Animals and their People

Author biography:

John Behrman graduated from the Chicago Medical School with at doctorate in medicine.  He is board certified in Occupational Medicine.  He has not only served in the U. S. Naval Reserve on active duty for two years, he has been active in private practice as well as a vice president and medical director of Whitehall Laboratories, New York.  Meanwhile, in his role as a physician specializing in Occupational Medicine, he has been associated with Exxon Corporation and Merck & Company.  A member of the American Medical Association and a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, he is the author of a number of published papers in his specialty.  Currently, Dr. Behrman lives and writes in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.

Autobiography of a Revolutionary
Essays on Animal and Human Rights
By Roberta Kalechofsky, Micah Publications

A collection of 14 essays that explore the Anti-Vivisection and Animal Rights movements in their relationship to religion, experimentation on human beings in the Nazi concentration camps and elsewhere; pornography; the Women's movement and other reform movements in the 19th century.
"Roberta Kalechofsky has written a series of powerful and informative essays that analyze the question of the rights of animals and people. Her collective discussions are a lesson in the epistemology, theology, and history of the use of animals and people ostensibly for the purpose of furthering scientific knowledge. In relating this information, she also makes a statement on the construction and definition of science itself." -Deborah E. Moore, Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy, in Anthrozoos, Vol. V, #2.
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• Item# 102-5
• 189 pp., softcover, 0-96288-34-x
• $11.95

Bear
Heart of a Hero
By Captain Scott Shields with Nancy M. West

Meet Bear, an American hero.

What can one say about a dog that has been honored by the United States Army, had music composed for him by the Queen of England's House Guard, had two states issue proclamations declaring special days in his name, and received the Hero Dog of the Year Award from the International Cat Association?

Bear, an eleven-year-old golden retriever, and his "dad," Captain Scott Shields, were the first canine search and rescue team to reach Ground Zero only minutes after the first building collapsed. Although Bear had done some search and rescue work, Captain Shields answered the tragic 9/11 call for help because he was trained in emergency and national disaster management. Bear was only with him for the simple reason that he was always by his side... 

In a loving tribute to his canine partner, Captain Shields remembers his extraordinary life with Bear. The story follows them from their idyllic lives in Westport, Connecticut to the center of some of the darkest days in America's history at the World Trade Center where Bear tirelessly worked eighteen-hour days to recover victims of the disaster. 

Captain Shields, who also led the first canine search and rescue teams into Ground Zero, exposes many of the unknown and never discussed aspects of the search and rescue operation. He explains how the dogs led the rescuers, and why we need to recognize their importance in future operations. He also reveals what these sensitive and special animals can teach us in the aftermath of this tragedy. 

Readers will discover an amazing comradeship that transcends the boundary of the human-canine relationship. In the almost thirteen years that Captain Shields and Bear lived, worked, and played together something magical occurred. They learned to read the subtle nuances of each other's behavior and to intuit one another's thoughts. It was this magic that enabled them to make their way and to accomplish their heartbreaking work at Ground Zero.

"You as a dog...as man's best friend...show us how we can all be when the going gets tough. You're gone now, Bear, but your memory and work live on. I can't thank you enough for what you gave me." Diana Campbell Las Vegas, Nevada

• Item# 5904
• 160 pp., softcover, 0-9743659-0-4
• $15.95

Chew on Things - It Helps You Think
Words of Wisdom from a Worried Canine
By Iris Bell, MD. PhD.


Casey was a great dog. Not "great" in terms of courageous, heroic, or bold—he was great because he was unabashedly himself. And when someone has the courage to just be who he is, the lessons of life seem to emanate from him in even the simplest of his actions. Dr. Iris Bell, a psychiatrist and Casey's "mom," has recorded in delightful full color images and concise words her beloved friend's innocent wisdom, and delightful worrywart wit. She cleverly couples these with notable quotes from some of the world's renowned thinkers—who discovered through their own process of living and observing life what Casey just naturally knew. Chew on Things – It Helps You Think is just what the doctor ordered. Great award-winning gift book (First Prize for Nonfiction, 2007 Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards; Finalist in Animals/Pets Category, 2007 Indie Excellence Book Awards), in hard cover for dog lovers...and human worriers.

• Item# 5320C
• 124 pp., hardcover,
• 9780979165320
• 0979165326
• $16.95

Chew On Things Workbook for Fellow Worriers
By Iris Bell, MD. PhD.


