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Wish List, April 2012
We are in need of the following:
- LCD
computer monitor
- Air compressor, any size
- Push lawn mower
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- Up-right
freezer
- Chest freezer
- Plywood for building coyote houses
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If you're able to donate any of these please email or call us. Thank
You
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Indiana Coyote
Rescue Center Update
I would like to give an update to our donors and readers about the
latest happenings at Indiana Coyote Rescue Center. The Board
of
Directors sends a heartfelt thank you to our donors for your continued
support during our transitional time.
We are making progress! The perimeter fence is now
installed! It took two hard working men six days to
complete. This is the major step toward becoming certified by
the
USDA, a goal that CeAnn started before she passed away in April of
2011. We have other work that needs to be done such as
improved
housing for the coyotes and foxes. That work should be done
by
the end of March, 2012. We also will be able to expand pen
size
soon as we have extra panels we can add to already built
pens. As
our property floods in places with the rainy spring, we hope to
eventually drain the water to a lower area of the grounds and create a
pond for the coyotes to play in. With USDA certification in
the
future, we will be licensed as an educational facility. That
means we will be having groups, especially school children, at ICRC to
view and learn about coyotes. We will have a viewing area
with
picnic tables and our visitors will be able to observe our workers
enter and leave the pens while cleaning, feeding, and entertaining the
coyotes. They will also observe educational enrichment, or
giving
the coyotes something to do. The best part will be listening
to
– and feeling – a group
howl!
Gale Motter is no longer with us and has been replaced by Travis
Nelson, one of our caretakers. Travis is doing a great job
and
has a lot of energy and ideas for improvements to the house and
grounds, and has completed quite a bit of it.
We will be updating the website this fall. We will be adding
more
pictures of our coyotes so that readers, especially those that have
adopted individual coyotes, can see the latest. We also will
put
together a newsletter, which hasn't been done since CeAnn became
ill. Each of the members of our Board of Directors will write
an
article which will show each one’s individual interest in
coyotes
and wild animals in general.
It occurred to me that most of our readers and donors haven't met our
Board of Directors, so let me do some introductions.
I am Holly Hadac, President of ICRC, and live in Michigan. I
am a
retired police officer, an NRA member, and come from a hunting
family. As a Michigan Licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator, I take
in
injured, orphaned, and sick wildlife, specializing in large mammals and
coyote education. I am part of a research team in Michigan
trapping, radio collaring, and tracking coyotes. Also, I have
a
public talk educating people about coyotes, including school children
in Michigan and Indiana. I tell people I don't care what
their
opinions are about coyotes, but I want their opinion to be based on
fact backed up by research and not myths.
Our Vice-President, Jami Hammer, lives in Illinois and was an intern at
ICRC for two years. She is a zoology student in
Illinois.
Jami knows every nuance about every coyote and fox at ICRC.
She
is knowledgeable about their individual behaviors and captive coyote
behavior in general.
Our Secretary, Shane McKee, lives in Cincinatti, Ohio. Shane
is a
clinical research psychologist who has specialized in animal
behavior. He is currently working on his Masters
degree. Shane has been with ICRC for many years, and did all
the
paperwork for us to become a non-profit and grant requests.
Shane
has worked on many projects at ICRC.
Our Treasurer, Carol Green, lives in Michigan. Carol is a
retired
mortgage banker. Her last assignment before retirement was in
Maryland where she was a Vice-President to a large mortgage
corporation. She is very knowledgeable about computer
operations
and finance.
Our Board member, Jessica Hamman, lives in Illinois. She was
an
intern for a year at Wolf Park in Battle Ground, Indiana, and was an
intern for four months at ICRC. Jessica is a dog trainer and
runs
a boarding facility for dogs and cats in the Chicago area.
She is
a retired USAF Staff Sergeant and was a jet mechanic. Jessica
has
a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Studies from
Northeastern
Illinois University and is currently pursuing her Master’s
Degree
in Biology at Western Illinois University.
The lawsuit filed against the Indiana DNR by the Animal Legal Defense
Fund, Project Coyote, and the Animal Welfare Institute
continues.
The purpose is to stop live bait dog training at an Indiana
facility. You can read more about that on this website and
their
websites.
Let's all continue to help coyotes, one coyote at a time as CeAnn
always said and did.
Holly Hadac,
President
Indiana Coyote Rescue Center |
News Flash: June 20th 2011
Animal Legal
Defense Fund,
Project Coyote and Animal Welfare Institute are jointly sueing the
Indiana DNR to stop them from allowing an Indiana facility to do live
bait dog training with coyotes and foxes.
