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    Publisher   ~ EnglandGal@aol.com                                              Issue # 05/10/00

        Editor    ~ JJswans@aol.com

    Journalists ~ PrkStRangr@aol.com

                     ~ MRivera008@aol.com

                     ~ SavingLife@aol.com

 

    THE NINE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:

  

    1  ~ Wildlife Tips For Spring

    2  ~ Great Apes Project E-Mail list

    3  ~ Student's Rights - Dissection

    4  ~ Replacing School Hatching Projects

    5  ~ Almost As Good As Your Dog

    6  ~ New Fast Food Veggie Chain

    7  ~ Don't (Poem)

    8  ~ Quote To Remember

    9  ~ Correction

  

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Wildlife Tips For Spring

by Treehugr84@aol.com

 

Spring has sprung, and it's time for wildlife birthing season.  Often, nesting mothers bring conflicts with mankind as man's growth drives these creatures to become "urban wildlife."  To help you and people you know co-habitate with wildlife and solve wildlife problems humanely, the rehabilitation center where I volunteer has compiled some "telephone tips" that we encourage you to read and share with your friends.

 

Bunnies - Orphaned or Kidnapped?

 

Bunnies' nests are easily stumbled upon because they are often placed in open, grassy areas or gardens.  Bunnies are too frequently mistaken for orphaned because Mother bunny is away from the nest most of the time making the nest less conspicuous to predators.  Also, she can give a possible predator a "run" in the opposite direction.  If found alone, just place a light twig on top of the nest of bunnies.  Check after dark and after dawn to see if it has been disturbed.  The same idea can be used with flour.  Dust the area around the nest with flour, and see if any tracks can be viewed near the nest after these times.  Mother bunny only visits the nest a couple times a day to feed.  Keep in mind the fast maturing pace of bunnies and that they leave the nest not too long after 2 weeks of age.  A rule of thumb, "If you have to chase it down, leave it alone."  The bunnies will be doing well on their own at this point.  Tragically, bunnies don't rehabilitate well.  Wild rabbits do not make good pets.  See if you can replace the bunnies back into their nest.

 

Fawns - Orphaned and Abandoned

 

Does follow the same rule as mother bunny.  She knows her baby is less conspicuous if she isn't around.  The first few days of life the fawn lies in tall grass or brush designated by Mother doe as she goes off to forage.  Newborns have no scent at all and can't be traced by predators.  Mother stands still, as baby, while keeping eye contact, walks a few feet away from Mother (and her scent), and lies down.  When Mother approves of the site, she goes off to forage.  It's a little harder to determine if a fawn is truly orphaned.  Reminder!  Mother doe can be potentially dangerous to an observer.  A doe found dead nearby may cause reason for suspicions.  A fawn in the area displaying unusual behavior such as following you or your family pet, or seen for a period of time crying and looking lost may be declared orphaned.

 

Songbirds

 

*Advise another time of the year besides spring to cut down any trees, especially hollow ones

 

Always reunite Baby bird with Mother bird.  When Baby bird is even partially feathered and fallen from the nest, mother usually appreciates human intervention in replacing Baby into the nest, even thought she seems irate during this procedure.  If the nest isn't accessible, nailing or stapling a strawberry box, shoebox, or margarine tub with bedding high into the same tree can create a secondary nest.  Mother can usually cater to both nests.  Observe from your window to see that Mother is caring for both nests.  It won't be long before the babies are flying, however, fostering may be necessary for new hatchlings requiring constant incubation from Mother if nest cannot be reached. 

 

Bats - Grounded

 

Occasionally a bat is found struggling on the ground.  Though it appears to be injured, it really only needs to be elevated.  Because bats can't "lift off" from the ground, placing a bat on a fence or tree limb usually solves the problem immediately.  Because bats are potential rabies carries, you need to have the right equipment to do this.  Gloves and a hooded shield are advised.  You may be all right by just using a stick or something, but don't touch the animal.  Many times you cannot even feel it when a bat bites.

 

Opossums

 

*Please be informed that 50% of all dead opossums on the road in the spring have a pouch full of babies.  Though they should keep a tight grip on mother's nipple inside the pouch, they can gently, yet firmly, be pulled off.

