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During the past 25 years, there have been amazing advancements in the world. To commemorate them, we set out to find the people behind these accomplishments— the innovators, thinkers and achievers who relished challenges and whose creativity, compassion and commitment helped reshape the world of and our understanding of it. Without further ado, we present our Honorees: The Bark’s 100 Best & Brightest.

Fe b/Mar 2010 Bark 49 BARK 100 MENTORS Teachers on a grand scale, our mentors guide, support and generously share their knowledge. Where would we mentees be without them? B+B

The gospel of Jean Donaldso n— The public gleans practical cheerful training with wisdom from animal behav - profuse praise and gentle iorist Nicholas Dodman correction—has happily through his bestselling books, including The Dog Who Loved permeated the world of Too Much . But his fellow co-pilots like water on vet erinarians look to him as a sponge, thanks to her well. The founder and director bestselling books, of Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine’s including Culture Clash , Animal Behavior Clinic, one Dogs Are from Neptune of the first of its kind in and Oh Behave! , 1986, Dr. Dodman works on and the Academy for Dog the frontier of behavioral pharmacology—conducting Trainer s— sometimes groundbreaking studies on called Harvard for dog the use of medication to trainers—that she founded tackle knotty behavioral challenges, such as canine and directed for a decade. compulsive disorders.

Patricia McConnell predicting their future behav - combines her love for dogs ior. She has always valued with a well-grounded scien - understanding people and tific understanding of them. dogs in order to improve the For decades, she has spoken relationships between them; and written about the Trisha truly likes people as ethological aspects of canine much as she likes dogs, and is behavior and the importance respectful and kind to mem - of applying that scholarship bers of both species. Despite to practical work that helps charges of anthropomorphiz - both dogs and people. She ing, she maintains that dogs’

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50 Bark Fe b/Mar 2010 Ian Dunbar ’s ideas about Karen Pryor ’s impact on —that it should dog nation has a soundtrack be a fun bonding experience —or rather, a sound: click! —have become so central to A pioneer of positive rein - the practice, it would be easy forcement training (inspired to forget someone (Dunbar!) by the operant conditioning got us thinking this way in she mastered working with the first place. Advocating a dolphins in the 1960s), Pryor hands-off, reward-based is the founder and leading approach at his Sirius Dog proponent of . Training centers, the behav ior- Today, marking desired ist and vet first promulgated behavior with a noisy click the now-accepted-as-gospel (and a treat) isn’t limited to notion that teaching good the dog world—the sharp behavior to before six snaps regularly ricochet off months of age, using positive zoo enclosures, out in pas - reinforcement, prevents most tures with and even future problem behaviors. in gyms, signaling “well- done” to human athletes.

Training methods using Couldn’t survive without a rewards and a whistle or a Gentle Leader? Gratitude click—more formally known goes to R.K. Anderson . as operant conditioning and The multi-laurelled, multi- bridging stimulus—have degreed veterinarian, epidemi - become so ubiquitous that ologist, behaviorist, researcher most of us take them for and professor co-invented the granted. We tip our cap to tried-and-true headcollar as the late Marian Breland part of his mission to gently Bailey , who (along with and humanely prevent behav - Keller Breland and ior problems that land dogs Bob Bailey ) developed and cats in shelters by the these humane approaches millions. Dr. Anderson is also and taught them to others “Whilst the dog is still a , it is far a main mover behind the for more than 60 years; easier to convince him to join the Animal Behavior Resources thousands sharpened up Institute, a free, collaborative their skills and became better team so that he enjoys life with us. educational resource with trainers at the Baileys’ oper - —Ian Dunbar ” expert videos, podcasts and ant-conditioning workshops, articles for professionals and a.k.a. “chicken camps.” their clients.

