A n i m a l W r i t e s
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The official ANIMAL
RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com
Issue
# 09/17/00
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ Park StRanger@aol.com
~
MicheleARivera@aol.com
~ SavingLife@aol.com
Layout ~ Corrynthia@aol.com
THE SIX ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ Wild Things by MicheleARivera@aol.com
2 ~ Let's Work Together to Finally Pass the Ban
on Steel Jaw Traps!
3 ~ Favorite Charity Website from
Mishudog14@aol.com
4 ~ State Animal Protection Ballot Measures
5 ~ Poem: The Glass Wall by
WantNoMeat@aol.com
6 ~ Quote to Remember: Cardinal Newman
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Wild Things
by MicheleARivera@aol.com
So I'm on my way to interview David Hitzig,
director of the Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, and I'm thinking about the kind
of animals I will be seeing. My mind is filled with raccoons, opossums
and Florida panthers. But when I enter the lobby, I am met by a most
friendly Siberian Husky. Sleeping next to him is a little tabby
cat. Have I entered the wrong building? No, says David, and
introduces me to his sons: Bourbon the husky and Wild Thing the cat.
Nothing is ever as it seems.
Animal Rights Online has the unique pleasure of hearing from people all over
the world, and to answer questions and offer intervention wherever
necessary. And so it was that we received a message from an individual in
Africa, who was contacting us secondary to a complaint that they received
regarding a misunderstood vulture.
The vulture, it seems, has found his way to a wildlife sanctuary in Florida of
dubious intent, and the woman who brought the vulture to the sanctuary was
unhappy with his care. So I went to meet this bothersome bird, and get
the real scoop.
First, a little about the sanctuary and it's director. Busch Wildlife
Sanctuary is located in Jupiter, on the southeastern coast of Florida. It
depends on public support for its operating funds, and gets it's name from its
first benefactor, Peter W. Busch. Peter is the son of August Busch, II,
who is the son of August Busch of Anhauser-Busch fame. Peter and David
met in Miami where they were both involved in wildlife rescue. David
worked as a veterinary technician for Dr. Pane, who specialized in wildlife
rehabilitation. In 1992, immediately following Hurricane Andrew, David
took his cat, Wild Thing, a hurricane victim himself, and moved to
Florida. There, he continued his work rescuing wildlife, lecturing at
schools and raising funds for medical help for injured wildlife. Peter
Busch made a donation to get them started, and still pays about 10% of the organizations
expenses. "I think I was rebelling," says David in answering a
question about how he got his start, "my dad was a developer."
Indeed, 90% of the animals who are injured or sickened are so afflicted at the
hands of humans. Be it destruction of environment, careless disposal of
fishing lines, or out and out deliberate acts of cruelty.
Now, back to the vulture and his story. His name is Terrance, at least
that is what the rescuer told everyone. The vulture didn't correct her,
so we assume that it was good enough for him. "We have to have
something to call the animals by," says David, "we don't want people
to think that these are our pets, but we don't want to say "hey red-tailed
hawk," so we name all the animals." Ok, we'll go along with that.
David tells the story of how Terrance came to be in his care. "We
received a phone call from another wildlife rehabilitator in Melbourne. They
had gotten him from an animal control officer in Brevard County. It seems he
was hanging around the bus stop, wanting to hang out with the kids. He
began following them around. So, he was captured by this animal control
officer, who assumed he must be injured. The officer took the bird to the
rehabilitation center where he was checked out and determined healthy.
They took him out to release him. Terrance flew for a distance and turned
around, and walked back to where all the people were standing. So, they
recaptured him and brought him back to the center. A veterinarian who
volunteered hours at the center had a client who has vultures frequenting her
property, so they decided to release Terrance at her house. The thinking
was that Terrance would meet the other vultures and assimilate. They took
him to her property and released him. This is where the story gets a little
fuzzy. For some reason, the other vultures mistreated him. So Terrance
was then re-captured and confined in the laundry room where he stayed for an
indeterminate amount of time. The determination was made that Terrance is
hopelessly imprinted and therefore can't be released. The woman wanted to
keep him. However, in the state of Florida, one needs a permit to house wild
animals, and she didn't have one. Terrance made his way back to the
rehabilitation center in Melbourne, and eventually the Busch Wildlife Sanctuary
as a permanent residence.
