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BOOKS: World Without Cats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

World Without Cats by Bonham Richards iUniverse (order c/o www.worldwithoutcats.com),  2012. 315 pages,  paperback.  $19.95.
According to World Without Cats publicity materials,  author Bonham Richards “has a doctorate in medical microbiology from UCLA and did postdoctoral research at the University of Washington.”  He taught biology for 24 years at California State University,  San Bernardino and the Univeristy of Southern California,  and “now resides in Camarillo.” Read more

How 80 animal charities fared & responded to Superstorm Sandy

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

 
How 80 animal charities fared & responded to Superstorm Sandy
        Adopt-A-Dog,  of Armonk,  New York and Greenwich,  Connecticut,  was profiled by Helen Neachey of Greenwich Time for helping to rescue three feral cats and a late-born litter of kittens after Sandy hit.
        All About Spay/Neuter,   of Far Rockaway,  Queens,   after sterilizing more than 6,400 cats in eight years for local neuter/return programs,  in April 2012 received a PetSmart Charities grant of $40,000 to help increase the pace over the next two years.  Just six months later Sandy hit.  “AASN’s home,  which is also my home,  was flooded and everything inside was destroyed,”  director Joanne B. Monez e-mailed on November 4,  2012.  “We took in 27 inches of water and also lost one of our precious rescue cats,  Cleo.”  Updated Monez on November 24,  “We are rebuilding,  but have secured a new permanent adoption center for our cats and kittens on Broadway in Massapequa.” Read more

Letters (December 2012]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

Letters

Where the Leaping Bunny is going

Thank you for your September 2012 article “Where is the Leaping Bunny going?”   The issue of using animals to test cosmetics, personal care,  and household products is far from resolved, especially given the new animal testing requirements instituted by the People’s Republic of China for companies registering products there.  As mentioned in the article,  the emerging market of China and the sheer population of the country make it an enticing place to set up shop.  However, until China adopts non-animal alternatives for safety testing,  untold numbers of animals per year will needlessly suffer and die. Read more

BOOKS | The Last Walk: Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

The Last Walk: Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives by Jessica Pierce Univ. of Chicago Press (1427 E. 60th St.,  Chicago,  IL  60637), 2012.  263 pages,  hardcover.  $26.00.
Colorado bioethicist Jessica Pierce in The Last Walk alternates between detailing the last year in the life of her dog Odysseus,  Ody for short,  and examining the larger moral, philosophical,  and practical issues raised by the aging and death of pets–for society and culture,  for herself,  and for her family, especially her early-teen daughter Sage.  Read more

People & Positions (Nov-Dec 2012]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

People & positions

Kathleen Savesky,  board chair of the International Fund for Animal Welfare since June 29,  2012,  on October 31,  2012 announced that Fred O’Regan will not return as IFAW president after a six-month leave.  Azzedine Downes,  interim chief executive since July 2012, is to remain in that capacity until O’Regan’s successor is announced. Savesky succeeded 10-year IFAW board chair Thomas C. Ramey.  Savesky formerly headed the Bosack & Kruger Foundation and the Peninsula Humane Society,  of San Mateo,  California. Read more

BOOKS | Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards Into Battlegrounds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:


Nature Wars:  The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards Into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba   Crown Publishers  (c/o Random House,  1745 Broadway,  New York,  NY 10019), 2012.  336 pages,  hardcover.  $26.00.

Born in 1943,  during the deprivations of World War II and just after the Great Depression, Jim Sterba grew up hunting in rural Michigan. Sterba considers himself a lifelong conservationist, but “conservation” in his formative years meant little more than promoting hunting practices that helped to ensure abundant “game”–albeit for people who hunted for meat, as his family did,  not just for sport,  like the European nobility who originated the conservation movement around 200 years earlier in response to the Industrial Revolution and fencing the grazing commons. Read more

Visiting animal defenders badly treated, says Marjan Centre

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

 LONDON–Pole Pole Foundation founder and former Kahuzi-Biega National Park chief ranger John Kahekwa was to accept the first annual £1,000 MarjanMarsh conservation award on October 29,  2012 from the Marjan Centre for the Study of Conflict and Conservation at King’s College, London,  but Kahekwa never got there.

The award was presented in recognition of Pole Pole’s 20 years of work to promote community involvement in protecting eastern lowland gorillas and other animals who share the gorillas’ habitat near Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Read more

EDITORIALS: Why boycotts are not the answer to cruelty called "culture"

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2012:

Editorial feature: Why boycotts are not the answer to cruelty called “culture”
Animal people at this writing has received a barrage of e-mails from both irate individual activists and several international online activist networks soliciting a boycott of Spain over the torture-killings of “fire bulls” at village fiestas.
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There are few less defensible public practices involving animals than the ancient and widespread custom of attaching a flammable material to the horns of a bull, setting it alight, and then further tormenting the bull as he strives to escape the fire. Read more

What becomes of turtles relinquished to Petco?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

  

SAN DIEGO–Petco is recycling undersized turtles turned into stores by members of the public,  the 1,000-store pet supply chain acknowledged in response to recent PETA allegations,  and is doing business with a Louisiana turtle farm that sells turtles for human consumption to China,  but according to Petco,  the turtles sold to China are not the Petco turtles. Read more

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