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InterNICHE introduces alternatives to animal use in education to Iran

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.)

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I visited Iran in April and June 2012 as an invited speaker at the 17th Iranian Veterinary Congress and to conduct outreach to universities.  A previous InterNICHE visit to Iran in 2011 had been the first alternatives outreach to the country.  The 2012 outreach was part of a wider project that included extended stays in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
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LETTERS [Oct. 2012]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.)

Pit bulls & politics

Thank you for your September 2012 editorial feature,  “Pit bulls & political recklessness.”  I am so tired of the killing.  To stop the killing we must have breeding bans.  The statistics tossed about that we have a kazillion adoptive homes,  and just need to work to get dogs into these homes are just that:  statistics.  Amost no one wants the three year old pittie mix with facial scars.  When I first started work in rescue/sheltering,  pits and pit mixes were not common.  Now,  if I walk into a shelter,  they sit row after row, waiting for death being the common denominator. –Phyllis Lissa Fischer New Albany,  Ohio

BOOKS: A Novel Exploring the Challenges and Triumphs of Running an Animal Shelter

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2012:

THE RIPPLE EFFECT A Novel Exploring the Challenges and Triumphs of Running an Animal Shelter

by Marcy Eckhardt 268 pages,  paperback ($17.99) or e-book ($7.99.) http://marcyeckhardt.com/

Probably close to 100% of the ANIMAL PEOPLE readership have at some point either worked or volunteered in an animal shelter. Thus probably close to 100% will either intensely identify with the characters in The Ripple Effect,  by longtime shelter worker and consultant Marcy Eckhardt,  or at least recognize them–and probably most who start to read The Ripple Effect will read it cover-to-cover  in just a couple of sittings,  as I did,  feeling that The Ripple Effect is by,  for,  and about us,  the people who know animal sheltering from the inside out, as opposed to them, who interact with shelters in various ways and often vocally criticize shelter procedures, but have little understanding of why things are done as they are. Read more

Where is the Leaping Bunny going

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2012:

PHILADELPHIA–Dermalogica on September 18, 2012 followed Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel and L’Oreal in losing “cruelty free” certification entitling the company to use the Leaping Bunny logo on their products.

“Dermalogica has had products approved for sale in the People’s Republic of China, which  undoubtedly makes the company a party to animal testing,” explained the Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics in a prepared statement.  Read more

Trial of calcium chloride to fix dogs succeeds in Nepal

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2012:

YORK,  U.K.–The First International Conference on Dog Population Management concluded in York, United Kingdom on September 8, 2012 with optimism that calcium chloride–which can be made for less than the cost of bottling it–may already be suitable for widespread chemosterilant for use in male dogs.

Recent advances came as a surprise to Parsemus Foundation medical research programs director Elaine Lissner, who has funded calcium chloride trials for several years.  “At the November 2011 Animal Grant-makers meeting,” Lissner told ANIMAL PEOPLE, “we informed other funders about research on calcium chloride dihydrate nonsurgical male dog and cat sterilization, and showed how simple the sterilant is to make, mixing it right at the lunch table.  The Greenbaum Foundation told grantees about it.  But we heard no more about it until August 2012,” when the Greenbaum Foundation reported successful use of calcium chloride by an organization called DREAMS in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. Read more

Trophy hunters lose positions

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2012:

WWF/Spain votes out King Juan Carlos

World Wildlife Fund/Spain honorary chair King Juan Carlos was dethroned on July 21,  2012 when 94% of the membership opposed continuing his appointment.  Juan Carlos had held the honorary chair since helping to form WWF/Spain in 1968.  He tried to save his position with an unprecedented April 2012 public apology for participating in an ill-fated $60,000 elephant hunt in Botswana, during which he broke his hip and was airlifted home to Spain, reportedly at taxpayer expense. Read more

Walking horse shows are watched more closely than some would like

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2012:

CHATTANOOGA–U.S. District Judge Harry S. Mattice on September 19,  2012 fined Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration Hall of Fame trainer Jackie McConnell $75,000,  three years on supervised probation, and 300 hours of community service to be done for the USDA.

“It’s the stiffest sentence ever handed down under the 1970 Horse Protection Act,” exulted Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne Pacelle.  “McConnell in 2011 was captured on tape by a Humane Society of the U.S. undercover investigator intentionally injuring the animals under his charge in order to get them to step higher and win ribbons at horse shows,” Pacelle elaborated.  “McConnell still faces 15 charges of violating Tennessee’s cruelty to animals statute in a pending case, and his guilty plea in federal court virtually guarantees the charges will stick.” Read more

BOOKS: With the Eyes of Love, by Christa Blanke

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2012:

With the Eyes of Love,  by Christa Blanke, translated by Sheelagh D. Graham Animals’ Angels Press (Rossertstraße 8,  D-60323 Frankfurt a. Main,  Germany),  2011. 168 pages,  hardcover.  $16.76

For 21 years, before co-founding ANIMAL PEOPLE in 1992,  I moonlighted as a literary editor and publisher, chiefly of poetry, after hours on mostly animal-related news beats.  Works by many authors I helped to introduce to print now claim shelf space in major book stores–but few of them won readership as poets. Read more

WWF cofounder Russell Train, 92

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2012:

Russell E. Train, 92, died on September 17, 2012 at his farm in Bozman,  Maryland.  An attorney prominent in Republican politics,  Train was appointed by then-U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower to the bench of the U.S. Tax Court in 1957.  Recalled Washington Post obituarist Juliet Eilperin,  “Around that time, Train and his wife took two safari expeditions to East Africa,” as the then-British colony including Kenya and Tanzania was then known. Read more

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