10,000 lab animals drowned at NYU due to stupidity, says lab care expert

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

 NEW YORK CITY–More than 10,000 mice and rats drowned or died from toxic fumes released by ruptured generator fuel and exhaust lines at the Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center on October 29, 2012.

Part of the Langone Medical Center at New York University, the Smilow Center occupies a 13-floor building,  but the mice and rats were housed in the basement,  more than 20 feet below the crest of the surge from Hurricane Sandy.  Apparently no one considered trying to evacuate them before the electricity failed and all personnel left on the premises were drafted to help evacuate 215 human patients from nearby Tisch Hospital. Read more

Hurricane Katrina history helped the Superstorm Sandy animal relief effort

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

 NEW YORK CITY–Superstorm Sandy hit the U.S. animal rescue community somewhat like a small child falling down stairs.  First came the shocking impact,  then a surprisingly long silence,  and only after that came the cries for help. Afflicting parts of 24 states,  doing more than $32 billion in estimated damage,  Sandy left animal charities in the stricken regions without electricity,  telephone,  and Internet service for days or weeks,  even more than a month in some cases. Read more

Thousands of dogs seized from Thai meat traffickers have no safe place to go

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

NAKHON PHANOM,  Thailand— Police Colonel Sakchai Sadmarerng, chief of Ban Phaeng station in Nakhon Phanom province,  Thailand,  on November 7,  2012 described to media the seizure of yet another truckload of dogs from smugglers hauling them to Laos across the Mekong River.  From Laos,  most would have been trafficked on to markets in Vietnam and southern China. Read more

N.Y. sues Angel’s Gate

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.)

ALBANY–New York state attorney general Eric Scheiderman on September 26,  2012 filed a lawsuit seeking the dissolution of the Angel’s Gate animal hospice in Delhi,  New York,  for allegedly failing to file accountability reports since 2008.  Moving to rural Delhi from Long Island after being fined $800 for noise violations in 2007,  Angel’s Gate founder Sue Marino was in May 2012 charged with 22 cruelty counts,  as a result of a PETA probe which followed visits and warnings from at least three other animal charities since 2009.

Spillover: Animal Infections & The Next Human Pandemic

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.) __________________________________________

BOOKS Spillover:  Animal Infections & The Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen W.W. Norton and Company (500 5th Ave.,  New York, NY  10110),  2012.  592 pages,  hardcover.  $28.95 __________________________________________

Among the very first postings to ProMED-mail,  the listserve for the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases now reaching more than 60,000 animal and human health experts per day,  was an October 1994 letter to The New York Times by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg,  then director of the Federation of American Scientists Biological Program. Read more

Romancing the Dog: The Struggle To Make A Pound Dog Happy in Beverly Hills

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.)

Romancing the Dog: The Struggle To Make A Pound Dog Happy in Beverly Hills by Marion Zola Planet Publishing (distributed by Amazon.com),  2012.  331 pages. $12.98 paperback.
Among the most ancient of Indian proverbs is that “Whenever a human is unhappy,  God sends a dog.” .
The first and most important point to understand about dog behavior,  at least from my perspective,  is that almost all dogs are instinctively and contagiously happy and anticipatory,  unless someone is actively trying to make the dog unhappy.  Even then,  most dogs will defy the effort.  Seldom have I met a dog,  no matter how dire and painful the dog’s circumstances,  who did not demonstrate hope that everything would be better soon,  seemingly crediting humans with the ability to work miracles.  I have even met street dogs,  variously suffering hideously from mange,  cancer,  and bones broken by automobiles,  with no evident reason to think well of any human,  who tried to comfort the people who euthanized them. Read more

I’m a good dog: Pit Bulls, America’s Most Beautiful (and most Misunderstood) Pet

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.)

I’m a good dog Pit Bulls,  America’s Most Beautiful (and most Misunderstood) Pet by Ken Foster Viking Studio (c/o Penguin USA, 375 Hudson St.,  New York, NY 10014),  2012. 143 pages,  paperback.  $25.00.
. The major question in assessing I’m a good dog,  by Ken Foster,  is deciding whether Foster sincerely believes his many misrepresentations,  most of which occur by omission. Read more

Irish pols protect hare coursing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  2012.)

MULLINGAR,  Ireland--The Irish Council Against Blood Sports welcomed recent announcements by Jimmy Deenihan,  minister for arts, heritage,  and the Gaeltacht,  that he would ban hunting curlews and Kerry red deer.
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The council  warned,  however,   that Deenihan’s July 2012 suggestion that he might also ban shooting hares “is believed not to be to save hares from being shot to death but rather to help make it easier for coursers to find hares for their blood sport.  Earlier this year,”  the Irish Council Against Blood Sports reminded, “pro-coursing Deenihan pledged to coursers,  ‘Whatever I can do for coursing while I am in this job,  I will certainly do it.'” Read more

Obituaries

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2012: (Actually published on November 1,  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
Kelly Ann Rada,  DVM,  38,  medical director for Humane Ohio, died unexpectedly of an unknown cause on September 26,  2012.  Rada became acquainted with Humane Ohio founder Aimee St. Arnaud while volunteering to assist feral cat neuter/return projects while attending the Ohio State University School of Veterinary Medicine. After graduating in 2002,  Rada served as shelter vet for the Capital Area Humane Society in Columbus,  Ohio,  and the Flagler Humane Society in Palm Coast,  Florida.  Founding a practice called Shelter Vet to Go,  Rada participated in dog and cat sterilization campaigns organized by animal charities from Jacksonville to Miami.  Rada relocated Shelter Vet to Go to Toledo in 2010.  As well as working for Humane Ohio,  Rada was a consultant for the Lucas County Dog Warden’s office and did sterilizations and vaccinations for the Lucas County Pit Crew,  a pit bull rescue agency.  “I briefly worked with her on a Florida microchipping issue and she was tremendously helpful,”  recalled Janet Winikoff,  director of education for the Humane Society of Vero Beach & Indian River County.  Several people at my shelter knew her when she helped our shelter in 2006 during an outbreak of canine flu.”  Humane Ohio has established a memorial fund in Rada’s name to help sterilize and treat feral cats,  and help send University of Florida and Ohio State University veterinary students to receive dog and cat sterilization training from the Humane Alliance,  in Asheville,  North Carolina. Read more
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