Fe b/Mar 2010 Bark 51 For more than two decades, Robert K. Wayne has but certainly not much after 40,000 years ago in multiple used the powerful tools of genetic analysis to revise and, locations. The dates are still controversial, and others have in some cases, redraw the evolutionary history and rela - been proposed, but odds are that the final number will be tionships of the family Canidae. In constructing that close to that put forth by Dr. Wayne and Dr. Vilà. With evolutionary tree (or phylogeny), Dr. Wayne, a professor graduate student Jennifer Leonard, Dr. Wayne also showed of evolutionary biology at UCLA, his students and post - that dogs were not domesticated in the New World inde - doctoral fellows have documented the monumental loss pendently; rather, they appear to have arrived with the ear - of diversity the gray eradication programs of the liest people crossing the Bering Land Bridge. More recently, past three centuries have wrought here and in . he has worked with Elaine Ostrander and Heidi Parker at In the early 1990s, Dr. Wayne used mitochondrial DNA the National Institutes of Health to complete a new breed to clinch the case for the gray wolf as the wild progenitor phylogeny, showing interrelationships among breeds and of the dog, laying to rest that “southern,” or pariah, dogs pointing to the Middle East as a center of early separation were descended from , while “northern,” wolf-like of wolf from dog. breeds came from gray . In conducting his groundbreaking research, Dr. Wayne A few years later, Dr. Wayne and Carles Vilà, a postdoc - has also trained many of the people studying the genetics toral fellow, proposed that dog and wolf started down their of canid evolution and has been consistently generous in separate evolutionary roads as long ago as 135,000 years, assigning credit where it is due. —Mark Derr BARK 100 DETECTIVES In academia or in the field, these scientists and researchers work to unlock the mysteries of the canine genome and pin down the history of domestication. B+B

Mark Neff , a professor at the University of California, Davis, participated in the Dog Genome Project at UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow. More recently, he has been working to locate the genes that cause a variety of Geneticist Jasper Rine and genetic disorders in domestic his Dog Genome Project dogs. Among his research results is the identification of While at London’s Natural James Serpell , director collaborators began with a the gene that causes dwarfism History Museum, Juliet of the University of Penn - theory that it was possible to in several breeds, and his Clutton-Brock penned sylvania’s Center for the map the chromosomes of findings continue to inform many definitive texts on the Interaction of Animals and the domestic dog and veterinary medicine about archaeology of animal Society, is currently involved the inheritance of many domestication, including in researching the relation - thereby discover the genetic canine diseases. A Natural History of Dom- ships between domestic basis of mammalian devel - esticated Mammals . In her animals—especially dogs— opment and behavior. In his On the trail of human work, Clutton- Brock illumi - and people. He has also early research on purebred and canine cancer, nates our tangled history traced the natural history of Elaine Ostrander and with dogs (among others), the human-animal bond, dog behaviors, he crossed a her group map the genes establishing a baseline for including the processes by Newfoundland with a Border responsible for cancer sus - understanding the reasons, which various species have Collie, two distinct breeds ceptibility in both. Earlier, biological and behavioral been domesticated. with very different breed as part of the Dog Genome impacts, and unexpected con - Project, she searched for the sequences of domestication. Stanley Olsen , a pioneer typical behaviors, and then genetic markers that make in the discipline of zooar - bred the offspring to see up the concept of a “breed,” L. David Mech , founder of chaeology, was among the how these various behaviors and found that genotyping the International Wolf Center first to search for the origins were inherited. could be used to assign 99 and chair of the IUCN Wolf of the domestic dog; his work percent of individual dogs to Specialist Group, has studied laid the foundation for later their correct breeds. wolves and their prey since studies that significantly 1958. His is among the foun - pushed back his original Kerstin Lindblad-Toh , dation work on canines wild 8,000 year date. co-director of the Genome and domestic. Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute, maps genes ) e t

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Fe b/Mar 2010 Bark 53 BARK 100 Through their words, art and photography, these creative people make tangible the intense HELPERS and heartfelt connections we have with our dogs. B+B B+B

