BOOKS | The Last Walk: Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

The Last Walk: Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives by Jessica Pierce Univ. of Chicago Press (1427 E. 60th St.,  Chicago,  IL  60637), 2012.  263 pages,  hardcover.  $26.00.
Colorado bioethicist Jessica Pierce in The Last Walk alternates between detailing the last year in the life of her dog Odysseus,  Ody for short,  and examining the larger moral, philosophical,  and practical issues raised by the aging and death of pets–for society and culture,  for herself,  and for her family, especially her early-teen daughter Sage.  Read more

BOOKS | The Dogs in Bali: Unforgettable Dog Stories From A Flawed Paradise

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:


The Dogs in Bali: Unforgettable Dog Stories From A Flawed Paradise by Anna Sternfeldt Sternfeldt Media,  c/o www.dog-stories-from-bali.com 63 pages,  $11.95.

 

The praiseworthy stated intent of The Dogs in Bali is to further the work of the Bali Animal Welfare Association.  But author, photographer,  and publisher Anna Sternfeldt opens with the disclaimer,  rare in a self-publication,  that “The views,  opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the authorŠdo not necessarily reflect the views, opinions,  positions or strategies of Sternfeldt Media,”  which “makes no representations as to accuracy,  completeness,  correctness, suitability,  or validity of any information.”

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BOOKS: Can Animals Be Moral?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

 

Can Animals Be Moral? by Mark Rowlands Oxford Univ. Press  (198 Madison Ave.,  New York,  NY 10016),  2012. 288 pages,  hardcover.  $29.95.

 

Responding to recent works by ethologists Marc Bekoff and Franz de Waal,  who work from direct observation of animals,  and have been accused of anthropomorphism for arguing that there are not distinctions but continuums between animal and human behavior, University of Miami philosophy professor Mark Rowlands ends his own discussion of real-life animals in his preface.  Rowlands in gist seems to agree with Bekoff and de Waal,  while finding fault with their approach. Read more

Obituaries [Nov-Dec 2012]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

Obituaries

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

Roy Curtis Marcum,  43,  a 14-year Sacramento County Animal Care & Regulation Department office,  was fatally shot through a closed front door on November 28,  2012 as he approached a house occupied by Joseph Francis Corey,  65,  to take custody of six Catahoula dogs.  Marcum,  who was unarmed,  was accompanied by two locksmiths,  who suffered superficial injuries.  Corey had been evicted the day before,  but was believed to have left the Catahoulas,  who are pit bull variants,  in the second floor house and ground level garage.  A 16-hour standoff followed the shooting, during which SWAT team members were able to slip into the garage and hide until  Corey descended a stairway into the garage to check on one of the dogs circa 5 a.m. on November 29.  Corey was then captured and charged with homicide. Read more

EDITORIALS: Why boycotts are not the answer to cruelty called "culture"

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2012:

Editorial feature: Why boycotts are not the answer to cruelty called “culture”
Animal people at this writing has received a barrage of e-mails from both irate individual activists and several international online activist networks soliciting a boycott of Spain over the torture-killings of “fire bulls” at village fiestas.
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There are few less defensible public practices involving animals than the ancient and widespread custom of attaching a flammable material to the horns of a bull, setting it alight, and then further tormenting the bull as he strives to escape the fire. Read more

People & Positions (Nov-Dec 2012]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

People & positions

Kathleen Savesky,  board chair of the International Fund for Animal Welfare since June 29,  2012,  on October 31,  2012 announced that Fred O’Regan will not return as IFAW president after a six-month leave.  Azzedine Downes,  interim chief executive since July 2012, is to remain in that capacity until O’Regan’s successor is announced. Savesky succeeded 10-year IFAW board chair Thomas C. Ramey.  Savesky formerly headed the Bosack & Kruger Foundation and the Peninsula Humane Society,  of San Mateo,  California. Read more

What becomes of turtles relinquished to Petco?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

  

SAN DIEGO–Petco is recycling undersized turtles turned into stores by members of the public,  the 1,000-store pet supply chain acknowledged in response to recent PETA allegations,  and is doing business with a Louisiana turtle farm that sells turtles for human consumption to China,  but according to Petco,  the turtles sold to China are not the Petco turtles. Read more

Visiting animal defenders badly treated, says Marjan Centre

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

 LONDON–Pole Pole Foundation founder and former Kahuzi-Biega National Park chief ranger John Kahekwa was to accept the first annual £1,000 MarjanMarsh conservation award on October 29,  2012 from the Marjan Centre for the Study of Conflict and Conservation at King’s College, London,  but Kahekwa never got there.

The award was presented in recognition of Pole Pole’s 20 years of work to promote community involvement in protecting eastern lowland gorillas and other animals who share the gorillas’ habitat near Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Read more

BOOKS | Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards Into Battlegrounds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:


Nature Wars:  The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards Into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba   Crown Publishers  (c/o Random House,  1745 Broadway,  New York,  NY 10019), 2012.  336 pages,  hardcover.  $26.00.

Born in 1943,  during the deprivations of World War II and just after the Great Depression, Jim Sterba grew up hunting in rural Michigan. Sterba considers himself a lifelong conservationist, but “conservation” in his formative years meant little more than promoting hunting practices that helped to ensure abundant “game”–albeit for people who hunted for meat, as his family did,  not just for sport,  like the European nobility who originated the conservation movement around 200 years earlier in response to the Industrial Revolution and fencing the grazing commons. Read more

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