BOOKS: Katz On Dogs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005:

Katz On Dogs: A Common Sense Guide
to Training and Living with Dogs by Jon Katz
Villard Books (299 Park Ave., New York, NY 10171), 2005.
240 pages. $24.95 hardcover.

Dogs have their place in Jon Katz’s
family, but Katz, author of A Dog Year and The
Dogs of Bedlam Farm, neither treats them as
children nor accords them equal status with
humans. He views no-kill shelters with
disfavour, arguing that there is little reason
to keep potentially dangerous, un-adoptable dogs
in a lifetime of crowded, noisy confinement.
Katz offers guidance both from his own experience
and from case studies about what kind of dog to
adopt, how to train and feed the dog, and how
to build a healthy rapport with a dog. Handling
the complexities of multi-dog families is also
discussed, as well as some ethical and spiritual
issues.
Though centered on useful information
about dog care, Katz On Dogs also discusses the
changing roles of dogs in modern American
society, and how increasing stresses on families
affect dogs.

Animal obituaries

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005:

José, a four-month old blackfooted
ferret who was raised at the Cheyenne Mountain
Zoo and released into the wild near Wolf Creek,
Colorado in late October 2005, was killed by a
coyote or badger just three days later. “We
found only his radio transmitter, and it was all
chewed up,” Bureau of Land Management biologist
Brian Holmes told Dave Philipps of the Colorado
Springs Gazette. Philipps learned that the
survival rate for reintroduced blackfooted
ferrets ranges from one in 10 in Colorado to one
in 30 in New Mexico. Two other ferrets released
at the same time as José are also deceased, but
details of their fate were not disclosed.

Eastern Racer Snake #039, 15, was
killed by a truck during the first week of
November 2005 in Windham County, Vermont.
“Long, black and sinuous, #039 belonged to the
rarest snake species in Vermont, where only
seven other Eastern racers have been found.,”
wrote Candance Page of the Burlington Free Press.
“Herpetologist Jim Andrews captured and tagged
him in 2004 as part of the rediscovery of a
species once thought extinct in Vermont. #039
achieved minor celebrity last month,” Page
added, “when he was returned to his home after a
Herculean effort by humans to save his life after
he was found on July 14 on Interstate 91 with a
broken jaw, badly injured eye and cuts and
bruises. Volunteers fed him through a tube.
State transportation officials used his October 5
release to tout their efforts to improve wildlife
habitat near highways.”

Obituaries

Fate of rescued animals goes to court

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005:

Pasado’s Safe Haven, of Sultan, Washington, directing one
of the major ad hoc rescue centers near New Orleans, suffered a
major embarrassment after sending 61 pit bull terriers to Every Dog
Needs A Home, also known as the EDNAH Animal Rescue & Sanctuary, in
Gamaliel, Arkansas.
Another 18 pit bulls were sent to EDNAH by the Humane Society
of Louisiana, which since losing its own facilities to Katrina has
operated from a corner of the St. Francis Animal Sanctuary in
Tylertown, Mississippi.
An October 21 visit to EDNAH by Baxter County Sheriff John
Montgomery found more than 400 dogs packed into a two-acre lot, as
many as 75 of them running loose. One dog was found dead.
Founders William Hanson, 41, and his wife Tammy Hanson, 38,
were charged with cruelty and released on $1,000 bond each.
“It’s definitely not the type of facility that we thought it
was,” Pasado’s representative Diane Goodrich told Jane Stewart of the
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
“Goodrich said the Pasado dogs arrived at Hanson’s shelter on
October 17, delivered in individual cages that were lined up on a
gravel road inside the shelter entrance. Apparently the animals and
the cages had not been moved since their arrival,” Stewart wrote.

BOOKS: Dining With Friends

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005:

Dining With Friends

The Art of North American Vegan Cuisine
by Priscilla Feral, Lee Hall,
& Friends of Animals Inc.

Nectar Bar Press, 777 Post Road, Suite 205, Darien, CT 06820.
164 pages, paperback. $19.95.

This marvelous collection of vegan recipes might be called a
fusion cookbook, since the recipes explore a wide variety of
sources, among them Italian, West African, and Mexican.
Not being qualified cooks ourselves, we gave Dining With
Friends to Leroi Willmore, the gourmet chef who also runs the
Barnyard Donkey Sanctuary, near George in the Cape Province of South
Africa.
Explains Willmore, “The Sanctuary was started in 1995, as a
direct result of our history and involvement with the National SPCA
over the years. We found a need to care for the amazing amount of
abused and neglected donkeys we came across in the townships and
poorer parts of the country.

BOOKS: Gods In Chains

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005:

Gods In Chains
by Rhea Ghosh
Foundation Books
(4764/2A, 23 Ansari Rd., Daryaganj, New Delhi 110002, India),
2005. 239 pages, hardcover. $20.00.

