A Woman and Her Dogs
        Every morning about 7, Gloria DiMicco lights the logs in her fireplace, inside an 800-square foot two-story A-frame chalet on 1.6 acres of rugged woodland near Newfoundland, Pa. She likes the warmth of the fireplace, but that isn't why she makes it one of her first morning duties. [ more ]

Canned Hunts: Sports Afoul

      Ralph A. Saggiomo is an affable sort of fellow, one you probably wouldn’t mind having a couple of beers with, swap a few tales, and discuss just about anything. He grew up in one of the most rural, most remote parts of the country, and considers himself to have the same values as the Colonials who lived in Pennsylvania more than two centuries earlier. But, he’s also lived in urban America. He was a Philadelphia firefighter for 33 years, the last few in command positions. [ more ]

Government-Approved Slaughter
        Almost every day, a dozen or so wild burros come down from the foothills of the Black Mountains of northwestern Arizona onto the main street of Oatman, a revitalized high desert mining town about 15 miles from where California, Nevada, and Arizona meet. [ more ]

The Painful Cost of 'Breed Standards'
        In one cage at the pet store was a three-month old Welsh Corgi, nine pounds of energy and a tail that looked as if it belonged on a floppy-eared rabbit. [ more ]