Distemper warning

THE SPCA warns the public that a number of
canine distemper cases have recently been
reported in the Lower Mainland.

Distemper in dogs is extremely contagious, spreading
through the air via particles from affected animals. It can be
trarismitted through sneezing, for example.

The only way to prevent distemper is through up-to-date
vaccinations.

Young puppies and non-vaccinated dogs, therefore, are at
the highest risk for contracting distemper.

The possible symptoms of distemper are runny nose and
eyes, fever, listlessness and vomiting, progressing to seizures
and eventual death.

The SPCA strongly urges pet owners to vaccinate pets,
and keep these current. Contact a veterinarian or the SPCA’s
director of animal welfare, Yvonne Savard, at 879-5494 to
ensure a pet is adequately protected.

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“NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

MS. Nadean Cool has won a
settlement of $2.4 million in
her lawsuit in Wisconsin
against her former psy-
chotherapist, Dr. Keaneth
Olson.

She claimed that Dr.
Olson had first persuaded
her that she had a muitiple-
personality disorder (120
personalities, including Satan
and a duck) and then billed
her insurance company for
“group” therapy because he
said he had to counsel so
many people. (Olson, seek-
ing preener pastures for his
psychotherapy business, had
since moved to Montana.)

The Washington Supreme
Court has reversed on a
technicality the conviction of
Benjamin R. Hull, who had
been found = guilty of
defrauding the state worker
compensation office.

Hull admitted that he got
a friend to help him blast a
hole in his left leg below the
knee with a shotgun, but
insisted it was not to get
compensation (he received
$96,000), bur because the
knee has been so painful to
him since 1973 after it was
injured in an accident.

(Five years earlier, he had
tried to take the leg off with
a chain saw, but got only
part-way through because
the saw kept malfunction-

ing.)

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The Australian Medical
Journal ceported a case of
lead poisoning by an electri-
cian who chewed electrical
cable to satisfy his nicotine
urge when he was forced to
work in no-smoking build-
ings.

‘The man said he chewed
almost a yard of cable a day
for nearly 10 years because it
had a sweet taste, especially
near the centre.

Larry Doyen, 22, was
hospitalized after chaining,
himself to a tree just outside
the town of Mexico, Maine.

He was rescued by the
state Warden Service after
spending two weeks with the
tree.

It was the third time he
had done that in recent
months.

A 50-year-old man was
arrested in Albuquerque on a
complaint by his 13-year-old
stepdaughter that he madc
her perform a scrics of
bizarre acts written out on
index cards and which were
supposedly to toughen her in
her quest to get a learner’s
driving permit.

According to the com-
plains, the girl was allowed
to drive the truck until the
man turned up an index card
with an instruction, which
she had to follow before dri-
ving some morc.

Among other things, the
cards called for her to pour
shampoo and dirt into her
hair; wear a dog coliar, do
sit-ups; stand naked in the
glare of the truck’s head-
lights; and stand tied to a bar
with a ball in ber mouth.

Jakarta, Indonesia —
Reuters news service reports
that a 29-ycar-cid woman,
upset with her unfaithful
boyfriend (identified only as
Tu), went to the crowded
karaoke bar where he works
and released a half dozen
cobras onto the premises.

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