How Pets Can Help Heal Depression
I don't have personal experience of depression, but I understand that there can be days when sufferers can barely make it out of bed, let alone out of...
I don't have personal experience of depression, but I understand that there can be days when sufferers can barely make it out of bed, let alone out of...
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
Yep, they may be the world's most independent creatures, often scornful, superior, unpredictable, and affectionate only when it comes down to the tu...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.16.2008 | Home
In South Korea, scientists have been cloning animals with desirable traits and genetic alterations. Last year, researchers cloned cats that glow under...
Rob Kall | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
Tough day today. We had to put down our 14 year old yellow lab, Vanilla. I treated her better than a dog the past few days. It made me think about ho...
Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living
Last Saturday, my husband Phil and I went to visit a cat we were thinking about adopting, who was being sheltered at a vet's office in Alphabet City. The vet tech ran through the medical file with us, and then looked up and said: "If I may ask, why are you interested in adopting an amputee?"
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 04.30.2008 | Living
For many people, pets are an enormous source of happiness. The other day, though, I had a fascinating conversation with a friend about the negative happiness consequence of having pets.
Sherman Yellen | Posted 03.10.2008 | Living
Having a dog does the most amazing and contradictory thing - it forces us to grow up and to be a child at the same time, and so it was with Gus and me.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 02.04.2008 | Living
I don't see why there is so much advice offered to single people about Valentine's Day. They are not the ones having a hard time. Recently, ...
Sherman Yellen | Posted 01.31.2008 | Living
A love story about a dog, or a dog story about love.
ABC News | Evelyn Nieves | Posted 01.30.2008 | Business
The house was ravaged -- its floors ripped, walls busted and lights smashed by owners who trashed their home before a bank foreclosed on it. Hidden in...
ABC News | Posted 12.17.2007 | Business
Americans were outraged earlier this year when imported pet food made hundreds of pets sick. But what if you found out that thousands of puppies are i...
Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo | Posted 11.07.2007 | Living
The latest pet innovation to come out of France looks just plain cruel. Lazy dog owners put their pets into this huge washing machine-like contraptio...
Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.19.2007 | Entertainment
As I started watching Ellen's on-air weep-fest, I first thought somebody died. And then my heart went out to her, the adopting family and little Iggy.
Patt Morrison | Posted 09.24.2007 | Living
Schwarzenegger has signed a bill by a Democratic state Senator that allows criminal and family courts to include family pets in domestic violence protective orders.
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timesonline.co.uk | Posted 07.16.2008 | Living