Tag: D.C.

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Wendy Diamond

Animals Help Heal Our Nation’s Veterans!

David Sharpe and his dog Cheyenne help our nations’ heroes.   In honor of Veterans Day!  For those of us who have pets, we understand how truly wonderful their companionship can be. For those who don’t, animals may appear as a messy liability. For Veterans, returning from duty with Post

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Vanity in Washington. By Peggy van Hulsteyn

Vanity is back! The purring protagonist of Diary of a Santa Fe Cat rears her purrty head again,this time in our nation’s fair capital. There she rubs elbows with democats, republicats, and even kings; braves the hazards of D.C. traffic; and curates the Famous Cats in History show at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. On a

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Wendy Diamond

Pets on Wheels — Triumphs & Travails of Traveling With Your Pet

  Travel with pets is either rewarding or risky business. Consider Mike Bell. Last June, the quality assurance manager for Network Associates in Santa Clara, boarded United Airlines for his direct flight home to California from Washington, D.C.  While Bell’s boarding pass was coded, correctly, for San Jose, his dog’s

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