Put brown rice on to cook. Start chopping onions for stir-fry. Sniffle. (Allergies.) Get tissue to blow nose. Ponder existence of friends who don't keep a box of tissues in every room. Decide they must have superpowers undreamt of by mere mortals such as self. Start...
“Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.” – Henry Beston I grew up in a pet-less household, and despite reading Black Beauty, Dr. Doolittle, and Beatrix Potter, I regarded animals as...
“Your cat may be even smarter than you think” read a rather alarming headline on the Hill's pet food website. Only up to a point, dudes. Stringing me along Luna looked at me indifferently as I dangled a string in front of her. “Come on, girl,” I urged. “Let's play...
“Swiss cows send texts to announce they’re in heat” reveals the New York Times, and adds that these phone-savvy cows are often named “Fiona” and “Bella.” Picture, then, a pasture on the slope of a particularly picturesque Alp (did I just invent a new tongue-twister?)....
I can't say I'm happy about the way I'm portrayed in this guest post. Still, once you've been acquired by a cat, you learn to expect ingratitude along with vomited fur-balls and the occasional dead mouse. But I hadn't learned to expect that my cat might be attacked...
"Caught in a maelstrom of public reaction to its decision to cease funding Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation announced Friday that it would reverse course." -- Washington Post You’re on your own now, pet In a surprising departure from past...