Category: Reviews

BOOKS & DOCUMENTS: CITES at 40: Perspectives, trade patterns & future prospects

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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

DOCUMENTS: Guns, Excise Taxes, & Wildlife Restoration

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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

BOOKS: Humane education classic

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  April 2013:

Humane education classic The Universal Natural History:  Natural History in Anecdote by Alfred H. Miles,  Profusely Illustrated With Colored Plates Dodd Mead & Co.,  New York.  1895.  385 pages.

Clinton,  Washington,  where ANIMAL PEOPLE receives mail,  was named in 1883 by Civil War veteran Edward C. Hinman,  who came from Eagle Township in Clinton County,  Michigan.  Hinman “built a hotel and a dock, supplying steamships with wood and water,”  local histories recount.  From 1885 to 1896,  Hinman ran the local post office from a general store located kitty-corner from the present post office.   The building still exists,  but has long been vacant. Read more

BOOKS / Four-Legged Miracles: Heartwarming Tales of Lost Dogs’ Journeys Home

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  April 2013:

Four-Legged Miracles:   Heartwarming Tales of Lost Dogs’ Journeys Home   by Brad & Sherry Hansen Steiger St. Martin’s Griffin (175 Fifth Ave.,  New York,  NY 10010),  2013.  264 pages,  paperback.  $14.99.

Animal lovers are familiar with the 1943 classic Lassie Come Home,  in which an impoverished rural family sells their cherished collie to a Scottish nobleman,  but the collie returns to the boy she loves. Four-Legged Miracles is a compilation of amusing,  inspirational and sometimes tearful real-life “Lassie” stories.   Read more

BOOKS: The Heartbeat at Your Feet

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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.”

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BOOKS: The Cat Whisperer

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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.

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MOVIE REVIEWS: The Hunter

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:

The Hunter Starring Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, & Sam Neill. Directed by Daniel Nettheim. Adapted from novel The Hunter by Julia Leigh. Porchlight Films, 2011 (Australia). U.S. release on April 6, 2012.

By Kim Bartlett & Wolf Clifton A year after release, the 2012 film The Hunter remains worth a second look. Based on the novel The Hunter by Julia Leigh, the film version stars Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, and Sam Neill. Dafoe, a mercenary, hunts the last living thylacine, or “Tasmanian tiger,” on assignment from a biotech company that hopes to isolate, identify, and somehow use the toxin that thylacines are said to have used to paralyze prey. Read more

BOOKS: For Love of Cats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  March 2013:


For Love of Cats by Animal Rescue League of Iowa, Inc. Landauer Publishing Co. (3100 NW 101st St., Suite A,  Urbandale, Iowa 50322,  2012.  160 pages,   paperback.  $21.95.

 

For Love of Cats,  presented by the Animal Rescue League of Iowa,  draws upon years of shelter experience with cats and making successful adoptions of cats,  beginning with what to consider when choosing a cat.  Factors include age,  gender,  and whether the cat is a purebred or a rescued stray. Read more

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