Jill Rosen is a reporter at
The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...
Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named
Leo Sesame and
Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named
Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.
Comments
Don't like the idea of giving animals away for FREE, at all, but commented on that today in the other article on Mutts.
Two words: Barry Herbeck. Google it. He's certainly not the only one.
It's common for shelters not to adopt cats out within a certain amount of time prior to/around Halloween because of some people's strange beliefs about them. I had two black cats at different times in my life, entirely by coincidence, one from a co-worker who had an expanding family and no longer had room for all their animals and the other from a shelter. They were sweethearts, but that's no surprise.
I read about the black dog syndrome a year or two ago, too. They're also more likely to be the last ones to get homes, especially if they're big black dogs.
The video "A Rat, A Cat, and a Dog" was adoreable! He's right. Animals can get along, why can't people.
Posted by: Linda | June 3, 2008 9:19 PM