Month: November 2001

BOOKS: Mad Dogs & an Englishwoman

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

Mad Dogs & An Englishwoman by Crystal Rogers
Penguin (c/o www.pengunbooksindia.com), 2000. 192 pages,
paperback. 250 rupees + postage/handling.

At least twice, at ages 17 and 89, the late Crystal Rogers
started to write her autobiography. Her second attempt incorporated
the surviving part of the first, but Rogers usually kept too busy to
write much. She died in 1996 at age 90 without having completed much
more of Mad Dogs & An Englishwoman than the first chapter; a memoir
of her brief World War II relationship with a Canadian airman named
Jim, who was killed in action; and a few vignettes of the early
years of the three humane societies that she helped to found in
India, loosely directed by seances with Jim.

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BOOKS: Ophelia’s Winter

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

 

Ophelia’s Winter, by Sarah Ann Hill
1st Books Library (2511 West 3rd Street, Suite #1, Bloomington, IN 47404), 2000.

[May be downloaded free of charge at <www.1stbooks.com>.]

Sarah Ann Hill, the last page of Ophelia’s Winter explains,
was actually the name of author Marilyn Sansom’s great grandmother,
“a storyteller back in the 1800s,” who was wife of the first forest
ranger in West Virginia.

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HUMAN OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

C.R. Pattabi Raman, 94, chair of the Blue Cross of India since 1987, died on June 19. Captain of the Madras cricket team in his youth, and a cofounder of the Madras Cricket Association and Board of Control For Cricket in India, Raman was eldest son of Sir C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar, who banned hunting on all land under his control and founded the Indian Vegetarian Congress, for which Raman was longtime vice president.

Raman’s granddaughter Nanditha Krishna, a noted author and anthropologist, is a trustee of the Central Zoo Authority. Raman was succeeded as chair of the Blue Cross by his grandson-in-law Chinny Krishna, who is the son of Blue Cross founding chair S.R. Sundaram. Krishna was also recently named to the Animal Welfare Board of India.

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Animals and the Afghanistan war

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

 

BHARATPUR, NALABANA, India; KABUL,
Afghanistan–Ornithologists at the renowned bird sanctuaries of India
are anxiously monitoring the skies and marshes to see how U.S.
bombing in Afghanistan has affected the annual migrations from
Siberia and the Himalayas.
By January 2002, they expect to know. For now, most are
optimistic, after fearing the worst when the bombing started.
“While demoiselle cranes have already started arriving in
droves, pelicans and geese are conspicuous by their absence,” said
the Times of India on December 3. “Pintails, widgeons, and
poachards are expected to fly into Bharatpur at any time.”
In all, more than 200,000 birds of 167 species reached India
almost on schedule. “However, night geese and ducks, who cross the
Hindukush range, seem to have been put off by the heavy firing over
Afghanistan,” said ecologist Pushpindar Singh.

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Editorial: Lessons from the Red Cross debacle

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

 

ANIMAL PEOPLE had planned that this very late November 2001
edition would feature our first-hand investigative report on the
success of the “No homeless animals, no-kill, no shelter” approach
to dog and cat overpopulation taken by the Veterinary Licensing Board
and allied animal welfare groups in Costa Rica. Seeing is believing,
and after nearly two weeks in Costa Rica, counting dogs and cats and
observing how they are faring wherever we went, we can testify that
the Costa Rican animal care community has a lot to teach the world.
But that report will have to wait until our December edition
appears, when it can help to inspire a happy and productive New
Year. We fell behind in May, when ANIMAL PEOPLE publisher Kim
Bartlett contracted pneumonia following two distressful hours of
photographically documenting the sale of dogs and cats for meat at
the Moran Market near Seoul, South Korea. Then we held up
production of our September edition for an extra week to include
coverage of the animal aspects of the terrorist attacks of September
11.

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Will new law stop dog-killing by Bucharest mayor Basescu?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

 

Bucharest, Romania–“Seven months of city workers
slaughtering street dogs in an effort to rid Bucharest of one of the
highest stray dog populations in the world may finally come to an
end,” freelance foreign correspondent Chuck Todaro e-mailed to
ANIMAL PEOPLE on December 2 from a Bucharest internet cafe.
“Pressure from local and international animal welfare groups
just last week helped to win passage of the first Romanian law
governing animal control,” Todaro continued. “The new law requires
a total transformation of present shelter conditions and practices.
Cities have 30 days to implement the changes, including that dogs
must be held for seven days to allow for reclaim or adoption. The
Bucharest holding time is now just 24 hours.”

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ANIMAL OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

Soda, a.k.a. Alice Hanley Castle, the “canine first lady of

Hong Kong” 1992-1997 as pet of last British governor Chris Patten,
died in mid-November after a long illness. Soda and her mate and
cousin Whisky, who survives her, lived at the Patten family
vacation home in France after the Pattens left Hong Kong, to avoid
the six-month quarantine that was then required of all dogs and cats
entering Britain. Patten cited their loyal service in an eventually
successful effort to get the law amended. Only then did they return
to the land of their birth.

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