Well, we are all pretty familiar with animals who can't be returned to the wild
because of broken wings, missing limbs, blinding eye injuries and the like, but
imprinting? What is that?
Imprinting, is a serious problem. David describes it as a roll of film in your
head. Similar to taking pictures, all of your life experiences and
education is put on the film. For people, it takes a lifetime. We are
always learning, but most of our experiences and education are imprinted in our
minds about the time we finish college. However, a bird only takes a few
months to learn these same things. Therefore, the film is exposed, the
pictures are fully developed by the time they are three months old. But,
if a vulture has spent his "formative" years in the company of human
beings, the pictures are not of a vulture's life, the pictures are of life as a
human, and they are very confusing. Wild instincts tell him to do one thing,
but imprinting tells him something else. Sometimes an imprinted animal can
learn to be around his own kind, sometimes not. It's quite possible that the
imprinting caused Terrance to act in a way that the other vultures didn't quite
grasp, and they didn't understand him. Kind of like the Barry Manilow of
vultures.
I met Terrance. He's a beautiful animal with soulful, intelligent and
inquisitive eyes. He immediately walked over to me and wanted to make
friends. He was wonderful. His habitat was also very nice. He
had a roommate, a turkey vulture, and it seemed that they were company for one
another. His habitat was large, roomy and had plenty of circulating
air. David also showed me the free-flight aviary where Terrance and the
other raptors are brought several times a week for exercise and socialization.
As far as I was concerned, Terrance was fine. Animal Rights Online
officially closed the case on the complaint against Terrance. But not
before learning a little more about the challenges of keeping wild animals in
captivity.
While traveling to Terrances' aviary, we had to pass another habitat that
housed three adult Florida panthers. These animals had been declawed,
defanged and raised to be pets. The animals, of course, had gotten much
too large to be housecats, so they were living the remainder of their days here
at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary.
David is very concerned with the problem of people keeping wild animals as
housepets. "We have a very big problem in this country with
wildlife. Wildlife has gotten way out of control. There are too many people out
there who are breeding animals in captivity and selling them illegally.
There are too many people who are also selling them legally but they are ending
up in places they shouldn't be. They buy cats that are little and then they get
big and they lock them in little cages. We get at least an iguana a
week. I refuse to recycle any animals back into the pet trade. I
don't sell them to pet stores or private owners. Instead, I try to find a
facility where the iguana can live a well-cared for life in captivity but also
serve a purpose in teaching people that wild animals don't make good
pets. I don't mean a traveling petting zoo, but a biology center of a
school or a nature center, a stable and permanent place. We do use our
animals as teaching aids." David acknowledges the discomfort of PETA
and other animal-rights organizations who have a policy of opposition to this
type of exploitation of wildlife. He freely admits that the majority of
so-called educational programs have situations where the animals probably don't
receive the proper treatment. "What does concern me," says
David, "is that I understand that PETA may not ever endorse our program
because we use live animals, but I also would expect that PETA wouldn't
necessarily take a stand against us and condemn us because of our position.
Many organizations call themselves an educational organization but that's not
what they are"
"It's funny," David says, "We have cats, nobody ever complains
about us having reptiles, but when we have a big cat present, everyone
gets mad. But the big cats are so confused. The dream is to take a
wild animal home, declaw it, defang it. The animal is then psychologically
confused because they are designed to take down a white-tailed deer, but yet he
is the same creature as you. He will
take any chance to jump on your back and bite into your neck, because he is
practicing for the time when he will find a white-tailed deer. Wild
animals don't make good pets. There are exceptions to every rule. There are
some that are very calm. People see one animal that is calm and they think that
they can duplicate that. 99.9% of the animals can never, never, never make a
good pet. There are so many people who
call themselves sanctuaries or educational programs but their animals are
nothing more than a means to make a living. Our animals don't do tricks.
