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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

10,000 Birds

day, I had come home to a scraggy, skittish stray of my own. The process of taking in a stray isn’t usually instantaneous and straightforward. It’s the bane of many rehabbers that they simply can’t get through to cat owners on this critical issue of free-roaming pets. One typical, blue-sky, L.A.

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Angel’s Miracle

4 The Love Of Animals

She came from another shelter as a stray, had been abused, was very skinny, and she was extremely shy and afraid of everyone. Within weeks, with lots of love, patience, and socializing with other tenants and pets, she was a totally different dog. I named her Angel. I fell in love with her immediately.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? I addressed this one last week. And for what?