Ali Yazman of North Vancouver is a dog handler with thirty years experience assessing dogs for animal shelters in Europe and BC, among a wide-ranging motley of jobs and passions .

Ali can be seen in the CTV video of the first anniversary of Cheech's Great Escape from the SPCA on the Animal Advocates web site at www.animaladvocates.com .

Ali is also an incipient writer of articles - on lives - animals' as well as humans' lives.

We'll be adding Ali's articles as we are fortunate enough to get them.