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1 The Huane Society Institute for Science and Policy Anial Studies Repository KCL Noveber 1972 Follow this and additional works at: Recoended Citation "KCL Noveber 1972" (1972). Kindness Club Newsletter This Report is brought to you for free and open access by the Huane Society Institute for Science and Policy. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authoried adinistrator of the Anial Studies Repository. For ore inforation, please contact

2 I Y QU R Volue 3, Nuber 11 Noveber 1972 KINDNESS CLUB LETTER JEANNE DE FELICE HOLDS SHAKESPHERE, THE OPOSSUM SHE HAS RAISED. BUT WINTER IS COMING. IS THIS THE TIME TO RELEASE SHAKE SPHERE? AND HOW TO BE SURE THE OPOSSUM PET WILL SURVIVE? I see page 4

3 She got car sick on the trip for SF\'t> i shg irq interest in lfe. We visited her W li FE f.) Ji E )f..a D "T PI c. «U S oft c.y T u 1-t'E wot:tr-t Ai!lli" ti9j.j4-ti-s, arc:i 'l!all,ed gently to her. 'S Mcf' days acted «-8"" o FiE IU freqpe:aii. Pretty soon she began watching the cats playing in the next roo HAtttE IJOISE"...: She began to eat better. -e.allt a ret, anaround her cage, getting exercise she needed. We didn't want Mya to live in a cage all her life, but she didn't know how to live free. We were lucky EU!ol!'th to find a woan who her life and has Mya, the ocelot, who knows life only as a house cat. ocelot is 3 l/2 to four feet long, and ay weigh as uch as 85 pounds. L"' r ( os C.t:''' ot) Dear friends, c..c..eo /tiu Ott:: '- ' - p - c,-.\ ;;::p Sit Et.o.,cH... S IHE'...1\JA»'-<.t:' ', 1..:f Mya is aheuse eat r.hi18ii:1!!8!! tilolio is t:ae 9R:t:Y!II!"'!L e 'BvT Stt! c..tves IN,. 1-tovsE'. CH'E IS t.vc.ey T s(;le Aas r Js.ngwn._ Mya 18elei!:l3 ifj: the junle; 1131!!t: that 'B c 1t c.., " e. is a 1 i fe sbe oever koer..r Mya: ie P\ eeelet went Jllwlt J Jl H/I.AJ WMO C'oud) NoT '\)A JitS RENT ' Woe uere lt:tehy 'l!o fil'l:el Uya a J i u. A- liird lo;a;d rjj s- H-E LE"'Fr Jr1)flf AtoNE IN A Roo'"'!.!t-!e HAD./fJ(J l="oo. covered a tenant had left without pay1ng h1s rent, and o watet ih t.anoual> Foul) P-1'/14 SHE-. wm_si-ivnc,.y found he had also abandoned Mya to die of starvat1on 1n JIIP'"I'A O 4 1-'AN FlfOrl Tttf HvHAAii' c'-1 ry "'91( TOtJI( the locked apartent. The landlord called the Huane My A T() /JN IIN11119 t. S' 1-tEt..rE'It. s,brought Mya to our shelter. 2. (continued on page 3) An her hoe to care for istreated ocelots. She adopted Mya, not really knowing if she would react well to the other ocelots. If Mya didn 9 t adjust, there would be no other hope, and she would have to be put to sleep. But Mya adjusted beautiful;hy. She had known no other life than living in a house, and shesponwell to the love and her new owner gave her. We're very 1) to the woan wh her life and hoe to the care of ocelots who should never have been reoved fro their hoe, and who cannot be released to live free. It's the best life we can give the, when they have never learned to live as ocelots should. How glad we are we could offer her this life, where she is loved and wanted. Your friend, 3.

