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Dog Lady offers advice on adopting an older dog and choosing a trainer.

As the junior partner in an upscale New Orleans veterinary practice – where money was no object to clients seeking the best care for their pets – Amy Grayson found herself after Hurricane Katrina working at a low-funded outpatient animal clinic. Her plans to retire from a lucrative practice had been washed away with 10 feet of water that destroyed her senior partner’s business and prompted him to shut down, taking early retirement and leaving her without a job.

Sam, Roxie and Bella belong to Stephanie Branson and Amy White of Shawnee. They protect the yard from all birds and squirrels and love to spend the hot summer afternoons in their kiddie wading pool.

Having a reptile as a pet is quite different from owning a dog or a cat, since feeding is relatively simple in the canine and feline world. After adopting your first snake, lizard, or other reptilian pet, there is typically a controversy over what the correct method of feeding is for the animal.

Dog Lady offers advice on talking too much about your dog on dates; and how to give a dog a job.

Danielle Ciccotti needed someone she could lean on. For years, she walked the halls of her elementary and middle school leaning on Walker, a homeless dog trained as a service dog. Then Walker grew old and died. Danielle, 15, went from walking alongside her classmates to sitting in a scooter, feeling isolated and grief-stricken.

Dog Lady answers questions about Jon and Kate's German shepherds, and whether dirty dogs carry health risks.

Just about everybody who owns a dog thinks his or her dog is smart. I've never really felt that way about any of the dogs I have had. They were lovable, cute, loyal, cuddly and great company, but I never thought of them as that smart. I used to tell people that I never met a dog that could beat me at chess.

Oct. 26 marked the end of an era on the Internet. Yahoo GeoCities shut down after 15 years of free — or inexpensive — Web hosting for people who wanted to publish their own Web pages. In the early years, personal Web pages on all sorts of subjects appeared by the hundreds of thousands. Among them were mine.

Dog Lady offers advice on dealing with naysayers, and the risk of irresponsible pet owners.

Barely five minutes after we flushed our dead goldfish down the toilet, the kids were bucking for a replacement.

Dog Lady offers advice on reviving your relationship with your dog, walking your "inner dog," and speaking a dog's language.

When Mary Lou Thall and her husband, Bob, bring miniature horses Toot and Bucky to nursing homes, they’re not just horsing around. Toot and Bucky have a job to do: They’re therapy horses.

A Tecumseh man with the Tri-County Humane Society is caring for and feeding 153 dogs after the operator of an alleged puppy mill signed them over to him after experiencing difficulty taking care of them.
Now he’s looking for a few good homes — and needs lots of dog food.

Bruce Indek isn’t just an average chiropractor. In addition to humans, he works on horses and dogs.

Dog Lady offers advice on stinky dogs and dog-walk etiquette.

The call came over the police scanner. The dispatch officer relayed the info to an officer on patrol. A woman had been walking her collie in a local park when the dog slipped the leash. The woman said a man driving an SUV then picked the dog up and drove away with it.

Dog Lady offers advice on dog custody and a boyfriend's other "lady," his dog.