Day: July 1, 2012

Awards & honors

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2012:

GreenInterview.com host Silver Donald Cameron, 75, was on June 29, 2012 awarded the Order of Canada, for his career as journalist, writer, and community activist. Cameron in the April 2011 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE and on his personal web site denounced the legal position of the Canada Revenue Agency that “an activity or purpose is only charitable when it provides a benefit to humans.” Concluded Cameron, “The coyote, the cod and the chestnut have a right to live and flourish, and advocating on their behalf–with or without a benefit to humans–is a deeply moral activity and a legitimate charitable purpose.” Read more

Bell Canada not funding centennial Stampede rodeo

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2012:

Bell Canada not funding centennial Stampede rodeo

CALGARY, RENO–-Bell Canada spokesperson Jacqueline Michelis on July 3, 2012 confirmed to Lauren Krugel of Canadian Press that the telecommunications company will not sponsor Calgary Stampede rodeo events. The 100th anniversary running of Calgary Stampede was to be held July 6-13, 2012.

“We have decided to focus on the entertainment part of the Stampede,” Michelis said. Bell Canada continued to sponsor non-rodeo Stampede events, including free live entertainment at the newly opened Bell Centennial Plaza on the Stampede grounds. Read more

Bogotá bans arena bullfights, but participant bullfights continue in Colombian hinterlands

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2012:

Bogotá bans bullfights, but “corralejas” continue in Colombian hinterlands

BOGOTA, Colombia— Bogotá mayor Gustavo Petro “has stated that he will end bullfighting after bullfight organizers Taurine Corporation refused to agree that animals would not be killed during the fights,” announced Animal Defenders International chief executive Jan Creamer on June 15, 2012.

“We are close to seeing an end to bullfighting in Bogotá, thanks to cultural and social change,” said ADI Colombian representative Eduardo Peña. Added ADI spokesperson Matt Rossell, “It is envisaged that the Plaza La Santamaría, where bullfights are currently held, and the surrounding area will developed into a cultural hub.” The Petro administration has already published a four-year plan for redeveloping Plaza La Santamaría. Read more

California foie gras ban takes effect

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2012:

California foie gras ban takes effect

LOS ANGELES–A California law forbidding the sale of foie gras took effect on July 1, 2012, almost eight years after passage–and was challenged in court less than 24 hours later by plaintiffs including Hot’s Restaurant Group, the foie gras trade organization Association des Éleveurs de Canards et d’Oies du Québec, and Hudson Valley Foie Gras, the upstate New York firm that is the largest foie gras producer in North America. Read more

Cattle gifts put habitat, humans, and animals at risk in southern India

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2012:

Cattle gifts put habitat, humans, and animals at risk in southern India

KOCHI, Kerala, India–A livestock gift scheme meant to increase the incomes of 30 families living within the nominally protected Vazhachal Forest, within the Parambikulam Tiger Reserve buffer zone, is putting the forest, the families, and the donated cattle at risk, Wildlife Division of the Kerala Forest Research Institute chief E.A. Jayson told K.S. Sudhi of The Hindu in May 2012. Read more

Chimps injure anthropology student at Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2012:

Chimps injure anthropology student at Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden

JOHANNESBURG–U.S. anthropology student Andrew Oberle, 26, lost an ear, several fingers and toes and a testicle on June 28, 2012 after entering a restricted enclosure at Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden, apparently to pick up a rock that he believed two chimps named Nikki and Amadeus might hurl at a group of about a dozen visitors. Placed in a medically induced coma due to blood loss, Oberle underwent six hours of surgery five days after the attack. Read more

International data

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2012:

International data

The United Kingdom data below was collected by the ninth annual Dogs Trust survey of U.K. dog wardens, and does not include dogs who are killed after surrender to nonprofit humane societies–believed to be about half of the actual total of dogs killed by U.K. shelters. The data from Belgium, Kyryzstan, Pakistan, and Ukraine was collected in 2010 by the United Nations Food & Agricultural Organization. The remainder was collected by ANIMAL PEOPLE, in the same manner as the accompanying U.S. data. Read more

Lost & found pet recovery rate is unchanged in 20 years

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2012

Lost & found pet recovery rate is unchanged in 20 years

NEW YORK CITY–Americans are keeping 60% more cats and dogs than 20 years ago, but those cats and dogs are still lost and found at about the same rate–a finding which suggests that the advent of microchip identification has not appreciably increased the rate of recovery of lost pets. Rather, micro-chip identification might merely have augmented or supplanted the use of more traditional identification methods such as collars, dogtags, and tattoos among the pets of people who have always tried to identify their pets. Read more

BOOKS: Do Dogs Dream?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2012:

Do Dogs Dream? by Stanley Coren / W.W. Norton and Company (500 5th Ave., New York, NY 10110), 2012. 277 pages, hardcover. $23.95.

The Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes & Consequences of Left-Handedness (1993) established University of British Columbia psychology professor Stanley Coren as a best-selling author. Coren had a ready-made audience: about one person in 10 is left-handed. But nearly half of the people in the English-speaking world share their homes with dogs, the subject of eight of Coren’s nine subsequent books, including his 2005 best-seller The Intelligence of Dogs. Read more

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