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Animals In Print

3/23/04

www.animalsinprint.org

 

 

In six years, one female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 puppies.  A

cat and her young can produce 420,000 kittens. Don't litter! SPAY/NEUTER your

companion animals

 

 

 

1) IDITAROD , Background introduction, Two articles " Shameles/ bloody

bu$ine$$ on the backs of man's best friends!!!  "

2) WHAT JILL KNOWS,Piddling Poodle Puppy

3) CONGRESS CONSIDERS STEPS TO REDUCE ROADKILL

4) BREAKING NEWS From PETA.org

5) Dogs Adverse Reactions request

6) Update- Animal Sexual Abuse Arkansas Case- LETTERS NEEDED

 

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Background IDITAROD Story

 

NOTE:Animals In Print is fortunate and proud to have

Margery Glickman as a staff member

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Victims of cold, fatigue and greed

 

 

 

By Bod Padecky

Press Democrat

March 20, 2004

 

 

A dog is there for the taking. He can't talk back. He can't say, stop, you're

killing me, you're treating me like a dog. Six years ago, Margery Glickman

happened upon a couple of hundred dogs that, if they could have spoken, would

have said just that.

 

 

Glickman was vacationing in Alaska. She came for the scenery but saw instead

a " dog farm. " Animals were tethered to stakes by chains, belligerent in their

confinement, drinking filthy water, sitting, as she said, " in their own fecal

matter. " This was a breeding place for the Iditarod. Glickman was perplexed.

 

Even back home in Miami, Glickman had heard of the Iditarod. It was a

1,149-mile dog sled race in the middle of winter across Alaska. Designed to

commemorate the diphtheria run that saved lives in 1925, the Iditarod had become

romantic legend, courageous mushers crossing forests, rivers, tundra and

mountain

ranges with enthusiastic canines. What glory! Ah, but where was the glory in

this?

 

" I was appalled, " she said.

 

Glickman had never been an activist in her life. She was a first-grade

teacher. She was a mom. She was in Alaska to relax. Problem was, she couldn't.

 

" Of 300 dogs on a dog farm, " Glickman said, " five might be judged good enough

to run in the Iditarod. The rest? Most of them would be culled. "

 

They would be killed, by clubs, by gunshot, by being dragged to death in

harness. Some were skinned for parkas and mittens. Her indignation grew in

direct

proportion to her curiosity. Glickman found dogs working on exercise wheels,

like hamsters. She found dogs with muscle tears, raw paws, hypothermia,

dislocated joints, penile frostbite, fluid in legs and lungs.

 

The 32nd running of the Iditarod concludes this weekend, and though records

weren't kept for the first 10 years of the race, Glickman now has counted 122

dogs who have died during the last 22 years. She was not alone in her disgust.

 

" With a buildup of lactic acid and other chemicals from muscle degradation as

a result of extreme exercise, " said Dr. Paula Kislak, President of the

Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights, " toxicity in the liver and

kidneys

may not cause death for days or weeks after a race. "

 

So the 122 confirmed deaths?

 

" Adding the dogs who were culled, died in training and died after the race

from complications, " Dr. Kislak said, " the number is in the thousands. That is

obscene. The race only is run for entertainment and to make money. "

 

Greed is not confined to professional baseball players. The economic impact

to Anchorage alone is estimated at $5 million. The Iditarod is a money-maker.

Glickman, 56, has launched Sled Dog Action Coalition, a nonprofit

volunteer-only organization. She has been so successful, sponsors like Pizza

Hut, Pfizer

and Costco have dropped out. She has received death threats, enough of them so

that she doesn't go to Alaska.

 

" It is unconscionable, " Glickman said. " They (mushers) say they love their

dogs, but they don't love their dogs. It is an act of barbarism. It is a

shameless, bloody business. "

 

In the Iditarod, dogs are a car tire that goes flat. Just get another one.

Except a car tire was never named Lassie or Ol' Yeller. A car tire never

welcomed you home at night. A car tire never took the edge off feeling lonely. A

car

tire never played with the kids, and a kid never cried when the car tire died.

 

If a dog is man's best friend, this is not how you treat your best friend.

You don't push him so hard he can't even exhale to vomit but instead chokes on

it while falling down.

 

And as he watches his dog writhe on the ground, what can the musher possibly

say that would even remotely make this sight worthwhile?

 

Email: padecky

 

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IDITAROD - shameles/ bloody bu$ine$$ on the backs of man's best friends!!! 

