The Big Cat Fight
An early profile of Carole Baskin, proprietor of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa.
Great articles, every Saturday.
An early profile of Carole Baskin, proprietor of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa.
Leonora LaPeter Anton Tampa Bay Times Nov 2007 15min Permalink
What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create.
Miranda Collinge Esquire UK Jul 2019 25min Permalink
At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous.
David Ewing Duncan Vanity Fair Aug 2018 20min Permalink
Wags Lending and the brave new world of of financing in “niches where we’re dealing with emotional borrowers.”
Patrick Clark Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 15min Permalink
How the veterinary industry went corporate.
Jason Clenfield Businessweek Jan 2017 15min Permalink
The death of a pet leads to unique, unsettling mental strains.
"She needed to take a seat. Altogether too much for a morning already, and it was only seven. She collapsed backwards onto the couch and the thing jumped into the lap of her nightgown, settling into the space there, the way Caleb had done as a puppy. She touched it tentatively, and the thing seemed to shiver pleasantly under her hand."
Caitlin McGuire zone 3 Nov 2014 Permalink
An aging man, a dead wife, a peculiar dog.
Once more at five o'clock, just before five o'clock, the dog engaged in its unaccountable behavior. And then, the next day, again. And the day after that, again. And still he had gotten not an inch closer to understanding why. Would he ever? Perhaps a sound so high-pitched he couldn't hear it. Something shifting in the clock maybe as it prepared to chime the hour. Or the dog was somehow seeing something that wasn't actually there. Or maybe he was simply watching the dog go mad.
Brian Evenson The Collagist Aug 2013 15min Permalink
Children in Mississippi prepare for a hurricane's arrival in this excerpt from 2011's National Book Award winning-novel.
"If one of Daddy's drinking buddies had asked what he's doing tonight, he would've told them he's fixing up for the hurricane. It's summer, and when it's summer, there's always a hurricane coming or leaving here. Each pushes its way through the flat Gulf to the twenty-six-mile manmade Mississippi beach, where they knock against the old summer mansions with their slave galleys turned guest houses before running over the bayou, through the pines, to lose wind, drip rain, and die in the north. Most don't even hit us head-on anymore; most turn right to Florida or take a left for Texas, brush past and glance off us like a shirtsleeve. We ain't had one come straight for us in years, time enough to forget how many jugs of water we need to fill, how many cans of sardines and potted meat we should stock, how many tubs of water we need."
Jesmyn Ward NPR Books 10min Permalink
The night when Terry Thompson let his zoo-worthy collection of big animals, including lions and a bear, into the wilds of Zanesville, Ohio before shooting himself in the head.
Chris Jones Esquire Mar 2012 40min Permalink
On animal cremation and burial in New York:
Riding around Manhattan on a delivery run with a car full of pet cremains, it's hard not to look at the world differently. The omnipresence of pets becomes glaringly obvious, and their inevitable fate is never far from the mind. It's easy to imagine the whippet being jaywalked across Eighth Avenue getting hit by a car. The cocker spaniel on 23rd Street? A bucket of cocker bones in the making.
Steven Thrasher Village Voice Nov 2009 15min Permalink