A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
How Animals Grieve by Barbara J. King University of Chicago Press (1427 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637), 2013. 179 pages, paperback. $25.00
How Animals Grieve author Barbara J. King asks, “Is it outlandish to write of animal love?” No, of course not. Some animals love and grieve differently from humans, but their expressions are real, and many animals grieve exactly as humans do. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
U.S. Pet Ownership & Demographics Sourcebook, 2012 edition ($195 member download; $295 non-member download; $20 extra for printed copy.) American Veterinary Medical Association, 1931 North Meacham Road, Suite 100, Schaumburg, IL 60173. 186 pages, paperback. AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals: 2013 edition Free download from: https://www.avma.org/KB/Policies/Documents/euthanasia-highres.pdf
The American Veterinary Medical Association charges from $195 to $315 for the U.S. Pet Ownership & Demographic Sourcebook, 2012 edition, depending on the membership status of the customer and the format in which the book is provided, but the AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals: 2013 edition are free for the downloading. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
CITES at 40: Perspectives, trade patterns & future prospects, compiled by United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre Free download from <www.unep-wcmc.org>
Created in 1973 by the United Nations, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora tracks and regulates commerce in about 34,000 species. About 3% are listed on Appendix I, meaning that they are endangered, or Appendix II, meaning that they are threatened. CITES compliance is voluntary. Individual nations may invoke trade sanctions against violators, but CITES itself has no enforcement mechanism. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
Guns, Excise Taxes, & Wildlife Restoration by M. Lynne Corn & Jane G. Gravelle Congressional Research Service Free download from <www.crs.gov>
“As result of the recent debate over guns, gun rights, and gun-related violence, there has been a marked increase in sales of many weapons as well as ammunition,” opens this succinct five-page resumé of the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Program. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:
For Love of Dogs
by Animal Rescue League of Iowa, Inc.
Landauer Publishing Co. (3100 NW 101st St., Suite A, Urbandale, Iowa
50322), 2012. 208 pages, paperback. $24.95.
For Love of Dogs is a companion book to For Love of Cats, also
produced by the Animal Rescue League of Iowa. It is just as well
written and informative as the book on cats.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:
The Heartbeat at Your Feet:
A Practical, Compassionate
New Way to Train Your Dog
by Lisa Tenzin-Dolma
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc.
(4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706), 2012.
180 pages, hardcover or e-book. $32.00 in either format.
The Heartbeat at Your Feet is advertised as “the first book to
reveal how you can fully understand and communicate with dogs and how
you can easily eliminate any behavior problems based on new information
about animal behavior.”
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:
The Cat Whisperer:
Why Cats Do What They Do –
And How to Get Them to Do What You Want
by Mieshelle Nagelschneider
Random House (1745 Broadway, New York,
NY 10019), 2013. 297 pages, hardcover. $25.00.
Feline perceptions and responses differ far more from those of
humans than do the perceptions and responses of dogs. Thus, while most
dogs train humans to understand their needs relatively easily,
misunderstandings of cat behavior may be the most common reason why cats
who once had homes land in shelters.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:
Zoobiquity: What animals can teach us about health and the science of healing by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D. & Kathryn Bowers Knopf (1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019), 2012. 308 pages, hardcover. $26.95.
Animals have long been involved in human health care, as sources of purported medicines, subjects of experiments, and as witches’ familiars. “The idea that animals have healing powers reaches back to the dawn of human civilization,” explains Creighton University medical historian Carrie E. Muffett, M.D., on the Creighton pet-assisted therapy web site. “The Mayans, for example, believed that each of us is given a ‘soul animal’ to serve as a protective guide in earthly life. The Egyptian deity Anubis, physician of the gods, bore a canine head. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:
Training the Best Dog Ever by Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz & Larry Kay Workman Publishing (225 Varick St., 9th floor, New York, NY 10014), 2012. 287 pages, paperback. $14.95
Training the Best Dog Ever is the paperback release of a manual originally published in 2010 as the Love That Dog Training Program. Co-author Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz, who died in January 2011, was renowned as trainer of three water spaniels for the late Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, and of Bo, the current White House dog. Read more