BOOKS: Dog Detectives: Train Your Dog to Find Lost Pets

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:

Dog Detectives: Train Your Dog
to Find Lost Pets by Kat Albrecht
Dogwise Publishing (701-B Poplar, Wenatchee, WA 98807), 2008.
245 pages, $19.95.

Former police detective Kat Albrecht initially trained
sniffing dogs to assist in tracking suspects, finding lost people,
and finding cadavers. In 1997 Albrecht discovered that her dogs
could also help to find lost pets. After an occupationally related
disability prematurely ended Albrecht’s police career, she became a
fulltime pet detective. Of her first 99 searches, 68 discovered the
missing animal or the fate of the animal.
Eventually Albrecht founded an organization called Missing
Pet Partnership to promote and teach the use of dogs to find lost
pets, following the “Missing Animal Response” techniques she has
developed. Her initial template was the protocol for training the
Search And Rescue dogs deployed to find missing persons. Albrecht
then adapated the SAR approach to the peculiarities of finding lost
animals, whose behavior varies considerably from human behavior.

Updates from Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, & Bangladesh

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:
A female suicide bomber killed 69 people and wounded 140 at
the al-Ghazl pet market in Baghdad on February 1, 2008–the fifth
attack on the market since June 2006. Half an hour later, a second
female suicide bomber killed 29 people and wounded 67 at the New
Baghdad pet market. Four of the al-Ghazl attacks appear to have been
the work of al-Qaida. A November 2007 attack was attributed to
Shiites, who feigned an al-Qaida attack to increase public support
for Shiite militias.

Assadullah Khalid, governor of Kandahar, Afghanistan,
attributed to the Taliban a February 17, 2008 bombing that killed at
least 80 spectators at a dogfight and wounded 90 more. The Taliban
suppressed dogfighting, but it has regained popularity since the
U.S. ended Taliban rule in late 2001.

Middle East

South Africa may resume culling elephants by May 1, says minister

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:
JOHANNESBURG–South Africa could resume
culling elephants as early as May 1, 2008,
ending a 13-year moratorium, environment
minister Marthinus Van Schalkwyk announced on
February 25.
Van Schalkwyk said his department had
“taken steps to ensure that this will be the
option of last resort, acceptable only under
strict conditions.”
Offering a concession to animal
advocates, Van Schalkwyk added that capturing
wild elephants for commercial purposes would be
forbidden effective on May 1.

BOOKS: Williams/DeMello, Smith/Dauncey, Mouras

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:

Animals Matter: the case for animal protection
by Erin E. Williams & Margo DeMello
Promytheus Books (59 John Glenn Drive, Amherst, NY 14228), 2007.
420 pages, paperback. $20.00.

Building An Ark: 101 solutions to animal suffering
by Ethan Smith with Guy Dauncey
New Society Publishers (P.O. Box 189, Gabriola Island, British
Columbia V0R 1X0, Canada),
2007. 270 pages, paperback, $24.95.

I Care About Animals by Belton P. Mouras * A.S. Barnes & Co.,
1977. 254 pages, paperback. Out of print.

Written as introductions to animal advocacy, Animals Matter
and Building An Ark will not contain much news for ANIMAL PEOPLE
readers; but they may be timely, useful, and appropriate gifts for
young friends who care about animals, and would like to become more
involved on their behalf. Either would be suitable for people from
high school age to recent university graduates.

Could the Giza Zoo become a rescue center?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:
CAIRO–Little changed in 117 years, the
Giza Zoo is either the best of zoos or the worst
of zoos, according to many noisy authorities,
and may actually be a bit of both.
The animal collection is distinctly
idiosyncratic and of little value from a
conservation perspective, since most of the
examples of rare species represent inbred genetic
lines.
Yet the zoo does include enough lions,
elephants, hippos, zebras, giraffes, and
monkeys to satisfy most visitors. The animal
care attracts far more complaints than the
variety.

Dogs Deserve Better founder Grimes sentenced to 300 hours, $3,879 penalties

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:
HOLIDAYSBURG, Pa.– Blair County Court Judge Elizabeth Doyle
on February 22, 2008 sentenced Dogs Deserve Better founder Tammy
Grimes to do 300 hours of community service, in a capacity helping
humans rather than animals, and to spend a year on probation, for
removing an elderly and apparently painfully dying dog from the yard
of Steve and Lori Arnold of East Freedom, Pennsylvania in September
2006.
Grimes was unsuccessful in attempting to bring a cruelty
prosecution against the Arnolds, after the Central Pennsylvania SPCA
and Blair County district attorney Richard Consiglio refused to press
the case. Grimes was convicted of theft and receiving stolen
property in December 2007.

British reporter uncovers another greyhound scandal; dog racing in U.S. may be near finish

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:

LONDON–The Royal Veterinary College pays
the Greyhound Clinic in Essex £10 per dog to
kill healthy racing greyhounds and supply body
parts to the college, revealed Daniel Foggo of
the London Times on March 2, 2008.
The fee paid by the RVC is in addition to
the £30 per dog that the Greyhound Clinic charges
dog owners, Foggo wrote. “The RVC, the oldest
and largest veterinary college in Britain,
admitted that it had similar agreements with
other clinics,” added Foggo.

Mauled tiger rescuer gets a job offer

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:
KOLKATA–The Compassionate Crusaders Trust has offered a job
to Ashutosh Dhali, 45, of Deulbari, West Bengal, who was severely
mauled on February 18, 2008 while checking to see if forest guards
had properly tranquilized a female tiger who had been treed by a
rock-throwing mob.
“Forest guards encircled the tree with a net,” the Times of
India reported, “but the locals set the tree on fire,” causing the
tiger to flee.

People & projects

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:

Prince Charles of Britain “has shown his
distaste for the cruelty involved in making foie
gras by banning it from his residences,”
reported Valerie Elliot of the London Times on
February 28, 2008. “He instructed chefs
several months ago that they were no longer to
buy or serve the pâté,” wrote Elliot. “He has
also said that he will review the royal warrant
given to a shop near his Highgrove home which
sells it. His views,” surprising in view of
Prince Charles’ lifelong participation in captive
bird shooting and fox hunting, “were disclosed
in a letter to Joyce Moss, an activist with
Vegetarian International Voice for Animals,”
Elliot said.

Activists & Organizations

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