White linens lined the tables, and Barbra Streisand's voice filled the air. The banquet hall oozed with love. We paid our respects to the bright-eyed newlyweds and took our seats. And that's when I first saw him. The glass vase, the centerpiece of it all, confined not flowers, but fins. There he swam, in endless circles, … Continue reading When the Wedding Favors Have Fins
This blog was originally posted on One Green Planet. One thing’s quite obvious when you look at a picture of Bear the Pit Bull: He can’t see — at least, not through his eyes. At just one year of age, Bear was hit by a car and wound up at an emergency vet with severe injuries … Continue reading One Green Planet: This Dog May Have Lost His Eyes, but His Heart Just Keeps on Growing
(Story by Laura Lee Cascada / Photographs by Steve Byun, @chinnybuddy) This ball of fluff is Mr. Bagel. Despite how it looks, he's not a gargantuan field mouse from some alternate universe of adorable creatures with big eyes and even bigger ears. He's a chinchilla from regular old planet Earth. But before you run out … Continue reading This Little Furball Is on a Big Mission
(By Laura Lee Cascada / Photographs by Annie Blumenfeld) Meet Teddy. Four years ago, he bounded into Connecticut teen Annie Blumenfeld's life and changed it forever. Now, in 2016, Teddy spends his days watching chickens and roosters peck around the neighborhood, eagerly awaiting his next adventure with each walk and car ride. He lives a … Continue reading This Shaggy Dog Beat Heartworms–Now the Art He Inspired Is Saving Others Like Him
It was 7 p.m. on a Thursday night in late winter. Instead of catching the tail end of happy hour with friends after a long day of editing scientific manuscripts, I was hunched over the kitchen floor with a soiled rag in one hand while the other groped around inside a tiny mouth seeking the … Continue reading Poppyseed: The “Teacup” Toddler
It was late one evening in the spring of 2015 as a carload of us--my wife, Rachel, and I, along with two friends--were making the long trip back from Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park to my parents' home in the Ka'u District halfway around the Big Island. We'd just hit a straight stretch of road outside … Continue reading The Pup from Na’alehu
