New tricks for old dogs and cats

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

PORT WASHINGTON, New York––Already adopting out 43,000 animals a year, the North Shore Animal
League isn’t satisfied. While NSAL helps 21 other shelters around the U.S. place most of their puppies and kittens, older
animals are in low demand. The animal over five years of age stands virtually no chance of adoption anywhere, even if
housebroken, docile, affectionate, and likely to live at least another five years in excellent health.
The answer, Seniors for Seniors program director Myron Gould thinks, may be matching older pets with senior
citizens, who often want an animal companion but are reluctant to take in a young animal because of the extra work
involved and because of anxiety that they may die, leaving
the animal homeless.

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OBITUARIES

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

Boonlerd Angsirijinda, Thai chief of wildlife law enforcement until his death
in September 1992, is remembered in the spring 1993 issue of Friends of Animals’
Action Line for his “indomitable spirit and great reservoir of personal courage.”
Boonlerd suffered a fatal stroke while studying U.S. law enforcement methods in
Washington D.C.––after surviving numerous attempts on his life by animal traffickers,
many of whom he jailed despite weak wildlife laws and flagrant corruption under the
former Thai military dictatorship. In 1991 Boonlerd obtained an international boycott of
trade with Thailand under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species,
which led to the 1992 closure of the notorious Bangkok animal market.

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BOOKS: The Newfoundland Pony

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

The Newfoundland Pony, by
Andrew F. Fraser. Creative
Publishers (St. John’s, Newfoundland,
Canada), 1992. 213 pages. $14.95.
The Newfoundland pony is on the
cusp of extinction, no match for progress in
the form of tractors and snowmobiles.
Numbers of Newfoundland ponies have
dwindled from more than 10,000 in 1976 to
barely 400, as the greater part of its popu-
lation has been sacrified to the insatiable
Moloch of the slaughter trade––in particu-
lar, to the killing plants of Quebec, which
supply the French appetite for horseflesh.

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BOOKS: Dolphins and Their Power to Heal

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

Dolphins and Their Power to Heal, by
Amanda Cochrane and Karena Callen, Healing
Arts Press (1 Park St., Rochester, VT 05767), 1992.
182 pages. $17.95 paperback.
The title of Dolphins and Their Power to Heal is a
little misleading. Yes, the authors, who practice alterna-
tive healing in London, explore reports of dolphins’ influ-
ence on our physical and emotional well-being. But they
move quickly beyond these anecdotes to consider the wider
implications of the mutual attraction between two such dis-
similar species.

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Heroic Dogs

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

A six-year-old German shep-
herd brought home a lightly dressed
three-year-old boy she found wandering
alone in sub-freezing weather on
February 17 near Midland, Ontario
––and just in time. The boy was trying
to visit his mother, who gave birth the
night before in a hospital 25 miles away,
and slipped out while his father slept.
The Michigan Anti-Cruelty
Society on February 17 rescued a mon-
grel named Brownie, who survived a
Detroit housefire that killed seven chil-
dren in front of a barred window.
Though suffering from smoke inhala-
tion, Brownie hadn’t allowed firefight-
ers to separate him from the victims.
A survey of convicted bur-
glars published by Special Reports
found that 59% consider a dog in the
home the most effective deterrent to
break-ins.

BOOKS: Wildlife Protectors Handbook: How You Can Help Stop The Destruction of Wild Animals and Their Habitat

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

Wildlife Protectors Handbook: How
You Can Help Stop The Destruction of
Wild Animals and Their Habitat, by
Donald Heintzelman, Capra Press (P.O. Box 2068,
Santa Barbara, CA 93120), 1992, 160 pages, $9.95
paper.
This handy guide to wildlife issues is the most
concise and practical review of this complex topic to date.
Donald Heintzelman, president of the Wildlife Information
Center, pulls no punches, whether he’s describing human
influences on wildlife population or the efficacy of efforts
to protect wild animals.

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BOOKS: The Albert Schweitzer Activity Book

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

The Albert Schweitzer Activity Book:
curriculum guide for grades 1-6. Albert
Schweitzer Center (50 Hurlburt Road, Great Barrington,
MA 01230). 1992, 40 pages, $5.00 paper; $10 with
28-minute video, The Spirit of Albert Schweitzer.
Albert Schweitzer’s life and philosophy of service
are presented as a teaching tool to instill in children a sense
of responsibility to the earth and to life, through simple,
almost cost-free activities which lead into community
involvement. Schweitzer’s biography is linked to ways chil-
dren can act to deal with and thus be less frightened by
some of the major problems of today: AIDS, the homeless,
pollution, dwindling resources, animal suffering, and the
quest for meaning and purpose to life in a cynical time.
Included are versions of the Golden Rule as taught by nine
major religions.

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Making a home for magical migrating monarchs by Nicole Kraft

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

There once was a time when millions of monarch
butterflies dotted the skies each fall, the eastern band
migrating south to Mexico and the western population fly-
ing to the coastal regions of central California. That was a
time before development ruined much monarch habitat,
leaving them struggling to find the safe haven of a milk-
weed field in which to lay the eggs of their next generation.
Judith Levicoff, a habitat educator in Jenkintown,
Pennsylvania, has worked for the past two years in class-
rooms throughout the Delaware Valley to help children
restore monarch numbers, by creating their own butterfly
gardens, and by raising and releasing their own butterflies.

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Energetic humane educator: “Bow to the cat!” (Or she’ll change you into a mouse?)

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

PORT JERVIS, N.Y. –– Jan Matthews is over-
worked, and that’s the way she likes it. A classroom elementary
school teacher for 17 years, she now visits 72 classrooms a
month at four different schools, as humane educator for the
Humane Society of Port Jervis/Deerpark, New York. Her dedi-
cation is such that when her husband took a temporary job in
Alaska, she commuted between New York and Alaska for seven
months to keep her program going.
“Three of those months were during the summer,” she
explains, “when we were only visiting summer classes.”
Oh.

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