Authors and Interviews

"Old Faithful": Celebrating Grey Muzzles in Photographs

Older dogs, with their greying fur and sagging jowls, have a special beauty. This beauty is wonderfully captured in a series of portraits by Toronto-based photographer Pete Thorne. On October 27th, photos from this collection will be published in a new book, entitled Old Faithful: Dogs of a Certain Age from HarperCollins Publishers. We are...

Susie-Belle: Her Life Began the Day She Left the Puppy Mill by Janetta Harvey

Janetta Harvey, author of Saving Susie-Belle and Saving One More, is a writer and commentator on the international puppy breeding industry. Susie-Belle, her now 11-year-old Schnauzer, was rescued and adopted four years ago after having spent most her life in a dog breeding facility. When Susie-Belle joined our family in August 2011, she could have...

A Match Made in Heaven by Laura Coffey and Lori Fusaro

This story is an excerpt from the new book My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts by Laura Coffey with photos by Lori Fusaro. My Old Dog offers a collection of stories about senior shelter pets finding love - and sometimes fame. This excerpt is reprinted with permission from New World Library. It’s...

Breath to Breath by Carrie Maloney

This post in our "Author Series" comes from Carrie Maloney whose novel Breath to Breath is about a veterinarian in a small Wisconsin town and the various creatures in her life—some human, some not. Carrie tells us about how she came to write the novel and shares an excerpt.A zillion years ago, when I first...