by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 24, 2014 | Features, Pet Spotlight
Remember that show Room Raiders on MTV? It was this dating show where hopeful singles tried to assess the personalities and interests of potential mates by touring their rooms. Three years ago, my room would have told the story of a messy girl with a lot of books....
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 30, 2013 | Pet Spotlight
This is Annie, named after the orphan. We found her nine years ago, in a French layby near the Swiss border, very thirsty and hungry and in a terrible condition: you could literally see her ribs and her skin was patchy with scabs. It turned out later that she had five...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 23, 2013 | Pet Spotlight
They say that animals have much to teach us if we only take the time to listen. The two dogs in my household are getting up there in years—a ten-year-old English Bulldog named Zoe, and an eight-year-old Great Dane who goes by Sterling. Zoe came first, a gift from my...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 23, 2013 | Features, Pet Spotlight
Growing up I was never a cat or dog person. Until one day in the summer of 1995 when I was an ATF Supervisor assigned to Chicago. A baby kitten could be heard crying under our front porch where we lived in suburban Hinsdale. One look at this little guy’s face and it...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 16, 2013 | Pet Spotlight
Our Yorkshire terrier Susie is, we suspect, not the most intelligent creature in the world. There was the time she careered headlong into a patio door; the rock pool she thought she could leap across, landing instead plum in the middle. We’re on good terms with...
