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- 3 r ..Newly appototedAiClt~ eC"jroa ~ ~~iHnois Department o[
Angeles Animal Servfcea ehlet an`Dlatnry~oarees i `tq hold art October
RECEJVED Knapp in September opted apiiis{Jmbiiii ng i~ tjie Stae ,Fairgrounds in
By.. ing Animal Foandagon Lrternatloml totF2ngfield on proposed 3rme~d-ments to
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j provide iow cos neute n un Fit anep jldh 4Sfa in re ula '
pate---nty ncA :contract. AR opened a neutering`clwc by x rhich wo d enable nonprofit organisations
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9greemfnt with L .A. Animal Services t to"gbtain mtisance wildlife control permits
November 1997, Modeled after the A apparently withou! requiring individual'
- clinic in' Las Vegas, vrhich has fused mo members to moet state trapper training stan-
~ 989 > rtlei exdin the list of ra it. rR
an 100,000 animal pswh
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born (amts about the to a the
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Los Angeles branch sutt`aced in M641999, led,*'and mandate'`that racooous mdst`'
41, , ampbfied by local acuvftsts, ° p ideal led unless jtelessed on the same prop
Mary Aerio shut the cimic dismissed 2t thin yards o[ the feature s[te '
the whole"staff although ctmi st~istiC& , y Ua a"mmendtpents ogdi4n. d that they
indicated the 41clinic had no hip er a to ~proFosed chiefly so that hunti
of~ost,pperaiive compltcahons.ihp~_n get tpiseoce wildlifeonttol per
aversge 4°b for all U.S. veterinary
hoapr enabting members ic"' from
_ tale In recent years API also starmp'bmnc[F . M f~ ir`' `a` ers and othe who
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clinics in'D'aHaay'tTbw con bjl`tlloNend Core
Animals, and in Phoenix, -in,ooo ciatioti;, oeral Motors ounit. 20
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with PETsMART Charities, 'uotler° .Move i - ihfared night vision n ijn that
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independent management, bu , rt f no ;:avill"becomeoptional eg I et for ,the
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president Richard Herro foil rJi«" Fiounitedat the bot[ome f'tth0e windshield '
' PEOPLE, to avoid entanglemenis _Ahe screen allows drivers to see'people or
animal protection politics. Instead," AFI'in:' animals up to five times beyond the range
- June announced that it intends to try, to -of halogen headlights. Bosch meanwhile
is ight
make Las Vegas a no-kill city within the Introduced a line of xenon headlights in
. coming year. Taking over the L;as Vegas advertisements feat 1uring night photos of
animal control contract three years ago;animals,--with the claim that the new lights- `
AFt has tripled the adoption wte,'now at "should bring a little relief to everyone on
4496 of intake, and has at the cote of sheI- the road, however small." The San
ter killing in half, but as of the end of 1997 Francisco SPCA and the Animal .1
- , it remained at ~17.4ianimals per 1,000 resi-- Protection Institute are also promoting _e
dents, barely under the U.S. average and roadkill awareness--s topic attracting little
still triple the rates (5.8) achieved in San concern before ANIMAL PEOPLE point-
- Francisco and New York City. _ oil out in a November 1992 cover feature t
Larry ~Sconyers, mayor 'that most roadkills can be
prevented by, g~
I, Augusta, Georgia, in September or4 species-appropriate defepsive driving; sci )i
J Richmond County Animal Control t cote teacher Brewster Bartlett of "
f cease using and dismantle a carbon monox Pinkerton _ Academy in Derry, New
ide gas chamber, used to kill 10,788 ani ' Hampshire, began the Dr. Splatl project to
mals in 1997, after an Augusta Chronicl quantify roadkills; and ANIMAL PEO
expose' documented how slowly an PLE board member Patrice Greanville
pain fullythe-animals died. The American founded the National Anti-Roadkill
10 O. Veterinary Medical Association no longer Project,- which-only briefly active-
I'_ is.
Gomm. Na,_~~ lists carbon monoxide. poisaning,as an brought attention to the hope of prevent
File No. preventing oJ_
acceptable method of killing dogs and ca roadkills from The New York Times.
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