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33 Animal Welfare Inst. Q. 1 (1984-1985)

handle is hein.animal/awiqu0033 and id is 1 raw text is: THE ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE QUARTERLY P.O. BOX 3650 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20007 SPRING 1984 VOL. 33 NO. 1 Owners reclaim stolen dogs by Gail Eisnitz combing their farm for Sheba - a two year When Ella Erie of Le Roy, Minnesota old miniature collie who had vanished from returned home from a funeral on the after- inside a barn. Two years had passed since noon ofJanuary 5th, she was not greeted by the familiar barking of her ten year old border collie. She and friend Herbert sear- ched the garage where Rex had been chain- ed, but found only the strange tire tracks of a vehicle which had backed up to the door. Down the road about five miles, Wayne I and Bonnie Siskow and their children were ~ ...i 'IA 2 i When Wayne went to Mayo to claim his dog Sheba, he saw wet dogs whose cages were being cleaned with the dogs in them. He is holding the USDA tag that was still on Sheba when he got her home. the Siskow's pet shepherd had mysteriously disappeared, and a year before that, Wayne's brother had lost a dog in a similar manner. Norburt Rud's red retriever, Dennis Hammeister's blue tick coon hound, valued at $3,000, and Jim Boe's Scottish collie would also be taken from their owners' Stewartville residences on that very day. The IWC voted to end all killing of sperm whales. Sperm Whales Richard Ellis At its annual meeting in Buenos Aires, the International Whaling Commission voted on the quotas for the final year of commercial whaling before the agreed cessation. Most significant decisions were the ban on sperm whale killing and reduction of the kill of minke whales in the Southern Ocean to 4,224, a quota which Soviet, Japanese and Brazilian whalers must divide among themselves. Cost of sending whaling vessels to antarctic waters is high. The 40% quota continued on page 11 from Mayo's After allegedly stealing the dogs, bunchcr Greg Green trucked them to his home in Dexter, Minnesota, a town of about 900 people, 20 miles north of Le Roy. Neigh- bors would later recall the incessant barking continued on page 2 Most brutal and non-selective of implements by Hope Ryden I commend the distinguished Chairman and the Subcommittee for addressing the need to proscribe the leghold trap in the United States. This device is the most brutal and non-selective of implements used to capture animals and I urge passage of this legislation. As a naturalist and author of several books and many articles on North American wildlife, including Bobcat Year, God's Dog (on coyotes), America's Last Wild Horses, and The Little Deer of the Florida Keys, I have spent much time in wilderness areas tracking and studying my subjects. As a result, I have had first-hand experience with the leghold trap and its victims. In fact, at times I have found it necessary to abandon research areas as a result of the prevalence of this device and its effects on the popula- tion of animals I was trying to observe. Before describing trapping impact on wildlife, however, I should like to tell you about my experiences with the leghold trap close to home and involving pets. Anyone who believes that trapped animals do not suffer should have been with me one after- noon in October of 1980 while I was walk- ing with my two dogs in a wooded area some thirty-five miles northwest of New York City. For ten years I have rented a weekend cabin in this protected watershed rea, which provides drinking water for a umber of neighboring communities in nor- them New Jersey and several small towns in New York State. The area is off-limits to outsiders for obvious reasons. The water supply must be protected from deliberate or inadvertent pollution. Trespassers are sub- ject to prosecution and severe penalties. The six families that are permitted to rent ex- isting houses in the area are carefully screened and would be held responsible for continued on page 6 Rex, owned by Ella Erie and Herbert Woolart, LeRoy, MN. When Ella went to recover him the Mayo laboratory man tried to make her pay to get her stolen dog back.

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