 

 

 

The romantics [sled racing dog owners (read:mercenaries!)] pretend this is

some extension of a Jack London novel. Hell no. This is a not-so-novel Jack The

Ripper crime against man's best friend. It sullies the meaning of sport.

In addition to fluid in the lungs, bleeding stomach ulcers occur, as does

general cramping, dislocations, fractures, muscle and tendon tears, tendinitis,

dehydration, hypothermia, raw paws, penile frostbite and viruses.>> [To

say nothing of the dogs' MENTAL agony...]

 

 

 

Two anti-Iditarod articles

 

 

 

 

This email contains two anti-Iditarod articles:

 

 

 

 

What Iditarod Does To Dogs Is True March Madness

 

by Jeff Jacobs

Hartford Courant

March 18, 2004

 

 

 

 

Jonathan XII, a 3-year-old white Siberian Husky who loves to be petted, lives

a comfortable lifestyle at an unidentified location 20 minutes from the UConn

campus. The shroud of secrecy is necessary, his handler Karen Landwehr said,

to prevent merry pranksters from Rhode Island and other rival schools from

kidnapping the mascot of our state university.

 

Personally, I'm not buying the explanation.

 

I'm convinced Jonathan, the noble heir to a tradition that dates to 1934, is

being hidden so he is not drafted into the annual war against dogs. Surely

you've heard of the 1,100-mile death march from Anchorage to Nome. It's the

grotesque spectacle that alternately bills itself as Alaska's great race and the

world's premier dog-sled race.

 

USA Today columnist Jon Saraceno once called it the " Ihurtadog. "

 

Sportscaster Jim Rome upped the ante to " I-killed-a-dog sled race. "

 

Nothing trumps death, so just paint me thrilled that the 32nd Iditarod

finally, mercifully will end this week.

 

Early Wednesday morning, Mitch Seavey, 44, won the first prize of $69,000 and

a new Dodge pickup truck - hey, a man needs space to cart away his carcasses

- by crossing the finish line behind his eight canine slaves in a time of nine

days, 12 hours, 20 minutes and 22 seconds.

 

His dogs were unavailable for comment.

 

No, not because there isn't a Doctor Dolittle out there who could serve as a

pool reporter and get some juicy quotes. It's because, according to an article

published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

in 2002, a study showed 81 percent of the dogs that finished the race had

abnormal accumulations of mucus and debris that caused injury and inflammation.

 

In other words, they were too choked up to comment. Seavey did have plenty to

say about his victory and little of it had to do with running the crap out of

his dogs over a distance longer than from Hartford to Chicago. To be

accurate, Seavey isn't called a dog-beater or abuser or even Master. He is

called a

musher, which clearly is a word to honor the mush-for-brains who continue to

promote and operate this event.

 

The supporters of this race have the audacity to call the Iditarod a sporting

event. The truth is it's closer to the scourging scene in Mel Gibson's new

movie.

 

One more dog dropped dead the other day, bringing the total to at least 122,

although there are no official numbers available for the early years. A

7-year-old male named Takk, according to Iditarod officials, died of blood loss

associated with gastric ulcers. What the officials didn't say is ulcers are

linked

to anti-inflammatory drugs frequently used to help mask injury. Yes, the dogs

are subject to random drug testing, so you know these folks are, ah,

motivated enough to cheat. Takk, on Kjetil Backen's 2004 team, was no ordinary

mutt.

He was one of the two key lead dogs that carried Robert Sorlie to first place

last year. In other words, last year's MVP is this year's maggot meal.

 

Backen reportedly was distraught over Takk's death, but he did manage to ask

reporters to bring the dog back for him. Wouldn't it be fair if the musher

were forced to bring his dead dog to the finish line with him? Or maybe it would

be fairer if Snoopy was the musher and a dozen humans were latched together

for a little 1,100-mile jog through all terrain, including waist-high water and

Godforsaken temperatures. Hey, we would even cut them a break and let them

listen to Sam Cooke singing " Chain Gang " in their earmuff-phones.

 

Those who would support this race are quick to belittle critics as hysterics

or propagandists for PETA, etc. For the record, my wife and I are longtime

multiple dog owners and we believe in hardy exercise for robust breeds. These

sled dogs are bred to run. A Siberian Husky like Jonathan is a natural, but only

part of the equation. All sorts of breeds and mixed breeds are used. In fact,

a Siberian is often mixed with a Greyhound for optimum speed and endurance. Of

course as competition grows fiercer to improve times, the faster they go, the

harder they will fall.

