Posted in Behavior & Training

My little one, who is nearly four, has a strong love for animals and it is something rather remarkable to watch. Whenever he is around animals, he will lower his voice and speak to them in a little sing-song voice, then shower them with the softest of pats and the swirl of squiggly fingers. When my son was just shy of 2.5 years, my cat died of … read more

Posted in Current Events

In the news business, we often sit back and watch the course of events unfold and consider through our reporting what implications it might have. It’s never a public declaration of opinion to sway the end results, or at least it shouldn’t, but the prospect of what today could mean has me sitting in the stands cheering raucously rather than sitt… read more

Posted in Current Events

Holy smokes! Did this story start a wildfire of discussions! As of this evening, after just 6 days of being posted, this story blasted to more than 1600 comments! (Incidentally, surpassing by 1000 comments the previous week's No. 1 story by comments of "Marine Throws Puppy Down Iraq Hillside") While I was working on this story, I was wondering t… read more

Posted in Current Events

This story was taken straight from the pages of an ancient Greek tragedy. It was a case of a family who did everything possible to keep the what-ifs from happening, and yet it all still happened, despite their efforts. It highlights the fact that sometimes in life, despite what we do and no matter how right we are, thing don't always turn out i… read more

Posted in Current Events

For most of us here at Pet Pulse it has been a long week. But for me, today ended on a high of landing a fantastic interview with 1st Lt. Binford Strickland based in Hawaii. So tomorrow I will be working feverishly on bringing all Zootoo users, and our first-time visitors some insight and greater context to this ongoing story and its subsequent inv… read more