Sally Cragin

DEAR PET TALK READERS: This is the last column for 2024, and I want to thank you all for your excellent questions. If I didn't answer your question (“do cats' coats affect their temperament? Because all orange cats are crazy!”) it will absolutely be in the queue for 2025.

Prince doesn't expect the royal treatment — just a spoonful of peanut butter will get his attention! This two-year-old pittie-mix is currently at Manchester (NH) Animal Shelter and volunteers report he is a “50-pound bundle of affection who adores throwing himself into your arms, soaking up every bit of love he can get.” He's got […]

Happy New Year! What's on your table? If your family heritage is German, the traditional feast is pork roast, sauerkraut and potatoes — delicious, but very beige. If you're Persian, did you exchange eggs with anyone? If you're from Scotland, did you sing “Auld Lang Syne” last night, and “drink a cup”

DEAR PET TALK READERS: We are beginning the year with the most common questions about taking care of dogs. Thank you for all your questions last year and we welcome more!

DEAR PET TALK READERS: We are beginning the year with the most common questions about taking care of dogs. Thank you for all your questions last year and we welcome more!

Small is beautiful — when it comes to playful smaller breeds. Anyla is a yorkie terrier mix (light colored, 1 year) who is completely bonded with her “sister” Naomie (Shih-tzu, 6 years). These tiny pups are loving and in good health. According to volunteers at Second Chance Animal Services, “they are incredibly sweet and love to spend their time chasing each other around, always finding new ways t ...

None of us will ever come close to what 18th century genius Samuel Johnson achieved in his lifetime: poems, plays, polemics, founding and filling pages of one of London’s first newspapers, annotati…

Say hello to Gretchen, an elegant tabby cat with a white bib and a hankering to play. She also has gorgeous brown stripes, and a triangle-shaped “cream” patch to the right of her pink nose. Current…

DEAR PET TALK: Isn’t it true that a cat’s personality depends on their color? Because orange cats can be really naughty. —Abraham DEAR ABRAHAM: I have been having this debate with famil…

As we prepare to celebrate the birth of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on January 20, we should remember a line from the speech he gave when he won the Nobel Prize in 1964: “I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education […]