In September, WellBeing International was engaged in an extended trip through Africa including three separate speaking engagements. Concerns about climate change and threats to wildlife and to domestic animals were repeatedly encountered on the trip. On a positive note, September also saw a global action...
For more than two millennia, honey has been used by humans to treat wounds and skin infections. However, as modern medicine produced a variety of antiseptics and anti-microbials, the use of honey to treat wounds was largely lost to medicine. However, honey is still called...
[caption id="attachment_2593" align="alignright" width="429"] Coco enjoying his new enclosure at the CCC.Photo: Jeroen Jacques[/caption]When Dr. Andrew Rowan, a great friend of the Chimpanzee Conservation Center (CCC) in Guinea, defender of animals, and Wellbeing International President, asked me to write about Coco for “Tales of Well...
This issue of Tales of WellBeing includes an item featuring the story of Coco, a rescued chimpanzee in Guinea, whom I was privileged to meet at the beginning of this century, as well as a series of book suggestions and an interesting graphic that provides...
Charles Rowan, as he was known by the local veterinary practice that tended to his health needs, was a beloved member of the Rowan family for almost fourteen years. He was an excellent ambassador for dogs and for all animals – at least among his...
A recent sterilization clinic held in Guapiles by our partner organization served a remarkable woman – 96-year old Ana Julia Espinoza. She walked three kilometers with her three cats to have them sterilized.For the past five years, our partner organization, the Costa Rican shelter Asociacion...
[caption id="attachment_1802" align="alignleft" width="487"] Bella at Greyton Farm Animal Sanctuary[/caption]It is 5.30 in the morning and it sounds like the gates of hell have opened and the tortured demons are screaming from the midst of the inferno. Bella and ninety other pigs are ‘singing’ for...
This issue of Tales of WellBeing includes two stories about animals that have had significant impacts on individuals and communities. These two stories (memorials) exemplify the intense bonds that exist between animals and humans and the impact those relationships can have upon the participants. These...
This issue of Tales of WellBeing first explores the human-animal relationship through the lens of the human-dog partnerships entrusted with providing human and animal security by detecting and removing landmines. The Marshall Legacy Institute has sponsored and trained many dogs and placed them across the...
The human-dog relationship is extraordinarily rich and rewarding, as evidenced by Lord Byron’s famous epitaph for his dog Boatswain (pronounced Bosun) in 1808:-Near this Spot Are deposited the Remains of one Who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the...
