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Cool It!

by Kim Doner Horses sweat. Men perspire. Ladies glow. (Yeah. Right.) So where does that leave the rest of the animal kingdom when things heat up? I’m...

Celebrating Mother’s Day and Father’s Day

by Inger Giuffrida, executive director, WildCare Oklahoma Spring is associated with birth and rebirth. Seeds grow, flowers bloom, grasses green, trees grow leaves, and wildlife...

Wildly Creative?

by Kelsey Warren-Bryant From teaching elephants to paint with their trunks to encouraging pigs to apply strokes to a canvas holding a paintbrush in the...

Thriving on Wildness

by Kim Doner The following article would probably be better suited for a Tulsa or OKC DON’T Pets magazine, but because such a publication doesn’t exist...

Where The Buffalo Roam

by Heide Brandes Before European colonization of North America, about 30 million to 60 million bison roamed the vast lands. Native American tribes relied on the animals...

LEAVE IT TO Beavers

by Inger Giuffrida, executive director, WildCare Oklahoma Before beavers were hunted to the brink of extinction for their fur, the North American beaver population was estimated to...

Critter Collection Part II

by Kim Doner Greetings, nerdy readers! I’m back, tickled to pieces that the magazine has accepted my begging — I mean, my suggestion — for...

LIVING ARTWORK

by Kim Doner | Photos courtesy of Alexander England Today I’m advocating on behalf of the most misunderstood, maligned, abused, and unfairly despised vertebrate in history,...

Beep, Beep!

by Kim Doner Whenever a roadrunner is mentioned, most of us immediately think of the Looney Tunes character Road Runner and his nemesis, Wile E....

Coyotes and You

by Kelsey Warren-Bryant I used to live in a house that belonged to my parents, a two-story home in the middle of Oklahoma woods. Trees...

Raccoons

Story and photos by Kim Doner I have one word that’s a sure conversation starter. It’s raccoon. YOU DON’T WANT ONE AS A PET. Wherever I go,...

Saving the GIANTS

Story and photographs by Heide Brandes On Santa Cruz Island, one of the 127 islands that make up Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands archipelago, giants roamed the grassy...

Sandhill Cranes Are Link to Prehistoric Past

by Rowena Mills Photographs by Don Brockmeier A s a couple of dozen people waited in hushed expectance in a large viewing blind, it seemed at...

Yes, Oklahoma Has Black Bears

By Heide Brandes Photographs by Todd Johnson, OSU Agricultural Communications Services In May, a young male black bear ventured into the streets of Norman and climbed a tree....

VULTURE Culture

by Kim Doner | Photos by Kathy Locker Any serious fan of Looney Tunes animation recognizes the name “Beaky Buzzard,” a slow-witted character known for his...

ISO Foxy Lady

By Kim Doner Unforeseen challenges are always part of the wildlife rehabilitation game. This field is never mastered; at best, an understanding arrives that one...

LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER:

WRITTEN BY: Dr. Scott Loss and Pamela Gotcher A recent story in TulsaPets promoted a practice known as “TNR” (trap-neuter-return) where “caretakers” leave food outdoors...

AAAUGH, ARACHNIDS

BY KIM DONER It starts like this: “AAAAUGH!” The reaction is instinctive; you immediately leap backward, clawing at your face and hair, brushing yourself down with near-rabid...

Spreading Wintertime Wildlife Awareness

Winter has a myriad of meanings to us. For some, it means the holidays; for some, it means time to catch up on good...

TulsaPets Magazine and its companion website TulsaPetsMagazine.com provide Tulsa pet owners with the perspectives of a bi-monthly magazine, the interactive, up-to-the-minute insights of a local news source, and the humane conscience and social media involvement of the Tulsa pet community. Only here will you find a one-step resource for local pet products, services and events as well as adoption and pet care information. All of it is sprinkled with lots of pictures of local pets!