From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012: “Cat ladies” of greater Vancouver still wary despite hard-won gains VANCOUVER, B.C.–”The worst thing anyone can call me is a cat lady,” Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association founder Karen Duncan once famously told longtime Global TV program host Dave Gerry. Then she laughed. Cat rescuers throughout the greater Vancouver [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012: Goodbye, Friend by Gary Kowalski New World Library (14 Pameron Way, Novato, CA 94949), 2012. 176 pages, paperback. $14.00. Goodbye, Friend enters a crowded market of books written to guide human survivors through grief after the loss of a beloved pet. Unitarian Universalist minister Gary Kowalski came to write [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2012: The puppy that came for Christmasby Megan RixPlume Books (c/o Penguin USA, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014), 2011. 246 pages, paperback. $14.95. ___________ The title of The puppy that came for Christmas is both misleading and ungrammatical, implying that the puppy is an inanimate object. The book is [...]