A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
BEIJING––Recent fatal dog attacks have prompted Chinese cities including Beijing, the national capital, to resume enforcing long-ignored laws against keeping pet dogs taller than 35 centimeters and against keeping more than one dog per household. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
DEN HAAG––Asked by the Dutch Party for Animals to expedite a ban on trimming the beaks of egg-laying hens, originally to take effect in 2021, Dutch agriculture minister Sharon Dijksma in June 2013 reset the deadline to September 2018. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
Jairo Mora Sandoval, 26, was killed early on May 31, 2013 by suspected sea turtle egg poachers on Moin Beach, near Limon, Costa Rica. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
Love Saves the Day by Gwen Cooper Bantam Books (1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019), 2013. 317 pages, hardcover. $26.00.
Cat rescuer Gwen Cooper follows up her 2010 best-seller, Homer’s Odyssey, about the former strays who kept her company near Ground Zero on September 11, 2011, with Love Saves the Day, another superb work told from three viewpoints: Prudence the cat, the cat’s deceased person Sarah, and her daughter Laura, who saves the day. Each narrator’s personality sparkles. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
RIVERDALE, California; DANVILLE, Illinois; EUGENE, Oregon; BELAIR, Maryland––Video of a May 5, 2013 “barnyard scramble” at the Riverdale Rodeo in Riverdale, California obtained and posted online by Showing Animals Respect & Kindness brought the end of the event, the Fresno Bee reported on June 23, 2013. “The five-minute video shows rodeo organizers tossing animals out of trailers and containers onto the arena floor before children are turned loose to chase them,” the Fresno Bee described. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
The Possibility Dogs by Susannah Charleson Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116), 2013. 260 pages. $27.00 hardcover, $9.45 Kindle.
The Possibility Dogs is a sequel to Texas search-and-rescue dog handler Suzannah Charleson’s 2010 hit, Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog. The Possibility Dogs follows a turn in Charleson’s dog-handling career and interests, after an especially gruesome search-and-rescue job stresses her so much that she struggled afterward with post-traumatic stress disorder. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
HOHENWALD, KINGSTON, Tennessee; TENINO, Washington––The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, Tiger Haven, and Wolf Haven International have in common housing several of the most difficult species to keep safely in captivity, controversial histories before achieving current stability, and high public profiles. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
Elephants Among Us: Two Performing Elephants in the 20th Century by Mike Jaynes Earth Books (15200 NBN Way, Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214), 2013. 199 pages, paperback. $22.95.
Elephants Among Us is a lengthy, detailed and meticulously researched e-book about the life and death of two performing elephants. Born in captivity in 1973 and later purchased by animal trainers Mike and Sally LaTorres, the elephant Stoney began performing in 1977. He was trained by methods including food deprivation and use of the ankus, a traditional Indian elephant training device also called, in the west, a “bull hook,” since similar instruments were used to drive cattle to slaughter before the advent of electric prods. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
Michael Balls, a trustee of the Foundation Researching Alternatives to Medical Experiments since 1979 and chair of FRAME since 1981, retired at the start of June 2013. Anna Cadogan was named acting chair. Balls was a cofounder of the European Research Group for Alternatives in Toxicology Testing, and was first director of the European Center for the Validation of Alternative Methods. Balls received the first Marchig Animal Welfare Award in 1986, the Russell & Burch Award from the Humane Society of the U.S. in 1987, the SmithKline Laboratory Animal Welfare Prize in 1997, the Michael Kay Award from the Royal SPCA of Britain in 1999, and was named to the Order of the British Empire in 2002. FRAME is headquartered in Nottingham, United Kingdom. Read more