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Dog walking with the FT: Jane Goodall

It’s a crisp winter’s afternoon in Sydney. The sky is blue, and a frosty wind is blowing down Middle Harbour and across the grassy expanse of The Spit Reserve, a dog-friendly park. Wrapped up in a long cream coat, Dame Jane Goodall emerges into the squall from a black 4x4. “Oh, it’s cold here!” she gasps.

The briskness is put aside, however, when I introduce her to Sam, my family’s small, shaggy, excitable dog – and our companion for the afternoon. “Hello, Sam,” she calls, and suggests I let him off the leash. Sam promptly sprints for the beach, where other dogs are running and swimming. “That’s better,” she says, and follows him down to the sand.

For more than 50 years, Goodall has been famous as the woman who taught the world about chimpanzees. As a young woman with little more than secretarial training, she was chosen by the anthropologist Louis Leakey to live among a group of chimpanzees and study their behaviour.

Soon after arriving in the Gombe national park in Tanzania in 1960, Goodall found a vantage point 500ft above Lake Tanganyika, where she could watch the chimps in the valley below – particularly one she named David Greybeard. Within five months she saw him doing something of tremendous significance – using a stem of grass as a tool to extract termites from a nest. It was an enormous discovery. Until that point, tool use was considered the defining characteristic of humanity, the thing that set us apart from the animals.

Although Goodall continues to be closely involved with chimpanzee research, since the 1980s her focus has been on the wider issues of conservation, particularly through a youth programme called Roots & Shoots. This is now active in 127 countries and encourages young people to take on projects to help other animals and the environment. Goodall’s philosophy – that each of us can make a difference every day – clearly chimes with the growing numbers of people taking part.

Delivering that message has turned her into a kind of Ancient Mariner of the environmental movement. She is never in the same place for more than three weeks. For years now, she’s been on the road more than 300 days a year, working 15-hour days, seven days a week.

< Now 77, Goodall is slight, but not frail. Her white hair is pulled back in a ponytail, and her unlined face exudes calm. There’s also a mischievous twitch at the corner of her mouth, and a twinkle in her eye. As she and Sam wrestle with sticks, she tells me how important dogs were as an inspiration for her early work.

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However, you are in luck in that there are several places in that part of Manhattan that offer daycare for pets. It's not cheap, but it's an option for you. There's a place called Ritzy Canine at 40th/3rd Avenue that offers care 7 days a week, but only until 7pm (I think you can pay extra for later pick-up sometimes. If it's an afternoon wedding, you'll be set. It will cost you about $40. There's another place near 33rd/3rd Avenue that offers daycare except on Sundays but only until 7pm called Walter's Pet Styles. I have taken my dog to both of these places and can recommend them.

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