Month: March 2013

BOOKS: Knowing Horses

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  March 2013:

Knowing Horses: Q&As to Boost Your Equine IQ by Les Sellnow & Carol A. Butler Storey Publishers (210 Massachusetts Museum of  Contemporary Art Way,  North Adams,  MA 01247),  2012. 249 pages,  paperback.  $14.95.

What a marvelous book,  I said to myself, after reading Knowing Horses, Q&As to Boost Your Equine IQ.  As a city kid,  I knew little about horses until moving west in 1997.  Authors Sellnow and Butler answer basic questions about working with horses,  horse care,  horse racing, wild horses,  horse breeds,  and horse behavior.   Read more

BOOKS: Dogs of Courage

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  March 2013:

Dogs of Courage: The heroism and heart of working dogs around the world by Lisa Rogak Thomas Dunne Books (175 Fifth Ave.,  New York,  NY 10010),  2012.  269 pages,  paperback.  $14.99.

Dogs of Courage: The heroism and heart of working dogs around the world begins with Ebony,  a hyperactive giant schnauzer.  Mike and Melenda Lanius,  who own a cleaning business called MoldBlasters,  send Ebony to a training academy to learn to sniff out mold.   Ebony now works for a living,  no longer bored or hyper. Read more

South African National SPCA fights crocodile farming

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  March 2013:

PONGOLA,  KZN,  South Africa––Fined the equivalent of $33,000 U.S. dollars by the South African Department of Agriculture & Environment for housing crocodiles in single pens shorter than the length of their bodies,  Metroc Broedery owner Coen Labuscagne of Pongola,  KwaZulu-Natal,  “nevertheless has applied for permission to expand his operation to incarcerate 1,500 crocodiles,”  South African National SPCA information officer Chris Kuch e-mailed to media on January 17,  2013.  Read more

Farm animal cruelty convictions lead to “ag-gag” laws rather than reform

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  March 2013:

Farm animal cruelty convictions lead to “ag-gag” laws rather than reform

RALEIGH,  N.C.,  BOISE,  Idaho––Former Butterball employees Terry Johnson and Billy McBride were on February 24,   2013 convicted of abusing turkeys at a farm  in Shannon,  North Carolina,  in 2011.

 “Johnson and McBride join Butterball workers Brian Douglas and Ruben Mendoza,  who were convicted in 2012 of criminal cruelty to animals arising out of the same investigation,”  said Mercy for Animals founder Nathan Runkle.  Mercy for Animals conducted the undercover video investigation that led to the charges. Read more

1,000 dolphins massacred in Solomon Islands doublecross

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  March 2013:

HONIARA,  Solomon Islands;  BERKELEY,  Calif.––Dolphin hunters in the Solomon Islands,  dolphin broker Christopher Porter, and some far-right U.S. news media are blaming the Earth Island Institute Marine Mammal Project for the massacre of more than 1,000 dolphins in December 2012 and January 2013.   Read more

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