The Chew on Things Workbook for Fellow Worriers, inspired by the insightful, often humorous, ponderings of Casey B. Worrywart, Dogtor of Philosophy, provides support and practical techniques for overcoming worries. Author, Dr. Iris Bell, a psychiatrist and alternative medicine researcher, offers an engaging and inspirational workbook and journal for dog-loving human worrywarts. The Workbook includes amusing quotations and Casey's nearly famous Woe-Is-Me Coping System in full color, to put fears and anxieties into proper perspective. If you are a worrier, know someone who worries, or are worried that you may not know any worriers, don't just stand there. Buy this book and start yourself, or someone you care about, moving away from worrying and into living, loving…and laughing more fully.

• Item# 5344
• 242 pp., softcover,
• 9780979165344
• 0979165342
• $14.95

Debugging Your Horse
Written by Bonnie Marlewski-Probert, Edited by Susan Strafford

A user-friendly guide to restoring your normally quiet horse after his hard disk has crashed! This book will help you solve problems that you may be having with your horse.

• Item# 8117
• 312 pgs., softcover, 0-9646181-1-7
• $23.95

Dobie The Canine Saint: A Spiritual Love Story
Paul Greenbaum

When I least expected it, Doboe, a severely wounded dog came into my life. At first she was afraid of everything and even me. She barely let me touch her. If I moved too quickly, she would quail and wet the floor. I was not sure if or how she could be healed. This touching story takes the reader through her life, and her death. It reveals how Dobie slowly healed and learned to trust in life again. Through the process I discovered that it was really she who healed me. This true story brings out the importance of the deep spiritual bond that exists between human and animal, and how their hearts and souls are twined to serve each other through the bond of love.

• Item# 1268
• 127 pgs., softcover, 0595421261
• $13.95

Devoted to Dogs
by Kathryn Braund

This collection of fourteen dog stories will gladden every dog lover's heart.  Each story is brimming with love, care and training tips.  It's a coffee-table delight.

• Item# 8516
• 124 pgs., softcover, 0-9720585-1-6
• $8.95

Disposable Dogs
Heartwarming, True Stories of Courage and Compassion
By Steve Swanbeck

Disposable Dogs is an unforgettable collection of seventy captivating true stories of dogs from across the United States who were outcasts until they met up with caring people who recognized their worth -- in some cases just hours before the lovable animals were scheduled to die.

You'll meet dogs who are smart, heroic, funny, loyal -- all sorts of special pets with extraordinary experiences to share.  There's the young Saint Bernard who was adopted from a shelter at the eleventh hour and went on to become the mascot for a professional football team...the neighborly golden retriever who was abandoned when her owner died and soon afterward saved a toddler from falling off a cliff...the elderly blind mutt and deaf old mongrel who found each other near the end of their lonely lives and remained soul mates forever.

These and scores of other tales are sure to make you laugh, reflect, admire and, perhaps, swallow hard when an unexpected lump wags it's tail in your throat.  Disposable Dogs celebrates the meaningful, wondrous lives that have been rescued by good people who make a difference.

• Item# 0105D
• 208 pp., softcover, 0-9747101-0-5
• $11.95

"Stress can quickly spread between humans and their pets creating health and behavioral issues in both", says Van Horn.  Van Horn helps us to understand the multidimensional relationship we share with our pets.  According to  Van Horn, "It's already been documented that the simple act of stroking your pet can lower blood pressure in humans and has a calming affect on the animal as well, so it isn't a great stretch to conclude that humans can have a similar impact on pets".

Van Horn includes his Dalmatian Goodboy and his cat Sarafina in his daily yoga exercise by touching his pets as he submerges into the calm and meditative state brought on by the routine.  "This form of communication has an apparent, positive effect on the pets", says Van Horn.

The damage inflicted across the United States by stress measurable and considerable.  Stress is a $300 billion problem in the U.S. according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety, accounting for 75 to 90 percent of all visits to primary health care physicians.  The subject has begun to interest the medical community both in terms of the calming impact of pets on humans and the human contribution to the mental state of pets.  Van Horn is concluding a scientific study at the Bergen County N.J. Department of Health to investigate the health link between species.