“Before you get a dog, you can’t Mark Derr , journalist and quite imagine what living with author, set the “fancy” world spinning in 1990 with his one might be like; afterward, Atlantic Monthly article about you can’t imagine living any practices in the show-dog other way. realm. In his seminal book, ” Dog’s Best Friend , he proved —Caroline Knapp that his range of interests in all things canine extended far The first year that narrative voice: the wry intel - beyond that topic. With an Caroline Knapp and I ligence and emotional hon - investigative reporter’s love were friends, in 1996, we esty she brought to all her for unearthing a scoop bal - took the dogs on a beach run books, but most belovedly to anced by a wide-ranging at Gay Head, on the south - Pack of Two: The Intricate knowledge of his subject, he is western tip of the island of Bond Between People and highly regarded by dog afi - Martha’s Vineyard. My Dog s—the story of the shel - cionados (and a nudge to Samoyed, Clementine, was ter dog named Lucille who Donald McCaig some). As Bark’s science edi - not yet two, strong as an ox changed Caroline’s life. tor, he has been an invaluable would be notable and full of fire. Caroline’s Armed with 20/20 acuity, advisor and translator when it Shepherd-mix, Lucille, was Pack of Two delivered a enough as the author of comes to the latest research smaller in stature and calmer kaleidoscopic view of the beloved dog books and discoveries. in demeanor. We spent the place of dogs in contemporary like Nop’s Trials and afternoon watching them America. But because Eminent Dogs , charge up and down the Caroline brought her whole beach, until a series of sonic heart to her story, she gave Dangerous Men . booms from a nearby naval us, as well, the essence of We also celebrate him airfield shattered our reverie. what it means to love a dog. as an early activist Clementine took off down For the rest of her life— against the homogenizing the beach at a full run, as another six years—she was Elizabeth Marshall wild-eyed as a spooked horse. the one person I trusted perils of inbreeding, on Thomas took a bite out of I got her back long enough to utterly with my dog. In the behalf of his beloved the bestseller lists with her leash her, but she had the real world, the world of working sheepdogs. original examinations of sled-dog ability to pull a small pastoral beach walks and dogs. Fueled by her Husky’s That tale, too, car, and I fell in the sand just terrifying moments, she was ramblings through civiliza - trying to hang onto her. as steadfast as any narrative is skillfully rendered in tion, field work with wolves “Let me have her,” said persona could have hinted. his book, The Dog Wars . and anthropology training, Caroline, and took hold of And in my interior vision of He writes with an insight Thomas described surprising Clemmie’s leash and started heaven—wherever Caroline behaviors that in ensuing and subtle humor that running alongside her the could possibly be, given that years have been affirmed in half-mile to the car. Lucille, she isn’t here—she is sur - befits his own Virginia studies. In The Hidden Life seeming to understand that I rounded by every dog who breeding. of Dogs and The Social Lives was the one with the bad leg, ever loved her, including of Dogs , Thomas deployed stayed by my side. Clementine and Lucille. her keen eye and novelist’s The larger world knew All of them are trying to get sensibility to shed light on Caroline Knapp through her in her lap. the mystery of dogs without —Gail Caldwell erasing their magic.

54 Bark Fe b/Mar 2010 Percy (2002–2009) Poet Mary Oliver has Inspired by the late, great Earl, graced the world with her This—I said to Percy when I had left MUTTs creator and animal meditative eye and exquisite our bed and gone activist Patrick McDonnell language for nearly 50 out onto the living room couch where is a cartoonist with a message, years, bringing the physical he found me apparently doing nothing—this showing readers the world world—dogs not least among is called thinking . through the eyes of his animal it—into sharper focus for It’s something people do, characters. the rest of us. Using humor not being entirely children of the earth, to reconcile the intellectual like a dog or a tree or a flower. Stanley Coren takes the with the natural, she imparts His eyes questioned such an activity. canine IQ seriously, and has wisdom through such gems Well, okay, he said. If you say so. Whatever covered the topic in numerous as this line, written from her it is. Actually, articles and books. His work dog’s perspective: Books? I like kissing better. has done much to popularize says Percy. I ate one once. It the subject of dogs’ intelligence was enough ./Let’s go. And next to me as well as our bond with them. tucked down his curly head . c n I

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Fe b/Mar 2010 Bark 55 BARK 100 EXPLORERS Charting the mysteries of the inner dog and searching for the trail to better health, these scholars improve life for canines and humans alike. B+B

Vilmos Csányi , author of If Dogs Could Talk , introduced a new approach to the study of , one that relies on analyzing behavior’s genetic architecture. He and the department he founded at Eötovös Loránd University maintain a profound interest in dog-human relationships.

