So you think you might want to be a vet—but what is it really like? We asked some local vets for stories from their offices to give you the inside scoop. Dr. Beth Hraban—New Hope Animal Hospital While most of my day is spent with dogs and cats, I do see the occasional … [Read more...]
Lions, Tigers, and Lemurs, Oh My!
Let's say you love animals. Let's say you want to work with them when you get older. Does that mean you need to be a vet? What if you want to work with exotic animals—does that mean you have to move to another country? Nope! See what other options are out there in this video … [Read more...]
Pointless Debate: Cats or Dogs?
At our summer programs, participants often take part in a little activity we like to call Pointless Debates. The stakes aren't high, and the topics are sometimes rather whimsical, but the joy of good-natured debate is very real. Now it's time to bring those debates to the digital … [Read more...]
Sit, Stay, Save a Life?
We love dogs. They’re loyal, innocent (mostly), hilarious at times, and they do stuff like this: They seem, almost mysteriously, drawn to humans more than most other animals with whom we interact. On a linear scale, dogs fall somewhere between the extremes of gnats, flies, … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: Call of the Wild and White Fang
There's a basic fact about human beings that we often forget: we're animals. It's easy to read about and study the animal world as if it's something totally separate from ourselves, but the fact of the matter is that we live in the same world, share a lot of the same DNA, and … [Read more...]