If animal rights activists don't support us, I accept that, but I want them to
understand that they have an ally with us. The reality is that I can't
save every single animal. The injury or illness is so grave that we can't do
anything. Or we run into a situation where an animal is injured and probably
could be saved, but would be miserable in captivity. I am very much concerned
about the quality of life. Some animals are more accepting of certain
situations than others. There are limited resources as to where I can relocate
an animal. When animals are seized from a captive situation, ideally you
want to place that animal in a better place than it was in. Initially the
animals are state's evidence. But after the case is over, they auction
the animal off but they may not be in the best place. There are a lot of
animal-rights activist who would have a problem with it, but I think euthanasia
is the most humane remedy in that situation. That appalls people."
One of the biggest things David finds most insulting is when people find a lost
or injured animal, or a baby animal, and they call and ask about caring for
it. "I spend twenty minutes on the phone trying to convince them
that they should not try to raise the animal themselves, and they should bring
it to me so that I can put him in with others of his kind. Or I spend twenty
minutes telling them exactly what to do, and after the twenty minutes they will
say to me "Well, if I bring it to you are you just going to kill
it?" Think about that, does that make sense? The very last thing on
our list is euthanasia. Don't they realize how insulting that question
is? It would be a lot easier for me to just say, I can't help you, but I
don't say that, I always have to get involved."
David is very concerned about allegations that make it seem that he does not
have the best interest of the animals in mind. He points to the
allegation that brought me to visit him. "Look at the way I
responded to this accusation," he argued, "Any time that someone says
I don't care about the animals, I say that they are wrong. I have the
most elated joy at watching an animal fly free. It's a sensitive issue.
My goal in life is to help animals who have been hurt at the hand of man, to
undo a wrong. Also to educate people to appreciate the land. I want people to
feel that this sanctuary will benefit people. I want people to feel that
they need the environment. People need to understand, I support the
rights of animals. I don't encourage people to keep wild animals. There
are good dog/cat owners, and there are bad owners. I want to educate people,
wild animals don't make good pets. We have very special challenges in
Florida. One of them is the enormous growth at the hands of developers
who take the land away from the animals who live there. Another challenge
is that Florida has the biggest import/export of wildlife. Watch what
gets shipped; snakes, other reptiles. We are the biggest because of our
location, ships, boats, planes. People want to raise wild babies on their
own and they get really mad. Then they call back six months later wanting
us to take the animals but we are not always successful in releasing animals back
in the wild after they have been with humans for six months. The woman
who brought Terrance to me is an individual who loves that bird. She was
keeping the bird in her laundry room. Is a laundry room a better housing than
an enclosure where he interacts with other birds?" David asks, and
admits that he doesn't really know the answer to that.
That would depend on the lifestyle of vultures these days. David is
fascinated with vultures, and thinks that there is "hardly anything more
beautiful than a vulture in flight." He believes they are also very
interesting creatures. "There are a lot of misconceptions about
vultures," says David, "One is that they are raptors. The truth
is that they are related to storks more than raptors, scientifically
speaking." I asked about their, umm, disgusting eating habits, but David
was quick to defend them: "They eat road kill because they are built
differently, unlike the raptors, their claws have no grasping power. They are
forced to settle for animals that are weak, dying, infant, or dead. People
portray them as gross, because they don't have face feathers. But that's
a matter of hygiene really. I mean, they stick their heads in rotting
carcasses." (That's ok, David, we get the picture).
Vultures also have an interesting social structure and interaction with one
another. They don't really seem to be big on building nests. Their
standard operating procedure is to find a place either on the ground, in tree
hollows or fallen logs, perhaps the uninhabited nest of a bigger bird.
