Ruff and Rescue: The Value of a Secondhand Pup

Ingrid Mera

May 7, 2019

A man's best friend, a phrase created to embody the bond between an individual and a dog. “I chose to adopt because most shelter dogs come from a bad past and I wanted to give one a better life,” says Leslie Flores, a twenty-year-old accompanied by her 5-year-old pitbull. The SPCA is one of...

SpeCATular!

June 3, 2013

By Nicole Ellis Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr. The Walker Art Center, a contemporary art center in Minneapolis, hosted last year’s Internet Cat Video Festival and Oakland had the honor of hosting it this year. Oakland seems like a gr...