Living Up to The Dream
This year the message on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday is to not celebrate, but activate. Take an activist role
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animal rescue
Poem: A Rescue Remembered
I wrote this poem in 2011 and published it here in 2014 with this introduction, the “colder cold than usual”
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Rescue Story: Cookie’s Homecoming Day
ON DECEMBER 6, 1992, during a heavy storm of snow and ice, a little neighbor boy brought me a kitten
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Press Release: 83 Percent of Pet Owners in Disaster Impacted Areas, Less Than Half Have Preparedness Plan in Place
New ASPCA Survey Reveals 83 Percent of Pet Owners Live in an Area Impacted by Disasters, Yet Less Than Half
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Rescue Story: Eight Years Later
In 2014, as I memorialized these two, I wrote, “It’s hard to believe that tomorrow, June 16, will be one
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Take Home Two During Adopt-a-Cat-Month!
“Cats are like potato chips, it’s hard to have just one.” I liked that phrase from a friend’s refrigerator magnet
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A More Humane Society
Often those who work for the rights of animals are questioned about their choice of cause—people are suffering all over
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Rescue Story: A Jersey Cupcake and People Who Care
When you’ve been rescuing cats for a while you might not trust a person whose cat needs care and you
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May is Animal Guardian Month
Language matters. The words we use to refer to something also describe our relationship with it, how we feel about
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