In war and rubble
Within days after Russia invaded Ukraine, animal welfare groups and veterinarians from around the world mobilized rescue and assistance efforts to help people and their pets fleeing from the war.
Read Moreby Colleen Dougherty, guest columnist | Mar 16, 2023 | Columns, Opinion, Paw It Forward | 0
Within days after Russia invaded Ukraine, animal welfare groups and veterinarians from around the world mobilized rescue and assistance efforts to help people and their pets fleeing from the war.
Read Moreby Colleen Dougherty, guest columnist | Feb 16, 2023 | Columns, Opinion | 0
Thirty chimps are still housed in the laboratory at Holloman AFB in Alamogordo, where they’ve lived and died for decades as test subjects. Ten chimps have died there since 2019, far sooner than their normal life expectancies.
Read Moreby Colleen Dougherty, guest columnist | Jan 19, 2023 | Columns, Opinion, Paw It Forward | 0
Starting with the “smallest beasts,” the FDA Modernization Act was signed into law by President Biden on Dec. 27. This law amends a law originally passed in 1938 that required drug companies to test new drugs on animals before testing them on humans.
Read Moreby Colleen Dougherty, guest columnist | Nov 23, 2022 | Columns, Opinion | 0
understand why people need knives,” Christopher said. “Knives are useful for a lot of things, like cutting rope! But a gun is only good for killing something.”
Read Moreby Colleen Dougherty, guest columnist | Sep 15, 2022 | Columns, Opinion, Paw It Forward | 0
Paw it Forward Someone asked me the other day how he could go about getting an emotional...
Read Moreby Colleen Dougherty, guest columnist | Aug 18, 2022 | Columns, Opinion | 0
Paw it Forward In June 2021, I wrote a column titled “Babies in Pandora’s Box,” describing the...
Read Moreby Colleen Dougherty, guest columnist | Jun 16, 2022 | Columns, Opinion, Paw It Forward | 0
Paw it Forward “For decades, it was thought that only humans cared about the welfare of others,”...
Read Moreby Colleen Dougherty, guest columnist | May 26, 2022 | Columns, Opinion | 0
There is a story about a mechanical engineer who dies and goes to heaven. But when he arrives at...
Read Moreby Colleen Dougherty, guest columnist | Mar 17, 2022 | Opinion, Paw It Forward | 0
I was just leaving work on the last Monday of February when a flash of brilliant yellow caught my...
Read Moreby Colleen Dougherty, guest columnist | Feb 17, 2022 | Columns, Opinion, Paw It Forward | 0
We can’t turn on the television or radio these days without hearing about the COVID vaccine and...
Read Moreby Colleen Dougherty, guest columnist | Jan 20, 2022 | Columns, Opinion, Paw It Forward | 0
In the last five days of 2021, we lost two Americans whose lives and works encouraged people...
Read Moreby Colleen Dougherty, guest columnist | Nov 18, 2021 | Columns, Opinion, Paw It Forward | 0
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” so the saying goes. I guess we can all attest to...
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