Animals back issues 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 01, 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, testing, and agriculture and to improve these ...
Animals 2000: a look ahead. (animal protection movement defines goals going into the next century)
May 01, 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 national and global popularity charts. And ...
Stealing into the night: can captive breeding rob extinction of yet another species? (efforts to protect the plowshare tortoise of Madagascar)
May 01, 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 northwestern Madagascar --the only place ...
The horse rustlers: how scam artists abuse a federal adoption program for wild horses.(Cover Story)
May 01, 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 onto I-10 out of Las Cruces, New ...
When Fluffy meets Tiger. (buying another cat)
May 01, 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 2.2 felines each. That compares to 1.7 ...
Backyard birding: a how-to approach for kids.
May 01, 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 than golf balls, slipped momentarily beneath ...
Future pharming. (genetic engineering of animals)(includes a related article on the poor treatment of transgenic animals)(Animals 2000)
May 01, 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 that is too uncomfortable with their plight to ...
Nine billion and counting. (factory production of animals in agriculture)(includes a related article on waste and pathogens produced by agriculture)(Animals 2000)
May 01, 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 cruelties of testing cosmetics and household ...
The shield of immunity: the inner workings of your pet's immune system.
May 01, 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 such congenial and healthy animals. Even our ...
Dances with whales. (cinematographer Al Giddings films the special 'Whales' for the Discovery Channel)
May 01, 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 Oscar-winning film. Other credits include The ...
Tall Blondes: A Book about Giraffes.
May 01, 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 accomplishes this tall order. Readers ...