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You Can Still Help Hurricane Sandy Survivors

Although Hurricane Sandy isn’t top news anymore and many people’s lives and homes are pretty much back to normal, the efforts of cleanup and rebuilding continue in the hardest hit areas of New Jersey and New York City, and will continue for some time to come. For these people, even

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Living Green With Pets: Bringing Plants Indoors

We always seem to have an unexpected snowfall at this time of the year, right when the geraniums are looking their best and even plenty of tender plants are still blooming. While I’ve known for weeks I needed to do something with my plants before they ended up as frozen

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Helping Pets and People After Hurricane Sandy

I’m so glad to hear from friends, with or without pets, in the areas most horribly affected by Hurricane Sandy. That silence is the worst part, waiting for them to make some sort of contact. Despite my love/hate relationship with social media this is one time I breathe a sigh

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Preparing Your Pets for an Emergency

We can never see this information too often, especially after a brush with Hurricane Isaac in the past week nationally, and locally a tanker truck leak on our Main Street that required immediate evacuation of several neighborhoods in the middle of the day when people were at work. And also

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Portrait: Sophie and Ellie, Being Very Good

This portrait of two best friends is very autumnal in tone, and I always think of it as being an autumn portrait for all the fallen leaves around Sophie, a border collie, and Ellie, a bichon frisé. I never know how or from where a portrait will come to me.

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Cassie and Tyler, Rescued Rescue Dogs

This portrait of Cassie and Tyler is the companion portrait to A Portrait in Oranges from last week—these two rescued Labrador retrievers belonged to the same person. She had decided she wanted two portraits, one of her cats and one of her dogs, as much alike as possible so they

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Help Your Pets to Stay Well

by Karen  Sable, Guest Columnist October is recognized as National Pet Wellness Month, so what better time to think about what you are doing, or should be doing, to help your pet stay well and live a long, healthy life? The nationwide campaign is sponsored by the American Veterinary Medical

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Pittsburgh’s Shelters Full, and Hoping for Change

When Triangle Pet Services was closed down earlier this month (read stories here and here), they reported the animals in their “care” would be sent to a rescue group elsewhere in Pennsylvania. However, 20 were not moved, and one dog actually died while kept in its cage. Pittsburgh’s three major

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Remembering September 11, and the Service Dogs Who Were At Our Side

Aside from being in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, I am nowhere near New York or Washington DC. I am, however, barely an hour away from Shanksville. On the morning of September 11, 2001 I was just finishing work in my garden and a coat of white paint

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Preparing Your Pets for an Emergency

We can never see this information too often, especially after a brush with Hurricane Isaac in the past week nationally, and locally a tanker truck leak on our Main Street that required immediate evacuation of several neighborhoods in the middle of the day when people were at work. And also

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