A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
Animals killed YEAR 1,000s Animals per 1,000 people of people killed
New York City 0.8 2013 8,336 6,872 VERMONT 1.2 2011 626 778 Springfield, MA 1.9 2011 153 295 Tompkins County, NY 2.4 2011 102 243 Buffalo/Erie County 3.6 2012 919 3,336 MAINE 4.3 2012 1,329 5,772 Monroe County, NY 6.2 2011 734 4,556 NORTHEAST (36%) 1.8 34,131 61,436 Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
The Dog Care Field Manual: How to care for mangy run-down dogs in 2nd and 3rd world countries (and in developed countries, too) by Harrell Graham 46-page free download from this location.
The Dog Care Field Manual, by Harrell Graham, covers wound treatment; treatment of both internal parasites such as worms and external parasites such as mange; emergency response to poisoning; and avoidance of rabies. Each topic is reviewed in depth and detail, recommending crisis care that almost anyone can give when the nearest veterinarian is many miles and hours away. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
Led Astray: Reforming New York City’s Animal Care & Control by Scott M. Stringer, Manhattan Borough President (lead researcher/writer Shaan Khan), January 2013 Free download from: www.mbpo.org/uploads/FINALLedAstrayReport.pdf
Led Astray is the latest of many evaluations and exposés of alleged deficiencies within the New York City Center for Animal Care & Control, originally known as the CACC, now abbreviated AC&C.
Twenty years after AC&C was formed on short notice to take over the New York City animal control contract, held for the preceding 100 years by the American SPCA, the city rate of shelter killing has fallen from about six animals per 1,000 residents, which would still be very low today, compared to the national rate of 9.7, to 0.82. This is the best record of any major U.S. city, bar none, even factoring in that New York City residents keep about half as many pets as the U.S. national average. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
The Secret Life of Dog Catchers: An animal control officer’s passion to make a difference by Shirley Zindler 2270 Gravenstein Highway South, Sebastopol, CA 95472 https://www.createspace.com/4096859?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026 250 pages, paperback. $18.00.
One New Year’s Day, rain flooded Rohnert Park, California. The county animal shelter was closed, but Sonoma County animal control officer Shirley Zindler worked emergency calls. “Muddy, rapidly rising water swirled and eddied around the small sandbar where the old dog lay,” recalls Zindler in The Secret Life of Dog Catchers. The senior dog, wet and cold, had obviously struggled to pull herself onto a dry sliver of land as the raging creek almost swallowed her up. Sizing up the precarious situation, Zinder realized there was a nearby fire station. Within minutes four firefighters arrived in a truck and pulled the dog to safety. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
WASHINGTON D.C.––National Audubon Society president David Yarnold on March 26, 2013 announced that Audubon magazine editor-at-large Ted Williams had been reinstated after a 10-day suspension for allegedly urging the use of the over-the-counter pain reliever acetaminophen to poison feral cats. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
Your January/February 2013 editorial “Pi, Dorothy, and the qualities of humane leadership” gave me stuff to ponder that I hadn’t seriously considered before, such as the emphasis on adopting one’s way out of shelter euthanasias versus the likely better bang for the buck approach of focusing even more than currently on spaying and castrating. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
PETALING JAYA, Malaysia––Malaysian natural resources and environment minister Douglas Uggah “has ordered an immediate investigation by a team from his ministry into the alleged inhumane massacre of wild monkeys by its contractors,” Michelle Chun of the Sun Daily reported on March 29, 2013. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:
WASHINGTON D.C.––Inflating the U.S. pet cat population by ten million, the outdoor pet cat population by closer to 50 million, and the best documented estimates of the feral cat population by up to 64 million, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute ornithologists Scott Loss and Peter Marra and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Tom Will on January 29, 2013 alleged in the journal Nature Communications that domestic cats in the U.S. kill up to 3.7 billion birds and as many as 20.7 billion mice, voles, and other small mammals. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:
New adoption center gives embattled Fresno humane community a point of pride
FRESNO, Calif.––Celebrating a rare “good news for animals” event in a city which has had little to celebrate, the Cat House on the Kings and the Petco Foundation on February 15, 2013 together opened a new 1,500-square-foot adoption center inside the Fresno Petco store.
Founded in 1990 by Lynea Lattanzio of Parlier, in rural Fresno County alongside the Kings River, the Cat House on the Kings is the oldest and most successful of many local “no-kill” organizations trying to knock down a rate of animal control dog and cat killing which––though less than half of what it was 10 years ago––remains among the highest in the U.S., more than three times the current national average. Read more