Alexandra Horowitz ’s wisdom of two decades ago research, which resulted in upside down, and undoubt - her book, Inside of a Dog , edly saved tens of thousands explores what dogs know and of dogs from harm. how they know it, adding an important chapter to the Brian Hare began his aca - study of canine cognition. demic career by examining the ability of dogs to follow For trainers who embrace for human psychiatric ill - It was no surprise to dog human body language; science and medicine, Karen nesses, particularly those lovers when Karen Allen , recently, his lab opened the Overall has been an auth - involving anxiety, panic and a social psychologist with Duke Canine Cognition oritative voice of reason and aggression. SUNY at Buffalo, defined the Center to further explore the research for more than a —Barbara Robertson “pet effect,” or the ability of effects of domestication on de cade. Dr. Overall’s best- our dogs to lower our blood canine cognition. selling textbook, Clinical , professor pressure and help us cope Behavioral Medicine for Small emeritus of ecology and with stress. Shirley Johnston , an Animals , was among the first evolutionary biology at the expert in the field of animal to provide techniques for the University of Colorado, Larry T. Glickman ’s reproduction, oversees the prevention and treatment of Boulder, has studied dogs, long-term longitudinal study Found Animals Foundation’s behavior problems; some wolves and , finding of bloat, undertaken at Michelson Prize and Grants, consider it the bible for vets that these animals have a Purdue University’s School of established to inspire the and behavior consultants. notion of fair play and a kind Veterinary Medicine, followed development of a low-cost After running the behavior of moral sense based upon more than 1,900 dogs of 11 non-surgical sterilization clinic at U Penn’s School of empathy. Bekoff is also inter - breeds for five years, and the product for dogs and cats. Veterinary Medicine for more ested in the human-animal findings inform treatment of than 12 years, Dr. Overall relationship, and how this this dangerous condition. Lawrence Myers , who shifted her focus to study relationship affects the founded the Institute for canine behavioral genetics as emotional lives of animals. Ronald D. Schultz is chair Biological Detection Systems a research associate in UP’s of the department of micro - at Auburn University, was Center for Neurobiology and Pulling back the curtain on biology at the University of among the first to determine

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56 Bark Fe b/Mar 2010 Konrad Lorenz , Nobel Laureate and co-founder of the John Paul Scott and John L. Fuller conducted an field of ethology, was one of the first theorists to write extensive study of the inheritance of various behaviors of about dogs. Man Meets Dog (1953) demonstrates that he five breeds at the Jackson Laboratory at Bar Harbor, was a remarkable observer of animals, a lover of dogs in Maine; all of the dogs were of similar size but very differ - particular, and oftentimes got things wrong. But, since he ent in their breed-typical behaviors, providing variances was the one who, according to Donald McCaig, “started that could be measured as the dogs developed. The all these debates,” his book remains a classic that deserves authors were the first to suggest the concept of “critical to be read (judicially) for that fact alone. periods” in which puppies’ social behavior develops. BARK 100 TEACHERS With their deep understanding of what makes dogs tick, these individuals show us how to expand the bond between pilot and co-pilot, bringing harmony to our shared lives. B+B Together, Suzanne Hetts Emily Weiss and Dan Estep came up probably never thought of with the concept of behav - herself as a matchmaker, ioral wellness, which empha - sizes the need for baselines to but to the benefit of many determine what is “well” in adult dogs in shelters, it’s terms of pets’ behavior. worked out that way. During a career dedicated Pamela Reid , director of the ASPCA’s Animal Behavior to creating positive, Center, not only lectures on humane animal behavior animal behavior and learning programs, Weiss devel - theory, she puts it into action to improve human-canine oped MYM SAFER relationships. (Meet Your Match Safety Assessment For Evaluating Terry Ryan has been a Rehoming), a test that guru for a generation of trainers. Teaching others how helps animal-welfare pro - to motivate dogs through fessionals identify potential games, lecturing, writing and aggression in dogs as presenting seminars, she is a well as opportunities for bright light in support of good relationships between behavior modification, people and their pups. which ulti mately leads to Since the 2005 debut of American Dog and appeared mor e— and more suc cess - Pia Silvani turned her love trainer Victoria Stilwell ’s on numerous talk shows, fu l— adoptions through of teaching people and dogs hit television show, It’s Me or written for several periodi - into an amazing career as an appropriate placement. the Dog , her no-nonsense, cals, and authored two books: internationally recognized positive-reinforcement-based It’s Me or the Dog: How to canine coach and one of the approach has endeared her Have the Perfect Pet and Fat training and behavior world’s to pet lovers all over the Dog Slim: How to Have a go-to people. world. Her holistic methods Healthy, Happy Pet (a third If you want to become empower families to work book is in progress). Plans fluent in “dog,” start For the past 30 years, together to create lasting solu - are currently underway for a Wendy Volhar d—who is with Dog Language , the tions to behavioral problems. foundation to raise money credited with developing the Stilwell’s acting background for smaller rescues and assis - seminal work by ethologist first puppy test and first drive and dog-training experience tance-dog organizations. Roger Abrantes , theories—has been teaching have put her in an ideal Stilwell’s influence on widely known for his people how to communicate position to promote positive popular culture has helped effectively with their pets. views on social behavior methods to both professional create exposure for positive y