 

Don't be too eager to write one off as dead.  They have the real talent for "playing possum."  Actually, in a panic everything shuts down; even heart and respiration are slowed.  If the opossum is lying in a safe place (off the road) determine how long you have observed the animal lying there.  Sometimes half an hour can result in a miraculous recovery.  If you do check an opossum's pouch for babies on the road, pull back the arch shaped flap of skin on the belly.  Lift this up on all sides.  The pouch is not like a pocket, like you might imagine, but is more like a small drawstring bag that isn't completely closed.

 

Wildlife Nuisance Issues - Most common in nesting seasons

 

Evidence of a raccoon, squirrel or opossum in an attic or under a home usually signals a nesting mother.  Man should not choose destruction to this furry family.  Maybe it was man's responsibly to keep his home secure.  Rather, turning on a light, mothballs, ammonia soaked rags, or a loud radio may cause mother to voluntarily move her family.  A little flour on a level surface will display tracks of the animal's exits.  After thorough inspection, make necessary repairs.

 

Skunks under a porch are a concern for many homeowners.  Try to enjoy watching from a safe distance.  It's only a matter of weeks before Mother and her babies move on.  Otherwise mothballs and a radio may discourage them also.  Skunks are not as dangerous as you might think.  They do eat a lot of mice and insects and usually give fair warning, by "dancing", before they spray.  There are several products on the market that can be purchased to discourage wildlife from roosting where you don't want them to.

 

Other Nuisance Issues

 

Always try to get Mother wildlife mammal to move her family willingly.  Trapping mother and transporting her and her young to a new location usually doesn't take root.  Mother, in panic, runs for her protection, and babies -- though they might be crying loudly, are left abandoned. The babies must be watched with protective eye so predators don't intercept.  After several hours, babies are usually declared orphaned and brought in for fostering.

 

Most animal control or "critter control" do not use a humane method of getting rid of the animals, so try and convince people that are having wildlife problems that we need to co-habitate with wildlife.  We are moving in on them, and they are just looking for somewhere to go. 

 

If you or someone you know find a wildlife "orphan", please determine that the animal is for certain orphaned.  Mother is intended to care for her young, not wildlife rehabilitators.  If you do find a true orphan, keep it warm with a heating pad set on low, and do not attempt to feed the animal yourself, especially with cows milk.  This is certain to cause diarrhea.  Take the orphan to the nearest wildlife rehabilitator as soon as possible.

  

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Great Ape Project E-mail List

 

The Great Ape Project invites people from around the world to join our electronic email service, "GAPNews."  Through this free service, GAP distributes e-mailings relevant to the lives of our fellow great apes.

 

All are welcome to join this service.  Although news and other informational mailings are a big part of GAPNews, it is often "action-based," providing opportunities to participate in campaigns such as letter writing or other efforts.

 

We hope that if you decide to join GAPNews, you will also sign GAP's Declaration on Great Apes. You may view and sign the Declaration electronically, at:

<http://www.enviroweb.org/gap/gapdeconline.html>, or you can request hard copies of the Declaration to sign and mail back to GAP. 

 

To subscribe to GAPNews, or for any questions regarding the Declaration on Great Apes, please email me at: GAPNews@aol.com.

 

  Thanks very much.

  Sarah Whitman

  for The Great Ape Project

  Satyatold@aol.com

  http://www.enviroweb.org/gap

 

Source: GAPNews@aol.com

 

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Student's Rights - Dissection

 

As a graduate student nearing the completion of my Masters program at Towson University in Maryland, as well as an Eagle Scout, I am appalled to learn of the systematic violation of students' rights at Vassar College.  These rights are clearly protected by the free exercise clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, nor abridging the free exercise thereof."  The U.S. Supreme Court has explicitly held that a religion need not strictly adhere to the dictates of an organized coalition, but may equally be defined by an individual.  Whether or not a student identifies her/himself as a member of an organized religion, her/his sincerely held moral, ethical or religious beliefs are protected by the aforementioned clause, thereby mandating that every academic institution in the U.S. respect this personal belief system.  It behooves Vassar College as an institution of higher learning to honor the moral convictions of the students who pay their tuition to attend your school, and pay your salaries.  Private institutions are equally responsible for adhering to students' civil liberties so long as they receive any public funding.  How can you call your school a "liberal" institution while unconstitutionally requiring them to dissect and vivisect animals in Biology and Psychology classes? 

