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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
VIENNA––The Austrian-based international animal welfare charity Vier Pfoten (Four Paws in the U.S.) is expanding its constellation of bear sanctuaries to accommodate 15 to 20 bears who have been used in bear-baiting competitions in Ukraine. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
LIMON, Costa Rica––Nine alleged sea turtle egg poachers and drug smugglers are facing charges in connection with the killing of marine biologist Jairo Sandoval Mora, 26, and the sexual assault of at least two of the four women who accompanied him on a patrol of Moin Beach near Limon on the night of May 31, 2013. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
By Kim Bartlett and Merritt Clifton
Playing at Parcul Tei in central Bucharest, Romania, four-year-old Ionut Anghel and his six-year-old brother on September 2, 2013 wandered briefly out of sight of their grandmother, through a hole in the park fence, into a large vacant lot that offered dirt piles to climb and access to the marshy edge of the Danube river. They might have mistaken for friendly the six dogs who rose to attack them. The six-year-old, though injured, escaped to tell his grandmother that Ionut Anghel was dead. Rushing to the scene, the grandmother and other Parcul Tei visitors found the dogs already devouring the remains.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
HARARE––Sentencing three convicted elephant poachers to long prison terms and a game ranger to hang for shooting an alleged poacher, Zimbabwe courts appeared to send mixed messages about protecting elephants in late September 2013––but the facts leading to the death sentence may have been more nuanced than headlines that touched off a flurry of online petitions and activist alerts on behalf of ranger Maxwell Bowa, 53. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
NILGIRIS, Tamil Nadu, India––Vaccinating 60,000 dogs in 30 days at 10 rabies hot spots around India, Mission Rabies exceeded its preliminary target by 10,000 and kept right on rolling. Mission Rabies “will continue for three years, with a goal of vaccinating two million Indian dogs,” said Worldwide Veterinary Services founder Luke Gamble, who set for himself the goal of eradicating rabies in India while visiting Nilgiris as the star of a veterinary television show in 2009. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
Beautiful Old Dogs Edited by David Tabatsky, with photos by Garry Gross St. Martin’s Press (c/o MacMillan, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010), 2013. 144 pages, hardcover. $17.99.
Beautiful Old Dogs features photos by fashion photographer turned dog photographer Garry Gross (1937-2010), matched with literary contributions by prominent dog-loving New Yorkers or former New Yorkers. Most are contemporary, including Anna Quindlen, Ally Sheedy, Doris Day, Dean Koontz, and Marlo Thomas, but the playwright Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) is also represented, celebrating the endearing qualities of aging pets. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
We are extremely concerned about the implications of the recently published California Sheltering.org “white paper” formally titled Charting a Path Forward: Achieving California’s policy to save all adoptable and treatable animals. The paper never even pays lip service to the prevention of unwanted litters. In addition, shelters are encouraged to turn away even healthy, friendly cats rather than run the risk of ever having to euthanize any. Recommends the white paper on page 29: “Best practice: No healthy cat, regardless of temperament, should be admitted by an animal shelter if the admission of that cat would cause the death of that cat or another cat in the shelter…This recommendation also applies to private humane organizations that take in animals.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
In 1989 I drove from Illinois to Montauk Point, New York to indulge in shark fishing, then my favorite pastime. I had no idea that a detour to the small town of Hegins, Pennsylvania would change my world forever. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
Taipei, Taiwan––A new rabies strain identified in Taiwanese ferret badgers may have the potential to exponentially increase the risk of rabies transmission by dogs. But even if the new rabies strain does not behave in dogs as it does among ferret badgers, it has ignited unprecedented public controversy in Taiwan over the value of animal testing. Read more