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Dogs rescued from South Korean meat farm arrive in Oregon
By ABBY SPEGMAN
The Bulletin
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin via AP
In this Monday photo, Emily Warchol, a veterinary technician
at the Humane Society of Central Oregon, holds one of the
puppies rescued from South Korean dog-meat trade, during
its examination at Humane Society of Central Oregon in Bend.
BEND — Twenty-eight dogs
raised on a South Korean dog-meat
farm were brought to Central Oregon
over the weekend, part of a campaign
by Humane Society International to
end the dog-meat trade in Asia.
The Humane Society of Central
Oregon, in Bend, took in 17 dogs,
including six puppies; BrightSide
Animal Center in Redmond took in
11 dogs, from 4 months to 2 years old.
Of¿cials say all of the dogs need to be
assessed for medical and behavioral
issues before they can be put up for
adoption.
While dogs are used as meat
for human consumption in other
countries, South Korea is the only
place they are raised on farms for that
purpose, said Adam Parascandola,
director of animal protection and crisis
response for Humane Society Inter-
national. Last year the group started
working with farmers directly to close
them down, paying the farmers to
demolish their kennels and switch to
another operation that doesn’t involve
raising animals for meat.
It closed four farms and relocated
236 dogs last year. Earlier this year
it closed one farm in Wonju, South
Korea, with 270 dogs, which is where
the dogs brought to Central Oregon
came from.
Anyone who adopts these dogs
will need a great deal of patience,”
said Becky Stock, BrightSide exec-
utive director, noting they’ve never
been potty trained, walked on a leash
or socialized to play with other dogs.
Stock said a BrightSide trainer will
spend the next few weeks reading to
the dogs so they get used to hearing
voices and hand-feeding them to build
up trust.
Stock said once they are adopted,
their owners may receive special
training.
On Monday at the Humane
Society of Central Oregon, dogs were
brought in one by one from their pens
for medical exams. Most of their ages
and breeds are a guess at this point.
Carmine, believed to be a
1-year-old retriever-Lab mix, had
to be coaxed from his pen slowly,
peeking around the corner for the dog
next to him.
He was carried into the exam
room, where he cowered in the corner,
but his tail started to wag when he
saw Vanessa, another 1-year-old mix
brought from South Korea.
Next up were the puppies, 3
months old and visibly shaking. Tech-
nician Emily Warchol kept both hands
on Fallon, one of the puppies, to keep
him calm as veterinarian Elizabeth
Gray checked his eyes and ears and
listened to his heart.
Some of the older dogs have foot
infections from standing on grates for
long periods, and the larger dogs have
orthopedic issues as a result of being
con¿ned to too-small kennels. Apollo,
a 129-pound mastiff with droopy
jowls, has asymmetrical hips, large
Man sentenced for 1988 cold case murder
ODA eyes adding ‘stop work’ orders to its authority
Taking such drastic steps would
be overly burdensome for the
agency and the business in the case
of minor violations, such as a faulty
thermometer in a refrigerated meat
cooler, he said.
Under the proposed “stop work”
authority, the ODA could simply
require a company to cease using
that cooler until it’s ¿xed, he said.
“We’re looking at something
very narrow and probably short-
term,” Henderson said.
The proposal is in a very early
stage but the agency is considering
it as a possible “legislative concept”
for the 2017 legislative session, he
said.
Henderson acknowledged the
“stop work” idea has met with
some trepidation among regulated
companies.
“The industry as a whole is
pretty nervous about us having that
authority,” he said.
Aside from possibly affecting
pesticide applications, the proposal
could impact on-farm processing,
such as dairymen who make farm-
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Bureau
Food manufacturers and pesti-
cide applicators could be subject
to “stop work” orders under new
regulatory authority being consid-
ered by Oregon’s farm regulators.
The Oregon Department of
Agriculture may seek new regula-
tory power to halt speci¿c unlawful
actions that endanger public safety.
