CIRCUS-ELEPHANT KEEPER ORDERED OUT OF L.A. ACTION: PERMIT REVOKED FOR ANIMAL MISTREATMENT.Byline: Dana Bartholomew Staff Writer PANORAMA CITY -- The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Department of Animal Services ordered a circus-elephant keeper to pack his three elephants and leave town Thursday for violating the federal Animal Welfare Act. The department, acting under new city rules for exotic animals, revoked a conditional permit for Will Davenport and his three Asian elephants -- Boo, Jewel and Tina. The elephants had been performing since Friday at Circus Vazquez across from Panorama City Mall City Mall is a shopping mall located in Eroii Revolutiei square, Bucharest, Romania. The City Mall include:
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Davenport, who had contracted with Circus Vazquez for elephant performances, could not be reached for comment. The conditional permit was revoked under guidelines adopted this year by the Animal Services Commission. One of the 12 new rules prohibits an exotic-animal permit for any applicant who has violated the Animal Welfare Act within five years. Boks said he contacted the U.S. Department of Agriculture and found that Davenport, acting under different names and business aliases in Arizona and Texas, had a history of numerous Animal Welfare Act violations. The USDA USDA, n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture. regulates the care and treatment of exotic animals. In Defense of Animals In Defense of Animals (IDA) is an animal welfare organisation based in San Rafael, California, USA. Its slogan is "working to protect the rights, welfare, and habitats of animals". , an animal-welfare group, pointed to a history of USDA citations against Davenport for physical abuse, neglect and inadequate veterinary care of Boo, Jewel and Tina. "There's a long history of abuse (and) neglect with these circus animals," said Catherine Doyle of Los Angeles, a campaign director for the group that helped write the city's new exotic-animal permit rules. "I'm very happy that the city's permit regulations did what they are supposed to do: keep abusive animal acts out of Los Angeles." In an unrelated incident, a Circus Vazquez acrobat Document exchange software from Adobe that allows documents to be displayed and printed the same on every computer. The Acrobat system created the Portable Document Format (PDF), which is widely used in commercial printing and on the Web. See PDF. was killed under a South El Monte South El Monte, city (1990 pop. 20,850), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the San Gabriel Valley; inc. 1958. Manufactures include transportation equipment, electrical and plastic products, clothing, textiles, machinery, and furniture. There is poultry processing. big top last year after failure of equipment holding him aloft. dana.bartholomew(at)dailynews.com 818-713-3730 |
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