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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2013
BALTIMORE, BEIJING, BOSTON, SEATTLE, TORONTO––No one is trying to raise healthier crows by feeding them antibiotics, yet Tufts University researcher Julie Ellis has discovered antibiotic-resistant bacteria in crow guano in four states. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2013:
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Desperate Dogs, a self-published manual for rehabilitating shelter dogs, arrived for review by ANIMAL PEOPLE with impressive endorsements. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2013:
Editorial #2: Time for a new national wild horse policy––covering all wild horses 
[Photo credit: Kim Bartlett ] Data showing how many horses have been sold to slaughter per year, nationwide, can be extrapolated from readily available public records going all the way back to 1850. Throughout this time, coinciding with the advent of railways that enabled brokers to transport animals long distances to slaughter, the overwhelming majority of horses sold to slaughter have been either those at the end of their working utility to humans, or the unwanted surplus from speculative breeding. Speculative breeding rose rapidly as a source of horses sent to slaughter as employment of horses for transportation declined. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2013:
Editorial feature: Examining the odds for an end to horse slaughter
Either pending legislation or ongoing litigation could bring the resumption of horse slaughter within the U.S. for human consumption this winter, or close off the possibility. Which might happen is anyone’s bet. It is even possible that court decisions will allow horse slaughter to resume for a time, only to be again stopped by Congress, as it was in 2007. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2013:
DUMBARTON, Scotland––Less than two days after representatives of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds pledged to Scotland for Animals that they would fully investigate the possible alternatives to culling 40 feral goats at Inversnaid, on the banks of Loch Lomond, RSPB conservation planning officer Anne McCall announced that the killing “has ended as we have reached the target of 20 culled goats for this year.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2013:
Concerning “Ethicist addresses making euthanasia decisions in a no-kill context,” in the October 2013 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE, I find it bizarre that Jasper the Staffordshire’s fate boils down to a football score set of numbers. I’m no ethicist, but as someone intimately and actively familiar with animal shelter euthanasia for the past 43 years, it is clear to me that our industry’s spay/neuter efforts have resulted not only in fewer surplus animals but also in an unexpected but positive consequence of making the lives of dogs and cats more valuable. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2013:
ORLANDO, SAN FRANCISCO, TAIJI––Shortlisted for Oscar consideration as “Best Documentary of 2013,” the Gabriela Cowperthwaite exposé of SeaWorld Blackfish between November 28 and December 14, 2013 persuaded all six original headline bands and one of the replacements to withdraw from scheduled performances at the SeaWorld “Bands, Brew & BBQ Fest,” due to begin on February 1, 2014. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2013:
Letters
Bringing cats inside
The September 2013 ANIMAL PEOPLE editorial feature “Successful neuter/return must recognize reality” quoted Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne Pacelle using the phrase “community cats” to include stray and abandoned cats, but my understanding was that when the Best Friends Animal Society introduced the use of “community cats” in 2009, they intended for the phrase to replace “feral.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2013:
Luke Gamble, founder of Worldwide Veterinary Service in 2003, on December 11, 2013 received the Jeanne Marchig Animal Welfare Award in recognition of Mission Rabies, a planned three-year drive to eradicate rabies of India. Debuting in September 2013 with clinics in 10 cities that have had recent rabies outbreaks, Mission Rabies vaccinated 61,000 dogs in 28 days. Named for Marchig Trust founder Jeanne Marchig, who died in May 2013, the Marchig Award includes a grant of $20,000 in support of Mission Rabies. Funding has also come from Dogs Trust, with logistic support from the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations, the Animal Birth Control progams of the Animal Welfare Board of India, and Blue Cross of India. Read more