 

Students enroll in college to learn how to think critically, not to be indoctrinated into archaic and fraudulent rituals, disguised as mandatory methodology. If your institution is worthy of any respect and tuition funds, you have no justification for an "all-or-nothing" approach.  College should not be a fascist dictatorship where we march in lockstep to our authority's every command.  So-called "alternatives" to academic dissection and vivisection have been widely available for many years.  The Ethical Science Education Coalition in Boston, Massachusetts, publishes a thick catalogue with hundreds of practical, comprehensive replacements for the traditional "death science" approach.  Biology is the science of life, not death.  The time is long overdue for Vassar College and other similar institutions to understand this simple fact.

 

Had I been presented some of these alternatives as an undergraduate student at Hofstra University 6 years ago (as well as in high school), I conceivably would have performed far better in my laboratory exercises than I did, since biology was always my strongest natural science discipline.  My entire set of career choices would have been different, as I may have gone to medical school thereafter, rather than pursuing a liberal arts program.  How many more compassionate, gifted students must sacrifice the opportunity to pursue a life-saving occupation, in the true tradition of the Hippocratic oath, simply because their schools force them to violate their own sincerely held moral, religious or ethical beliefs?  Students must not be coerced to learn material by exploiting animals. "Alternatives" are generally less expensive, more time-efficient, and more humane.  Vassar College must adopt a choice policy for dissection and vivisection now, lest you continue to violate the U.S. Constitution by infringing on the free exercise clause.  Conscientious objection is no less relevant to killing other species than to humans.

 

  David L. Fishman, M.A. Candidate

  Towson University

  Lifetime Member

  National Eagle Scout Association

 

Source: DapperD72@aol.com

 

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Replacing School Hatching Projects:

Alternative Resources & How To Order Them

 

The Needs Of Developing Birds Are Not Likely To Be Met

 

Every year, kindergarten and elementary school teachers and their students place thousands of fertilized eggs in classroom incubators to be hatched within three or four weeks. These birds are not only deprived of a mother; many grow sick and deformed because their exacting needs are not met during incubation and after hatching. Body organs stick to the sides of the shells because they are not rotated properly. Birds are born with their intestines outside their bodies. Eggs can hatch on weekends when no one is in school. The heat may be turned off for the weekend causing the embryos to become crippled or die in the shell. Commercial suppliers' eggs hatch an abnormally high number of deformed birds reflecting the limited gene pool from which they derive. Some teachers even remove an egg from the incubator every other day and open it up to look at the embryo in various stages of development, adding the killing of innocent life to the child's education.

 

When the project is over, these now unwanted birds may be left in boxes in the main office for many hours without food, water, or adequate ventilation waiting to be collected for disposal. The school system does not even provide a budget for the veterinary care and treatment of birds and other animals who are used in the classroom. That this lesson sinks into students is shown by the decision of millions of adults each year to "get rid of" a sick, injured, or crippled "pet" rather than pay for veterinary treatment.

 

Good Homes Cannot Be Found And The Problem Is Getting Worse . . .

 

Because a child bonds naturally with infant animals, students and even some teachers are misled to believe that the surviving birds are going to live out their lives happily on a farm, when in reality, most of them are going to be killed immediately (most working farms do not add school-project birds to their existing flocks for fear of importing germs), sold to live poultry markets and auctions, fed to captive zoo animals, or left to die slowly of hunger and thirst as a result of ignorance and neglect. Commercial egg suppliers routinely send returned hatching-project birds to slaughter. Baby quails may be used for hunting and hunting-dog practice or recycled into repetitive "nutrition deprivation" experiments.  As one egg supply farm explained, "We don't tell the school and kids the truth because they become emotionally involved. The emotional involvement of people goes beyond our counseling capacity."

 

Some children do learn the truth, however. At a special education school in New York City, for example, the custodian flushed deformed live chicks down the toilet, while at another special education school, the teacher twisted the deformed chicks' necks and then flushed them -- significant lessons for children who are themselves disabled.

 

School hatching projects increase the number of animals no one is asking for -- those millions of precious creatures, including classroom chickens and other birds, whom we pay people to "euthanize" each year or whom a parent may reluctantly take on, usually temporarily. School hatching projects encourage students to desire to repeat the classroom experience by producing unwanted litters of puppies and kittens. After all, aren't we assured that a "farm" or a "shelter" will absorb our castoffs?

 

Each year, animal shelters across the country are confronted with unwanted chicks, ducklings, quails, even turkeys and ostriches, many of them ill, from educators who never thought of the fate of the birds, or could not find homes for them, adding to the tremendous burden already borne by the shelters. Surely there are enough animals who need homes already without adding to the population and perpetuating the behavior that is responsible for the problem.

