2015 Summit Award Winner Lifetime Achievement

 

The Lifetime Achievement Summit recognizes an individual whose achievements have garnered the honor and respect of their peers in the Alliance for Urban Animals. This year our winner is...

James H. Bandow

James H. Bandow is being recognized for decades of service to the care & control sector of the Urban Animal Industry.

He was trained in small animal management in Europe and worked in small animal management in Germany, Denmark, the USA and Canada for 21 years. Prior to joining the animal care and control field in 1973, he owned and/or managed a number of animal production operations, and was involved in client training and product marketing and promotion. 

Mr. Bandow’s impressive resume includes:

• General Manager, City of Toronto Animal Control Services (1989 - 1999).
• Executive Director, Canadian Federation of Humane Societies (1984 -1989), Ottawa, Ont.
• General Manager, Hamilton SPCA ( 1980 -1984)
• Operations Supervisor, Investigator/Inspector, Hamilton SPCA (1973 - 1980)
• Owner/Operator of James H. Bandow & Associates (1989 - 2011) - providing consultation and training services to the animal care and control field in North America
• Executive Secretary of the Association of Animal Shelter Administrators of Ontario (1999-2007)
• Executive Director of Canadian Association for Humane Trapping (1999-2013)
• CAHT Representative to the National Farm Animal Care Council Code of Practice for Mink and Farmed Fox Development Committee (2012-2014).

Mr. Bandow has been involved in a variety of animal organizations and is an honourary member and past president of the Association of Animal Shelter Administrators of Ontario (AASAO). He is an honourary member and past president of the Society of Animal Welfare Administrators (SAWA) in the USA, and, in fact, was the first Canadian Board member of the Society. Mr. Bandow is a past director of the Human Animal Bond Association of Canada (HABAC), as well as a current director of the Canadian Association for Humane Trapping (CAHT). He is a past member of the National Animal Control Association (NACA) in the USA, and of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers.