Indiana Coyote Rescue Center
PO Box 275, Burlington IN 46915, USA
Tel: 765-566-3800
ceannicrc@yahoo.com

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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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CeAnn Lambert
1939 - 2011

It is with great sadness that I have to tell you of CeAnn Lambert’s recent passing.  CeAnn had breast cancer in 2007, and it returned to infect her organs especially her liver.  She was sick for about a month.  Knowing her time could be short CeAnn got busy arranging her personal and business affairs.  She arranged for Gale Motter to live at ICRC and be our curator.   Gale is a zoologist and is knowledgeable about canine behavior.  Gale and CeAnn raised wolf and coyote puppies together at Wolf Park in Battle Ground, Indiana.  As usual, no matter what, she took care of business to make sure her coyotes and foxes would be safe and taken care of.  As with everything she did, the coyotes were always her priority.

While CeAnn was sick, she was concerned about her donors.  She dictated a statement to me to pass along:  “Please tell my donors how very, very appreciative I’ve been over the years for their support. I have always appreciated anything anyone did for the coyotes, no matter how small.  I hope that you will continue to support Indiana Coyote Rescue Center as the Board of Directors continues without me.”

I have been Indiana Coyote Rescue Center’s Vice President and Educational Director and have now stepped up to the position of President.  I promised CeAnn and her family that the Board of Directors would do whatever we can to continue her vision for ICRC.  We feel we have inherited a legacy that must go on.  It’s humbling knowing she trusts us to continue.

The Board of Directors has discussed many visions we have for ICRC’s future including becoming licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture.  CeAnn was concerned about meeting the changing requirements of the Indiana DNR.  USDA had inspected the property and told CeAnn what needs to be done to meet their requirements.  She started the work before she became ill.  However, this work is very expensive and includes a survey, improved housing, tree trimming, and a perimeter fence.  We have continued working to meet these requirements and are trusting that the finances will work out through donor generosity.

It will take us a while to get our bearings and let the dust settle.  Then we intend to move forward, especially as an educational facility.  As CeAnn’s sister Paulette said, “I want this place to be here for my grandchildren and great grandchildren.”

Holly Hadac

Inside Outdoors Radio Show on WGCL - AM 1370
Interview with CeAnn Lambert about the coyote & fox running pens

News Flash: Nov 23th 2010
Coyote-Fox Kill Pens Closer to Happening In Indiana



News Flash: Nov 7th 2010
Concentration Camps for Coyotes And Foxes could become
Legal and Regulated in Indiana

Wildlife Services Exterminates Over 4.1 Million Animals in 2009

In the News: Hazing favored over killing Colorado's urban coyotes



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’?

Hounds and Coyote Photo

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!.


Newspapper IconIn the News:
6 Arrested in Kentucky in Coyote and Fox Trafficking Ring

Maine: Amended Bill to Remove Night Hunting Extension

Coyote Adoption Program   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.


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.

Ban Live Dog Training logoICRC 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

Indiana State Law Fails to Protect Wildlife from Animal Abuse

"Hit them in the head with a shovel and then stood on their lungs."
Indianapolis Police Departement Case Report: 06-0117183 - 0000

Click here to read the police report and the government's response

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



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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Project Coyote Logo
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. 

Trail Safe Logo
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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It is my personal belief that when the last human has fallen, and the last skull lies on the irradiated earth, a coyote will come trotting out of some safe place. Don't ask me where he'll come from; but I believe that he will survive as he has always survived. The coyote will trot in his furtive, skulking manner, to the skull. He will approach it carefully with the caution borne of millenia of avoiding steel traps and snares and pitfall. He will cautiously sniff it. His educated nose will tell him that he no longer has anything to fear from the bleached remnant of a once great civilization. Taking a few short steps to get in the exact position, he will lift his leg.

Charles L. Cadieux
Coyotes: Predators and Survivors




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