National Zoo bird researcher is charged with attempting to poison feral cats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2011:
WASHINGTON D.C.–Alley Cat Allies and
Alley Cat Rescue on May 26, 2011 asked the
Smithsonian Institution to suspend National Zoo
Migratory Bird Center researcher Nico Dauphine.
Dauphine was charged three days earlier with
attempted animal cruelty for allegedly trying to
poison feral cats. If convicted, Dauphine could
be fined up to $1,000 and could be sentenced to
180 days in jail.
Dauphine denied the offense in a brief
statement issued by her attorney.

BOOKS: The Animal Shelter

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2011:
Humane education classic:

The Animal Shelter by Patricia Curtis
Lodestar Books (c/o E.P. Dutton), 1984.
164 pages, hardcover. $13.95 original price.

The Animal Shelter, by Patricia Curtis, introduced a
generation of young people to humane work.
“I wrote The Animal Shelter 28 years ago, so it is badly
out-of-date,” Curtis told ANIMAL PEOPLE in May 2011, seemingly
surprised to be looked up and asked about it after all this time. “I
hope things have improved since then, both in the numbers of animals
surrendered to shelters and in the condition of shelters. My
impression is that the book got a mixed reception,” Curtis
continued. “I hope it did some good. Some shelters wrote to me that
they were grateful that I had drawn attention to their problems. But
some people couldn’t handle the truth as I tried to tell it.

Donkey Sanctuary founder Elisabeth Svendsen, 81

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2011:

Elisabeth Svendsen, 81, founder of The Donkey Sanctuary,
died of a stroke on May 11, 2011 in Exeter, England. She appeared
to be “the picture of health” two days earlier, said Donkey
Sanctuary chief executive David Cook, when she gave the closing
speech at Donkey Week, celebrated at the Donkey Sanctuary
headquarters in east Devon.
Born Elisabeth Knowles in York-shire, “She became enamored
of donkeys when she was a girl,” wrote Emma Brown of the Washington
Post. “She worked as a teacher and a secretary before she and her
husband Niels started a family. They devised a dryer for baby
diapers, sold their invention to a manufacturer, and bought the
Salston Hotel at Ottery St. Mary in Devon.”

Awards & Honors

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2011:
The 37th annual Animal Trans-portation Association
conference, held May 22-25, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium, honored
Sharon Cregier, Ph.D., of Montague, Prince Edward Island, for
lifetime achievement in promoting the welfare of animals in
transport. An ANIMAL PEOPLE charter subscriber, Cregier may be best
known for research demonstrating that the safest way to haul horses
is facing backward–exactly the reverse of the most common
configuration of horse trailers.

Cartoon keeps seal hunt in the spotlight

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:

TORONTO–Just when Atlantic Canadian sealers
imagined it might be safe to go back in the
water, because maybe no one was watching with
cameras this year, a cartoon seal walked into a
bar and attracted media notice from St. Johns,
Newfoundland, to Vancouver, British Columbia.
“PETA printed clever coasters and distributed
them in bars around Toronto,” explained
Treehugger blogger Lloyd Alter. Drawn by New
Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss, the coasters
showed a sad-eyed seal telling a bartender,
“Anything but a Canadian Club.”

Vegan World Radio & Lone Star Vegetarian Chili Cook-Off cofounder Shirley Wilkes-Johnson

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
Shirley Wilkes-Johnson, 74, died of a stroke in Houston on
April 9, 2011.
A vegetarian since 1961, Wilkes-Johnson began discussing her
beliefs about diet, health, and the treatment of animals with the
public in January 1974, as co-host of a morning talk show on radio
KTLW in La Marque, Texas. She soon became a frequent speaker to
small gatherings and contributor to newspaper recipe columns.

BOOKS: Such a Nuisance to Die

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:

Such a Nuisance to Die:
the Autobiography of Her Serene Highness Princess Elisabeth de Croy
as told to Joy Leney
The Book Guild Ltd.
(Pavilion View, 19 New Road, Brighton BN11UF, United Kingdom.
Distributed in the U.S. by Transatlantic Publications.) 2010.
256 pages, hardcover, illustrated. $38.50.

The many animal advocates who were fortunate enough to have
encountered Her Serene Highness Princess Elisabeth de Croy at
international events and conferences in the decades between 1970-when
she officially opened her Refuge de Thiernay sanctuary for
animals-and her death in 2009, would use many positive adjectives to
describe Elisabeth, but “serene” would probably not be one of them.
When I met Princess Elisabeth at the first Asia for Animals
conference in Manila, Philippines, in 2001, she was almost eighty
and still livelier than the average forty-year-old. She wanted to go
to a slaughterhouse after the meeting ended and was looking for
someone who would go with her. As I was already trying to steel
myself for an investigation of the Korean dog and cat meat trade on
the way back to the U.S., I demurred.

BOOKS: The Bond

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them
by Wayne Pacelle
William Morrow/Harper Collins
(10 East 53rd St., New York, NY 10022), 2011.
432 pages, hardcover. $26.95.
Wayne Pacelle, in The Bond: Our Kindship with Animals, Our
Call to Defend Them, becomes the third president of the Humane
Society of the U.S. to produce a book during his tenure, but the
first whose book is a work of sole authorship.

GoDaddy CEO is told where to go for killing elephant

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
Purporting to be practicing elephant conservation by shooting
an elephant in Zimbabwe on March 8, 2011, posting video of the
shooting to a web site a week later, GoDaddy.com web domain
registration baron Bob Parsons did help to raise some funds to help
elephants. NameCheap, a GoDaddy rival, offered to donate $1.00
from the $4.99 price of arranging a web name transfer to Save The
Elephants, of Nairobi, Kenya. The promotion raised $20,433.

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