BOOKS: Don’t Dump the Dog

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

Don’t Dump the Dog: Outrageous Stories and Simple Solutions
to Your Worst Dog Behavior Problems
by Randy Grim with Melinda Roth
Skyhorse Publishing (555 Eighth Ave., Suite 903, New York,
NY 10018), 2009. 216 pages, paperback. $14.95.

“My boyfriend doesn’t like my dog,” says a caller to Stray
Dog Rescue of St. Louis, a shelter founded and operated by author
Randy Grim. The caller wants to surrender Rover. What shelter
worker hasn’t answered a call like this? Shelter staff, including
Grim, would like to tell her to ditch Romeo instead, but politely
take down Rover’s pertinent information, hope the owner leaves a
donation and say thank you, have a nice day.

BOOKS: The 100 Silliest Things People Say About Dogs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

The 100 Silliest Things People Say About Dogs by Alexandra Semyonova
Published by Hastings Press, England in
association with The Carriage House Foundation
(Postbus 10 308 2501 HH Den Haag, The
Netherlands), 2009. Downloadable at
<www.nonlineardogs.com>.
269 pages, paperback. $25.00. Download: $15.00.

“I wasn’t exposed to all the stories dog
people tell until I got my first puppy,”
behavioral scientist Alexandra Semyonova relates
in her introduction to The 100 Silliest Things
People Say About Dogs. But then Semyonova “read
every book I could get my hands on and talked to
many trainers. All sources agreed that dogs live
in a hierarchy, and that they spend all their
time being either dominant or submissive to each
other.

BOOKS: Dogs Can Sign, Too

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

Dogs Can Sign, Too: A Breakthrough Method for Teaching Your Dog to
Communicate
by Sean Senechal
Random House (1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019), 2009.
224 pages, paperback. $16.99

Sean Senechal, founder of the AnimalSign Center in Monterey,
Calif-ornia, would probably quickly endorse The 100 Silliest Things
People Say About Dogs author Alexandra Semyon-ova’s view that instead
of punishing dogs, people should “help them when they don’t
understand what we want.”
Suggests sales literature for Senechal’s book Dogs Can Sign,
Too, “Imagine being able to ask your poodle, “Who’s at the door?”
and having her respond, ‘It’s Katy.’ Or asking your golden
retriever, ‘Do you want a treat?’ and him responding, ‘No, water.’

The 1st Church of Animal Rights tried to launch the movement in 1921

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

What if the animal rights movement had launched out of the
older humane movement 55 years earlier, before factory farming
methods were invented, before laboratory use of animals expanded
into big business, before wildlife management was funded by hunting
license fees, before the humane movement came to be dominated by an
“animal welfare” rather than “animal rights” philosophy?
This is no mere fantasy. It could have happened, impelled
by the brief confluence of Diana Belais and Royal Dixon, flamboyant
and charismatic personalities whose talents and background,
differently mixed, paralleled those of the late Cleveland Amory,
who founded the Fund for Animals in 1968, and Ingrid Newkirk, who
cofounded People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in 1981.

BOOKS: The Human Side of Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:
The Human Side of Animals
by Royal Dixon
Project Gutenberg Ebook #19850, 2006.
Free download from
<http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19850>.
Originally published by
Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1918.
254 pages, hardcover.
Royal Dixon, who in 1921 launched the
First Church of Animal Rights to great fanfare
but with no evident follow-up, was no Cleveland
Amory. Yet The Human Side of Animals, published
a year before Amory was born, sufficiently
presaged Amory’s 1974 opus Man Kind? that it
might have been among Amory’s early
influences–even though it does not appear in the
extensive Man Kind? index.

BOOKS: Oceans: Exploring the hidden depths of the underwater world

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

Oceans: Exploring the hidden depths of the underwater world
by Paul Rose & Anne Laking
University of California Press (2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley,
CA 94704), 2008. 240 pages, illustrated. $34.95 hardcover.

“Four fifths of all life on Earth is found below the waves
and there is still much to be discovered,” say authors Paul Rose and
Anne Laking of their year-long journey circling the globe. Sailing
with a crew of 25, and supplies including a shark cage, they
crammed a lot of research into a relatively short time. They found
“underwater caves that preserved the remains of lost civilizations,”

Wild Animal Orphanage leadership transition

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

SAN ANTONIO–Nicole A. Garcia on October 4, 2009 succeeded
her mother, Carol Asvestas, as chief executive of Wild Animal
Orphanage, but it was not an easy succession.
Asvestas, who founded WAO in 1983, resisted stepping down.
Garcia, who grew up helping to run the sanctuary, but had lived in
Florida for several years, returned in late 2008 in anticipation of
helping Asvestas fend off critics, including a former board member
who had resigned and taken a list of allegations to the USDA and the
Texas Office of Attorney General.
Instead, Garcia told ANIMAL PEOPLE, she found that many of
the allegations she had heard were substantially true. After taking
the evidence to the board, Garcia found herself cleaning up after an
October 4, 2009 coup d’etat that displaced both of her parents.
“The board of directors did not oust Ron and Carol,” WAO
vice president Sumner Matthes told ANIMAL PEOPLE. “Our original
legal vote was to place them on 90-day administrative leave.
Unfortunately, this was not acceptable to them, and they
immediately proceeded to the WAO offices and removed computers,
records and various other things essential to our conducting an
in-house investigation. These items have essentially been returned
as a result of legal action,” Matthes said. “This resulted in the
board holding another meeting at which it was voted to terminate
them.”

Ric O’Barry wins ASPCA Lifetime Achievement Award

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

Ric O’Barry, campaigning against dolphin captivity since
1970, on October 29, 2009 received the American SPCA Lifetime
Achivement award. The ASPCA honored Rolling Ranch Animal Sanctuary
founders Steve Smith and Alayne Marker, of Ovando. Montana, with
the Henry Bergh Award. About two-thirds of the 70 animals in their
care are blind. The ASPCA law enforcement officers of the year were
Tim Rickey and Kyle Held of the Humane Society of Missouri and
Missouri Highway Patrol undercover agents Terry Mills and Jeffrey
Heath, whose work led to an eight-state dogfighting raid in July
2009, including more than 30 arrests and the seizure of more than
400 dogs. The ASPCA Tommy Monahan Award, named for a 9-year-old who
died in 2007 trying to save his dog from a housefire, went to Monica
Plumb, 11, of Powhatan County, Virginia, who has raised funds to
donate more than 50 pet-sized oxygen masks to fire departments in
nine states. The Hingham Fire Department, also recently honored by
PETA, received the ASPCA Firefighter of the Year award. The ASPCA
Dog of the Year was Archie, 8, a black Labrador who assists
disabled Iraq veteran Clay Rankin. Cat of the Year was Nora, a
piano-playing former shelter cat whose YouTube performances have
attracted more that 15 million viewings.

Feds to investigate horse slaughter & welfare

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

WASHINGTON D.C.–Who wants or needs horse slaughter? The
Government Accountability Office is to spend the next few months finding out.
Signed by U.S. President Barack Obama on October 21, 2009,
the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Adminis-tration,
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 included a clause
continuing the three-year-old prohibition of USDA inspection of
horsemeat, which brought the closure of the last three U.S. horse
slaughterhouses.

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