 

Increasing urbanization enormously compounds the problem. Residential zones ban the keeping of domestic fowl, while even people who can provide a good home can accommodate only so many male birds. Normal flocks have several female birds to one male. Roosters crow before dawn and during the day.  (Crowing is part of the complex visual and communication system evolved in the chickens' jungle habitat.) Unfortunately, half of all chickens born are males.

 

The Lesson Never Taught: Chickens, Ducks, and Quails are Marvels of Nature

 

The lesson never taught is that chickens, ducks, and quails are marvels of nature. These birds are energetic foragers with excellent eyesight, strong legs and other features that enable them to find their own plants, seeds, and insects with expertise. Japanese quail mate for life and have strong migratory instincts that are totally frustrated in captivity. Ducks need water not only to drink and swim in, but to ensure the health of their eyes with constant rinsing. Chickens and turkeys have an inborn need to range and be social. Ostriches and emus have a strong family life in which both parents play an active role in the nesting, incubation, protection and teaching of their young.

 

Hatching project birds have real mothers and fathers . . . somewhere. A mother hen turns each egg carefully as often as 30 times a day, using her body, her feet, and her beak to move the egg precisely in order to maintain the proper temperature, moisture, ventilation, humidity, and position of the egg during the 3-week incubation period. Embryonic chicks, ducklings, quails, turkeys, ostriches and emus respond to soothing sounds from the mother hen. Chicken embryos respond to warning cries of the rooster. Two to three days before the baby birds are ready to hatch, they start peeping to notify their mother and siblings that they are ready to emerge from the shell, and to draw her attention to any distress such as cold or abnormal positioning. A communication network is established among the baby birds, and between the baby birds and their mother, who must stay calm while all the peeping, sawing, and breaking of eggs goes on underneath her. As soon as all the eggs are hatched, the hungry mother and her brood go forth eagerly to eat, drink, and explore.

 

Instead of teaching these valuable lessons, school hatching projects mislead children to think that artificially incubated birds come from machines with no need of a mother or a family life. They do not perceive the parents' role in nest-making, incubation, protection, care, and teaching of their young. Supplemental facts, even if provided, cannot compete with this barren, mechanistic, and decontextualized classroom experience which gets passed on from one generation to the next. For example, a teacher whose students hatched an ostrich in class mistakenly told the newspaper that the only thing baby ostriches learn from their parents is "the pecking process."

 

Meaningful, Humane, Creative Replacements Are Needed

 

School hatching projects teach children (and teachers) that bringing a life into the world is not a grave and permanent responsibility with ultimate consequences for the life created. Elimination of this destructive idea from our schools is a practical extension of the socially responsible atmosphere we are trying to create for our children, including respect for the family life of all creatures. Hatching projects need to be replaced with creative programs including colorful books, filmstrips, videos, computer programs, and plastic models that demonstrate the embryonic process in the major stages of development of a bird inside an egg.  Easily-adapted programs are already in use in other areas of biology and can be adapted to hands-on instruction based on materials that do not entail the repetitive generation of living beings for a terminal procedure. Educators can help by urging educational supply companies to develop alternative programs, and by purchasing existing alternative programs, creating a demand.

 

In addition, an understanding of the natural life of chickens, ducks, and quails incorporating the fact that they are birds can be encouraged by quietly observing a nest of wild birds including pigeons, sparrows and other birds who have adapted to city life. Field trips to places where ducks can be seen swimming and chickens can be seen socializing, sunbathing, dustbathing, foraging and enjoying themselves outside will help students to see these birds in a sensitizing and appealing perspective. Field trips with the local Audubon Society or other local nature study organizations can incorporate holistic projects in which students observe the fascinating ecology of many kinds of birds.

 

What Educators And Others Can Do

 

If a hatching project is being considered at your school, please use an alternative project, or urge the science curriculum coordinator or whoever else is responsible to use a replacement that respects the life, feelings, and family life of all creatures. In doing so, you are helping to build a society in which it will one day be considered unthinkable to generate a living being simply as an experiment. If young children are "excited" by classroom bird-hatching projects and the production of litters of puppies and kittens, this is because they are innocently bonding with these baby animals without understanding the true situation. Most of the animals do not have a happy (or any) life ahead, and multiple unwanted offspring result from those who do. The majority of children who learn the truth are emotionally traumatized and justifiably feel betrayed.

