Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) had a pointed reaction to the news of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s purported plan to retire at the end of President Joe Biden’s term: not soon enough. In a wide-ranging…
Washington — April, the great poet T. S. Eliot has tried to tell us, is the cruelest month of the year, and yet we continue to go out without our raincoats. Many pedestrians even forget their windbreakers. What about the…
Saturday It’s amazingly windy here in Beverly Hills. A dry wind, a mighty Santa Ana. Scary, and I am already in shock from the death of my dear friend, Sally Burton. Let me tell you about Sally. I met her…
I love a good dog, and since lots of dogs are good, I was not surprised by reports that the pandemic inspired an uptick in adoptions and that buyer remorse so far has been minimal. COVID-19 has been a boon…
A nexus can be formed among seemingly unrelated things during unusual times. Such is the case with dogs, COVID-19, mental health, politicians, and China’s history of peddling toxic products. Americans of all ages have experienced a harmful lack of social…
“If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog,” Harry Truman is often credited as saying. Besides being friends, dogs also make for excellent scapegoats, especially if you happen to be a frail, 78-year-old president-elect who takes a solo…
We are a nation of dog lovers. America houses 78 million canines, almost half of all households have a dog. As the companion of an insanely energetic, loving Vizsla named Charlie I’m partial to them, so to me this love…
