Featuring notable stories from Paul Solotaroff, Maddie Oatman, Gabriel Smith, Meg Bernhard, and Alexandra Horowitz.
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A Rescue Dog Saved Him From Addiction
“I’ll give her the best four months possible.”
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The Free Dogs of India
“These canines have independent, peaceful, happy lives without a pet’s constraints. Why are they being persecuted and culled?”
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Gone to the Dogs
“Man’s best friend is a shorebird’s worst enemy. What will it take to control beach dogs—and, more importantly, their owners?”
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Ugly Cats and the Loneliness of Man
“‘Pethood’ is a specific lens, one that reveals more about us than it does about the inner lives of the animals we have domesticated.”
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Lucky’s Last Run
“One dog and two complete strangers set out to run across America.”
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How America Saved Millions of Dogs—By Moving Them
“It is a good time to be an American dog. In the 1970s, as many as 20 million dogs and cats were euthanized each year. That number has declined precipitously. The ASPCA now estimates 390,000 dogs and 530,000 cats are euthanized each year, down from 2.6 million as recently as 2011.”
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A Dog’s Inner Life: What a Robot Pet Taught Me About Consciousness
“The creators of the Aibo robot dog say it has ‘real emotions and instinct’. This may seem over the top, but is it? In today’s AI universe, all the eternal questions have become engineering problems.”
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The Cats and Dogs Who Eat Cats and Dogs
“Pets, like humans, don’t expect the call of the wild to arrive in their faces.”