A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
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, 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
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
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
Stolen Apes: The Illicit Trade in Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos & Orangutans by Daniel Stiles, Ian Redmond, Doug Cress, Christian Nellemann, & Rannweig Knutsdatter Formo United Nations Environment Programme Free download from <http://www.un-grasp.org/news/121-download>
Kenyan wildlife photographer Karl Amman in March 1996 and March 2000 ANIMAL PEOPLE guest columns recounted how the international conservation establishment ignored his warnings and supporting documentation about the emerging illicit great ape traffic. Only habitat issues were taken seriously; associating the decline of nonhuman primates with hunting and meat-eating, as Amman did, was denounced as allegedly exhibiting an unscientific preoccupation with the fates of individuals, as opposed to species. 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