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Underdogs looks into the rapidly growing initiative to provide
veterinary care to underserved communities in North Carolina and
Costa Rica and how those living in or near poverty respond to these
forms of care. For many years, the primary focus of the humane
community in the United States was to control animal overpopulation
and alleviate the stray dog problem by euthanizing or sterilizing
dogs and cats. These efforts succeeded by the turn of the century,
and it appeared as though most pets were being sterilized and given
at least basic veterinary care, including vaccinations and
treatments for medical problems such as worms or mange. However, in
recent years animal activists and veterinarians have acknowledged
that these efforts only reached pet owners in advantaged
communities, leaving over twenty million pets unsterilized,
unvaccinated, and untreated in underserved communities. The problem
of getting basic veterinary services to dogs and cats in low-income
communities has suddenly become spotlighted as a major issue facing
animal shelters, animal rescue groups, animal control departments,
and veterinarians in the United States and abroad. In the past five
to ten years, animal protection organizations have launched a new
focus trying to deliver basic and even more advanced veterinary
care to the many underserved pets in the Unites States. These
efforts pose a challenge to these groups as does pet keeping to
people living in poverty across most of the world who have pets or
care for street dogs.
Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical,
living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial
role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not
only to a desire to observe and even live alongside them, but to
capture or kill them, is found in all civilizations. The essays
collected in Beastly Natures show how animals have been brought
into human culture, literally helping to build our societies (as
domesticated animals have done) or contributing, often in
problematic ways, to our concept of the wild. The book begins with
a group of essays that approach the historical relevance of
human-animal relations seen from the perspectives of various
disciplines and suggest ways in which animals might be brought into
formal studies of history. Differences in species and location can
greatly affect the shape of human-animal interaction, and so the
essays that follow address a wide spectrum of topics, including the
demanding fate of the working horse, the complex image of the
American alligator (at turns a dangerous predator and a tourist
attraction), the zoo gardens of Victorian England, the iconography
of the rhinoceros and the preference it reveals in society for myth
over science, relations between humans and wolves in Europe, and
what we can learn from society's enthusiasm for "political"
animals, such as the pets of the American presidents and the Soviet
Union's "space dogs." Taken together, these essays suggest new ways
of looking not only at animals but at human history. Contributors
Mark V. Barrow Jr., Virginia Tech * Peter Edwards, Roehampton
University * Kelly Enright, Rutgers University * Oliver Hochadel,
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona * Uwe Lubken, Rachel Carson
Center, Munich * Garry Marvin, Roehampton University * Clay
McShane, Northeastern University * Amy Nelson, Virginia Tech *
Susan Pearson, Northwestern University * Helena Pycior, University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee * Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology * Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee *
Joel A. Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University * Mary Weismantel,
Northwestern University
The global smash-hit Netflix documentary mini-series, Tiger King,
introduced viewers to the weird, crazy and chaotic life of private
zoo owner and big cat breeder, Joe Exotic, and his war against
Carole Baskin. Baskin, who runs the Big Cat Rescue in Florida, a
sanctuary for abused and abandoned wild cats, waged a long legal
battle to have Joe's exotic animal park in Oklahoma shut down for
the maltreatment of his animals. But Carole had her own dark past
and Joe wasn't going down without a fight; he responded by plotting
to have her murdered. Tiger Wars delves deeper into this
stranger-than-fiction tale and tells the shocking story of this big
cat war, the cult-like characters involved and the spiral of
obsession that landed Joe Exotic in jail and exposed the dark heart
of America's big cat obsession.
Have you ever found a body on the beach?Recently widowed Libby
Forest arrives in the small coastal town of Exham-on-Sea, keen to
start a new life baking cakes and designing chocolates. Walking on
the beach one stormy autumn day, Libby and excitable Springer
Spaniel 'Shipley' discover a dead body under the lighthouse.
Convinced the death was no accident, Libby teams up with Max
Ramshore, an attractive local resident, and Bear, a huge sheepdog,
to confront indifference from the community and unmask the killer.
Murder at the Lighthouse is the first in a series of Exham-on-Sea
Murder Mysteries set at the small English seaside town full of
quirky characters, sea air and gossip. If you love Agatha
Christie-style mysteries, cosy crime, clever dogs and cake, then
you'll love these intriguing whodunnits. THE EXHAM-ON-SEA MURDER
MYSTERIES: 1. Murder at the Lighthouse 2. Murder on the Levels: 3.
Murder on the Tor: 4. Murder at the Cathedral 5. Murder at the
Bridge 6. Murder at the Castle 7. Murder at the Gorge 8. Murder at
the Abbey Other Books by Frances Evesham in the Ham Hill Murder
Mystery series A Village Murder A Racing Murder A Harvest Murder
Here's what readers are saying about the series:'This is a perfect
short, cosy mystery.' 'It makes you wonder if English country
villages are safe places to live. But I certainly would given half
a chance.' 'Frances Evesham has invented an array of lively village
personalities to get in Libby's way from her Goth teenage lodger to
the pompous chair of the women's group or the rude but kindly
garage proprietor." 'With every book, I grow more fond of Libby and
Exham.' 'If you like Miss Marple this amateur sleuth will enthral
you.'
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The Animal Book
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Michael Harren; Introduction by Adam Fitzgerald
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