UARC News and Events >> 25 June 06

Sun Jun 25 11:23:04 MDT 2006

Hi Everyone,

Here is some news of the goings on in the Utah Animal Rights Coalition. In This E-Mail:

  * Important Meeting
  * Calendar of Events
  * In the News

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### IMPORTANT MEETING ### 

We'd like to invite you to this weeks meeting at The Bridge on Monday at 7pm.  We've been having weekly steering meetings for many months now, and we'd like to address some concerns that some of us have about this method of decision making.  If you are interested in the future of UARC and are interested in taking an active part, please attend and voice your opinion.

### CALENDAR OF EVENTS ###
  ( UARC lists other groups' events in our calendar as a service to the community, for solidarity with others fighting for animal liberation.  PETA and Ching Farm are not affiliated with UARC. )

Monday, 25th
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- 7:00 PM - Important steering meeting at The Bridge (512 W. 200 S.).  See above.

Sunday, 2nd
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- 6:00 PM - Potluck at 529 N. Center St.; will be held in the back yard of the Waters residence.  Contact Eric (ewaters at uarc.com, 560-8238) for more details.

### IN THE NEWS ###

Monday
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* Utah group offers sanctuary to Lewis the cat, accused of vicious attacks
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640188167,00.html
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. ? An animal sanctuary is offering a safe haven to Lewis the cat, a Fairfield feline whose vicious attacks on neighbors have landed his owner in court.
  Neighbors say they have been terrorized by Lewis, claiming the gray and white cat has used his long claws and stealth to attack at least a half dozen people and ambush an Avon saleswoman. ...

* Couple shows children ropes of riding rehabilitated horses
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640188067,00.html
LEHI ? Most girls dream about meeting a handsome young prince, being swept off their feet and riding off in the sunset atop a stunning stallion.
  In Jennifer Cowan's case, that's exactly what happened. She fell in love, and he is tall, dark and handsome. The difference is Prince is a horse, one of the 15 horses Jennifer Cowan uses to teach young students the ropes of horse riding.
  "I'm on the ground assisting, but the horses are the ones that are teaching," Jennifer Cowan said of Prince's ability to sense if students are scared or stubborn. "If (students) are prideful, (Prince) will be more stubborn, more of a challenge." ...

Tuesday
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* Dog left in hot pickup dies
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640188370,00.html
A dog died after being left inside a truck with the windows rolled up Monday afternoon, prompting Salt Lake County Animal Services to issue what has become a yearly reminder about not leaving pets inside vehicles during the summer months.
  Animal Services received a call from a woman at 12:21 p.m. that a dog inside a pickup with the windows rolled up didn't appear to be doing well, said Animal Services spokeswoman Temma Martin. ...

Wednesday
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* Boy gets shots after bat bite
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640188745,00.html
GUSHER, Uintah County ? A 6-year-old boy has received four shots in a series of six intended to prevent him from contracting rabies after he was bitten twice on June 5 by a bat carrying the disease.
  Ethan Livingston came in contact with the winged mammal after it flew down a chimney in the master bedroom of his family's home and landed on his parents' bed. ...

* Entombed cat emerges safely
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640188735,00.html
If you count that he was dumped at a ranch as a kitten, that's one life. Then there was the time he was trapped under concrete for two days ? subtract another one.
  Tom is a mild-mannered indoor cat by day, outdoor prowler by night ? no cat doors for this tabby. When the Roylance family gets up in the morning, Tom is usually waiting at the front door to be let in the house.
  But on June 13, Tom wasn't there.
  If you believe the 1970 animated film "The Aristocats," then ". . . a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at."
  And under the driveway was where he was at. ...

Thursday
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* Landing in Utah may end badly for baby ducks, geese
  Avian cargo: Officials hunt down birds that arrived by plane
  http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3965726
What do you call 1,000 goslings and ducklings breaking out of cardboard cartons at a Salt Lake City post office?
  If you're with the state Department of Agriculture, you call it an immigration problem.
  State Veterinarian Michael Marshall and his crew at the Division of Animal Industry are hunting down the 2- and 3-week-old birds that had been distributed throughout Utah in the hope of finding them new homes. ...

* Tiger, tiger ... lost forever
  http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_3964399
The Earth has lost many creatures as a result of human activity: The dodo and the passenger pigeon are among the best known. But in more recent years, one of the most spectacularly tragic losses in nature was Thylacinus cynocephalus, commonly called the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger. ...

* 3rd dog killed - by mistake
  Spanish Fork shelter mistake spurs new calls for director's firing
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640188910,00.html
SPANISH FORK - A Provo family expecting to pick up its two dogs Wednesday at the South Utah Valley Animal Shelter arrived to find that one of them erroneously had been euthanized.
  It is the third case of mistaken euthanasia in five months at the Spanish Fork shelter, leading some to call for director Shirley Bybee to be fired. ...

Friday
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* Deaths of dogs alarming to board
  Animal shelter: Within a six-month period, there have been 3 cases of accidental euthanasia
  http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3970632
PROVO - A third case of accidental euthanasia in the past six months may cost the director of the South Utah Valley Animal Shelter her job.
    Board members for the Spanish Fork shelter will decide the fate of Shirley Bybee in a closed meeting Monday. ...

* Moved aquarium reopens today
  http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3970623
SANDY - The school of rainbow trout moved into its faux-stone tank late Thursday morning. A 100-year-old northern lobster was expected later in the day.
  Workers at the Living Planet Aquarium scurried about Thursday putting on the finishing touches - for sea creatures and human visitors alike - in time for an evening sneak preview of the new temporary facility in Sandy. The public grand opening is today for the aquarium at 725 E. 10600 South. ...

* Deadly car-deer collisions are targeted
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640189365,00.html
Collisions with large game animals are a serious hazard on Utah highways ? almost always fatal for the deer, occasionally deadly or causing injury for the humans, and expensive to clean up.
  Vehicles hitting big game animals in Utah killed 10 people in a decade and injured another 300. ...

* Staffing increased at animal shelter
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640189361,00.html
SPANISH FORK ? It didn't take long for former shelter director Mike Morgan to identify the source of recent problems at the South Utah Valley Animal Shelter.
  The staff is too small and has not been sufficiently trained, Morgan says. ...

Sunday
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* Montana explores dead deer for compost
  http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3978248
VICTOR, Mont. - Scott Reesman drove a big shovel into the heap of wood chips, hoisted a load, then dumped it onto a couple of deer carcasses.
  Another load of chips, and two more Montana road-kills were on their way to becoming fertilizer in piles next to U.S. 93. Given a few months to decompose, with natural heat in the pile rising to about 140 degrees, the deer that fell to traffic on one of Montana's busiest highways will be reduced to coarse compost. ...

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That's it for this week.  Thanks for reading!