A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:
Save Our Strays
How We Can End Pet
Overpopulation And Stop Killing
Healthy Cats & Dogs
by Bob Christiansen
Canine Learning Center Publishing
(POB 10515, Napa, CA 94581), 1998.
$15.00 includes postage.
Since 1989 “The Book” in the animal
care-and-control field has been the
National Animal Control Association Training
Guide. Now there is another: Save Our
Strays, by Bob Christiansen. You need
both––and they don’t overlap.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:
Everybody’s Somebody’s Lunch
by Cherie Mason
illustrated by Gustav Moore
($16.95, hardcover)
with Teacher’s Guide: The Roles
of Predator and Prey in Nature
by Cherie Mason and
Judy Kellogg Markowsky
illustrated by Rosemark Giebfried
($9.95, paperback)
Tillbury House, Publishers (132 Water St.,
Gardiner, ME 04345), 1998.
Bug Bites:
Insects Hunting Insects…And More
by Diane Swanson
with photos and illustrations from the
Royal British Columbia Museum
Graphic Arts Center Publishing (POB 10306,
Portland, OR 97296), 1997. ($9.95, paperback.)
Cows Are Vegetarians!
a book for vegetarian kids
by Ann Bradley
Healthways Press (www.cowsareveg.com), 1998.
($9.95, paperback.)
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:
ANIMAL LAW & DOG BEHAVIOR
by David Favre, Esq. and Peter L. Borchelt, Ph.D.
Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, Inc.
(POB 30040, Tucson, AZ 85751-0040), 1999.
388 pages, hardcover, $97.90 including postage.
ANIMALS AND THE LAW:
A Review of Animals and the State
by Ann Datta et al.
Otter Memorial Paper (Chichester Institute, Bishop Otter Campus,
Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. PO19 4PE), 1998.
104 pages, paperback. $10.00.
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL
WILDLIFE LAW & POLICY, v.I.1
Kluwer Law Intl. (675 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139), 1998.
216 pages, paperback. $135/three issues.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:
Marine Wildlife
From Puget Sound Through
the Inside Passage
by Steve Yates
Sasquatch Books (615 2nd Avenue,
Suite 260, Seattle, WA 98104), 1998.
264 pages, paperback; $14.95.
On the Trail of Bears
by Catherine & Remy Martin
On the Trail of Whales
by Jean-Michel Dumont
& Remy Marion
On the Trail of Big Cats
by Geraldine Veron
Barron’s Nature Travel Guides
(250 Wireless Blvd., Hauppauge,
NY 11788), 1988. 128 pages each,
paperback, $11.95.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:
A Report on the 1996 Dolphin Catch-Quota Violation
at Futo Fishing Harbor, Shizuoka Prefecture
Wild Orca Capture: Right or Wrong?
both by Sakae Hemmi
Elsa Nature Conservancy (POB 2, Tsukuba-Gakuen Post Office,
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8691, Japan.) No prices listed.
A Report on the 1996 Dolphin
Catch-Quota Violation at Futo Fishing
Harbor, Shizuoka Prefecture, initially published
in Japanese, now translated, details
how in October 1996 the Elsa Nature
Conservancy forced the Futo Fishing
Cooperative to release more than 100 dolphins
who were captured in excess of a “drive
fishery” kill quota, and a week later obliged
two aquariums to release six psuedorcas who
had been taken from the excess for exhibition.
“The protest movement against the
dolphin capture was the first of its kind,”
author Sakei Hemmi explains. Previous
opposition to drive fisheries came from foreign
activists, notably filmmaker Hardin
Jones, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
founder Paul Watson, and Steve Sipman,
who invented the name “Animal Liberation
Front” in connection with releasing two dolphins
from a Hawaiian laboratory in 1976.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:
Taking Wing: Archaeopterix and the Evolution of Bird Flight
by Pat Shipman
Touchstone (1230 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10020), 1998. 336 pages, paperback; $15.00.
Pennsylvania State University
anthropologist Pat Shipman in Taking Wing
presents the most comprehensive, fair-minded
overview we’ve seen of the many controversies
surrounding Archaeopteryx and evolution.
As she entertainingly outlines, Archaeopteryx
in the 19th century emerged as the most convincing
fossil evidence for evolution itself. In
the late 20th century, Archaeopteryx is focal
point of a raging battle among theorists over
whether birds evolved from therapod dinosaurs
or much earlier, from a common ancestor
shared with the rest of dinosauria.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:
DESMOINES, Wash.;
DENVER, Colo.––The last people
to get help are often the caregivers.
And that’s dangerous, agree psychologists
Kate Prevost Myers and
Caterina Spinarsis, who specialize
in helping animal caregivers.
Myers, a former animal
control officer in northern California
and past editor of the National
Animal Control Association magazine,
changed careers in midlife––
partly due to “burnout.”
After developing her new
career in psychology, however,
Myers returned to her original field
because that’s where she perceived
major untreated need.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:
ALAMEDA, Calif.––Former San
Francisco SPCA president Richard Avanzino
on February 25 released grant application
guidelines for the Duffield Family Foundation,
doing business as Maddie’s Fund.
Like Maddie’s Adoption Center, at
the SF/SPCA, Maddie’s Fund exists in
memory of Maddie, the late beloved dog of
computer software magnates Dave and
Cheryl Duffield. Maddie’s Fund was created
with a $200 million endowment for the
specific purpose of helping communities
across the U.S. achieve no-kill control of dog
and cat populations––as San Francisco did
during Avanzino’s tenure at the SF/SPCA.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:
According to the January 1999
edition of Veterinary Economics, “ D r .
Richard Fayrer-Hosken, an associate professor
at the University of Georgia College
of Veterinary Medicine, has developed
Spay-Safe, an injectible contraceptive made
from a natural protein found in pig ovaries.
Three shots permanently sterilize a dog without
any known side effects. Spay-Safe is
undergoing FDA evaluation, and the university
has licensed a company to market it pending
approval. Now Dr. Fayrer-Hosken is
developing a dosage for cats.” Fayrer-Hosken
did not answer inquiries from ANIMAL
PEOPLE , however, and other information
reaching us indicates that the University of
Georgia may be involved in litigation with the
Humane Society of the U.S., which apparently
funded some of the research, over ownership
of the marketing rights.