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HELPERS We not only look out for our dogs, our dogs look out for us. These folks help them learn how to do it. B+B

Kathy Zubrycki employed trackers for law and her late husband, enforcement agencies across Ted Zubrycki , pioneered the country. the innovative development of “special needs” Retired British orthopedic training, showing that guide surgeon John Church dogs could be successfully made the leap from anecdote trained for blind people with to science when he and his additional disabilities. team undertook the first sci - entifically robust study that After a puppy spontaneously proved dogs can be trained to alerted Mark Ruefenacht detect cancer. to a dangerous drop in his blood sugar, he founded Dogs4Diabetics, which is dedicated to training dogs to detect the subtle scent of life- Bonnie Bergin threatening hypoglycemia. originated the concept of “service dogs,” canines Inspired by her son’s cere - trained to perform essential bral palsy service dog, pro - secut ing attorney Ellen everyday tasks, such as O’Neill-Stephens intro - opening doors and duced canine advocates into switching on lights, for Seattle’s criminal courts, and people with mobility then co-founded Courthouse Dogs to promote the use of limitation s— and then dogs to comfort traumatized dedicated herself to getting victims and witnesses. these life-changing dogs to the people who needed Well ahead of most of his Joan Esnayra , founder and Sandi Martin ’s flash of ivory tower peers, Leo K. president of the Psychiatric brilliance: Children who them. In 1975, she founded Bustad , dean of Washington Service Dog Society, works to struggle to read will do better Canine Companions for State University College of open people’s eyes to this if reading to dogs. The suc - Independence, the first Veterinary Medicine, per - more subtle form of service; cess of her Intermountain nonprofit to train and place ceived the healing power of much of her work focuses on Therapy Animals’ Reading animals and dedicated him - assisting veterans suffering Education Assistance Dogs service dogs. She later self to establishing the sci - from PTSD. (READ) program spawned established a university ence behind the notion that a four-pawed literacy rev - of canine studies and our dogs and cats make us From the depths of grim olution. spearheaded campaigns feel better. As co-founder of personal experience, Sister the Delta Society, he pro - Pauline Quinn found the For nearly three decades, to help low-income moted greater understand - inspiration to start the Prison working-dog trainer and individuals with disabilities ing of the human-animal Pet Partnership Program handler Larry Allen has afford assistance dogs. bond, and helped create the that has helped heal the lives been transforming “problem gold standard for animal- of an untold number of dogs dogs,” especially Blood - assisted therapy in health and inmates alike. , into happily care settings.

Fe b/Mar 2010 Bark 59 BARK 100 WELLNESS There are many paths to wellnes s— here are some of the people who marked the alternative way. B+B

