Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World

The animals have lost a great friend and champion. Orly Degani, who used her considerable…

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It’s been a year of milestones including (in chronological order) – losing my job, losing my Dad, getting married, losing a dog, changing my career, turning 50 and a family member experiencing a sudden medical emergency with an initially grave prognosis (she’s much better now, thankfully).  Naturally, I’ve been thinking a lot of thinks – […]

This morning, a beagle who shall remain nameless apparently injured a little frog.  This little frog: I found him writhing and nearly upside down on the porch.  I set him over the right way around but he appears to have a bum back leg.  He’s stayed in the same spot all day, continually making pitiful […]

A little hello, a little more personal news, a lot more light. On Sunday, Billy and I were married at our home of seventeen years.  We had one guest:  Newt.  

On April 4th, Kansas City Missouri voters will get the opportunity to support three General Obligation Bond (GO Bond) initiatives at the polls. Question 1 is a $600 million bond that designates money for roads, bridges and sidewalks. In addition...

Like many of you, I follow many animal welfare groups and animal shelters on social media. Over the past couple of weeks, I was simply amazed at the number of shelters that sent out notifications of being closed for the...

Earlier this week, I posted a photo of our KC Pet Project staff celebrating success after a mega-adoption event in which we adopted out 281 animals during a three-day weekend. The majority of people who saw the photo loved the...