 

The cruelty is in the vast distance. The cruelty is in some training

techniques that would turn your stomach. This doesn't begin to address some

manuals

that recommend killing dogs that don't cut the mustard. They call it culling.

Really, it's murder. The irony is that the Iditarod distance is so long in the

first place. The race is patterned after a long-ago emergency supply route to

deliver diphtheria serum.

 

Dogs reportedly have died from being kicked to death. A group of dogs was

mangled by a snow-making machine. They've been strangulated. Electrocardiograms

to monitor heart problems are now given to the dogs before the race and that's

a start, but only a start.

 

The romantics pretend this is some extension of a Jack London novel. Hell no.

This is a not-so-novel Jack The Ripper crime against man's best friend. It

sullies the meaning of sport.

 

What remains of the 87 mushers will be crossing the finish line in the next

few days, which also means the killing may not be over. In the meantime,

Jonathan XII can park himself in front of the television tonight for the start

of

UConn's march to the Final Four. This could be a big month for him, the first

time both the women and the men win national titles in the same year.

 

" He's a quiet dog. He hardly ever barks, " said Landwehr, a 20-year-old junior

majoring in animal science. " He's very mellow, which makes him good with a

crowd. "

 

Landwehr is a member of Alpha Phi Omega, a co-ed community service fraternity

responsible for Jonathan. The last appearances for Jonathan, who Landwehr

said is not allowed in the Civic Center, were Senior Nights at Gampel. She

brings

him to obedience class each week.

 

" He's a loveable dog, but he's actually quite lazy, " Landwehr said. " He likes

to lay down in the middle of games. "

 

And that's beautiful.

 

A dog should be able to enjoy March Madness.

 

Not be part of it.

 

E-mail: jjacobs

Email editor: letters

 

 

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As death toll of dogs rises, so does Iditarod's insanity

 

Jon Saraceno

USA Today

March 15, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

I'm all for mutiny. Dog mutiny, that is.

 

When it comes to the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race, how do we get more of our

furry friends to lie down on the job? If they belonged to a union, there would

be a strike every March when the 1,100-mile marathon of dog misery is

propelled by more than 1,000 members through the treacherous Alaskan wilderness.

 

In that labor dispute, I would be all for the stressed-to-the-max dogs. They

are overworked and underpaid. The money and the glory go to management — in

this case, mushers and their sponsors.

 

Why does Alaska permit the " Ihurtadog? "

 

Easy. Commerce — shameless, bloody business carried out on the backs of man's

best friends.

 

Sunday was the scene of more death and despair. A dog belonging to race

leader Kjetil Backen of Norway suddenly sat down and died. " It is a real tragedy

for him and dog mushing as a whole, " race marshal Mark Nordman said at a news

conference.

 

Imagine how the dog felt.

 

Last week, a 5-year-old dog named Wolf died.

 

Apologists contend that dogs cannot be made to run, which is true. But many

of them sure can be coerced and trained. In the sledders' parlance, mutiny

comes when dogs refuse to budge. It already has happened in this year's race,

which has featured a fast, grueling pace during unusually warm weather.

 

More than an estimated 120 dogs have perished during the history of the race,

which gives a Humanitarian Award. The number of dog deaths does not include

animals that perished afterward — or the thousands that have been injured.

Death is merely an occupational hazard — for the dogs. In 1973, the race's

first

year, the Iditarod took more than 20 days to complete. Two years ago, a speed

record was set when Martin Buser finished the race in less than nine days.

 

Many dogs are dropped during the race because they are unable to continue,

but many others continue to trudge on with various injuries.

 

A couple of years ago, a study in the American Journal of Respiratory and

Critical CareMedicine reported that 81% of the 59 dogs they examined after one

Iditarod had " abnormal accumulations " of mucus or cellular debris in their lower

airways. In addition to fluid in the lungs, bleeding stomach ulcers occur, as

does general cramping, dislocations, fractures, muscle and tendon tears,

tendinitis, dehydration, hypothermia, raw paws, penile frostbite and viruses.

 

Not that it's easy on the mushers, either. But, hey, they choose to

participate in this frozen insanity. Doug Swingley, who won the race from

1999-2001,

was forced to quit from frostbitten corneas last week.

 

But back to the dogs. Last week, one musher needed an hour to separate three

female dogs in heat from their amorous male teammates, according to the

Anchorage Daily News — a newspaper no self-respecting salmon would permit

itself to

be wrapped in.

