Pet Dish
I'll start with the chimpanzees. Sometime this summer, seven
chimpanzees will move from a research facility in Pennsylvania to a
new, roomy sanctuary dedicated to their enrichment in Cle Elum. They
will be the first residents at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest (CSNW).
April 10, 2008
Pet Dish
The smart folks over at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine have created a video guide -- available for free online -- that provides a complete and concise overview of cancer in cats and dogs.
April 9, 2008
I grew up in the era of the bandana, when a dog's fashion statement was limited to classic red or blue, edgy purple or trippy tie-dye. There were, of course, dogs in sweaters and coats way back then, but these were mostly serviceable garments, uninspiring in a sort of Yankee-librarian sort of way.
March 31, 2008
Pet Dish
While my dogs motivate me to get out of bed in the morning, Shannon Ritscher's animal companions (an eight-year-old dog named Sweet Pea and two cats, Mike and Wednesday) inspire altogether grander and greener pursuits.
March 27, 2008
Pet Dish
This weekend I was boning up on canine fashion, and one of the trends I learned about was wigs. Wigs for dogs!
March 24, 2008
Pet Dish
Got a difficult pet and no interest in pinning him to the ground?
March 18, 2008
Pet Dish
I recently met some ferrets and their folks on Vashon Island and got a
first-hand taste of what makes these little guys and gals so popular.
Their charming, goofy, freewheeling zest for life is like two pounds of
furry Prozac.
March 3, 2008
I was prepared to be bored all the way to my prenatal gills when I visited The Fish Store in Ravenna. While I've never had an aquarium of my own, I lived with my sister and my 10-year-old nephew when he caught the fish bug. They put together a tank, which, over the years featured danios, plecostomuses and Oscars -- pretty standard freshwater fish plagued by unfortunately high mortality rates that took some of the fun out of what seemed to me an already low-thrills pursuit.
March 3, 2008
Pet Dish
It's hard to get excited about spaying and neutering -- that doesn't sound right - well, you know what I mean. It took America's sweetheart and devoted animal lover Doris Day to pioneer and underwrite a national one-day campaign to reduce pet overpopulation through affordable spay/neuter. More than one million surgeries later, tomorrow is the fourteenth annual Spay Day USA.
February 25, 2008
Pet Dish
Last week, a the 26-year-old Seattle vaccine scientist hung up his lab coat to pursue outdoor adventure with his dog full-time. In a few weeks, David Sylvester and Chiva, a shepherd-husky mix, will begin a quest to bike the continental United States and climb to the highest point in each state.
February 21, 2008
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