Tag: Mar/Apr 2023
by Inger Giuffrida, executive director, WildCare Oklahoma
Photos courtesy of WIldCare Oklahoma
Every day, WildCare Oklahoma receives injured, ill, and orphaned wildlife from
throughout the state. Although the organization is one of the larger wildlife centers in the United States, taking in about 7,000 patients annually, the individual stories of patients exemplify...
by Rowena Mills
I first heard of pet-friendly places of business a long time ago
but didn’t pay much attention until my father and I visited a family friend in a nursing home. I noticed a dog in the lobby. I asked if we could bring a well-behaved cat sometime, and...
Emma Watson is an animal lover on screen and off. The English actress, who launched her career as a child in the Harry Potter movies, is an advocate for several causes, including women’s rights and animal rights. She is outspoken about animal welfare and the promotion of cruelty-free products.
Emma...
by Heide Brandes
Photos courtesy of Bar K
In Oklahoma City’s Boathouse District, Bar
K — a new bar, restaurant, coffeehouse,
dog park, and dog-friendly establishment — rings with the cheery barks of hounds scampering in more than two acres of outdoor play space while their humans laugh over tall pints of beer...
by Karen Dugan Holman, B.S., B.S.E., M.S.
Several years ago, my son and a friend were talking and laughing on
speakerphone. His friend asked to borrow some waders to go duck hunting. Matt was not at his home; he was at our house. He laughed and said, “Don’t worry about coming...
by Kim Doner
Let’s talk rat.
OK, I know you just shuddered; I can anticipate readers who are squeamish about
all rodents. (Really? Including capybaras? WOW! That big? Oops, I digress…)
But let’s face it, most people find mice — and their much larger cousins, rats — to be somewhere between creepy and...
by Heide Brandes | Photos courtesy of the Kirkpatrick Foundation
When Drew Edmondson — former Oklahoma legislator, attorney
general, and gubernatorial candidate — speaks, he does so with a quiet, humble voice. Beneath that calm timbre, however, is a bulldog tenacity to protect Oklahoma’s environment and health, a mission that has...
Steven Walker, of Walker Creative, Inc., is someone who wears many hats —
designer, drummer, illustrator, creative collaborator, and more. But it’s easy to see that he enjoys one role quite a bit — dog dad.
Walker and his wife, Jill, now own one Beagle, June, but Walker’s love of animals...
Photos courtesy of Redbud Classic
Oklahoma City’s premier running and cycling event, the Redbud Classic, will return on April 15–16, and your
favorite canine companion is welcome once again in the one-mile Woof Walk.
Celebrating its 40th year, the Redbud Classic has brought fun, fitness, and philanthropy to the Oklahoma City community...
by David Gallant | Photos courtesy of Brenda Walker
It was an economic boon for the state when the announcement
came that the TV series Tulsa King would be filmed in Oklahoma. For most of 2021, the intention had been to film the series in Kansas. But thanks to the steadfast...