 

First, the Daily News is a sponsor. According to the Alaska Journal of

Commerce, the newspaper shelled out a minimum of $50,000. The newspaper also is

an

investor because it reaps advertising dollars.

 

Invariably, photographs depict warm and fuzzy images of dogs designed to lull

readers and placate critics. Imagine the horrors we don't see. Mushers and

their teams are not monitored by the media — or anyone else. Likewise, many of

the newspaper's syrupy stories seem almost fantasy-like in nature. According to

one, four-time Iditarod champion Martin Buser discussed how dogs seem to get

into " the zone, " as humans report doing during endurance events.

 

" In the zone, one can smell the sweet scent of success, " the Daily News

happily wrote.

 

Think that's what the dogs are sniffing? I smell something else. Money.

 

The Daily News is not alone among mercenaries in local media. Alaska

Newspapers, Alaska Public Radio and an ABC-TV affiliate that bills itself the

" Official Television Station of Iditarod 2004 " also are sponsors, joining

Chevron,

ExxonMobil, Coors Brewing and Wells Fargo.

 

The economic impact to Anchorage, site of the ceremonial start, is estimated

at more than $5 million. Organizers increased the size of this year's purse by

more than $100,000. The winner gets $69,000 plus a new Dodge pickup. It

doesn't require much to buy some folks, even at the expense of living creatures

who

cannot defend themselves, like poor, old Wolf.

 

The dogs, of course, get their usual take.

More suffering.

 

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E-mail Jon Saraceno at jons

 

source: SledDogAC

 

 

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WHAT JILL KNOWS

 

Piddling Poodle Puppy

 

 

 

 

Dear Jill,

Our 10 month old miniature poodle is piddling all over the kitchen floor when

we go out.  We have tried putting newspapers down for her to go on, but she

won't use them.  We are worried that she will start peeing on our carpeting in

other rooms of the house, so we have started closing the door to the kitchen,

so she stays in there while we are out.

 

We have to work during the day and sometimes I don't make it home for lunch. 

She drinks a lot of water or something and can't seem to wait until I get

home. Sometimes when I do make it home to let her out, she gets so excited she

pees indoors.  I don't know if she means to, but it has to stop. After all, she

is no longer a baby. Our friend said to take her to a class for dog obedience,

and we will but is there something we should be doing meanwhile?  We read

your articles and think you're good.  Thank you.

Marcia

 

Dear Marcia,

A ten month old puppy is still a " baby " dog.  With proper coaching, your

miniature poodle puppy can be completely housetrained and paper-trained in a

short

time.  But first, please take your dog to the vet to rule out any medical

reasons for incontinence.  If your poodle passes the veterinarian's inspection,

try using commercial " piddle pads " (available at pet-supply stores) instead of

newspapers, for times you are not able to make it home.  These pads have a

manwhen necessary.  How many hours a day do you leave your dog alone?  Please

do

not leave your dog all day without walking her or allowing her to " go. "

 

 

 

 

Love and paw pats,

Jillouise Breslauer

Companion Animal Behavior Consultant

What Jill Knows, Copyright 2003

Syndicated Journal Press Syndicate

e-mail: PetBehaveConsult

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             CONGRESS CONSIDERS STEPS TO REDUCE ROADKILL:

 

             Reducing roadkill is just one issue being considered in the

surface transportation reauthorization bill moving through Congress. The

Senate included provisions in its bill, S. 1072, aimed at reducing habitat

fragmentation and wildlife/ vehicle collisions— ultimately saving millions

of animals while increasing public safety. The Senate provisions would

require states to formally consider the need for wildlife crossing

structures (underpasses, culverts, or overpasses) when constructing or

improving highways -- a critical preventative step in solving the roadkill

problem. However, as the transportation bill is taken up in the House of

Representatives, these important wildlife protection provisions may be lost.

If they are, it will be another six years before we have another opportunity

to put into law these common sense provisions on behalf of wildlife and

public safety. In the meantime, millions of animals will lose their lives

trying to cross highways in search of food and mates, and the very survival

of many species -- from box turtles to grizzly bears -- will be compromised.

 

             WHAT YOU CAN DO:

 

             Please contact your U.S. Representative today. Ask him or

her

to contact Transportation Committee Chairman Don Young and Ranking Democrat

James Oberstar and urge them to include in the Committee’s transportation

bill the wildlife crossing provisions approved by the Senate (Section 1501

of S. 1072). All U.S. Representatives can be reached through the U.S.

Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121. You can look up the name of your

Representative by going online to www.Congress.org, or by calling The HSUS

at 202-955-3668.