They will nest anywhere near the ground. And vultures have no natural predators
as an adult. Of course, as an infant, any raptor, snake or cat will go
after them. And even though a lot of species of birds tend to mate for
life, there really is no evidence that vultures do so. There are also many
species of vultures. In the United States, however, there are only three;
the California Condor, the Turkey Vulture and the Black Vulture, which is what
Terrance is.
I asked David what he does for continuing education for his very unusual
lifestyle. "Everyday is a learning experience," he says "I
have something to learn from everyone, trained professionals and people who
learn from their own experiences. I
attend as many workshops and seminars as I can. In the wildlife community
I have excellent relationships with other rehabilitators, but there are also
others that I choose not to affiliate with because I don't agree with what they
are doing. I have been doing this for 20 years, and yet I still feel that I am
a very lucky person to have had the experiences, both with my opportunities to
explore the environment and to learn and research and help animals such as
panthers, bald eagles, red-shouldered hawks. I don't own these animals. I have
a job, whether you believe in a higher power who has commissioned me to do this
or if the animals have chosen me to do it, I have an important job, to help
animals. Everything I do, I do for them. I don't own animals, I have
family members. Some are temporary and some are permanent."
What's Involved In Getting A Permit:
State to state laws vary, but in Florida, an applicant must first have 1,000
hours experience over the course of a year. To get this experience, they must
volunteer with a wildlife rehabilitation facility. There is a written
examination too. You need to build a facility that can house animals. You
must also have a veterinarian on board somehow. It is necessary that
there is an alliance with other rehabilitators with whom you can consult.
Municipalities also have their own zoning requirements as to type of animals
and type of housing you can build.
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Let's Work Together to Finally
Pass the Ban on Steel Jaw Traps!
from Diana Artemis
<artemisd123@hotmail.com>
We
have 18 million AR supporters, vs. NRA's 3 million members -- there's no reason
*we* can't mobilize to FINALLY get rid of these torture chamber traps.
WE NEED TO MOVE THESE BILLS OUT OF COMMITTEE AND OBTAIN CO-SPONSORS TO CHAMPION
THEM FORWARD! PLEASE SCHEDULE TIME with YOUR U.S. Senator's and U.S.
Representatives' local office staff to make a short presentation on the
realities of steel jaw traps and what they really do to animals.
(This would also be a great time to briefly educate staffers on the various
issues facing issues and the voters' concerns about them.) Photos and
materials can be obtained through:
PETA at:
http://www.peta-online.org/mc/facts/index.html
or the HSUS at: http://www.hsus.org/programs/government/trapfacts.html
and the Animal Protection Institute at: http://www.apiforanimals.org/default.asp?ID=91
PETA is working on adding video clips to their
site so eventually you can also e-mail your Senators and Representatives graphic
footage of what these traps really mean to animals. There's no excuse for
such cruelty and placing these traps on our federal lands.
PLEASE ALSO CALL AND WRITE YOUR U.S. Congresspersons and ASK EVERYONE YOU KNOW
TO ALSO CALL/WRITE.
Co-Sponsorship Needed for H.R. 1581 and S. 1006
Source: API at: http://www.apiforanimals.org
These bills have been "in Committee" for years now. We need our
Senators & Rep's to co-sponsor them and MOVE THEM FORWARD!
H.R. 1581 and S. 1006, known as the Steel Jaw Leghold Trap Prohibition Act,
were recently introduced in the 106th Congress. The House version was
introduced by Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY) and the Senate version
was introduced by Senator Robert Torricelli (D-NJ). This bill would place
several restrictions on the use of leghold traps and would specifically
prohibit the shipment in interstate or foreign commerce of steel jaw leghold
traps and of articles of fur derived from animals captured in such traps. The
bill prescribes criminal penalties for violations of this act and directs the
Secretary of Interior to reward non-governmental informers for information
leading to conviction under this act.
The House bill currently has 72 co-sponsors and been referred to the Committee
on Commerce, the Ways and Means Committee, the International Relations
Committee, and the Judiciary Committee. The Senate bill currently has 5
co-sponsors and has been referred to the Committee on Environment and Public
Works.
