Woofs and Growls

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

Greenpeace and the Doris Day Animal League are
among the major clients of Electronic Banking System Inc., target
of a December 1 Wall Street Journal expose as an especially notori-
ous example of an “electronic sweatshop,” a term coined by inves-
tigative writer Barbara Garson in a book by that title, indicating low
wage work under intensive electronic supervision. EBS recently
settled several complaints filed by the National Labor Relations
Board pertaining to alleged union-busting.

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Storm in a seapen

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

Three of five ex-Navy dolphins scheduled for return to the
sea in a deal arranged by the Humane Society of the U.S. arrived
November 30 at the Sugarloaf Dolphin Sanctuary near Key West,
Florida, after an all-day flight from San Diego. Two more dolphins
were to be flown to Sugarloaf after recovering from minor ailments.
But jubilation was short-lived. Within two weeks,
Sugarloaf owner Lloyd Good III fired director of husbandry Rick
Trout and dolphin trainer Lynne Stringer, reportedly due to conflicts
with director of rehabilitation and release Ric O’Barry of the
Dolphin Project. Trout and Stringer responded by asking the USDA
to investigate the sanctuary.
Objected Stringer, “Volunteer staff and onlookers were
hovering over the dolphins, petting and rubbing them, and encour-
aging the very behaviors that they had come to the sanctuary to
extinguish.” Various accounts indicated at least eight different peo-
ple were working with the dolphins.

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Dirty Pool III: Keiko

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

ANIMAL PEOPLE hadn’t scheduled a third part
of our “Dirty Pool” series on propaganda interfering with
marine mammal protection, but as the second part went to
press on November 22, Warner Brothers and New Regency
Productions donated $2 million to a new Free Willy/Keiko
Foundation formed by Earth Island Institute, the purpose of
which is to raise $10 million to buy Keiko, the orca star of
both the 1993 film Free Willy! and a forthcoming sequel
made with out-takes; fly him to a yet-to-be-built rehabilita-
tion site in Newport, Oregon; and prepare him for eventual
release. But Keiko’s owner, the Reino Aventura amuse-
ment park in Mexico City, is apparently not yet commited.
The Center for Whale Research in Friday Harbor,
Washington, made the matter look a bit like a re-run with a
November bulletin headlined “How is Keiko, and what can
be done to help?” CWR claims to have struck a verbal deal
in August 1993 with Reino Aventura, to fly him to a reha-
bilitation center in the Bahamas and prepare him for release.
However, the story goes, the Alliance of Marine Mammal
Parks and Aquariums got wind of it and dispatched execu-
tives to Mexico City in the Sea World jet to keep it from
happening. CWR gave up on the deal in May 1994.

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OBITUARIES

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

Susan de Treville, 44, board mem-
ber and cofounder of The Mountain Lion
Foundation, also founder of the California
Wildlife Conservancy, died in October after a
prolonged struggle against brain cancer. A
San Diego resident, she left two young daugh-
ters, Joy Wallen and Amanda Sitton. Wrote
colleague Sharon Negri, “She was a skilled
biologist with a passion and love for animals.
From 1972 through 1976, Susan and Larry
Sitton conducted lion telemetry research in
Hunter Liggett, a rugged, mountainous range
in Big Sur, and were the first in California to
study range sizes and male/female lion interac-
tions. While big cats were her first love,
Susan also published two children’s coloring
books, worked on coastal and water quality
issues with the Environmental Defense Fund
and the Coastal Conservancy, and managed
her own consulting business. Susan’s two
daughters have scattered her ashes in mountain
lion terrain in the Hunter Liggett study area.”

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BOOKS: The Dog I.Q. Test

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

The Dog I.Q. Test, by Melissa
Miller. Penguin Books (375 Hudson
St., New York, NY 10014), 1994.
175 pages, paperback. $7.95.
You probably don’t need to give
your dog an I.Q. test to know he’s no rocket
scientist––but because I’m not a rocket sci-
entist either, I tested the test by completing
Miller’s questionaires for each of our three
dogs and myself. Our German shepherd,
Tasha, predictably outscored 85% of all
dogs, while our lab/spaniel mix, Francesca,
scored dimmer than 85%. Our husky mix
Zooky, however, scored just one point
below Tasha, which probably explains why
I’m not smart enough get her to obey any
command but “Come eat the cat puke.”
Meanwhile, I learned I am supposed to be
smart enough to handle huskies, but not to
handle a shepherd. Fortunately Tasha dis-
agrees. She thinks throwing a ball takes the
same genius as rocketry.

BOOKS: The Animal Rights Movement In The United States, 1975-1990

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

The Animal Rights Movement
In The United States, 1975-1990:
An Annotated Bibliography, by Bettina Manzo. Scarecrow Press (POB
4167, Metuchen, NJ 08840), 1994. 306 pages, $39.50 hardcover.
The evolution of mass movements
is defined by bibliography. By organizing
the literature of a cause over a specified
timespan, bibliographers create landmarks:
works included become a canon, while
works overlooked tend to elude historical
notice.

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REVIEWS: Children’s books

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

From Simon & Schuster (1230 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10020):
Animals Under Cover, by Stephen Savage. $10.95 hardcover.
My First Pop-Up Book of Prehistoric Animals,
illustrated by Roma Bishop. $12.95 hardcover.
Nature by the Numbers With Pop-Up Surprises,
by Lynette Ruschak, art by G.B. McIntosh. $12.95 hardcover.
Wetlands, by Downs Matthews, photos by Dan Guravich. $15.00 hardcover.
From Scholastic (555 Broadway, New York, NY 10012):
All About Alligators, written and illustrated by Jim Arnosky. $14.95 hardcover.
Bats: Night Fliers
by Betsy Maestro, illustrated by Giulio Maestro. $14.95 hardcover.
Fur, Feathers, and Flippers: How Animals Live Where They Do,
by Patricia Lauber. $16.95 hardcover.

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BOOKS: So, You Love Animals: An Action-Packed, Fun-Filled Book To Help Kids Help Animals

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

So, You Love Animals: An Action-Packed,
Fun-Filled Book To Help Kids Help
A n i m a l s, by Zoe We i l. Animalearn (c/o The
American Anti-Vivisection Society, 801 Old York
Road, #204, Jenkintown, PA 19046-1685), 1994.
190 pages, paperback, $14.95.
It is generally agreed that reaching young people
with a humane message is among the most important goals
of the animal protection community. Unfortunately and
inexplicably, proportionate resources are not directed into
humane education by either national or local humane organ-
izations. Because of this, materials intended for general
distribution to children and teenagers are of special utility.
So, You Love Animals is just such a tool. One
needn’t wait for a humane education program to materialize
in the local elementary school: you can simply donate a
copy of So, You Love Animals to the school library. Along
with Ingrid Newkirk’s Kids Can Save The Animals, it ought
to be in all libraries.

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