Back in the age of kibble, Ian Billinghurst took his bible of Biologically Appropriate Raw Food (known as BARF) directly to the people. In Give Your Dog a Bone , Carvel Tiekert she holds the first endowed the Australian veterinary surgeon repudiated grain-based, founded the American position in this field at Holistic Veterinary Medical Colorado State University’s commercially produced dog foods and advocated Association in 1982 and is College of Veterinary a diet based on what wild dogs eat, including the heart of this organization, Medicine. plenty of raw, meaty bones. While BARF has detractors, which explores and supports there’s no doubt it shifted the entire dog food alternative and complemen - Veterinarian Anthony tary approaches to veterinary Smith makes saying good - paradigm toward better nutrition. healthcare. bye gentler for dog and guardian alike through his Allen M. Schoen is one Rainbow Bridge Veterinary of the pioneers in holistic Services, one of the only medicine; his writings and practices in the world influential speaking have devoted exclusively to pro - brought complementary and viding end-of-life care. alternative veterinary medi - cine to the hearts and minds Ann Martin , author of practitioners everywhere. of Foods Pets Die For , was among the first to raise the Well before most Americans Cheryl Schwartz alarm about the dangers of would consider acupuncture for themselves, was among the first to use commercial pet food, and Traditional Chinese Medicine continues to monitor the holistic health care icon Ihor Basko was seeing good in the care of companion industry today. results using the ancient Chinese technique on arthritic animals; her book, Four Paws, and pain-racked dogs. Since the 1970s, he has been a Five Directions , spread the The work of the late leading light for expanding treatment and prevention word and made it accessible European herbalist Juliette to everyone. de Bairacli Levy was the options for animals with alternative therapies, including foundation upon which acupuncture, herbs and minerals, dietary therapy, Tellington TTouch —need many later holistic practi - homeopathy, and massage. Dr. Basko is a founder and we say more? Linda tioners built; her book, The current president of the Veterinary Botanical Tellington-Jones is an Complete Herbal Book for the expert in rubbing dogs (and Dog , originally published in Medical Association. other animals) the right way, 1947, is still in print. and shares her techniques worldwide, much to the Barbara Fougere ’s Pet delight of dogs everywhere. Lover’s Guide to Natural Heal ing for Dogs & Cats forti - Narda G. Robinson fies the bookshelves of u D

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60 Bark Fe b/Mar 2010 M“any people have learned through relating to animals what it is to care for and accept responsibility for another being. —Richard Pitcairn ”

A veterinarian with a PhD in immunology, chiropractic to homeopathy. He was among the first voices Richard Pitcairn was a pioneer in the field of holistic to question the then-common practice of routine annual pet care and raw feeding, both of which gained their immunization for dogs and cats, pointing out that such current prominence largely due to his seminal book, protocols could be risky and were probably unnecessary Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs —wisdom that is now altogether conventional. Today, and Cats , published in 1982 and now in its third edition. holistic veterinarians have their own medical association, He challenged the orthodoxy of the day that dogs and the AHVMA, and even otherwise conventional veterinar - cats can only thrive on commercially formulated diets, ians often recommend homemade diets and practice and gave his readers an overview of the entire field of acupuncture. It’s a changed world, and one that might s r e y

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D from acupuncture to Chinese and western herbs, and —Christie Keith BARK 100 On the street, in offices and in courtrooms, they work to save lives, protect animals from harm ADVOCATES and find them forever homes. B+B

Fund to develop the Shelter Credit Tiny, Doris Day ’s loyal companion Pet Project. during her Ohio teens, with forging her lifelong bond with canines. Still America’s all-time favorite actress, A high-profile and articulate voice for companion and Randy Grim and canine she has used her ample supply of good will to do well farm animals from the high - sidekick Quentin, a gas by animals through lobbying via the Doris Day Animal lands of his native England chamber survivor, patrol the League, now part of HSUS, and funding projects like to his home in Minneapolis, streets of East St. Louis, seek - Spay Day and assistance to seniors seeking to keep Michael W. takes a ing new prospects for his broad view of the world in Stray Rescue; 5,000 abused, their pets via the free-standing Doris Day Animal which our humanity and the abandoned dogs owe him Foundation. Good dog, Tiny! rights of animals are inti - their lives—we owe him our mately interconnected. The gratitude. professor/bioethicist/veteri - narian has been a leader in Ed Sayres directed the movement to foster the PetSmart Charities and led ethical treatment of animals SF/SPCA before becoming As founder of what is now in 1996; in the years since, since 1967, including nearly ASPCA president in 2003; the No-Kill Movement, the free website has helped three decades at HSUS. though ASPCA played a key Rich Avanzino changed more than 13 million dogs, role in the Michael Vick how Americans view shelter cats and other critters land in An expert in the human- investigation, it thereafter animals. In his 22 years lead - good homes. canine bond, Randall declined to associate with his ing San Francisco SPCA, Lockwood gave everybody public rehabilitation. Avanzino demonstrated that Lawyer, author and no-kill a reason to care about cruelty shelters could be transformed activist Nathan Winograd to animals. His groundbreak - Singer, dancer, actress, and from death camps for discards is the voice of America’s dis - ing research identified links animal activist Gretchen to adoption centers for pets placed pets and the conscience between pet- and domestic Wyler had a big voice and a whose worst sin was choosing of the animal sheltering indus - abuse, and demonstrated that big presence, which she used their people badly. Now head - try. Uncompromising and early animal cruelty predicts to help animals by establish - ing Maddie’s Fund, Avanzino committed, he heads the No- later violence against people. ing her own Hollywood non - anticipates the day when sup - Kill Advocacy Center. As an officer of ASPCA, he profit animal protection ply and demand balance, and has advanced the forensic group, the Ark Trust, Inc., a no-kill nation is achieved. Since 2004, vegan techniques and training of and developing and promot - Wayne Pacelle has built cruelty investigators and, on ing the Genesis Awards. Kate Hurley , director of HSUS into a public policy the brighter side, promoted the Koret Shelter Medicine powerhouse; his organization humane education. Bob Baker has a well- Program at University of now has investigation, litiga - earned reputation as one of California, Davis, heads one tion and campaign teams. To honor his cherished the country’s top animal wel - of the very few dedicated pro - He has broadened HSUS’s Miniature , soft - fare investigators. Now asso - grams of this type in the U.S. scope beyond companion ware mogul Dave Duffield ciated with the ASPCA animals, and was the force endowed Maddie’s Fund with Anti-Cruelty Initiatives Motivated by a New Year’s behind California’s over - $300 million to promote a effort, he is a key player in the res olution to save one dog a whelming passage of Prop. 2. no-kill nation and end eutha- ongoing battle to combat the month, Betsy Saul and her HSUS has also recently nasia as a form of population cruelties of puppy mills and husband created Petfinder.com teamed up with Maddie’s control. Big fund, great goal. large-scale commercial breeding operations.