 

 

 

     A Project of The Humane Society of the

United States and The Fund for Animals

 

             http://www.humanelines.org/

 

 

 

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BREAKING NEWS From PETA.org

 

 

 

 

Just as PETA was scheduled to testify against the Hawthorn Corporation and

its president, John Cuneo, in a federal administrative court, Cuneo admitted

guilt in 19 violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act. Cuneo has been ordered

to relinquish custody of 16 elephants to USDA-approved facilities—including

the elephant Lota, for whom we have long fought—and pay a $200,000 fine.

 

For more information, visit PETA.org

<http://cl.extm.us/?fe8911787361037877-fe6315737c6606797016>  and see the

related article in The Washington Post (free

registration required).

 

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Dogs Adverse Reactions request ........ please pass on 

 

 

 

 

Dogs Adverse Reactions: 

 

Per FDA:  " In common terms, an adverse drug experience (ADE) is either an

undesired side effect, or the lack of a desired effect. The Center for

Veterinary

Medicine (CVM) defines an ADE as 'any side effect, injury, toxicity, or

sensitivity reaction (or failure to perform as expected) associated with use of

an

animal drug, whether or not determined to be attributable to the drug.' "

(This means that you need only SUSPECT that the side effect is caused by the

drug;

you do not have to prove it.)

 

Now with that knowledge.....  we have started a new website called

DogsAdverseReactions.com .  We are looking for stories to post, both as

Memorials and

Survivors.  You DO NOT have to prove a drug caused a reaction, only suspect

it. 

But be willing to follow thru with complaints to manufacturer and FDA if not

already done.

If you are  not sure how to file the necessary complaints..... please ask and

we can help you. 

 

If you might be interested ........ feel free to contact me.  Or if you would

like....  send your story in your words, (no profanity please) with

companions picture, birthdate/year and date of passing if passed, plus your

permission

to post.  Your email will be posted with the story, for others to request

further information if they feel your story fits what they are going thru.  A

suggestion is to be sure to comment " In My Opinion " .

 

We are a group of people not against any vet or manufacturer, we only want

the truth known about different drugs that we have a right to be informed of,

before given to our companions.

 

Please check out:  <A

HREF= " http://www.petitiononline.com/ProHeart/petition.html " >http://www.petitiono\

nline.com/ProHeart/petition.html</A>

 

Sincerely,

Dogs Adverse Reactions

 

source:<A HREF= " LuSwinton " >LuSwinton</A> @aol.com

 

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Update- Animal Sexual Abuse Arkansas Case- LETTERS NEEDED

 

 

**Alert prepared by  <A HREF= " myREBAdog " >myREBAdog</A>

..  When forwarding this to others, please do not alter the content of the

alert, including the letter/information from PeTA that is within this alert. 

  

Update:  Prosecutor Terry Harris of Garland County, Arkansas, has confirmed

that there is a trial set for April 1st  regarding contempt of court charges

for the case involving Derek Dunaway who was arrested and charged on Sept.

17,

2002, with one count of sodomy for his admitted attacks on his dog.  In

November of 2003, Animal Services of Hot Springs confirmed that a dead dog was

found

at the resident of Dunaway's during his probation period, which he was

previously ordered not to have any animals.

 

The sample letter below is lengthy because it contains both background

information and current information re this case.  Please be

polite and personalize your own letter.  Remind the authorities that jail

time is mandatory, Dunaway

was given a light sentence previously with no jail time and he broke his

probation by having a dead dog in his resident during his probation.   (Hot

Springs

Animal Services stated they found the dead dog after neighbors complained of

a dog crying at Dunaway's resident).

 

Thank you.

Source: Lisa Marie

<A HREF= " myREBAdog " >myREBAdog</A>

 

 

More info/media:  <A HREF= " http://www.pet-abuse.com/cases/601/AR/US/1 " >

http://www.pet-abuse.com/cases/601/AR/US/1</A>

  

Please Contact:

 

Honorable Terri Harris - Garland County Prosecutor

501 Ouachita Avenue

Hot Springs, AR 71901

Fax:  (501) 321-2592

Main Office Phone: (501) 321-2556

 

 

Honorable Steve Oliver - Garland County Prosecuting Attorney

501 Ouachita Avenue

Hot Springs, AR 71901

Main Office Phone: (501) 622-3720

Email: < <A HREF= " soliver " >soliver

</A> >

 

 

 

