Tag: Jul/ Aug 2023
by Kelsey Warren-Bryant
Picture it. You’re driving down the highway with the sound of your pup’s
heavy panting in the backseat. You hear the clacking of her toenails as she shifts in her crate and then emits a long whine. You sigh. It has been several hours since you stopped to...
Since we moved to Oklahoma, caring friends have warned us about the
sweltering summer heat. As native Texans, we too know heat, where consecutive days of 100-plus degrees are common. Yet all this talk prompted some exploration into an oft-heard phrase — the dog days of summer — and how...
by Carol Mowdy Bond
As a university student, Kim Steagall came across a Border Collie that
liked people and was fully loyal and obedient.
“I told myself I wanted a dog like that someday,” Steagall said.
Steagall researched dog breeds, and in 2016, she bought a seven-week-old Border Collie pup from an Atoka...
Karen Dugan Holman,
B.S., B.S.E., M.S.
Tail thumping. The low, purring growl and whine. The flick of the tail,
stalking, arched back, puffed-up fur, and the staring. Oh, my, the staring! And the battle begins, much like a turf-war scene from West Side Story.
We had many cats when we were growing up,...
by Kim Doner | Photos courtesy of Alexander England
Today I’m advocating on behalf of the most misunderstood, maligned,
abused, and unfairly despised vertebrate in history, and no, I’m not talking about a character from Succession.
I’m talking about snakes.
First, let me clear up a terminology issue on behalf of all herpers...
by Heide Brandes | Photos courtesy of Skeletons: Museum of Osteology & Skulls Unlimited
Internet celebrity Sir Indiana Bones seems unfazed by his sudden stardom.
The four-year-old black male kitty is not interested today in posing for the camera, instead lolling lazily in an office chair before being lured by the...
by Kaycee Chance | Photos by Linda Earley
In conversation with Louisa McCune,
executive director of the Kirkpatrick
Foundation, it’s easy to gather that she is a passionate, fierce, and dedicated animal advocate who feels in her very core the importance of animals to our human experience. Her love for animals promotes...
by Rowena Mills
“There’s the legendary Marshmoff, the black one that sits on your shoulder
and drools,” said famous musician Frank Zappa in an interview. “She is now commuting between our house and somebody else’s house, and she occasionally comes over and drools all over the place. And then there’s two...
