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Doggie Doors

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A photo essay. To view all 11 images, check out the email edition.

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Wild for Life

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A day at a normal veterinarian’s office is filled with a procession of household pets—cats and dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, perhaps a ferret or even a bearded dragon. At Branford Veterinary Hospital, patients also include raccoons, woodchucks, squirrels and any …

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Dogs’ Day

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Most of us who have welcomed a dog into our families, ideally via adoption, aren’t much concerned about the purity of their genetics. And yet, every non-pandemic February around America’s break rooms and water coolers, attention turns…

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Holding Horses

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Mary Santagata is a woman who, to paraphrase George Bernard Shaw by way of Robert Kennedy, dreams of things that never were and says, “Why not?” In 2010, Santagata opened All the King’s Horses Equine Rescue in Northford, a sort …

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Family Matters

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The rescue cat’s name was Arthur…

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Cats and Dogs (Part 2)

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When Gina Mackinnon, sole proprietor and employee of the New Haven Pet Sitting Company, visits with…

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Cats and Dogs (Pt. 1)

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Gina Mackinnon’s smallest client so far was a betta fish with one eye. …

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Spreading the Mews

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New Haven, meet Mew Haven. …

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Creatures’ Comfort

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What could be cuter than a pile of puppies? Just two weeks old, this litter of eight—mostly black with little brown snouts and paws—are trying to sleep. …

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Manners’ Best Friend

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A few weekends ago, Bo, Cleo and Ralph went on an adventure. …

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