BOOKS: Los Mutts

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:
 
Los MUTTS
by Lorraine Chittock
Self-published: http://losmutts.com/order.htm
96 pages, paperback. $18.95.
 
Among the pervasive myths of humane work is that most street
dogs are castoff pets, or are chiefly descended from pets. Though
most street dogs may have some pet or working dog ancestors, most
dogs worldwide have been street dogs for as long as streets have
existed. Globally, most dogs still are street dogs. Even in the
U.S. and Britain, pet dogs have outnmbered street dogs for less than
a century.

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BOOKS: Companion Animals in Society

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

Companion Animals in Society by Stephen Zawistowski
Cengage Learning, Inc. (P.O. Box 6904, Florence, KY 41022), 2008.
560 pages, hardcover. $84.95.

What is a companion animal? American SPCA executive vice
president Stephen L. Zawistowski starts Companion Animals in Society
with definitions offered by Jared Diamond and the late former ASPCA
president Roger Caras. An impressive body of research, Companion
Animals in Society is loaded with references, graphs, and charts.
Each chapter concludes with questions, hinting that the intended
readership may be university students enrolled in an introductory
survey course–perhaps Companion Animals 1-A.

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BOOKS: Zoo Animals: Behaviour, Management, & Welfare

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

Zoo Animals: Behaviour, Management, & Welfare
by Geoff Hosey, Vicky Melfi, & Sheila Pankhurst
Oxford University Press (198 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016), 2009.
660 pages, paperback. $50.00.

Zoo Animals: Behaviour, Manage-ment, & Welfare pulls
together the sum of current perspectives about what constitutes “best
practice” zookeeping into a single text. Though Zoo Animals might be
used as the basis for a single university-level course, it is
actually an entire curriculum for would-be zookeepers. Each of the
15 chapters could frame a course also including much supplementary
reading–and the recommended texts are listed, included specialized
web sites.

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BOOKS: Really Exotic Pets

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

Really Exotic Pets
by David Manning
HarperCollins Publishers (10 East 53rd St., New York, NY 10022), 2008.
192 pages, paperback. $19.95.

The Argentine horned frog is little more than a “stomach on
legs,” who tends to wolf down anything in its path, including body
parts like fingers. Would you want this exotic animal as a pet?
Obviously some people do, because David Manning features the
Argentine horned frog in 50 Really Exotic Pets. Tips include feeding
the horned frog dead foods, served on long tweezers.

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BOOKS: Animalkind

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

Animalkind by Jean Kazez
Wiley-Blackwell (111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030), 2010.
216 pages, paperback. $24.95.

Immanuel Kant theorized in the Metaphysic of Morals that
practicing cruelty toward animals produces cruelty toward humans.
That was in 1785, and the same is still true, argues Jean Kazez in
Animalkind.
Animalkind blends philosophy, history, spirituality and
conjecture about our history with animals. Some of that history is
utterly cruel and appalling, but some appears to be misrepresented.

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Books by Harold Sims

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.

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Egyptian federation reconstituted

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.

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BOOKS: Arachnids

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

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.

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