Animals articles from May 1998

Animals archives from May 1998

Planting the seeds of change. (animal protection efforts by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and American Humane Education Society)
May 1, 1998... Organizations in the animal-protection community face a dizzying array of challenges every day. At the MSPCA/AHES, we're on the front lines of the pet overpopulation battle. We're working to reduce the numbers of animals used in research,...

Animals 2000: a look ahead. (animal protection movement defines goals going into the next century)
May 1, 1998... As New Year's revelers rang in the 1990s, pundits across the nation raced to declare oncoming trends for the century's last decade. To the surprise of some, many of these analysts predicted that animal causes would catapult to the top of the...

Stealing into the night: can captive breeding rob extinction of yet another species? (efforts to protect the plowshare tortoise of Madagascar)
May 1, 1998... Can captive breeding rob extinction of yet another species? On the night of May 6, 1996, under a full moon, thieves broke into the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust's (JWPT) tortoise-breeding facility at the Ampijoroa Forestry Station in...

The horse rustlers: how scam artists abuse a federal adoption program for wild horses.(Cover Story)
May 1, 1998... How scam artists abuse a federal adoption program for wild horses. One hot afternoon in August, back in 1992, agent Steve Sederwall of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finished his lunch and turned the wheels of his red pickup truck west...

When Fluffy meets Tiger. (buying another cat)
May 1, 1998... Adding a new cat? These steps can foster the most stress-free introduction. Thinking of adding a second cat to your household? You're not alone. The most recent national census reports that 27 million U.S. cat-owning households averaged...

Backyard birding: a how-to approach for kids.
May 1, 1998... Early one morning my seven-year-old peered out our bay window. "Mom! Dad! The quails are back!" he called. The whole family rushed to have a look. To our surprise, 14 little chicks followed 6 adults down our hillside. The hatchlings, no bigger...

Future pharming. (genetic engineering of animals)(includes a related article on the poor treatment of transgenic animals)(Animals 2000)
May 1, 1998... The 9 billion animals raised each year by America's meat and dairy industries might be the most forgotten creatures in the nation. Intensively confined, physically deformed, and genetically manipulated, the majority of farm animals feed a nation...

Nine billion and counting. (factory production of animals in agriculture)(includes a related article on waste and pathogens produced by agriculture)(Animals 2000)
May 1, 1998... As the modern farm relies more on factory production, animal protectionists develop new strategies to protect animals in agriculture. Henry Spira has long been telling people what they don't want to hear. Well known for exposing the...

The shield of immunity: the inner workings of your pet's immune system.
May 1, 1998... I caught a rare sight the other day--my Australian sheepdog, Maggie, asleep next to the hearth with Pretty Heart, our orange tabby cat, curled up beside her. I smiled as I watched them dozing, thankful that our family has been blessed with...

Dances with whales. (cinematographer Al Giddings films the special 'Whales' for the Discovery Channel)
May 1, 1998... Al Giddings risks all to film the watery domain of whales. Cinematographer Al Giddings accompanied Titanic director James Cameron to the bottom of the Atlantic, each in his own deep-sea submersible, to film the real wreck for the...

Tall Blondes: A Book about Giraffes.
May 1, 1998... By Lynn Sherr. 167 pages. Andrew McMeel. $16.95 hardcover. Tracing the history of an animal from encounters with the earliest humans is not an easy endeavor. But 20/20 correspondent Lynn Sherr's Tall Blondes A Book about Giraffes...