulf States Regional Office

• New shelter urged for Oklahoma City
• Gulf States staff aids in education efforts
• Rattlesnake roundups (Douglas M. Scott)
• Roping jack rabbits for fun
• HSUS demands zoo make improvements
• Region assists town with animal control
• This is your region
• Zoological societies honor Douglas Scott
• Progress at Houston science fair
• University students hear about HSUS
• Lee addresses churches

Rmro Summer 1974

Rocky Mountain Regional Office

• Killing buffalo for fun
• Regional service includes Arizona
• Regional activity increases (Frantz Dantzler)
• Rodeo cruelty
• A rodeo debate

News ... Of The Humane Society Of The United States 19(4)

News of HSUS 1973

• Fish & Game Council members need not be sportsmen: Court
• Conference features Valenti, Betty White, Fox, Macfarlane
• HSUS votes to join whaling boycott of Japan products
• The best zoo in Maryland
• Sealing Alert
• Fate of wild horses unresolved
• Legislative Roundup
• Are your children in KIND?
• 1974 HSUS Annual Conference Agenda
• Symposium results in cooperation

(No. 28) -- Is Ritual Slaughter Really Humane?, Humane Information Services, Inc.

Report to Humanitarians

• Is ritual slaughter really humane?
• Humanitarians enter the lions' den -- The National Conference on the Ecology of the Surplus Dog and Cat Problem
• Humane Legislation Digest
• Euthanasia survey develops appalling facts
• Pet survey evokes interest
• Please forgive us!
• Improvements made a Jackson pound
• Animal Control Survey
• What individual humanitarians can do

News ... Of The Humane Society Of The United States 19(3)

News of HSUS 1973

• HSUS to safeguard movie animals
• Zoo tour to highlight annual conference
• HSUS Alert: It's circus season
• No federal action in wild horse case
• Caras to begin study of Central Park Zoo
• World Animal Congress
• Changes ordered in animal flights
• HSUS loses round in coyote litigation
• Research aimed at reducing road deaths
• How to aid animals injured by cars
• Legislative Roundup
• Animal Control top cities' complaints
• HSUS spurs Hill action
• Pressman criticizes new Las Vegas Zoo

Nero Spring 1974

New England Regional Office

• Mrs. Parks provides Maine leadership
• Connecticut woman wins scholarship
• Humanitarian Alert: greyhound racing
• The Admiral tips his hat (Adm. James C. Shaw)
• One of America's cruelest pastimes
• Connecticut legislation
• Shaw urges education
• New England represented

Special Report On Teaching Children To Be Kind

Special Reports

While recognizing the need to continue alleviating suffering wherever it exists, The Humane Society has taken the offensive to teach children and youth the appropriateness and value of kindness and respect for all living creatures. HSUS's experience has demonstrated that attitudes of adults are extremely difficult to change. It is the children and youth of the nation that offer the greatest potential for having positive, unprejudiced attitudes. And it is here that HSUS has chosen to direct a large part of its efforts and resources.

Social Play In Coyotes, Wolves, And Dogs, Marc Bekoff

Ethology Collection

No abstract provided.

Special Report On Teaching Children To Be Kind

Special Reports

While recognizing the need to continue alleviating suffering wherever it exists, The Humane Society has taken the offensive to teach children and youth the appropriateness and value of kindness and respect for all living creatures. HSUS's experience has demonstrated that attitudes of adults are extremely difficult to change. It is the children and youth of the nation that offer the greatest potential for having positive, unprejudiced attitudes. And it is here that HSUS has chosen to direct a large part of its efforts and resources.

(No. 27) -- Pet Ownership Survey Yields Surprising Results, Humane Information Services, Inc.

Report to Humanitarians

• Humane society tries to reform Jackson, Mississippi, public pound (Stephen Byrd)
• Pre-slaughter handling for ritual slaughter
• Pet Ownership Survey yields surprising results
• Discouraged humanitarians .... what can they do?
• Florida Legislature starts action to outlaw use of live rabbits in training greyhounds
• Letters to the Editor ....

Hsus Update Volume 2, Number 3

HSUS Updates 1973-76

• Notes on the February "Special Report on Abuses in the Pet Industry"
• More on the Special Report
• Sacramento Survey
• Euthanasia
• HSUS Participates in Conference for Animal Control Professionals
• On Ritual Slaughter
• Federal Revenue Sharing
• New Film Available
• John Hoyt Blasts Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board
• A Round Lost in the Predator Fight
• Earth Week - 1974
• Food for Thought

News ... Of The Humane Society Of The United States 19(2)

News of HSUS 1973

• HSUS sues to stop coyote poisoning
• Houston suit brings shelter changes
• HSUS requests ban of pet turtle sales
• Los Angeles Zoo: 50-year-old ideas
• Herrmann to aid KIND publications
• United tries again to ban Bruce crates
• President's Perspective: The Defense Dept. on beagles
• New law to protect threatened species
• HSUS urges Senate to accredit zoos
• Bureau limits of euthanasia drug
• Counsel's Corner: The Firearms Lobby - Murdaugh Stuart Madden
• Legislative Roundup
• On flea collars
• Animal control found poor in Sacramento
• Puerto Rico shelter overcomes odds

Special Report On Abuses In The Pet Industry

Special Reports

The pet industry is creating maximum danger for animals and minimal satisfaction for customers. The problem is not just the pet shop but the entire system that has been developed to supply it. None of.the major dog breeding states has laws governing breeding operations. There are even fewer laws governing pet shops.