Separation and the related anxiety are the greatest sources of stress on pets.  Leaving an animal home alone creates anxiety, but it can be mitigated, by leaving traces of the owner behind.  Van Horn recommends practicing Yoga with your pets and leaving the mats out when you have left for the day.  These mats contain beneficial scents and energy imprinted thereon.  Van Horn has also created music that can reduce stress in pets that are left at home.

Home Alone is prescriptive.  It reveals a path that readers and their pets can follow together in a world that relentlessly continues to manufacture stress.  Everyone needs a way to unburden themselves from the weight of this stress - dogs and cats included.  The book describes activities for both humans and pets which will improve the health of both groups

Audie Award Winner

Journey Through Pet Loss   
Revised Edition 2000
by Deborah Antinori, MA, RDT, LPC, YokoSpirit Publications

Journey Through Pet Loss is a soulful outreach to those who lose an animal companion through death or other circumstances. Deborah Antinori has woven a tapestry of personal and therapeutic elements throughout this audio book creating an artful balance between helpful suggestions from her professional experience as a therapist and pet loss counselor, and her personal experience as a pet owner.  A 28-page Pet Loss Resource booklet accompanies the audiobook.

This audiobook won YokoSpirit Publications the 1999 Audie Award in the Best New Publisher category from the Audio Publishers Association at last year's BookExpo in Los Angeles.  The Revised Edition 2000 of Journey Through Pet Loss was just released at BookExpo in Chicago, June 2-4, 2000, with two very successful signings.

Critically acclaimed and veterinarian endorsed, the rave reviews for Journey Through Pet Loss come from all fronts - reviewers, pet owners, vets, mental health professionals and clergy.  Here are just a few of the many positive reviews and endorsements:

"Antinori offers comfort and reassurance as well as practical suggestions for dealing with grief.  Antinori has a wonderfully gentle, soothing voice that is perfect for this type of tape."
Billboard Magazine, Trudi Rosenblum © 1999 BPI Communications, Inc., Used with permission from Billboard ®

"I'm glad, as a veterinarian, that I now have a through resource that helps pet owners to deal with their grief."
Hanan Caine, VMD

"This tape series is just wonderful - a soothing balm, a healing compress during times of great loss.  If you've lost your animal and wonder how your heart could ever mend, please, take this loving and unique Journey Through Pet Loss."
Susan Chernak McElroy, author, Animals as Teachers and Healers

• Item# 4817        
• 3 hr 8 min, 2 audio tape set, 0-966884-81-7   
• $19.95

The Joyous Havanese
by Kathryn Braund

“Joyous” is a Dog Book to Remember. It’s all about what makes a Havanese a Havanese. It’s also all about practicality in breeding, socialization of puppies, grooming, training, and understanding the essence of canine behavior. You’ll enjoy the history of toy breeds, examine the four Havanese standards; learn about Canadian Havanese and the breed’s rainbow colors from Suzanne McKay; utilize the HCA Resource material; and delight in viewing the 76 color and 134 black and white photographs.

• Item# 8524
• 234 pgs., softcover, 0-9720585-2-4
• $34.95

Judaism and Animal Issues
By Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D., Micah Publications Inc.

Judaism has one of the oldest and best developed legislative systems and tenets for protecting animals. The principle of tsa'ar ba'alei chayim is enshrined in Torah and Halacha. As the Encyclopedia Judaica states in its entry under, "Animals: Cruelty to:

Moral and legal rules concerning the treatment of animals are based on the principle that animals are part of God's creation toward which man bears responsibility. Laws and other indications in the Pentatuech and the rest of the bible make it clear not only that cruelty to animals is forbidden but also that compassion and mercy to them are demanded by God.

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Judaism, Animal Research and Health
By Roberta Kalechofsky, Ph.D., Micah Publications Inc.

Jewish sources agree that animal experimentation is permitted only for immediate and practical problems of health. Interpreting the concept of "holeh le-faneinu" (literally, "a patient in front of us,") or as Rabbi Dr. J. David Bleich has written, the equivalent of "a clear and present danger," he interprets the formula to mean: "Prohibitions (of tsa'ar ba'alei chayim) are suspended for the purpose of saving an endangered life, but not in anticipation of a purely hypothetical eventuality."
This booklet is designed to ask whether animal research, as it is mostly and generally practiced, fulfills these interpretations? Whether animal research, as it is understood philosophically, is consonant with Judaism? Whether Jewish physicians are not obligated to develop a medical philosophy and a medical practice more consonant with the Jewish principles of tsa'ar ba'alei chayim, bal taschit, and pikuach nefesh?
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• Item# 102-G
• 22 pp., softcover booklet
• $4.00

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Judaism and Animal Rights
Classical and Contemporary Responses
By Roberta Kalechofsky, Micah Publications

Articles by rabbis, doctors, veterinarians and activists about contemporary crisis in animal life. 

