Pet Health

Dear Porky & Buddy, I just adopted a new cat, Cleo, from the Humane Society. When I went to pick her up at her foster home, she was lounging on the kitchen counter, and I […]

Dear Porky & Buddy, My neighbor has a Husky mix, Roscoe, who stays outside most of the time. His “house,” if you could call it that, is a tacky ramshackle box with plywood walls and […]

Dear friends, It’s time for our annual “Quit Picking on Poinsettias” column. The bottom line, in spite of what some websites and “experts” claim, they are not poisonous to humans or to pets. In the […]

Dear Readers, Full disclosure here. It’s a cat eat rat world. But that doesn’t mean that rats aren’t interesting creatures—both delicious and interesting. We were listening to NPR this morning. (Yes we were pretending to […]

Dear Porky and Buddy, I have been reading about the statistics on the numbers of cats and dogs that have to be euthanized every year because there is no room for them in shelters and […]

Dear Porky & Buddy, Help! I want to get a puppy for my kids for Christmas and I really want a purebred so I will know just what I am getting. So I tried to […]

Dear Porky and Buddy, My dog Butch is driving me crazy. He barks and barks all night long. He has a nice house to sleep in and I keep him tied there at night so […]

Dear Porky and Buddy, Winter is coming and I’d like to know whether there are some things I should watch out for to keep my pets safe? Cheryl Dear Cheryl, Brrr! We are strictly couch potato […]

Dear Readers, OK, we don’t care what your politics are. Really, we don’t. But this is important. One of the problems with the federal Animal Welfare Act, is that the USDA’s regulations to implement the […]

Dear Buddy: Whenever I come home, my puppy, Lola, pees. I thought she was housetrained, as she does ask to go out, but then she’ll squat and pee right in front of me. I have […]