62 Bark Fe b/Mar 2010 Veterinarian Elliot Katz founded the group in 1983. For the past 25 years, he has campaigned against puppy mills, saved research- lab canines from the needle and convinced many to call themselves “guardians.”

Nedim Buyukmihci , antivivisection vet and co-founder of Animal Place Sanctuary and Education Center, challenged the con - servative status quo of his profession when he spoke out against the use of live animals in vet school training labs.

Game show host knows the media’s value and its uses. A vegetar - ian, he has fought pet over- population, promoted anti-cruelty legislation and donated $1 million each to five top law schools to fund the teaching of . From humble counterculture Angel Canyon, they parlayed it Writer, humorist and origins, Michael Mountain into a home for Best Friends humanitarian Cleveland and a group of about 25 animal- Animal Sanctuary, which Amory was fiercely dedi - loving friends laid the foundation includes Dogtown, Kittyville cated to the cause of animal for what is today a vast animal and places for livestock animals. welfare. An early HSUS board sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, and During a year of post-Katrina member, he later created the the nonprofit Best Friends rescue work, Best Friends Fund for Animals, for which Animal Society that supports it, rehomed or reunited some he served as unpaid director giving life to their simple mission: 4,000 animals with their people. until his death. “No more homeless pets.” The Best Friends magazine, which r e h p continuing campaign by that Mountain edited, changed the a r g o t Take a dash of showmanship, name gathers momentum in the tone of rescue and adoption from o h p

e add entrepreneurial savvy effort to achieve a no-kill nation. gloom and gore to a more upbeat h t d n and Buddhist monk–level In the 1970s, the founders message of joy and progress. a s d

n commitment and you get started taking in strays at their Mountain, now 58, recently e i r F

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S “Home for the Holidays” television westerns. Renaming it natural world.” y o r T adoptathon. —Tom Cushing

Fe b/Mar 2010 Bark 63 BARK 100 HEALERS Bringing their high-level skills to improve the well-being of our canine companions, these men and women put compassion into action. B+B

