Books by Harold Sims

April 1, 2010 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

Cats without Cages:
The Story of Catman2
114 pages, paperback. $19.95.

Kevin, the Helpful Vampire Cat
Illustrated by Linda A. Richardson
29 pages, paperback. $12.95.

both by Harold Sims
Published by Catman2
(P.O. Box 2344, Cullowhee,
NC 28723), 2008.

“We don’t adopt out many cats here,” a North Carolina
shelter manager told Harold Sims nearly 20 years ago. “This is dog
country.”
The shelter manager recommended to prospective cat adopters
that they should look around dumpsters.

Egyptian federation reconstituted

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

CAIRO–One bitter dispute over control of the Egyptian
Federation for Animal Welfare appeared to end and others recommence
on March 23, 2010 with the judicial reversal of a June 2009 edict by
the Egyptian Directorate of Social Affairs that EFAW would be chaired
by appointee Shihab-Eldin Abdel-Hamid Abdel-Rahman, who was
empowered to organize the election of a new board.
“The original board are now reinstated, and any decision
taken by the now illegal board are invalid and will be open to
criminal charges,” e-mailed attorney and Egyptian Society of Animal
Friends president Ahmed El Sherbiny.

BOOKS: Arachnids

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

Arachnids by Jan Beccaloni
Univ. of Calif. Press (2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley,
CA 94704), 2009. 320 pages, hardcover. $39.95.

The spider on the cover of Arachnids scared me. I didn’t
think I could get through a book containing 176 color photos and 24
drawings of creepy creatures. I turned the pages, however, and
learned something.

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BOOKS: Kinship & Killing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

Kinship & Killing:
The Animal in World Religions
by Katherine Wills Perlo
Columbia University Press (61 West 62nd St., New York,
NY 10023), 2009. 256 pages, paperback. $27.50.

Kinship & Killing: The Animal in World Religions is
unfortunately more learned than readable, cutting back and forth
among the scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism,
and scholarly commentaries with what might be dizzying speed if the
connecting passages were not plodding academic jargon. Hinduism is
mentioned in passing, but not discussed in depth, for reasons not
very clear.

No new shelter for St. Louis

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

ST. LOUIS–Losing patience with seven years of faltering
efforts to raise funds to build a new city pound, St. Louis mayor
Francis Slay in March 2010 ordered the closure by summer of the
current pound, built in 1941, and directed the city health
department to find an outside pound contractor.
Plans were afoot in 1995-1996 for St. Louis animal control to
take over a shelter built by the Humane Society of Missouri in 1965
and expanded in 1981, after the humane society completed an $11
million new shelter across the street. The new Humane Society of
Missouri shelter opened in 1998, but by then the city had lost
interest in the old facilities.

Toronto Humane Society back in shelter

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

TORONTO–The Ontario SPCA returned management of the Toronto
Humane Society to THS on April 1, 2010, under an agreement ratified
by Superior Court Justice David Brown, but the THS shelter is to
remain closed for six weeks, from April 12 to June 1, while the
building is cleaned and the staff are retrained.
THS was given the first 12 days of April to find homes for
about 200 animals remaining at the shelter. Any animals not placed
by April 12 were to be surrendered to the Ontario SPCA.
The 13 present THS board members are to resign before a May
30 board election. Tim Trow, THS president since November 2001,
resigned on January 26, 2010. Trow and seven other THS personnel are
facing charges including conspiracy and neglect of animals. The
Ontario SPCA began charging THS key personnel after raiding THS–for
the second time in five months–in November 2009.

Wolves kill teacher in Alaska, boosting anti-wolf policy

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:
CHIGNIK LAKE, Alaska– Wolves on March 8, 2010 killed and
partially ate special education teacher Candace Berner, 32, a 4’11”
weightlifter and boxer who was on a solo training run in preparation
to compete in a marathon.
Originally from Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, Berner had
been in Alaska for only six months. Her cause of death was
documented by 150 feet of tracks and blood showing her struggle with
the wolves. Alaska Department of Fish & Game staff shot the two
wolves believed to have attacked Berner.

Julie Bank to head NYC animal control

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

The American SPCA and Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals on
March 31, 2010 jointlyannounced and welcomed the hiring of former
ASPCA director of shelter operations and humane education outreach
Julie Bank to head the New York City Center for Animal Care &
Control, starting April 12. After 10 years with the ASPCA, Bank
served as director of education and therapeutic programs for the
Arizona Humane Society, deputy director of Maricopa County Animal
Care & Control , and executive director of the North County Humane
Society & SPCA in Oceanside, California. The latter recently merged
with the San Diego Humane Society.

Record dog attack liability settlement raises stakes for shelters

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

PHILADELPHIA, INDIANAPOLIS–The known economic risk to third
parties in non-fatal dog attack liability cases soared to $1.9
million on March 5, 2010 when Rottweiler attack plaintiffs Evelyn
and Larry Shickram accepted a $1.6 million settlement offer from Boss
Pet Products.
“Schickram v. Boss Pet Products was in the middle of jury
selection in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court when the plaintiffs
settled,” wrote Legal Intelligencer senior staff reporter Gina
Passarella. “The Schickrams had previously settled with the dog
owner, Pamela Leader, for $300,000–the policy limits of her
homeowners’ insurance.”

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