From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2013: (Actually published on November 20,  2013.)

Obituaries

“I come to bury Caesar,  not to praise him.   The evil men do lives after them.   The good is oft interred with their bones.”   ––William Shakespeare

Patricia Ritz,  67,  is believed to have been eaten by some of the 50-odd wolf hybrids she kept at her rural home near Fordsville in Ohio County,  Kentucky.  Investigating a neighbor’s report that Ritz had not been seen in several days,  Ohio County sheriff’s deputies found only a skull and jawbone believed to be hers.  The wolf hybrids had apparently not been given food or water in some time.  Ohio County Animal Control,  Adopt-A-Husky,  and Roby’s Hybrid Wolf Fund took custody of the wolf hybrids,  29 of whom were later moved by Animal Rescue Corps to a warehouse in Lebanon,  Tennessee that already housed about 100 dogs and two parrots,  according to Brian Wilson of the Nashville Tennessean.  Ritz reportedly was charged with mass neglect of dogs in 1986,  1987,  1991,  1997,  1999,  and 2002,  was convicted five times,  and was not prosecuted in the 1991 case after promising she would not again take dogs into Indiana. Read more

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2013: (Actually published on October 8,  2013)

Obituaries

“I come to bury Caesar,  not to praise him. The evil men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.” –William Shakespeare

Donald Low, M.D., 68, died of a brain tumor on September 18, 2013 in Toronto. Co-author of nearly 400 peer-reviewed articles for scientific and medical journals, Low was best known for advising against panic responses to zoonotic disease outbreaks, including occasional appearances of raccoon rabies in Toronto, and SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), which hit 375 Torontonians in 2003, killing two and causing 27,000 people to be quarantined. Read more

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  July-August 2013:

Obituaries

“I come to bury Caesar,  not to praise him.  The evil men do lives after them.   The good is oft interred with their bones.”  ––William Shakespeare

Jan Worrell,  87,  a longtime resident of Pasadena,  Maryland,  died on June 23,  2013 at the Baltimore-Washington Medical Center. “Marjanet  Ann ‘Jan’ Worrell served as  a missionary in India for more than 13 years,”  recalled Nicky Ratliff,   executive director of the Humane Society of Carroll County.  “She retired in 1992 after 18 years as the head of Anne Arundel County Animal Care & Control in Glen Bernie.  Her shelter had the best computerized animal tracking system in Maryland,  long before there were commercial systems widely available.  She and six others formed the Professional Animal Workers of Maryland in the mid-1970s,  and began to provide training [for animal control personnel] with the help of the University of Maryland and local veterinarians.  PAWS is still benefiting those of us who continue the work she loved,”  Ratliff added. Read more