"A rich meditation on...medicine and ethics from the perspectives of Jewish law." -Foreword

"An important book...not intended for bedside reading." -The Jerusalem Post
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• Item# 102-3
• 368 pp., softcover
• $14.95

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Legacies of Love
A Gentle Guide to Healing from the Loss of Your Animal Loved One
by Teresa L. Wagner, Matters of the Heart Publications

If you've given up hope that anyone would ever understand the depth of your love for animals or your profound grief when you lose them, take heart. The support you've been yearning for is contained in this two-tape set. Teresa Wagner brings you a compelling message of hope and renewal.

• Item # 136-1
• Two audio tapes, total length approximately 3 hours
• $19.95

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Lessons In Grace
by Kathleen Anthony

Lessons In Grace chronicles the personal triumphs, spiritual growth and the hard-learned lessons that Kathleen experienced while working with a young Arabian mare named Grace. Anyone facing personal challenges in their life, will recognize themselves in the pages of Lessons In Grace.

• Item# 8192
• 171 pgs., softcover, 0-9646181-9-2
• $19.95

Memoirs of a Papillon   
The Canine Guide to Living with Humans without Going Mad
By Genevieve, as told to Dennis Fried, Ph.D.

Want to know what your dog really thinks of you? In this hilarious exposé, Genevieve, a two-year-old papillon, takes you into the inner sanctum of dogdom, revealing canine secrets never before shared with humans.

Genevieve sinks her teeth into such topics as driving tips for dogs, the tragedy of doorbells in TV commercials, measuring the intelligence of humans, finding a reason for cats, how prehistoric dogs saved the caveman's bacon, converting your house into an agility course, and productive kitchen behavior.

Important - read this book before your dog does!

After you read Memoirs of a Papillon read the sequel More Memoirs of a Papillon: Diary of a Mad Dog

• Item# 3501
• 160 pgs., paperback, 0-9679335-0-1
• $13.95

Perk up your ears and get to the nearest fire hydrant - canine star Genevieve is back with a brand-new collection of observations about poor, dumb humans. Following up on her best-selling classic, Memoirs of a Papillon: The Canine Guide to Living with Humans without Going Mad, Genevieve unleashes a scathing analysis of human culture that will have sociologists all over the world looking for new jobs.

The critics howl:

"Genevieve, a 7-pound papillon, has been stirring up controversy around the world with her biting commentary on life with humans." ~ The Boston Globe
 

Rabbits: Gentle Hearts, Valiant Spirits
Inspirational Stories of Rescue, Triumph, and Joy
By Marie Mead with Nancy LaRoche

Rabbits: Gentle Hearts, Valiant Spirits showcases twenty-four uplifting stories based on actual events, including contributions by best-selling authors Susan Chernak McElroy and Dr. Bernie Siegel and a Foreword by Dr. Michael W. Fox. The full-color book includes both photos and artist illustrations.

Nearly every true story highlights a particular rabbit who has been rescued from a traumatic or life-threatening situation and-due to compassionate human care and the rabbit's resilient nature-has come to experience a happy life. Many of the stories are about rabbits originally rescued by the House Rabbit Society, The Fund for Animals Rabbit Sanctuary, Brambley Hedge Rabbit Rescue, or Best Friends Animal Society.

Readers will be amazed by the complexity of a house rabbit's nature: the curiosity, intelligence, sociability, and courage. In addition to their presentation in the stories, these often-misunderstood creatures are further explained through short "About Rabbits" sidebars, containing tidbits of wisdom about the prey animals' psyche, instincts, and physical attributes.

The book's resource section provides an extensive listing of books and products as well as contact information for rescue organizations. Although this is not a how-to rabbit care book, it does include a few select articles written expressly for the resource section, including one on the divergent needs of rabbits and children.

• Item# 2602
• 176 pp., softcover, 978-0-9786226-0-2
• $18.95