Please write your U.S. Representative and your two U.S. Senators and urge them
to support and co-sponsor the Steel Jaw Leghold Trap Ban (H.R. 1581 / S. 1006).
Your own words are better, but you may use API's sample letters (H.R. 1581 and
S. 1006) as a guideline.
Points you may wish to include in your call, letter and/or e-mail:
~ Leghold traps have been banned in over 80 countries and restricted or banned
in seven states.
~ Leghold traps are indiscriminate. For every "target" animal
trapped, at least two other "non target" animals, including dogs and
cats, are trapped.
~ Leghold traps cause extreme pain and suffering to their victims. Animals
caught in leghold traps can endure fractures, ripped tendons, edema, blood
loss, amputations, and starvation.
~ A national poll conducted in November 1996 showed that 74% of Americans
believe leghold traps should be banned.
You can also be brief and simply state to your Senator: Co-Sponsor S. 1006
You can also be brief and simply state to your Representative: Co-Sponsor H.R.
1581.
To find out who your Senators are, go to: http://www.senate.gov
To find out who your Rep's are, go to: http://www.house.gov
Direct your letters, calls and/or e-mails to:
The Honorable [Full Name]
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
The Honorable [Full Name]
U.S. Senate
Washington, DC 20510
PLEASE ALSO TRY SOMETIME THIS YEAR TO SCHEDULE A 15-MINUTE FACE-TO-FACE
MEETING TIME WITH YOUR CONGRESSPERSONS' LOCAL STAFF. If you need help in
planning such a meeting, send me an e-mail at:
artemisd123@hotmail.com and I will put you in touch with someone
who can help provide you with materials and suggestions. WE CAN DO THIS
FOR THE ANIMALS: IF NOT US, WHO WILL?
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Favorite Charity Website
from Mishudog14@aol.com
A
website, www.alloy.com, is asking readers what there favorite charity
is. The charity with the most votes
will get a check from the website. It will cost no money at all to any of the
voters.
There is a category just for animals, and the ASPCA is currently in second
place out of forty charities. You can vote unlimited times, and if everyone
voted, it could make a big difference!
So please go here
http://www.alloy.com/a2k/winprizes/charity/index.html
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State Animal Protection Ballot
Measures
from: HUMANElines <humanelines@hsus.org>
This November, voters in nine states will have
the chance to cast their votes on vitally important animal protection issues.
Citizens in each of the states listed below have the opportunity to invest in
the future of animal protection legislation simply by voting and by urging
their friends and family to do the same. As the battles heat up, we need
everyone's support and energy to encourage pro-animal votes!
ALASKA:
Measure 1- OPPOSE - Would bar all citizen ballot initiatives relating to
the protection of wildlife. For more information, contact: Alaska
Conservation Voters, 750 W. 2nd Ave., Suite 109, Anchorage, Alaska 99501.
Ph: 907-258-6171. Fax: 907-258-6177. E-mail: www.akvoice.org
Measure 6 - SUPPORT - Would retain the prohibition of same-day airborne
("land-and-shoot") hunting of wolves, which Alaska voters banned in
1996. For more information, contact: Alaskans for Wildlife, PO Box 202022,
Anchorage, AK 99520. Ph: 907-276-9453. Fax: 907-276-9454.
Email: alaskansforwildlife@hotmail.com, www.akwildlife.org
ARIZONA:
Proposition 102 - OPPOSE - Would require a two-thirds supermajority to
approve any ballot initiative relating to the protection of wildlife. For more
information, contact: No on 102, PO Box 36436, Phoenix, AZ 85067. Ph:
602-906-1628. Email: webmaster@no102.com or www.no102.com
FLORIDA:
Measure to limit pig confinement on factory farms - SUPPORT - Would ban
the use of “gestation crates,” which confine pregnant pigs in tiny, 2 foot-wide
metal boxes. For more information, contact: Animal Rights Foundation
Florida, PO Box 841154, Pembroke Pines, FL 33084.
