BOOKS: Putting the Horse before Descartes: My Life’s Work on Behalf of Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

Putting the Horse before Descartes:
My Life’s Work on Behalf of Animals
by Bernard E. Rollin
Temple University Press (1852 N. 10th St.,
Philadelphia, PA 19122), 2011. 283 pages,
hardcover. $35.00.

Bernard Rollin offers, in the 16
chapters of Putting the Horse before Descartes:
My Life’s Work on Behalf of Animals, two
chapters of autobiography plus random vignettes;
a concluding chapter of tributes to colleagues
and scattered thoughts; and thirteen chapters
adapted from his favorite lectures and essays.

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BOOKS: Kids & Animals: Drawings From the Hands and Hearts of Children & Youth

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

Kids & Animals:
Drawings From the Hands and Hearts of Children & Youth
by Marc Bekoff, Ph.D.
70 pages, free to download from:
<http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/ArchitecturePlanning/discover/ce
nters/CYE/Publications/Pages/Books.aspx>

Animal behavior researcher Marc Bekoff
was inspired to assemble Kids & Animals by Ellen
Mackey, a third grade teacher at Foothill
Elementary School in Boulder, Colorado. Mackey
had organized a Roots & Shoots group among her
class. Roots & Shoots is an international

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BOOKS: The Beekeeper’s Bible

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

The Beekeeper’s Bible
by Richard A. Jones & Sharon Sweeney-Lynch
Stewart Tabori & Chang
(c/o Abrams, 115 West 18th St., New York, NY 10011), 2011.
412 pages, hardcover. $35.00.

Reputedly living on a diet of milk, honey, and locusts,
commonly interpreted to mean locust beans rather than the insects,
John the Baptist was for centuries regarded as a proto-vegetarian,
beginning long before the word “vegetarian” existed. The definiton
of “vegetarian” is “one who eats no animals,” not “one who eats no
food of animal origin.”

BOOKS: Your Dog is Your Mirror

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

Your Dog is Your Mirror:
The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves
by Kevin Behan
New World Library (14 Pameron Way, Novato, CA 94949), 2011.
304 pages, hardcover. $23.95.

Dog trainer Kevin Behan draws from his lengthy training
career to present Your Dog is Your Mirror: The Emotional Capacity of
Our Dogs and Ourselves, his second book.

BOOKS: World Without Fish

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky
Workman Publishing (225 Varick St., 9th floor, New York, NY
10014), 2011. 181 pages, paperback. $16.95.

No sharks, or catfish or major fish predators such as
dolphins? It’s possible, says Mark Kurlansky in World Without Fish,
produced for a young adult audience.

Northern Ireland gets new anti-cruelty law

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

STORMONT, Northern Ireland –The first update of the
Northern Ireland Welfare of Animals Act since 1972 cleared the
Northern Ireland Assembly on February 22, 2011. It is expected to
take effect in April 2011, after the formality of royal assent.
Ulster SPCA director Stephen Philpott called the update “A
complete sellout,” because it gives law enforcement authority for
non-farmed animals to local councils, as in Britain. Such authority
had by default devolved to the Ulster SPCA.

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High-profile cases not criminally prosecuted

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

BROOKLYN, N.Y.; SAN ANDREAS, Calif. ;
WARMINISTER, Pa.–Prosecutors around the U.S.
have warned in recent months that steep budget
cuts would result in more cases being dropped
instead of testing evidentiary issues by going to
trial.
Three controversial dispositions of
politically sensitive animal-related cases in
mid-March 2011 officially had nothing to do with
budget, but may be illustrative of how cases can
be shunted aside.

Thoroughly troubled Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.–The Thoroughbred
Retirement Foundation “has been so slow or
delinquent in paying for the upkeep of the more
than 1,000 horses under its care that scores have
wound up starved and neglected, some fatally,”
charged New York Times horse racing writer Joe
Drape on March 18 2011.

NJ Horse Angels agrees to disband & repay misused funds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

NEWARK–The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs on March
24, 2011 announced that an entity called NJ Horse Angels and
founders Sharon Catalano-Crumb, 54, and Frank Wikoff, 55, both of
Phillipsburg, New Jersey, “will repay $57,129 in misused donations
to the Division of Consumer Affairs. The Division in turn will donate
the funds to registered non-profit horse rescue organizations.”
The amount to be repaid was found by the Charities
Registration & Investigation Section of the Division of Consumer
Affairs to have been “misappropriated by Catalano-Crumb and used by
her for trips to Atlantic City casinos, personal shopping, meals,
pre-paid phone cards [and] also diverted in the form of cash
withdrawals. Some donations were used for horse rescue,” the
Division acknowledged.

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