Wednesday, July 26, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Pets often suffer when students buy on impulse
By Stephanie Tweito
Special to the Kansan
JoJo, a 7 - month-old Bearle, sits in lock-down at the Lawrence Humane Society. Along with other dogs, cats, and rabbits, JoJo is one of the many animals at the Humane Society looking for a home. Photo by Nick Krug/Kansas
At the end of every semester, the Lawrence Humane Society gets about 50 animals at its shelter left by students who are leaving town.
Midge Grinstead, executive director of the Humane Society, said they do not discourage students from adopting pets, but that they encourage them to think through the commitment and responsibility that having a pet requires.
Dogs, cats, gerbils, rabbits, ferrets, lizards and birds are taken in by the Humane Society.
"Students are treated the same as everyone else," she said.
Students interested in adopting a pet can select a pet and fill out an application form. Grinstead said.
There is a 24- to 48-hour waiting period after filling out an application for two reasons, Grinstead said.
The society checks with the manager or landlord of the applicant's home to verify that the person lives there and can have the pet.
The waiting period also lets people think about their decision before they actually take home a pet.
"It is hard to walk in the building and by the kennels," Grinstead said. "Students away from home and their pets feel obligated to take one home. About half of them will change their mind after the waiting period. Many students adopt the hand-held pets because landlords tend to allow those more."
Because of this, student adopt a low percentage of cats and dogs, she said.
Grinstead said that students interested in adopting a pet should think carefully about the responsibility and commitment of having a pet.
much of having "The No. 1 reason people have for bringing an animal to the shelter is, 'I'm moving'." Grinstead said.
For students who move a lot and don't have the time or space to care for a fulltime pet, the society offers volunteer
opportunities weekly. Grinstead said.
"We encourage students to volunteer in here or at our special events outside of here," she said.
Students can walk and exercise the animals, bathe them, clean kennels or assist at the front desk, Grinstead said.
Those who can't volunteer at the she
ter can still work with the animals.
Every weekend a group of students have Adopt-a-Pet clinics at Petco Animal Supplies, 3115 Iowa St. Volunteers take animals to the store and encourage people to adopt, Grinstead said.
She said there are also volunteers who go to Storytime at Hastings Books, Music
& Video. 1900 W. 23rd St., on weekends.
"There will be a storyteller telling a story about animals and we bring animals into the store," she said.
Volunteers can also help take animals to visit nursing homes in town.
Students can learn more about volun teer training by calling 843-6353 or by stopping by the shelter: It is a two-week course and the meetings are the first and second Thursdays of each month.
In addition to pet adoption and volunteer opportunities, the Humane Society offers education programs; sheltering homeless and unwanted pets; a lost and found program; emergency rescue; cru
elty investigation; liaison and outreach to government groups and veterinarians; and publicity and fundraising.
The society is funded by the city and county and by donations. Puppy and kitten food, toys, collars and cat litter are always needed. Grinstead said.
The society is open from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
—Edited by BriAnne Hess
Creationists try to make their case at KU museum
By Candy Ruff
Special to the Kansan
Tom Willis took a handful of creationists on a tour Sunday at the KU Natural History Museum, pointing out what he said he believes to be the differences between evolution and creation.
ories begin with similar data, Willis said.
Willis - creation theory advocate and member of the Creation Science Association for Mid-America - supported the decision made last summer by the Kansas State Board of Education to deepasize evolution from its science standards.
He said the decision put pressure on the association to explain more fully its position on creationist theory. He said the Natural History Museum was a good place to make the association's point.
That's because evolution and creation the
"Creationists have looked closely at the fossils, the geologic strata and formations you will find in the display cases here," he said. "But what we see are life forms that had an abrupt appearance. They were fully formed and functional."
While geologists say animal species evolved during millions of years, creationists deny that much change occurred.
Willis said the Biblical record is the creationist's guide. The book of Genesis says God destroyed the world with a catastrophic flood, he said.
"Now, with that in mind, what kind of evidence would be found to support that?" he asked. "Dead things, millions of them or even billions, all buried in rock layers, laid down by water and catastrophic
events over most of the earth. That is where scientists found all the material you see here. And that is what Genesis tells us happened."
The evolution that begins with mesophilus and ends with today's horse is a favorite topic for Ed Johlman, a creationist from Eudora.
"This is an old lie that's been around a long time," Johlman said. "You see in this display five skulls that represent how the horse developed over millions of years. Yet, what the scientists will not tell you is that two of those skulls were found next to one another in a site in Nebraska. If these animals lived thousands or even millions of years apart, how could they end up together in the same strata of earth?"
The usupay's assumption, Johlman said,
is that the horse started small and
large.
grew gradually to a larger and better specimen. One of the skulls, however, does not belong to a horse at all, he said.
it's a rock badger in the skull sequence. I guess they just threw that,in," he said. Carbon dating is not to be trusted. Willis said, and the scientific methods are questionable.
Creationists question scientists' claims that fossils are millions of years old.
"Commonality of structure doesn't prove commonality of descent." Willis said. "Isaiah 45 says, 'It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretch out over the heavens. I marshaled their starry hosts.' Man and all the creatures on earth did not evolve over time. They were created as you see them now."
Edited by Chris Fickett
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