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We hadn’t been a family very long, just a few months. When Serena and I married, I had moved from “my house”, that I still owned, to “Serena’s house”, that she owned. I moved in to “her house” where she and “her kids” lived. I brought “my cats” and they already had...

His name was Smoke, but I often called him Smokerboy.  I didn’t want a cat, in fact I was pretty annoyed when my wife brought him home that October evening in 1983. I only liked dogs, I said, and big dogs at that. I held this tiny 6 week old kitten in my hands for the...

In the United States, millions of animals find themselves in shelters every year. In fact, approximately six to eight million cats and dogs enter these facilities annually. Sadly, not all of them find loving homes. While adoption rates have improved in recent years,...