Ph: (954) 917-ARFF. Fax: 954-979-6415.
MASSACHUSETTS:
Question 3 - SUPPORT - Would prohibit dog racing and meetings at
which betting or wagering on dog racing occurs. For more information,
contact: Grey2K, PO Box 1606, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130.
Ph: 617-666-3526. Email: grey2kcarey@yahoo.com or www.grey2k.org
MONTANA:
Initiative 143 - SUPPORT - Would impose a moratorium on new game farm
licenses and would ban “canned hunts.” For more information, contact:
Montanans Against the Domestication and Commercialization of Wildlife (MADCOW),
PO Box 5841, Helena, MT 59604. Ph: 406-273-7862.
Fax: 406-449-8946. Email: grhusmc@aol.com or www.macow.org
NORTH DAKOTA:
Question 1 - OPPOSE - Would create a new section of the North Dakota
Constitution relating to the right to hunt, trap, and fish. For more
information, contact: Jeff Leitner at The Fund for Animals, 8121 Georgia Ave.,
Suite 301, Silver Springs, MD 20910.
Ph: 301-585-2591 ext. 316. Fax: 301-585-2595. Email:
jleitner@fund.org
OKLAHOMA:
(Pending Certification) - SUPPORT - Would ban cockfighting and make it
illegal to keep birds for fighting purposes. For more information, contact:
Oklahoma Coalition Against Cockfighting, PO Box 780378, Oklahoma City, OK
73178. Ph: 405-528-0079. Email: ocac2000@aol.com
OREGON:
Measure 97 - SUPPORT - Would ban the use of steel-jawed leghold traps
and other body-gripping traps for recreation and commerce in fur, and would ban
the use of Compound 1080 (sodium fluoroacetate) and sodium cyanide. For
more information, contact: Protect Pets and Wildlife (ProPAW), PO Box 40372,
Portland, OR 97240.
Ph: 503-872-9623. Email: crueltraps@aol.com or www.bancrueltraps.org
VIRGINIA:
Question 2 - OPPOSE - Would amend the Virginia Constitution to establish
"a right to hunt, fish, and harvest game." For more
information, contact: No on Question 2 Committee, c/o The Fund for Animals /
8121 Georgia Ave., Suite 301, Silver
Springs, MD 20910.
Ph: 301-585-2591. Fax: 301-585-2595. Email: noquestion2va@yahoo.com
WASHINGTON:
Initiative 713 - SUPPORT- Would ban the use of steel-jawed leghold traps
and other body-gripping traps for recreation and commerce in fur, and would ban
the use of Compound 1080 (sodium fluoroacetate) and sodium cyanide. For more
information, contact: Protect Pets and Wildlife (ProPAW), 5200 University Way
NE, #201, Seattle, WA 98105. Ph: 206-526-0949 OR 206-526-0989.
Email: bantraps@seanet.com or www.bancrueltraps.org
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The Glass Wall
by WantNoMeat@aol.com
If slaughterhouses had a glass wall
and you had to see your dinner fall
Would you still eat with no concern
or from it would you learn?
Whose flesh should be in your bun?
Could you point and choose which one?
They are trapped in line to die for you
a life resting on what you do
Terrified they watch as another dies
what if through glass you locked eyes?
Now it's your dinner's turn, what do you say
as he struggles for life to get away?
You can hear his agonizing bellow
and his head takes the final blow
He's lifted on a single chain
just for taste ~ sound insane?
His throat is cut and he's bled
dismemberment is straight ahead
Your food's true cost becoming clear
as dinnertime is drawing near
You sit in front of your plate
after witnessing this brutal fate
A blood stained and shocking sight
would it ruin your appetite?
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Quote To Remember
"Now
what is it that moves our very heart and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to
poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they have done us no harm;
next, that they have no power whatever to resistance; it is the cowardice and
tyranny of which they are the victims which make their sufferings so especially
touching...there is something so very dreadful, so Satanic in tormenting those
who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in
our power."
-Cardinal Newman
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