January/February 2020

All Creatures

The Animals Who Share Our Lives

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Editor’s Note
UNBELIEVABLY, PEOPLE STILL ask me if I believe that animals can think. If they can really feel and plan and dream. Like we humans do. Maybe not like we do, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have their own unique inner lives, differentiated from ours o
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Going Beyond
SEVENTH GRADER and entrepreneur Sir Darius Brown of Newark, New Jersey, is doing his sartorial part to help shelter dogs find new homes. Diagnosed with fine motor skill delays as a toddler, Sir Darius began making bow ties as a way to strengthen his
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I’ll Never Forget You
I’D ALWAYS dreamed of raising a Westie. In 1998, I found a farm in New York that had three-month-old Westies up for adoption. I was sure one of the pups was meant for me. The moment I picked up Geordi, he lay back into my arms and put all four paws i
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Why We Love… Carolina Waterfowl Rescue
AS MANY AS 40 injured turtles a week are brought into the Carolina Waterfowl Rescue (CWR) in Indian Trail, North Carolina. The turtles often arrive with broken shells, the result of being hit by cars and boats. The staff uses glue and tape to fix the
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Should I Be Worried?
Q My 10½-year-old dog has had three seizures in the last 13 months. What could be causing them? He’s otherwise healthy, a good weight and lively, and he walks every day. —Mary Girard, Milford, New Hampshire A Seizures in dogs can occur for a var
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Our Puppy Rescue Mission
I sat cross-legged on my bed in the house I rented with some other students and stared at the phone. It was 10 P.M. on a Sunday night in March 2010. I was in my last year of a college program in food science and nutrition, doing a dietetic internship
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Creature Comforts
I JOINED A BIBLE STUDY group, only to discover that between my responsibilities at home and those on the job I never had enough hours in my week to finish the assignments. I tried getting up earlier, but I only found myself turning off the alarm and
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A Different Field
If you know even a little about soccer, you know the name Michelle Akers. She led the U.S. women’s national team to two FIFA World Cup championships and an Olympic gold medal and scored 105 goals in international competition, despite having more than
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The Boy With The Golden Horn
‘‘Papaw, is Izzie going to die?” my seven-year-old granddaughter, Carolyn, asked, cradling her pet rabbit in her arms. Izzie was already full grown when she joined the family and had been Carolyn’s closest companion for the past four years. Recently
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Their Mysterious Ways
Wednesday night, 11 P.M. Before I went to bed, I took one last look out my back door toward the woods at the edge of my yard and called, “Jax, where are you?” I have four cats. One was a house cat, but the other three, including Jax, had been born fe
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KIRA GRANT Wild Bird Fund, New York City
Kira Grant grew up in rural New Jersey, surrounded by farms and state parks. She remembers playing outside every day, looking for her favorite bird, the chickadee. Now she lives in bustling New York City and has new, unlikely feathered friends—pigeon
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All That Is Beautiful
THIS MORNING A RED FOX trotted in the meadow behind our house. Her legs paused as she poked her nose in the dried brown grass. Then, sitting on her haunches, she stared in the direction of our house. I reached quickly for my binoculars. Reddish-brown
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How My I Pet Met
WHAT WILL IT BE THIS TIME? I wondered, yanking the rope through my bay window. Games? Puzzles? My twin brother, Brad, had rigged this pulley system to run between my second-floor bedroom and the front yard. Neighbors and friends left presents for m
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Our Year With Penny
The day I met Penny my life was pretty much falling apart. My husband had just told me he wanted to leave. We were in the middle of a remodel, and our house literally was falling apart. I had a job at a costume store in a city south of Los Angeles. B
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Is This for Real?
It was a typical morning for Kara Twomey. She was taking her rescue pup, Cassie, for a walk in her Winnipeg, Canada, neighborhood, when a loud caw startled her. Some crows rose up in a flurry of black feathers. One of them had snatched a baby robin,
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Smile!
Most of us know the importance of oral care, including dental cleanings, for our pets’ health. Yet surveys show that fewer than eight percent of pet parents routinely brush their dog’s or cat’s teeth. To promote better oral care for pets, the America

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