Tag: May/Jun 2023
by Kelsey Warren-Bryant
Laws and regulations pertaining to animals are designed to protect animals and people from harm, but you undoubtedly might have also heard of some rather strange laws that exist in many states. “No whaling allowed” is a popularly cited one in Oklahoma, which is pretty odd considering...
Story and photos by Karen Dugan Holman, B.S., B.S.E., M.S.
Help! I don’t know why my dog is growling at me. He has never done anything like that before. He has always wanted me to pet and play with him. Now he just bares his teeth and growls.
To get to...
Story and photos by Nancy Gallimore
Jim, my partner in life and dog
obsession, handed me his phone the
moment I walked in the door from work. “Look,” he said with a smile, “I had a helper today.”
The phone screen revealed a series of dog photos, up close and personal —...
by Heide Brandes
On the screen, the images are hard to watch. Pigs, all lined up in tiny
narrow metal cages, gnaw incessantly at the bars as they display agitation and fear. The next photo shows a sow gazing through the bars with defeat in her eyes. She no longer gnaws...
by Jennie Lloyd | Photos by Linda Earley
“I’m just a stray magnet,” Shawn Thompson laughs. When feral cats need a
home, they tend to seek her out — arriving on the edge of her property, curious yet cautious.
“Animals just show up at our house,” Shawn says.“I think because I’m such...
by Rowena Mills
English writer Dorothy L. Sayers (1893– 1957) was quoted as saying, “When cats
sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.” But her fans might notice that cats do not play a prominent role in her novels and short stories about aristocratic sleuth Lord...
