Word: aspca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best friend turns out to be more fragile than one might hope. On Aug. 1, New York City started enforcing a new law requiring dog owners to clean up any waste left in public by their beasts or face fines of up to $100. That very week, the ASPCA now reports, some 25% more dogs were turned in (a total of some 1,450) than during the comparable week last year-and that does not include animals left on the streets. Over the month of August, the number of abandoned dogs increased about...
...ASPCA manages to find homes for barely 10% of such dogs; most are killed after three to five days in the kennel...
...Chicago couple suffered the double indignity of being assaulted and robbed when they tried-in vain-to buy back their dog. To discourage ransom demands, animal-welfare officials in San Francisco have stopped giving the phone numbers of pet losers to callers who report finding animals. Instead, the ASPCA relays the information. Tattooed registration numbers on a dog's skin discourage thieves, but the marking should never be put on the dog's ear. Reason: dognapers might cut off the ear and mail it to the owner as proof they have poor Fido...
...color (which continues throughout the film) the blood looks quite a bit like Ocean Spray cranberry juice. (It may in fact be Ocean Spray cranberry juice.) But one thing is definitely real--the slaughtered animals. This is Mexico, not the Land of the Free. There is no strong ASPCA leaning over Jodorowsky's shoulder...