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U.S. issues rabies advisory for Bali visitors as control effort stumbles 

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  JAKARTA,  DENPASAR––The U.S. embassy to Indonesia on January 12,  2009 issued the outbreak notice that the Bali tourism industry had feared would be coming since mid-November 2008,  when reports first circulated about four human rabies deaths resulting from dog bites in two villages on the peninsula south of the Denpasar airport. “Rabies has been […]

Bali animal welfare societies battle rabies outbreak 

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  DENPASAR,  Bali––Someone brought a rabid dog to Bali.  Yachting,  fishing,  or trading goods,  the culprit apparently came by boat,  docking near Ungasan village,  where about 170 families live on a peninsula forming the southernmost part of Bali. The rabid dog arrived at about the same time that more than 200 animal advocates from nearly […]

Review: Redemption, by Nathan Winograd

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Redemption:  The Myth of Pet Overpopulation & the No Kill Revolution in America by Nathan J. Winograd Almaden (www.almadenbooks.com),  2007.  229 pages,  paperback.  $16.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton The very title of Nathan Winograd’s book Redemption:  The Myth of Pet Overpopulation & the No Kill Revolution in America offers a challenge to conventional thinking. Winograd introduces Redemption as,  “The story […]

“Operation Foxote” brings chase pen busts in three states

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BIRMINGHAM,  INDIANAPOLIS,  NORFOLK,  WASHINGTON D.C.–A two-year investigation of “chase pen” hunting businesses called “Operation Foxote” culminated on November 11,  2007 with arrests in three states. The Alabama’ Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division, which initiated Operation Foxote,   arrested 18 people and seized 55 foxes,  25 coyotes,  two bobcats,  and 33 cardinals who were apparently used as bait to catch foxes and coyotes. […]

Through enemy lines to save his animals

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        Among the first,  youngest,  and least known heroes of World War II,  15-year-old Valentine Holdosi may have developed his extraordinary courage and compassion through his own harsh experience.  Born in Vladivostok to a Russian mother and Hungarian father,  Holdosi was orphaned at an early age.  Another Russian woman and her husband,  […]

Gunfire no aphrodisiac for African elephants

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Stress believed to suppress fertility HARARE,  Zimbabwe (August 2006)––Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force founder Johnny Rodrigues and Presidential Elephant Conservation Project researcher Sharon Pincott contend that the stress associated with gunfire has actually suppressed elephant fecundity. This finding,  if verified,  would contradict other studies showing that wildlife populations tend to increase their fecundity under hunting pressure. Both coyotes […]

Post-Hurricane Katrina pet custody cases challenge adoptions

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BATON ROUGE–Pet custody cases arising out of the post-Hurricane Katrina animal rescue effort are presenting a nationwide challenge to some animal advocates who have worked for decades to promote recognition of pets as family members,  and to strengthen anti-pet theft laws. “People who first considered themselves foster caregivers now say some Katrina pet lovers don’t deserve their animals back,” summarized Philadelphia […]

Humane success makes market for mixed-breed pups

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  TACOMA–Why did the Humane Society of Tacoma & Pierce County fire one 15-year employee on May 25,  2006,  and suspend another without pay for three days,  for mistakenly euthanizing five Labrador-mix puppies? Why did Joseph P. “Jo Jo the Dog Man” O’Neill,  70,  die alone of a heart attack on June 22, 2005 aboard a train in Poland,  after 40-odd years […]

Tail-docking dogs & boiling crustaceans

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 Why The Tail-Docking Of Dogs Should Be Prohibited https://onekindplanet.org/uploads/publications/tail-docking-dogs.pdf and Cephalopods & Decapod Crustaceans:   Their Capacity To Experience Pain & Suffering https://onekindplanet.org/uploads/publications/cephalopods-decapod-crustaceans.pdf Advocates for Animals (10 Queensferry Street,  Edinburgh,  EH2 4PG,  Scotland,  U.K.),  2005. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Rule #1 for headline writers is that brevity is the soul of wit. Rule #2 is, […]

Exploring the myths & mysteries of bears

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  Bear by Robert E. Bieder Reaktion Books Ltd. (79 Farringdon Rd.,  London, EC1M 3JU,  U.K.),  2005.  192 pages,  paperback.  $19.95. The Grizzly Maze by Nick Jans Dutton (375 Hudson St.,  New York,  NY  10014),  2005. 275 pages,  hardcover.  $24.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Robert Bieder and Nick Jans explore the mythology of bears from […]