BOOKS: Experiencing Animal Minds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  March 2013:

Experiencing Animal Minds:  An Anthology of Animal-Human Encounters Edited by Julie A. Smith & Robert W. Mitchell Columbia University Press (61 West 62nd St.,  New York,  NY  10023),  2012.   380 pages.  $19.24/Kindle,   $105.00 hardcover,   $35.00 paperback.

Experiencing Animal Minds is a fascinating collection of 21 essays by animal researchers and academic scholars. Many of the authors discuss how animals interact with each other and with humans,  including United Poultry Concerns founder Karen Davis.   Read more

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: Training the Best Dog Ever

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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

Letters [March 2013]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  March 2013:

Letters

Animal rights law pioneer Larry Weiss checks in

Here’s what’s happened since I retired in 2003,   after 18 years of practicing animal law in California.  I remain involved in mentoring young attorneys and giving occasional presentations at law schools and vegan gatherings. Read more

Inflated cat stats panic birders

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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

Chicago hunting radio show host blames feral cats for decline of bobwhite quail

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  March 2013:

CHICAGO––Feral cat neuter/return advocates are apprehensive of an ongoing study of the ecological effects of feral cats,  funded by the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation,  after foundation president and WGN radio hunting program host Charlie Potter blamed feral cats for a continent-wide decline of bobwhite quail. Read more

Wildlife SOS saves more bears from Indo-Nepal traffic

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  March 2013:

AGRA,  India––“In an all night anti- poaching rescue operation based on intelligence provided by Wildlife SOS,  four young male sloth bears were seized from poachers in the Sahibganj district of Jharkhand on the Indo-Nepal border,”  Wildlife SOS cofounder Geeta Seshamani e-mailed to ANIMAL PEOPLE on February 19,  2013. Read more

Editorial feature: Gun control, “boomers,” & the future of hunting

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  March 2013:

Editorial feature:  Gun control,  “boomers,” & the future of hunting   by Merritt Clifton & Kim Bartlett

 

“In the matter of gun control,  our main concern is rightly for the human victims of mass shootings,”  wrote veteran journalist Dick Meister on January 18,  2013 for California Progress Report.   “But what of the other defenseless animals who die at the hands of humans?  What of the hunting rifles that are cited as legitimate simply because they are not rapid-fire weapons,  the guns that are used by hunters to kill so many of our fellow beings in the name of sport?   Read more

Obituaries (March 2013)

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  March 2013:

Obituaries 

“I come to bury Caesar,  not to praise him.  The evil men do lives after them.   The good is oft interred with their bones.”  ––William Shakespeare

C. Everett Koop,  96,  U.S. surgeon general 1982-1989,  died on February 27,  2013 in Hanover,  New Hampshire. Born in Brooklyn,  Koop was admitted to Dartmouth College in Hanover at age 16.  He studied medicine at Cornell Medical School in upstate New York,  served an internship at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia and a surgical fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania hospital,  then studied pediatric surgery for a year at Boston Children’s Hospital.  Becoming only the seventh pediatric surgery specialist in the U.S.,  Koop returned to Philadelphia to become surgeon-in-chief at Children’s Hospital.  Founding the first neo-natal surgery unit in the U.S. and cofounding the Journal of Pediatric Surgery,  Koop in The Right to Live,  The Right to Die (1976) warned against “a progression of thinking in this country from liberalized abortion to infanticide to passive euthanasia to active euthanasia,  indeed to the very beginnings of the political climate that led to Auschwitz,  Dachau and Belsen.”   Read more

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