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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
A Bond Unique:
Thoughts and stories about people and the dogs they love
Edited by Reg Green
Iroquois County Animal Rescue
(100 NW Lincoln, Iroquois, IL 60945), 2010.
60 pages, illustrated, paperback. $25.00
I never tire of reading books about dogs and their owners. This one is as uplifting as any other book I have reviewed for Animal People. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
Humane education classic:
Ordeal of the Animals
by Mel Morse
Prentice-Hall Inc., 1968.
212 pages, hardcover.
Wrote Humane Society of the U.S. senior policy advisor Bernard Unti to ANIMAL PEOPLE in June 2011, “Mel Morse, the HSUS president in the years 1968-1970, wrote a book in 1968 entitled Ordeal of the Animals. It is a nice period piece,” Unti assessed, “a snapshot of how the landscape looked right about that time. It was a composite work,” Unti said, “drawing on material drafted by core staff members like Patrick Parkes,” who were not credited. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
WASHINGTON D.C.–“For years we’ve been clashing with the United Egg Producers over the treatment of laying hens,” e-mailed Humane Society of the U.S. factory farming campaign manager Paul Shapiro from a July 7, 2011 press conference. “If someone had told me that we’d be doing a joint press conference with the UEP, I’d have thought they’d eaten some bad egg replacer. But indeed, that’s exactly what’s happening right now. We’re announcing that both the UEP and HSUS will endorse federal legislation intended to improve the treatment of the 280 million laying hens used in the U.S. each year.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
Letters
Rodenticide ban
New U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations went into effect June 1, 2011 that ban the sale of anticoagulant rodenticides, and all rodenticides that residential customers may buy in loose or pellet form.
There are both benefits and drawbacks to this ban. Rodenticides in pellet form are very easy for dogs and cats to simply pick up and eat. Selling poisons only in bait stations will make it more difficult for non-target animals to access the chemicals. However, an ambitious and determined dog will most likely still find a way to tear apart a bait station. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
LONDON–The United Kingdom appears to be poised to join a growing number of nations which have banned wild animals from circuses.
Defying Prime Minister David Cameron, the U.K. House of Commons on June 23, 2011 unanimously endorsed a resolution stating that “This House directs the Government to use its powers under Section 12 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to introduce a regulation banning the use of all wild animals in circuses, to take effect by 1 July 2012.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
Training Your Dog the Humane Way
by Alana Stevenson
New World Library
(14 Pameron Way, Novato, CA 94949), 2011.
194 pages paperback. $15.95.
Training Your Dog the Humane Way, by Alana Stevenson, squeezes into a crowded market of training manuals, but stands out for emphasizing non-violent methods. Stevenson doesn’t believe in the use of shock collars, or the spiked collars often seen on bully breeds. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
Park described the suicides of some of the workers who performed the live burials, and said she found the scenes she videotaped so depressing that she wanted to jump into the pits herself, but she could not get close enough…”
Mercy for Animals, having already produced more shocking undercover videos of mistreatment of animals on factory farms than all other U.S. animal advocacy organizations combined, on June 29, 2011 shocked television and web viewers yet again with footage from inside an Iowa Select Farms facility in Kamrar, Iowa.
Iowa Select Farms supplies Swift, one of the biggest names in meatpacking. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
SHREVEPORT, SAN ANTONIO–Bob Barker, the retired longtime host of The Price Is Right television game show, has donated $230,000 toward the cost of relocating five former laboratory chimpanzees who had been exposed to HIV infection from the bankrupt Wild Animal Orphanage sanctuary near San Antonio, Texas, to Chimp Haven, near Shreveport, Louisiana.
“A team from Chimp Haven will go to Texas in late July to do health and behavioral assessments on each of the chimpanzees in anticipation of a move to our facility in August,” Chimp Haven national advancement director Karen Allen told ANIMAL PEOPLE. At Chimp Haven, Allen said, the chimps “will live in a social group in an outdoor habitat and get nutritious meals, full-time veterinary care, daily behavioral enrichment, and compassionate care. It is the least that we can do for them.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
Rescue Pup
by Brenda Fiorini
Joyful Journey Books
(P.O. Box 216, Rock Falls, IL 61071), 2011.
32 pages, paperback, illust., $7.95.
Stranded by his people, Buddy sits and waits for their return. He doesn’t know yet that they are not coming back. Gnawing hunger leads him to break through a screen door. Like most stray dogs and cats, he confronts hardships such as unfriendly people and road hazards, and lack of food. Eventually a car stops. The driver takes Buddy to the local shelter where he finds comfort. A family adopts Buddy and his story ends happily. Read more