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...
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...
By Gerrie Ferris Finger We lost our Italian Greyhound in an odd way that I will briefly say may have been a dognapping disguised as a traffic accident. The Atlanta agency that picks up road kill reported no little gray body had been picked up at the top of the...
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...
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 our...
My Mystery Chasing Poodles by Liz Schulte Have you ever been home alone late at night when the dogs hear a phantom sound then take off running and barking? Dread instantly twists in your gut and freezes your core at the thought that you aren’t alone. Someone,...
