Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2009

Up north are Snohomish County and Skagit County where two puppy mill raids have led to the rescue of almost 600 pregnant dogs, about 80 percent of whom are pregnant. (We Keeping abuse in the family! And, of course, they are all "designer dogs." One of my coworkers is heavily involved in puppy mill issues.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 25, 2010

I recently got a chance to read a charming new book called The Dog Who Healed a Family: And Other True Animal Stories That Warm the Heart & Touch the Soul. Of course reading about the “puppy express&# (based on the Pony Express), was a great testimonial to just how many kind hearted people there are in the world.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2013

A bored puppy is an unhappy puppy, and possibly a destructive puppy. Of course, the fact of the matter is that you provide the food in your household, or one of the other humans does. Toys which challenge your puppy to figure something out are a great way to stave off boredom, and they help to develop your puppy’s mind.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Starting with Casey and Arrow, our keepers in the woods, our family would keep cats and dogs. So when Peter calls and excitedly tells us stories about a small pack of five dogs that has started coming around the base—a mother and her four pups—I laugh and think, of course he has pets in Iraq. Growing up, we always had animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

From rescued puppy mill dogs, to people who felt rescued by their dogs, the stories all have one thing in common; rescue dogs rule! In 2008, two-year-old Bill was released from a puppy mill breeder and put out to auction after spending the first two years of his life sitting in a cage. Lost Souls: Found!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

The best test of that proposition, of course, is to repeat it to any one of the hundreds of thousands of birders who have, say, a family. The popular stereotype of birders is that we’re obsessives, focused only on the feathered to the exclusion of anything else.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 17, 2011

Violet's a member of our family. Stanley, Emily, Violet and Sky are members of our family. Of course not; that's serious business. This assumes that everyone also agrees that the animal will be part of the family for life. And if you keep messing with you she'll bark and show you all eight of her teeth.

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