4 A REAL HI LD Af'! I MAL PET see cover photo A REAL WILD ANIMAL PET (continued fro page 4) Have you ever wanted a real wild anial as your very own pet? Jeanne De Felice fet.that way, but she knew wild anials should be left l1v1ng free. So she was content with a cat, a dog, and a haster. Then one day a boy brought her a tiny baby opossu that his dog had caught. The opossu just fit in the pal of her hand. She fed it, prepared a bed and a 7age fr it, and soon the opossu was responding to her JUSt l1ke her other pets. Now the opossu is half grown, and has grown a pouch on her stoach. Jeanne didn't know the opossu as a eale, and naed her Shakesphere, but the nae st1cks w1th her, anyway. Jeanne lives in Indiana, where winter can?et p7etty ld She knows it isn't fair to keep a w1ld an1al 1n ptlvity all its life. She's even afraid Shakesphere will get too used to her if she keeps her uch onger,.and not be abre to learn how to live free. But she s afra1d she won't have enough tie to find sources of food before winter sets in. Opossus sleep a lot during cold winter onths--a type of hibernation, when she wouldn't.need too uch food. Opossus have been known to learn to l1ve free, even after living two or three years in captivity. Shakesphere probably will have to learn that dogs are an eney. Jeane has decided that she ust find a refuge where there w1ll be soe protection for Shakesphere when she does release her She hopes to be able to visit regularly and put food out for her for the first few weeks. Jeanne.has decided she should keep Shakesphere throu?h the 1nter, and release her in the spring, when she w1ll be JUSt about fully grown. Then she will have al suer long to get acquainted with her new hoe, and f1nd good sources of food. 4. (continued on page 5) Perhaps you ay feel she should have released Shakesphere this fall. List the reasons she should have released her this fall, and why she should wait until spring. Write and tell us what you think Jeanne should have done. Be sure your letter is postarked no later than Noveber 15. We'll print the best suggestions in your Deceber newsletter. EVERYONE LOVES THE KOALA BEAR One of the ost appealing of all anials is the koala bear. Gift shops and novelty stores often have fuy toy koala bears for sale, but they are all covered with kangaroo fur. Visit gift shops where you live and see if they have koala bear toys for sale. Read the label, or ask the clerk, to find out what kind of fur it is. We have never seen a fuy toy koaia bear in anything but kangaroo fur. Ask the clerk why they use kangaroo fur when any other fuy anial toys are covered with synteti fur. The clerk ay not be able to tell you, but 1s l1kely to try to find out. Tell the clerk you would like a koala bear toy, but you refuse to buy one that is covered with kangaroo fur. Explain to the clerk that, if people don't stop killing kangaroos, they ay soon becoe extinct. NEW JERSEY PROJECT If you live in New Jersey, don't forget to help The Huane Society distribute leaflets on the state's new trapping laws. (See October newsletter) Order leaflets fro: The Huane Society of the u.s., New Jersey Branch, 114 East Jersey St., Eliabeth, N.J

5 Dear ARAHKUN, I took care o f 2 Gerbils for neighbors h while I they. I know you can use t e oney went on vacat1on. 1 $5 gift for the anials. earned for the an1a s. age 7 Love, Charlotte Conway, Fairfax, Va. Dear KIND, a letter fro the Anial Welfare Leaguedofll We got f friends and I went aroun a Arlington. So a few o. yf r it The oney is going to I over the place collect1ng 'lding for stray and suffer- T an anial shelter they are I think this was a nice i ing anials. We col;ectedsfncrely Sylvia Wertheier,age 1 i project for KIND e ers., THE CAST OUT Who could hurt this little dog you ay say He is so cute How Was and fast in his play. could soeone cast hi out? he ad?? What's this all about. You ay say this every day? But do you stop and try to help. Will you help without a doubt? Are you sad that this ay haphpen? Joro Walker, Chevy C ase, TIME TO RENEW Mebership renewal tie is during t h e Send your $2 dues in now for NAME STREET ADDRESS Md. age 1 last four onths of each year. BIRTHDATE CITY STATE ZIP CODE Whiskers, the KIND office ascot, sleeps his lar 9-5 shift in the Director's briefcase. WOLVES THREATENED IN QUEBEC There is no bounty on wolves in Quebec, any ore. But a far ore wicked plan has just been announced. As a schee to attract tourists and get their business, special be given to hunters who kill a wolf. Each will receive the jaws of the wolf he killed, ebedded in a plastic. block, with the nae of the killer engraved in the Quebec expects to attract 5, hunters to a 5, square ile area to shoot the wolves. After that 1 they plan to truck in 6 loads of traps to set to catch the wolves that are left. Quebec clais the wolves are over-populating. (Reeber, wolves practice birth control, and we know of no other case where wolves becae too nuerous, unless, perhaps, by being driven out of other territories.) You can write and protest the killing of wolves. Write to: M. Claude Siard, Minister of Touris, Fish & Gae, Canada. Office of the Minister, Gouverneent du Quebec, Quebec, 7.

6 RECYCLED PAPER During World War II everyone had Victory Gardens to raise their own food. They did any other things to save etal and help the war effort. They recycled 35% of all the paper used. Today we only recycle 25% of the paper we use, even though recycling helps the environent. It takes a tree 1 foot tall to produce the paper one person uses in just one year. There are 758 illion acres of forests in the U.S. If just 5% of the paper were recycled, 5 illion trees would be saved each year. They would ake a forest roughly equal to all of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Mark these states on a ap. One acre of trees reoves 5 to 6 tons of carbon dioxide fro the atosphere each year. This is the waste gas you breathe out. In return, these trees produce 4 tons of oxygen for us to breathe each year. Trees ake the atosphere cooler. One acre of trees can have the sae cooling effect in the suer as an air conditioner big enough to cool a 1 roo house, if it is operated night and day. Your KINDNESS CLUB letter is published onthly for ebers ages 6-1 by KIND, youth ebership division of The Huane Society of. the U S R. Dale Hylton, -; ::r (1) ::J "' I c 3 ::J "' (1) ft1. c n ::J 1-3 :;:J... en 1-' en li (D () "'<: ()... (D p. ' Ill ' (D li \). q. tv w MC'l (/) C/) --1 -; :r: :=> -; =E "':=> ;or- :r:!;c _a. <:=>. - Z aqi'tl ::; - Cl "'c "'n N:t> -; c.ooo rr. -J i"1' :t) ;II': fti Vl,,. > -l c: ;::1 Vi "1'1. V"l