A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
A Bond Unique:
Thoughts and stories about people and the dogs they love
Edited by Reg Green
Iroquois County Animal Rescue
(100 NW Lincoln, Iroquois, IL 60945), 2010.
60 pages, illustrated, paperback. $25.00
I never tire of reading books about dogs and their owners.
This one is as uplifting as any other book I have reviewed for Animal
People.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrom-bie on June 22, 2011 signed
into law a bill which criminalizes attending or betting on a
dogfight, and increases the penalities for owning or training
fighting dogs, or equiping, arranging, or sponsoring dog fights.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
NEW YORK CITY–Trouble, 12, the Maltese dog to whom hotel
heiress Leona Helmsley left $12 million in 2007, died in December
2010, “following a series of health setbacks that left her blind
and infirm,” Joanna Malloy and Barbara Ross of the New York Daily
News revealed on June 9, 2011. Trouble’s death was not disclosed
while litigation continued over the Helmsley estate.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
LAS VEGAS–Humane societies, pro-animal
bloggers, and even individual Facebook users are
at risk of lawsuit for alleged copyright
violation if they post articles or images from
copyrighted media, warns Colleen Lynn of
Dogsbite.org.
A professional web designer who closely
monitors copyright issues, Lynn predicts that
infringement lawsuits may be filed by animal use
industry front groups using a legal model
developed by a Las Vegas entity called Righthaven
LLC.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
The Dolphin in the Mirror
by Diana Reiss
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
(215 Park Ave. S., New York, NY 10003), 2011.
265 pages, hardcover. $27.00.
Diana Reiss, Ph.D., shares her extensive experience with
dolphin intelligence in her first book, The Dolphin in the Mirror. A
Hunter College professor of psychology, and director of dolphin
research at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Reiss has studied
dolphins on the West Coast, in Europe, and in various other places
while earning her advanced degrees.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
Chutki’s Experiences
by A. Shamalatha Rao
22 pages, paperback. $4.49,
P.O. Box 5145, Pleasanton, CA 94566
or c/o <shamalatharao@yahoo.com>
Shamalatha Rao writes in the voice of Chutki, an Indian
street dog, to teach children about pet overpopulation and cruelty
to animals. Stray dogs compete for scraps with impoverished people
in the teeming slums of Mumbai and the surrounding countryside.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
NEWINGTON, Connecticut– National Labor Relations Board
Administrative Law Judge Steven Fisher on June 6, 2011 ordered the
Connecticut Humane Society to reinstate former employees Maureen Lord
and Bridget Karchere.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011: Much of the international animal control data offered below was collected by the United Nations Food & Agricultural Organization during an online expert consultation conducted in mid-2010. The United Kingdom data was collected by the eighth annual Dogs Trust survey of U.K. dog wardens, and does not include dogs who are killed after surrender to nonprofit humane societies--probably about half of the actual total of dogs killed by U.K. shelters. The remainder was collected by ANIMAL PEOPLE, in the same manner as the accompanying U.S. data. Only the Canadian and Japanese totals include cats, who are not commonly impounded in the other nations whose data is presented. Nepal officially no longer kills dogs for animal control purposes Many of the differences in the rates of animal control dog killing from nation to nation are attributable to differences in national ratios of dogs to humans. Known dogs-to-people ratios in the listed nations include: Canada 1/10; Japan 1/13; Ukraine 1/15; United Kingdom 1/9. The FAO believes the global ratio to be 1/16. Ratios of dogs killed for animal control to total dogs among the listed nations include: Canada 1/237; Japan 1/321; Ukraine 1/5; U.K. 1/1,060; U.S. 1/46. Animals killed YEAR 1,000s Animals per 1,000 people of people killed ________________________________________ Belgium 0.5 2008 10,414 5,447 Canada 4.2 2010 33,487 141,200 Ireland 1.6 2010 4,203 6,500 Japan 2.4 2009 129,357 310,457 Kyrgyzstan 1.8 2010 5,432 10,000 Nepal 10.9 2000 23,151 252,345 Pakistan 5.7 2010 175,578 1,000,795 Ukraine 13.2 2004 45,700 603,240 U.K. 0.1 2010 61,113 6,404
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
The 18th annual ANIMAL PEOPLE analysis of U.S. shelter exit
data has confirmed that the encouraging findings of the 17th analysis
were no fluke: U.S. shelters are now killing fewer cats and dogs per
1,000 Americans than at any time since relevant data first was
published, early in the 20th century. The total numbers of cats and
dogs killed are the lowest in more than 50 years.
However, while the 2011 ANIMAL PEOPLE survey found that the
cat toll fell by about 207,700 from the 2010 survey data, a 10%
improvement, the dog toll increased by about 76,500.