Rhea Ghosh, of Boston, Massachusetts, spent the summer of
2004 researching the status of working elephants in India,
commissioned by the Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation Centre in
Bangalore, Karnataka state, India.
Gods In Chains is the 230-page record of her findings, including her
detailed recommendations for changes in the elephant-keeping regimen,
and extensive appendices containing much of her source material.
Ghosh’s observations are heavily derivative of those of Peter
Jaeggi, who has observed captive elephants in India since circa
1990. The extent to which Jaeggi’s commentary has influenced Ghosh
is evident from comparing her text to the two Jaeggi articles
included among the appendices, “Chained in Delhi” and “Living Gods
in a living hell.”

BOOKS: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005:

Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
by Will Tuttle, Ph.D.
Lantern Books (1 Union Square West, Suite 201, New York, NY 10003), 200
5.
318 pages, paperback. $20.00.

Will Tuttle is a professional pianist and
teacher with a strong background in Zen Buddhism.
He argues for a broader understanding of the
implications of our food choices. He promotes
veganism to all people of conscience, whatever
their religion, as the vital first step to allow
our species to break out of the cycle of
violence, poverty and destruction.
Unlike most other authors on
vegetarianism, Tuttle does not content himself
with listing the physical harm done to our bodies
from meat/dairy consumption. He contends that
the harm from meat eating is much broader and
deeper than we realise, and has important
emotional and spiritual ramifications. He
believes that our relentless cruelty to animals,
principally for meat-eating, is the fundamental
cause of a global crisis today, and not merely a
symptom of human limitations.

BOOKS: The Holocaust & the Henmaid’s Tale

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005:

The Holocaust & the Henmaid’s Tale

Lantern Books (1 Union Square West, Suite 201, New York,
NY 10003), 2005. 138 pages, paperback. $30.00.

Karen Davis, founder and president of United Poultry
Concerns, concludes that, “The Holocaust epitomized an attitude, the
manifestation of a base will. It is the attitude that we can do
whatever we please, however vicious, if we can get away with it,
because we are superior and they, whoever they are, are, so to
speak, just chickens. Paradoxically therefore, it is possible,
indeed it is requisite, to make relevant and enlightening
comparisons between the Holocaust and our base treatment of non-human
animals. We can make comparisons while agreeing with the approach
taken by philosopher Brian Luke towards animal abuse. Luke writes:
“My opposition to the institutionalized exploitation of
animals is not based on a comparison between human and animal
treatment, but on a consideration of the abuse of animals in and of
itself.”
Davis’s philosophy is well-argued and closely reasoned, so
that by the time she reaches her conclusion–that there is a Nazi
within all of us–the reader has already arrived there.

BOOKS: Fund-Raising for Animal Care Organizations & Humane University

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005:

Fund-Raising for Animal Care Organizations
Edited by Julie Miller Dowling

Humane University (c/o Humane Society of the U.S., 2100 L St. NW,
Washington, DC 20037), 2005. 184 pages, paperback. $44.95.

Fund-Raising for Animal Care Organizations is the second in a
Humane University how-to series that began with Volunteer Management
for Animal Care Organizations, by Betsy McFarland. Much of
Fund-Raising for Animal Care Organizations overlaps and closely
parallels the fundraising information included in the ANIMAL PEOPLE
handbook Fundraising & Accountability for Animal Protection
Charities, available in PDF format free for downloading at
<www.animalpeoplenews.com>, under “important materials.”
Thus in reviewing Fund-Raising for Animal Care Organizations
for the ANIMAL PEOPLE audience, the $44.95 question is whether the
HSUS take on the topic offers enough additional information to be
worth the cost.
The answer is probably yes for U.S.-based organizations that
already raise more than $100,000 per year, but no for smaller
organizations and those based abroad.
The ANIMAL PEOPLE handbook, albeit shorter, includes more
information about simple, basic approaches to fundraising that any
organization, anywhere, can use right away.

Coastal pastures became better habitat for sea cows than cattle

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005:

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita between them submerged as much as
a third of the cattle grazing land in Louisiana. Rainfall from Wilma
perpetuated conditions that had Debra Barlow of Hopeful Haven Equine
Rescue wishing for an ark.
“We are a horse rescue organization, but have opened our
arms to include all the livestock we can help,” Barlow e-mailed to
Brenda Shoss of Kinship Circle, whose daily bulletins throughout the
fall 2005 hurricane season made her the unofficial dispatcher for
rescue efforts from Alabama to Texas.
“We have rescued emus, cattle, horses, you name it,”
Barlow continued. “The rescued animals have been put in holding pens
since they can’t graze the saltwater-saturated alfalfa fields. The
salt content made the animals dehydrated and delusional. We are
hoping to flush the saltwater absorbed out their systems with feed,
clean water and hay.”
“The Army used helicopters to search for thousands of cattle
feared stranded in high water, amid reports that more than 4,000 may
have been killed in Cameron Parish alone,” Associated Press reported
after Rita hit.

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