 

Source: United Poultry Concerns <franklin@smarty.smart.net>

 

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Almost As Good As Your Dog

 

* If you can start the day without caffeine,

* If you can get going without pep pills,

* If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,

* If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,

* If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,

* If you can overlook it when something goes wrong through no fault of yours and those you love take it out on you,

* If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,

* If you can ignore a friend's limited education and never correct him,

* If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,

* If you can face the world without lies and deceit,

* If you can conquer tension without medical help,

* If you can relax without liquor,

* If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,

* If you can say honestly that deep in your heart you have no prejudice against creed, color, religion or politics,

 

Then, my friends, you are almost as good as your dog.

 

                                                            -Author Unknown

 

Source: MiamiHuskyRescue@aol.com

 

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New Fast Food Veggie Chain

 

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., April 25 -- Health Express USA, the country's first fast-food restaurant franchise to feature gourmet health food, said today its employees are flipping veggie burgers and pouring organic carrot juice as fast as possible as sales at its first store have exceeded the company's expectations in just the first two weeks of operations.

 

The company said health-hungry customers have flocked to the company's new flagship store, Healthy Bites Grill. "We're amazed at the amount of business we did in our first two weeks of operations," said Doug Baker, CEO of Health Express USA. "It proves consumers want food that's not only fast but healthy."

      

In addition, the company was recently featured in "Chain Leader Magazine," a restaurant industry publication published for executives of multi-unit restaurant companies.  Health Bites is described in the "first look" section of the magazine.  Featured in "Chain Leader's" April issue, the article is titled "Vegetable Kingdom, Healthy Bites brings good-for-you fast food to Florida." The feature focuses on Healthy Bites, "Gourmet Healthy Fast Food" and on its expansion plans for the year 2001.

 

D'Alonzo commented on the article, pointing out that "Chain Leader" typically selects the companies it features based upon the potential a company has to expand its concept. "We're pleased that such a prestigious publication chose HEXS to be the focus of its 'first look' section. It's an indication of our growth potential and of the excitement generated by the concept," D'Alonzo added.

        

Healthy Bites Grill's award-winning Executive Chef David Maltrotti was also interviewed by "Vegetarian Times" for an article scheduled to be published this summer in addition to "Foodservicecentral.com," an online publication.

 

Healthy Bites Grill offers healthy and organic food in a fast-food format, including both a drive-through and an eat-in facility. Its menu includes such fare as grilled Portobello mushroom sandwiches, cholesterol-free vegetarian Caesar salads, Oriental Harusame salads and a variety of other alternatives prepared without adding fat, artificial flavorings, pesticides, antibiotics and other substances found in many of today's food production processes.

 

For more information on Healthy Bites Grill or Health Express USA,

  call 800-575-4144, or visit the company's web site: www.hexs.com .

 

Source: Farm Animal Reform Movement (FARM) <farm@farmusa.org>

 

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Don't

by Guila Manchester

 

Perhaps somewhere the gates are swinging open

And a tiny pair of wings is flying through.

And your little feathered body

Lying limp within my hands

Is free from all the harm

That man can do.

 

Don't try to find your supper by walking in the road.

It's simply not the place

For you to be.

You waited just a bit too long for flying;

The driver didn't care

Or didn't see.

 

Don't try to get the berries on the bushes.

They may be coated well

With poison spray.

Don't try to stick your head through rings of plastic,

For if you're caught

You cannot get away.

 

Don't go into a yard where there are children,

For some of them

Think sticks and stones are fun.

And some will walk away and leave you bleeding

For they have learned the "sport"

Of use a gun.

 

Don't try to build your nest in someone's flowers.

They may not want the bother it could bring.

Sometimes they'll take a nest

And simply throw it on the ground

Your baby birds

May never live to sing.

 

I'd like to see a world that made you welcome.

I'd like to help God's creatures live;

Instead I watch them die.

I hold your broken body lying limp within my hands

And something deep inside me

wants

to

cry......

 

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Quote To Remember

 

  "I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore

            that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature,

            let me do it now, let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass

            this way again."

                                                             -Erienne de Grellet

  

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Correction

 

In the May 3rd edition of Animal Writes, we erroneously attributed the article called "Making A Difference" to E Breakstone" <queeniefound@hotmail.com> who has informed us that the actual author is Cheryl Reed of West Michigan All Breed Rescue.  We have no contact information for the author.

 

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