Project
Coyote News Release Channel
6 News Article
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Help
Ban Live Bait Dog Training In Indiana
Ethically
Indefensible
Ecologically
Reckless
Counter
To Sound Scientific Wildlife Management
Current
loopholes in
Indiana’s wildlife regulations allow the capture and killing
of
coyotes and red foxes by dogs in the wild. Moreover, no rule or law
exists prohibiting the trapping and selling of coyotes and foxes in
state or across state lines to “penning” facilities
where
these wild canines are then used to “train” hunting
dogs in
“running pens.” Operators of the running pens often
charge
a fee for individuals to “train” their hunting dogs
on the
captive coyotes and foxes. Penned wild canids are often killed by being
torn apart by the dog pack. Other States are moving away from such
barbaric activities such as the use of “running
pens”.
As a society we have decided that dog and cock
fighting are ethically indefensible and we have banned these practices
nationwide. Setting dogs onto wild animals has no place in a civilised
society.
Does
Indiana want to be known worldwide as supporting and
facilitating such cruel ‘sports’?
PLEASE TAKE ACTION TODAY TO HELP
STOP THE BARBARISM!
It
is our
job to turn the
spotlight on the people who participate in this bloodsport and also
shine it on the people who condone such barbarity, including Indiana
legislators!.
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 Coyote Adoption
Help care for one of the resident coyotes
at the Indiana Coyote Rescue Center through the
adoption program. Includes the new coyote puppies.
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Stopping Cruel Dog Training with Live
Coyotes
Great News!
On July 15th, the Natural Resources Commission by a unanimous vote
approved the Indiana Department of Natural Resource's rule changes.
These new Indiana state code rules will help stop the trade and abuse
of coyotes for live bait dog training.
Update:
The rule
change has been reviewed by the state attorney general's office and
then was signed into law by Governor Mitch Daniels on July 28th 2008.
A summary of the new rules:
1. Coyotes taken from March 16th to October 14th (outside of hunting
& trapping season) be must be euthanized within 24 hours of
capture.
2. The sale, trade and gift of live coyotes outside of the coyote
hunting & trapping season is prohibited.
3. A person is prohibited from having in possession lawfully
taken live
coyotes more than 20 days after the close of the hunting &
trapping
season unless authorized by law.
Thank you to all the people who helped with the passage of these rules.
More information in the Winter
2008 Newsletter.
 ICRC has partnered with the
organization Stop Live Bait Dog Training. Together we are supporting
the Indiana Department of Natural Resource's rule change which would
end the sale of live coyotes. The current regulation allows trapped
wild coyotes to be sold alive. They are often then used as live bait in
hunting hound dog training. This cruel and inhumane practice often
leads to suffering, major injury and death of the dogs &
coyotes involved. The new proposed DNR rule would require the trapped
coyotes be euthanized within 24 hours. For more information please
contact via email: BanLiveBaitDogTraining@yahoo.com
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Indiana
Coyote Rescue Center is a 501(c)3
not for profit organization. We have worked very diligently to
achieve this and are very proud of this
accomplishment.
ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE IN THE USA!
You
can help us through ADOPTING
a coyote
or
with needed items on the WISH
LIST
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The ICRC is currently home to 21 coyotes (Canis
latrans).
All the animals were rescued from a humane shelter or from private
rehabilitators when the animals could no longer be released because
they had become too tame to humans. CeAnn Lambert has a license from
the state of Indiana, which allows her to give a home to these animals
who would otherwise not have survived. CeAnn also counsels people who
have somehow obtained young coyotes who, contrary to expectations, did
not turn out to be good "pets".
CeAnn started her work with coyotes and wolves at
WOLF PARK in 1986, and helped to hand raise a litter of wolf pups in
1987. She attended behavior seminars at WOLF PARK and read the
literature on coyotes and foxes. She is now well-known in Indiana and
is often interviewed in the media and gives lectures on coyotes and
their place in nature to interested groups. In short she speaks for
coyotes and against the mindless persecution of these animals.
CeAnn supports her facility from her own funds and
donations.
The coyotes are fed road kill deer and donated freezer meat.
CeAnn has volunteers who help her with the care of her animals. She
has worked for Behavioral Health care of Lebanon, IN, for five years
caring for abused or mentally ill children.
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www.projectcoyote.org
A
partner
organization with the mission to create fundamental and systemic change
in how coyotes and other native carnivores are viewed and treated in
North America.
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www.trailsafe.org
A
Nevada citzen group educating about the dangers of traps on public
forest/park lands and working on law reform for greater safety of pets
& people.
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