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 ]

'Harvesting' the Animal Crops
       It's buck season, and once again I'm surrounded by orange-hatted hunters and the constant reverberations of bullets. [ more ]

Murder in an Alaskan Forest
No one—at least no human—knows his name, or even if he had a name.

We don’t know where or when he was born. We know nothing about his life.

But we know a lot about his death. A politician/trapper from northeast Pennsylvania went to Alaska and killed him. We know this because the local newspaper opened almost a full page to tell us about the glorious hunt.. [ more ]

Squabbling Over the Pigeon Bill: Pennsylvania Legislature Won’t Be Able to Soar Like Eagles Until It
Shoots Down Animal Cruelty
Dave Comroe stepped to the firing line, raised his 12-gauge Browning over and under shotgun, aimed and fired. Before him, a pigeon fell, moments after being released from a box less than 20 yards away. About 25 times that day Comroe fired, hitting about three-fourths of the birds. He was 16 at the time.. [ 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 ]