All Creatures

HI! GRACIE HERE, aka Grace and/or Googoo, depending. Edward and Julee’s golden. Three years old. You remember me. I’ve enjoyed talking to you before, with the help of Edward. Exciting news! There is a new feature this month: How I Met My Pet (page 32

isfoundation.com,  @isfofficial Living with six dogs, two cats and a horse isn’t enough animal love for actor Ian Somerhalder and his wife, Nikki Reed. In 2010, he started his foundation “to empower, educate and collaborate with people and projects

SHELTERS CAN BE NOISY and stressful places for animals. But something special happens when Kitty Snyder, an Atlanta-based musician, walks into DeKalb County Animal Services in Chamblee, Georgia, playing her guitar and singing for the dogs and cats. S

ERNEST, my older, experienced golden retriever, lines up at a therapy-dog event next to a Shetland sheepdog, a beagle mix and a labradoodle. They all have something important in common. Does our golden puppy, Petey, have it too? Eleven-month-old Pete

Q For two years, my four-year-old cat has been scratching himself incessantly. My vet has prescribed steroids and tested for mites and ringworm. My cat is losing hair on his hind legs and belly and will suddenly jump as if he is being bitten. What co

THE DAY I WALKED into the bathroom and found L.E. on the rug in front of my sink, rather than the rug in front of my husband Keith’s sink, was the day I realized she had finally become my cat. For three years after Keith died, I thought it was a lost

IT STARTED WITH A MEOW. On a hot Saturday in Brooklyn, I was about to begin my afternoon run when I heard it: “Meow.” A slim black-and-white cat was staring up at me from the sidewalk. I feed the cats in my neighborhood. This one was shy, always han

MY VERY FIRST ASSIGNMENT as a minister was to an inner-city parish in Camden, New Jersey. There was drug dealing and violent crime within sight of our home, and rough characters knocked on our door at all hours of the day and night. Not long after we

I CHECKED MY CELL PHONE AGAIN. Why doesn’t he return my text messages? My 10-year-old grandson, Luke, and I had always been close, but now that my husband and I had moved 120 miles away, I felt as if I wasn’t part of Luke’s world anymore. The next d

You spot a tiny ball of fur huddled in a corner of your yard. It’s a wild animal, and it’s not moving. You should step in and help it, right? Think again. I recently met with Katrina Haskell, a New York State licensed wildlife rehabilitator. “Sometim

Lots of little girls dream about having their own horse someday, especially if they live on a farm as Hannah Simpson did. Growing up in the Southland hills outside Invercargill, the southernmost city in New Zealand, Hannah loved being around and cari