L.A. is known for its busy highways and traffic jams. Everyone has a car. But if it wasn’t for the traffic, perhaps Sherri Stankewitz wouldn’t have gotten off at an earlier exit in frustration, and stumbled upon a growing problem in South Central LA. Just one hundred feet from the highway roamed hundreds of […]
Wacky Animal Laws: Keeping Yourself Out Of the Doghouse
Imagine endeavoring to prevent a dog from barking, let alone a cat from meowing – sounds like an impossible task, as any pet parent will testify. But these are just two of the many strange and wacky pieces of legislation that were written and sanctioned long ago, before humans recognized the injustice of their ways, or rather, […]
Pop Pet Artist Guillermo Borrajo Brings Woof Art to Life!
In 2004, Guillermo Borrajo founded Woof Art to celebrate the unique relationship between pets and people. As an animal lover, he understood that pet owners desired the very best for their four-legged friends. So his pet portraits came to portray an inner world where animals and humans coexist at the same level of harmony, love, and […]
The Paw Project – We Must Spread The Word: Declawing Is Inhumane!
In the United States, around 25 percent of domesticated cats are declawed. Declawing is considered mutilation in many countries, because it basically consists in amputation the last joint of the cat’s paw, along with the claw. Consider how this might feel on your own hands: having the nub of each of your fingers cut off […]
Spayed Mutt Seeks Same: Dog Personal Ads
If you thought there was nothing worse than being a single person looking for love in the dating scene, then think again…you could be a single dog! In the new book, “Fixed Mix Seeks Same: The First Book of Dog Personal Ads,” Christine Ecklund and Dean Minerd provide their readers with a unique […]
Contributor’s BIOS
ROBIN SCHWARTZ Photographer Robin Schwartz’s photos have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Interview, People, and Entertainment Weekly, and have been featured in over 30 books. She is a professor at William Paterson University in New Jersey. Schwartz’s daughter Amelia is the subject of her photography in a soon to be published book by Aperture, Amelia’s World, as part of […]