At the helm of the Morris A controversial figure, When he wrote Home- Douglas Slatter Animal Foundation, the W. Jean Dodds has none- Prepared Dog and Cat Diets , literally wrote the books on world’s largest nonprofit theless persisted in question - leading gastroenterologist small animal surgery. His organization funding ing many “established truths” Donald Strombeck Fundamentals of Veterinary research studies to protect, of veterinary medicine, created a first-of-its kind vol - Ophthalmology and Textbook treat and cure animals, pushing the envelope on ume on alternatives to com - of Small Animal Surgery have Patricia Olson wields a vaccine safety and efficacy mercial pet food and made been used and referenced by mighty big carrot for good. and the diagnosis and treat - canine nutrition understand - thousands of vets. But that’s not all. Dr. Olson’s ment of thyroid disease. She able to the general public. legacy includes establishing also established and runs We know that dogs’ knees programs that foster the Hemopet, a canine blood The experience, common blow out all too easily. What human-animal bond and bank. In the on-going sense and insider knowledge we didn’t know was that a address pet overpopulation, Challenge Project, she is that made Marion Nestle good fix wasn’t available until including co-founding the researching the period of the go-to expert on dietary the 1990s, when Barclay National Council on Pet efficacy of rabies vaccines. policy for humans reached the Slocum developed and Population and Policy, a dog dish with her compelling patented the tibial plateau coalition of organizations You’d think being a renowned investigation of the 2007 lev eling osteotomy (TPLO). working to reduce the veterinary cardiologist and recalls in Pet Food Politics . number of animals eutha - discovering the cause and cure The compassionate care of nized simply because they for a fatal heart disease in cats Clarence Rawlings companion animals has are homeless. would be enough for one life - led a team of researchers at been greatly enhanced time. Not for Paul D. Pion . the University of Georgia’s by the work of trailblazer There are plenty of veterinary In 1991, Dr. Pion began College of Veterinary Med - Robin Downing , a leading guidebooks out there, but it build ing bridges among icine in adapting minimally voice in veterinary pain took Nancy Kay to compile noto riously competitive vets invasive surgical techniques management and advocate one with essential and lasting through the Veterinary for use with companion ani - of a preemptive approach lessons on how to be an Information Network. With mals, reducing traditional to the control of pain. effective advocate for your more than 42,000 participat - surgical complica tions and dog’s health-care needs. ing colleagues, scores of data - improving outcomes. Before Cynda Crawford Speaking for Spot , Dr. Kay’s bases, message boards, (along with Edward Dubovi primer on everything from conference rooms, et cetera, from the College of Vet - how to know if your pet is et cetera, VIN is considered erinary Medicine at Cornell sick and finding the right by many to be the most com - University and others) identi - vet, to knowing when to say prehensive online resource fied the canine influenza goodbye, not only empowers for and by veterinarians. virus—a.k.a. H3N 8—it was guardians but also operates thought that dogs weren’t as a touchstone for many susceptible to the flu. veterinarians.

64 Bark Fe b/Mar 2010 BARK 100 Each one standing for many, these individuals and thousands like them manifest a spirit that inspires EXEMPLARS people to go beyond the ordinary on behalf of dogs. B+B

International Humane groundbreaking books, he miracle workers, as well as at this for 14 years, and her Gwen Davis isn’t afraid to challenges the “animals as providing training, certifica - efforts have saved thousands. tackle the big issues. After property” notion and argues tion and support. After 9/11, earning her DVM from the for incremental recognition Good Dog teams came to Dog Sports Tuskegee School of Veterinary of their separate interests. the aid of families of victims, Retired biology professor Medicine, she founded the survivors and rescue work - Charles L. “Bud” Puerto Rico Katrina Rescuers ers. Based on that model, Kramer shook up the Society to offer low-cost ster - On the front lines of animal Good Dog created a disaster AKC’s Obedience regime— ilization and rescue stray dogs. welfare since 1980, Jeff response course, and was unchanged since 1937—by Dorson has been known to deployed for families in need originating the livelier, Activists risk his life undercover. In in the wake of Hurricane freestyle Rally Obedience, We join the dogs of Redmond, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. as a club-sanctioned answer Wash., in a bark-out to Judy Katrina, he and the Louisiana to the Agility boom. Trockel , a resolute voice in Humane Society he helped Volunteers the grassroots group Serve create rescued some 1,700 Jana Brunner has a Search and Rescue Our Dog Areas, which fought pets from the floodwaters. passion for shelter pets and Retired teacher Wilma to retain Marymoor Park’s volunteers as many as 40 Melville founded the ) 4 ( off-leash dog area and is its s–9/11 hours a week to the Humane National Disaster Search Dog r e n n

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R their legal implications. In profit promotes these furry HSGKC financially. She’s been Brightest” online at thebark.com!

And to shelter staffers everywhere: You are all the best & brightest. Thank you for the work you do and the lives you save.

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