Garland County Sheriff's Department

Larry Selig - Sheriff

Email: < <A HREF= " ljs " >ljs</A> >

525 Ouachita Ave.

Hot Springs, Ark. 71901

Main Office Phone: (501) 622-3660  

 

 

Dan Bugg, Supervisor

 

Hot Springs Animal Services

 

Fax: (501) 262-2091

 

Email:  <<A HREF= " dbugg " >dbugg</A>> 

 

Letter sent to authorities from Peta- Information:

(the recipient's phone numbers are listed)

  

 

January 21, 2004 

 

The Honorable Terri Harris, Garland County Prosecutor (501-321-2556)

 

The Honorable David White, Prosecutor, City of Hot Springs (501-623-4023)

 

Sheriff Larry Selig, Garland Co. Sheriff’s Office (501-622-3660)

 

Chief Gary Ashcraft, Hot Springs Police Dept. (501-321-6789)

 

Dan Bugg, Supervisor, Hot Springs Animal Services (501-262-2091)

 

Mary Ann Taft, Director, Garland Co. Humane Society (501-501-538-0167)

 

Martin Mersereau, Manager, Domestic Animal Issues & Abuse Dept.

 

Re: Derek Dunaway, convicted animal rapist

 

 

 

Your urgent attention is requested. In October, 2002, our office was

contacted by someone in reluctant e-mail contact with Hot Springs resident Derek

Dunaway. During their correspondence (which harmlessly began on a “pet

loversâ€

message board), Dunaway bragged of raping animals, and that he’d worked for,

or

attempted to secure employment at various local animal shelters and veterinary

hospitals in order to access his victims. He also expressed his intent to

advertise himself as a pet-sitting service to this end. Through extensive

contact

with our complainant and review of said dialogue PETA determined that our

complainant’s report had merit. Local officials were contacted and, on

September

17 of that year, Dunaway was charged with one count of sodomy for his admitted

attacks on his dogs who—according to news reports—were found by Katherine

Bolton, DVM, to be “[severely] bleeding from the colon.†He was subsequently

convicted, and his sentence included a prohibition on his owning or harboring

animals for one year (the second half of this prohibitive order was to run from

June 6 to December 6, 2003).  

 

In November, 2003, Hot Springs Animal Services officers responded to a

neighbor’s report of a dog screaming from the vicinity of Dunaway’s

residence. When

officers arrived, they reportedly found a dog in Dunaway’s custody, dead from

causes unapparent. Field Services Supervisor Dan Bugg states that a necropsy

was performed and that “trauma could not be ruled out.†Dunaway appears to

have violated court orders by having this animal in his charge regardless, and

there is some question as to whether Dunaway was in possession of other animals

at the time of this investigation.

 

Further, Dunaway has recently surrendered to the Garland Humane Society a

female dog who was apparently in heat. A subsequent veterinary examination

reportedly determined that sperm was present in the animal’s vaginal cavity.

We

understand that, at the request of the county prosecutor’s office, the sample

in

question is to be analyzed to determine its origin, animal or human, and that

results are still pending.  

 

We are alarmed to learn that Dunaway allegedly and currently has in his

charge two red Doberman pinschers, a black Labrador and a cat—at least two of

these

animals were given him by his father who was present during the 2002 court

proceedings (Dunaway was reportedly found in possession of two Doberman

pinschers at the time of his 2002 arrest, as well). On January 15, we requested

that

humane officials visit Dunaway’s animals with an eye for trauma consistent

with

non-canine penetration. However we are unable to determine if Dunaway’s dogs

have in fact been examined by any law-enforcement official, last week, or

ever, and would appreciate some clarification regarding such efforts if they

were

made at all.

 

Repeat crimes among animal abusers—particularly so-called

“zoophilesâ€â€”are

the rule. Given this and recent events, we urge your respective offices to do

whatever is necessary to ensure the welfare of all animals currently in

Dunaway’s charge, to hold him accountable for any injuries sustained by same,

and to

expedite whatever processes are in motion to hold the suspect accountable for

sentencing violations. May we suggest that the animals in question be taken

into protective custody, or, if a field examination can determine the existence

of swelling, tearing, bleeding or any other form of trauma, that they be

seized as evidence? Surely you agree that their safety should be of utmost

concern,

and that any and all avenues available to secure their safety be vigorously

explored?  

 

Please allow us to hear from you soon regarding this matter. If there is

another entity to whom we should appeal for proactive assistance in this matter,

please advise. 

 

 

Very sincerely,

 

Martin Mersereau, Manager

 

Domestic Animal Issues & Abuse Department

 

 

 

 

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