BOOKS: The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick’s dogs and their tale of rescue & redemption

September 1, 2010 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)

The Lost Dogs:
Michael Vick’s dogs and their tale of rescue & redemption
by Jim Gorant
Gotham Books (375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014), 2010.
287 pages, hardcover. $26.00.

The Lost Dogs, like a Three Stooges film, should open with
the warning, “Don’t try this at home, kids.”
Yes, the American SPCA, Best Friends Animal Society, and
several other partner organizations were able to avoid euthanizing 47
of the 51 pit bull terriers who were confiscated from football star
and dogfighter Michael Vick in April 2007. About two-thirds of the
dogs were eventually placed in homes; the rest remain in sanctuary
care.

Greenpeacers sentenced

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)
TOKYO–Greenpeace Japan anti-whaling campaigners Junichi Sato,
33, and Toru Suzuki, 43, were on September 6, 2010 convicted of
stealing more than 20 kilograms of whale meat from a warehouse in
April 2008, and were sentenced to a year in jail each, suspended
for three years. Sato and Suzuki contended that they took the whale
meat as evidence that members of the crew of the whaling ship Nissan
Maru were illegally selling meat from whales who had been killed in
the name of scientific research. The case, the award-winning film
The Cove, and the July 2010 deportation of Sea Shepherd
Conserv-ation Society activist Pete Betheune, whose boat the Ady Gil
was sunk by a Japanese whaler in January 2010, have greatly raised
Japanese awareness of the nation’s involvement in whaling.

Voting to end Wild Animal Orphanage, board seeks new homes for 297 animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)

SAN ANTONIO–Wild Animal Orphanage
directors Suzanne Straw, Michelle Cryer, and
Chris Smith on August 31, 2010 unanimously voted
to dissolve the 17-year-old sanctuary, one of
the largest in the world, with 297 animals–some
at the seven-acre original site just outside San
Antonio, most at a 102-acre site located farther
away.
Founders Carol and Ron Asvestas were
ousted from the Wildife Animal Orphanage
management in an October 2009 coup d’etat led by
their daughter Nicole Garcia, amid financial
stress following years of allegations of
mismanagement by former volunteers and donors.

BOOKS: On Their Own Terms: Bringing Animal-Rights Philosophy Down to Earth

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)

On Their Own Terms:
Bringing Animal-Rights Philosophy Down to Earth
by Lee Hall
Nectar Bat Press (777 Post Road, Suite 205, Darien, CT 06820),
2010. 330 pages, paperback. $17.95.

Friends of Animals vice president for legal affairs Lee Hall
argues in On Their Own Terms: Bringing Animal-Rights Philosophy Down
to Earth for a vegan world, in which all animals roam free. Her
perception of the central problem in animal/human relations is that
humans exercise dominion over animals. Her strategic approach is
“abolitionist,” meaning that she believes every campaign activity
should work toward the ultimate goal.

BOOKS: Animal Camp

July 1, 2010 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2010:

Animal Camp by Kathy Stevens
Skyhorse Publishing
(555 Eighth Ave., Suite 903, New York, NY 10018), 2010. 256
pages, hardcover. $24.95.

Every unwanted or cast off animal should be lucky enough to
end up at the Catskill Animal Sanctuary in upstate New York, the
subject of Kathy Stevens’ Animal Camp. I have reviewed many books
for Animal People about rescued animals and sanctuaries, some better
presented than others. Animal Camp is a delight.

People & positions

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2010:
Peter Davies, previously director general of the Royal SPCA
and then of the World Society for the Protection of Animals, was on
August 16, 2010 named chair of the management committee of the
Marjan Centre for the Study of Conflict & Conservation, a project of
the War Studies department at King’s College, London. The Marjan
Centre is headed by longtime King’s College faculty member Michael
Rainsborough.
Dori Villalon joined the American Humane Association in June
2010 as vice president for animal protection. Villalon was
previously vice president of the San Francisco SPCA, after heading
Sonoma County Animal Care & Control, the Cleveland Animal Protection
League, and the Larimer Humane Society .

Vegan ex-NHL hockey star is named deputy director of Canadian Greens

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2010:
MONTREAL–Recently retired vegan hockey star Georges Laraque,
33, was on August 1, 2010 named one of the two deputy directors of
the Green Party of Canada.
Laraque, born in Montreal of Haitian parents, said on his
web site that he gave up meat and later joined the Greens due to “my
deep concern for animal welfare.” Laraque has also raised funds for
relief work in Haiti.
Named “Best Fighter” by Hockey News in 2003 and “#1 enforcer”
by Sports Illustrated in 2008, Laraque played 13 years in the
National Hockey League for Edmonton, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, and the
Montreal Canadiens.

What the Sea Shepherds did during the summer in the Galapagos, Faroe Islands, and Tokyo

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2010:

FRIDAY HARBOR– The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
celebrated but pledged to remain involved in the Galapagos Islands on
July 28, 2010, after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organiz-ation’s World Heritage Committee voted 14-5 to drop
the Galapagos from the UNESCO list of endangered World Heritage
sites. Added to the list in 2007, the Galapagos were downlisted in
recognition of improved environmental protection by the government of
Ecuador– including restraining alleged economic exploitation by
senior officers in the Ecuadoran navy.
The Sea Shepherds began helping the Galapagos National Park
Service to patrol the Galapagos Marine Reserve in late 2000. In
early 2001 one of the first Sea Shepherd missions undertaken with the
park service exposed the involvement of Ecuadoran navy vessels in
support of shark poaching. The Sea Shepherds later donated the
patrol boat Sirenian to the Galapagos National Park Service, and
established a permanent office in the Galapagos in support of ongoing
anti-poaching efforts.

Faulty warrants kill Ontario SPCA case against Toronto Humane Society

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2010:
TORONTO–All pending charges against
former Toronto Humane Society president Tim Trow
and seven other former Toronto Humane Society
personnel were dropped on August 16, 2010 after
Ontario crown attorney Christine McGoey told the
court that deficiencies in the search warrant and
procedures used by the Ontario SPCA in a November
2009 raid on the Toronto Humane Society involved
“several serious breaches” of the Canadian
Charter of Rights & Freedoms, sufficient to
render inadmissible all evidence collected.

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