Social Play And Play-Soliciting By Infant Canids, Marc Bekoff

Ethology Collection

The development of social interaction was studied in infant coyotes, beagles, and wolves. In this paper, social play behavior is discussed. Social play may be characterized in a number of ways: (i) actions from various contexts are incorporated into labile (unpredictable) temporal sequences; (ii) the "play bout" is typically preceded by a metacommunicative signal which indicates "what follows is play"; these signals are also observed during the bout; (iii) certain actions may be repeated and performed in an exaggerated manner; (iv) the activity appears "pleasurable" to the players.

By comparing these three species, some insight into the dynamics of social …

Special Report On Abuses In The Pet Industry

Special Reports

The pet industry is creating maximum danger for animals and minimal satisfaction for customers. The problem is not just the pet shop but the entire system that has been developed to supply it. None of.the major dog breeding states has laws governing breeding operations. There are even fewer laws governing pet shops.

Special Report On The Cruelties Involved In Wild Animal Trapping

Special Reports

Great numbers of Americans who buy and wear the furs of wild animals are unaware of the enormous cruelty and suffering that goes into producing them.

These animals are caught in a steel jaw trap which holds the leg in a crushing, painful grip. So intense is the pain and terror the animals feel that they often twist or gnaw off their own legs to free themselves from their nightmarish agony. After getting free at such a cost, many of the animals later die a slow death of gangrene, or in their weakness from shock, loss of blood and infection …

Special Report On Rodeo

Special Reports

As a national humane organization of prominence, The Humane Society of the United States felt compelled to launch an objective study of its own to gather facts about rodeo and the possible abuses to the animals involved during performances and behind the scenes. The president and board of H.S.U.S. felt that the facts should be gathered, as unprejudicially as possible, so the truth could have an unveiling and the public be informed of the realities of rodeo.

Robert C. Bay, D.V.M., then a member of the faculty of Colorado State University at Fort Collins, Colorado, was engaged to carry forward …

Hsus Update Volume 2, Number 1

HSUS Updates 1973-76

• More on Beagles
• Writer Joins Staff
• Status on HSUS Petition to the Civil Aeronautics Board
• Idaho Wild Horse Case Shapes Up
• A Thank You from Marco Polo Parkes

News ... Of The Humane Society Of The United States 19(1)

News of HSUS 1973

• Wild horses begin return trip
• CAB petitioned to give priority to live cargo
• League of Cities adopts animal control policy
• Roger Tory Peterson awarded Joseph Wood Krutch Medal
• Florida court orders stop of rabbit lures
• Caras given museum post
• HSUS opens national center to serve humane educators
• Sheep ranchers push for predator poison
• Interior official pledges anti-trap support
• Man part of nature's orchestra: Montagu
• HSUS helps country on animal control
• Seven receive HSUS commendations
• President's Annual Report
• Five trainers find for soring horses
• HSUS urges county to open spay clinic
• HSUS urges refuge for California elk
• Burke re-elected Board Chairman …

Special Report On Rodeo

Special Reports

As a national humane organization of prominence, The Humane Society of the United States felt compelled to launch an objective study of its own to gather facts about rodeo and the possible abuses to the animals involved during performances and behind the scenes. The president and board of H.S.U.S. felt that the facts should be gathered, as unprejudicially as possible, so the truth could have an unveiling and the public be informed of the realities of rodeo.

(No. 26) -- Puppy Mills, Pet Shops And Breeders Add To Pet Surplus, Humane Information Services, Inc.

Report to Humanitarians

• Puppy mills, pet shops and breeders add to pet surplus
• The commercial pet trade (Dalton B. Byerly)
• Dog and cat breeding as a source of animal overpopulation (Edward Newman)
• Humane slaughter in foreign plants exporting meat products to the United States
• Progress and prospects for laboratory animals
• New Director of Field Services
• Injunction against use of live rabbits for training greyhounds in Florida
• Our apologies to Mr. Stephen Byrd

Hsus Update Volume 1, Number 11

HSUS Updates 1973

• Fuel Shortage Adds to Animal Air Shipment Problems
• Postage Problems
• Animal Control Problems Subject of Discussion by National League of Cities
• HSUS Plans Lending Library
• Houston Lawsuit Brings Rewarding Results
• National Association for the Advancement of Humane Education (NAAHE)
• Cruelty at the Western White House
• From Washington to You

Hsus Update Volume 1, Number 10

HSUS Updates 1973

• USDA Prodded Into Action
• How Will the Energy Crisis Affect Classroom Animals
• Controversial Horses Back in Idaho
• "Why Protect Animals?" Receives Award
• HSUS Rodeo Report Stings RCA
• 1971 Deer Hunting Statistics

Glro October 1973

Great Lakes Regional Office

• HSUS helps city improve pound
• Regional meetings planned
• Volunteer training planned in Indiana
• HSUS criticizes Fort Wayne shrine for horse show practice on soring

Gsro October 1973

Gulf States Regional Office

• HSUS condemns cruelty to chicks
• HSUS helps change "Disaster Area" zoo
• Scott investigates cattle deaths

Nero October 1973

New England Regional Office

• Workshops planned for school staffs
• Shaw stresses early education
• Potential shelter money
• Maine humanitarian rehabilitates wildlife
• Film on surplus pets available to schools
• Memorial suggestions