Currently, the agency can
suspend or revoke the license of
a food establishment or pesticide
applicator that’s violating the law,
but such sanctions may be overkill
in some situations, said Lauren
Henderson,
ODA’s
assistant
director.
“We don’t have anything that’s
speci¿c to an activity. It’s all or
nothing,” he said during this week’s
meeting of the Oregon Board of
Agriculture in Corvallis.
Revoking a license or obtaining
a temporary restraining order in
court also involves fairly high legal
hurdles, Henderson said.
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and in 2012 submitted old blood
evidence from a pillowcase and
underwear for DNA testing. The
blood matched Howard, who was
by this time a sex offender living in
San Diego.
Police arrested Howard in
November 2014, and he was extra-
dited to Oregon. Initially charged
with murder, the 60-year-old
pleaded guilty to manslaughter in
a plea deal two weeks ago. Court
records after his arrest show he had
been diagnosed with schizophrenia
and was taking the anti-psychotic
drug Thorazine.
Harvey worked as a receptionist
at Special Olympics of Oregon after
moving to Portland from Montana.
She was also an aspiring singer and
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PORTLAND (AP) — A man
who killed his downstairs neighbor
in the 1980s and got away with it
for more than a quarter-century was
sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in
prison.
Walter Wayne Howard was a
prime suspect after 25-year-old
Renee Harvey was found dead in
her southeast Portland apartment in
January 1988. She had been stran-
gled and her throat had been cut.
Days before her death, Harvey’s
apartment had been burglarized,
and she suspected Howard was the
culprit who stole her earrings and
VCR.
Upset by the crime, she decided
to move out. Detectives said she
had put down a deposit on another
apartment and was in the process of
moving when a friend discovered
her body.
Investigators
lacked
the
evidence to charge in Howard in
1988, and the case eventually went
cold.
The Portland Police Cold Case
Unit rekindled the investigation,
stead cheese.
Doug Krahmer, a blueberry
farmer and board member, said
companies should have a way to
challenge a “stop work” order.
“I would caution you to put some
sort of judicial mechanism in there,
so if a grower or an owner takes
issue with a stop work order, there
is a quick way to get adjudication,”
he said.
The U.S. Department of Labor
did not provide such recourse when
it issued “hot goods” orders in 2012
that halted the sale of perishable
fruit based on alleged labor viola-
tions, he said.
Krahmer said he would charac-
terize the DOL’s actions as “tyran-
nical” and he doesn’t ever want to
describe ODA that way.
Katy Coba, ODA’s director, said
the agency is still examining similar
authority in other states and recog-
nizes the importance of protecting
due process while ensuring public
safety.
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balance,” she said.
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callouses on his back legs and broken
teeth, most likely from chewing on his
kennel.
But a bigger concern than the
medical issues is how fearful these
dogs are. While other dogs in the
shelter howl and bark and compete for
attention, these dogs lie quietly in the
corners of their pens.
“For the most part, they just hide
in back like that. They’re not used
to people looking at them, trying to
interact with them,” said Karie Gibbs,
an animal care technician at Humane
Society of Central Oregon.
The shelter commonly has open
beds and brings in dogs from out
of the area to be adopted, since it
does not receive enough strays and
forfeited dogs to meet the demand
of people wanting to adopt, said
Lynne Ouchida, the shelter’s outreach
manager. Stray dogs are held for ¿ve
days before being put up for adoption
to give owners time to claim them;
last month 92 percent of the strays
brought in were claimed.
“We’re de¿nitely having to do
more (transfers),” Ouchida said,
noting this was the ¿rst international
transfer in the 20 years she has been
there.
Suzanne Verhaeg, of Bend, came
to Humane Society of Central Oregon
on Monday with her husband, Marty.
They were thinking of adopting and
heard about the South Korean dogs.
Just knowing what they’ve been
through, she said, it makes you want
to help.
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