Tag: Nov/Dec 2021
By Mary Green
CPDT-KA: Certified Professional Dog Trainer
Knowledge Assessed
CDBC: Certified Dog Behavior Counselor
CNWI: Certified Nose Work Instructor K9 Manners &
More Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
In the community of animal welfare and sheltering, the Five Freedoms are often the tenets or guiding principles for the welfare of the animals in their care.
The Five...
By Nancy Gallimore
Today, Howie, my best-boy Dalmatian,
is 15 years, 6 months and 2 days old. But who’s counting?
Me. I’m counting. I’m counting my blessings every minute of every beautiful day with this dog. He’s my guy. The last of a very special family of dogs I’ve been so fortunate...
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. The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation corralled the yearling and tried several times to tranquilize him before killing him when he attempted to make a...
by Rowena Mills
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was a journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and lecturer. But did you know he was also an ailurophile?
(It’s Greek for “lover of cats.”)
Under the pseudonym Mark Twain, he wrote mostly travel narratives and boyhood adventure stories. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)...
Story and photos by Kim Doner
Well, it’s been my observation that preferences in animal
companions are as varied as the choices available; I, for one, LOVE big critters and thoroughly appreciate domestic fur family members who sport a little more heft than average: German Shepherds, Great Danes, Mastiffs and Malamutes;...
By Karen Dugan Holman, BS, BSE, MS
There she was, my new foster dog. I had seen her shelter pictures, and she was
a beautiful, cream-colored retriever. I eagerly awaited my veterinarian to bring her to the lobby. Snowball slowly and stiffly rounded the corner, dragging her toenails, knuckling on the...
By Anna Holton-Dean
Veterinarians are always there for us. Now, thanks to the Veterinary Hope
Foundation, we as the pet community are there for them too. Veterinary Hope Foundation was founded in early 2021 by two veterinarians, Drs. Elizabeth Chosa and Blair McConnel, who saw the need.
The reason veterinarians need us...
By Lauren Cavagnolo
Mabel Joy is a beautiful Bernese Mountain Dog who loves bully
sticks and frozen Kong toys with peanut butter. A sweet dog who seldom barks, she is known to lean into her people and get as close as possible.
But this is a dog with a special purpose and...
