Month: January 2012

World Society for the Protection of Animals disbands "member society" network

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  January/February 2012:

World Society for the Protection of Animals disbands “member society” network

 

LONDON–Animal charity leaders around the world mostly
responded with mixed apprehension and frustration to the World
Society for the Protection of Animals’ decision,  unveiled in stages
during late 2011,  to cease any pretense of remaining the umbrella
for a federation of member societies. Read more

PETA view more nuanced than Christian Science Monitor report that it favors horse slaughter

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  January/February 2012:

PETA view more nuanced than Christian Science Monitor report that it favors horse slaughter

WASHINGTON D.C.–Perhaps PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk played
the horse slaughter issue for publicity,  and perhaps she was just
misrepresented.

Either way,  though,  the PETA position on the November 18,
2011 USDA budget bill rider that lifted a federal ban on horse
slaughter for human consumption  turned out to be more nuanced than a
November 30,  2011 Christian Science Monitor article headlined
“Lifting horse slaughter ban:  Why PETA says it’s a good idea.”
“In an interview with the Monitor,”  wrote Monitor staff
writer Patrik Jonsson, “Newkirk said the US should never have banned
domestic horse slaughter.” Read more

BOOKS: Cat Telling Tales by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  January/February 2012:

Cat Telling Tales
by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
William Morrow  (10 E.  53rd St.,  New York,  NY 10022),  2011.
373 pages,  hardcover.  $19.99.

Mysteries don’t top my reading list,  but feline sleuth Joe
Grey and his crime-solving sidekicks,  two scrappy cats named Dulcie
and Kit,  are entertaining in Shirley Rousseau Murphy’s 18th novel,
Cat Telling Tales.  The action takes place in the coastal community
of Molena Point,  California,  where Joe always seems to be involved
in solving murders.  Plucky and persistent,  Joe tracks down details
and shares them with police chief Max Harper,  who makes the arrests.
In Cat Telling Tales,  fire leaves a 12-year old boy
homeless.  His guardian Hesmerra,  an older alcoholic,  is found dead
amidst the ashes.  Read more

BOOKS: The puppy that came for Christmas by Megan Rix

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  January/February 2012:

The puppy that came for Christmas
by Megan Rix
Plume Books (c/o Penguin USA,  375 Hudson St.,  New York,  NY 10014),
2011.  246 pages,  paperback.  $14.95.

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The title of The puppy that came for Christmas is both
misleading and ungrammatical,  implying that the puppy is an
inanimate object.  The book is not a Christmas story,  though the
puppy arrives at Christmas,  and is not a knockoff,  either,  of Fund
for Animals founder Cleveland Amory’s 1987 best seller The Cat Who
Came for Christmas. Read more

Wildlife Heroes by Julie Scardina & Jeff Flocken

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  January/February 2012:

Wildlife Heroes  by Julie Scardina & Jeff Flocken
Running Press (2300 Chestnut St., Suite 200, Philadelphia,  PA
19103),  2012.  264 pages,  paperback.  $20.00.

Wildlife Heroes co-authors Julie Scardina and Jeff Flocken
profile 40 people who do extraordinary things for animals.  Nguyen
Van Thai,  for example,  as a youth in Vietnam watched people dig up
pangolins,  a small Asian animal sometimes called a scaly ant-eater.
Prized for meat and scales believed to have medicinal value,
pangolins have become the most often poached mammals in Asia,  and
are rapidly being extirpated from much of their range.
“As I watched the juvenile climb onto the back of its mother
I was very sad,  knowing they were headed for the cooking pot,”
recalls Van Thai. Read more

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