Pets & Animals

No More!

Articles, Pets & Animals
Many animals suffered in the recent Victorian bushfires. Many died. Those left alive depended on human compassion for their survival. The fires had exhausted and traumatised them, and only our…

The post-iron horseman

Articles, Pets & Animals
Once you understand natural horsemanship, you wonder why it took so long to take hold. But according to its advocates, the objectification of horses began many centuries ago, when our…

No mere truffle

Articles, Pets & Animals
Aussie Truffle Dogs is Australia’s first registered truffle dog breeding and training business, formed to provide purebred, registered working dogs to fill the harvesting needs of the truffle industry. Georgie…

Violence: the Pet Connection

Articles, Pets & Animals
Teenage violence seems to be on the increase, and one of the hidden casualties is the household pet. When Jamiroquai first hit the pop music scene in 1992, the first…

The postmodern pet

Articles, Pets & Animals
Pet Lifestyle magazine, for which I was editor, chief contributor and bottle washer, demanded that I walk a fine line. Though the subject-matter often begged for satirical treatment, the magazine…