Special Issues & Guides

It is often said that the bond between a human and dog is unlike any other. Khasidy Lefthand, or Khas, as she prefers, is a freshman at Crook County High School. She has experienced this bond firsthand and has taken it to the next level with her canine friends. Lefthand has been in 4-H for […]

It was a sunny day in June 2023 when Sushi, an eight-year old-smoky calico, was brought into Feline Fine Cat Clinic in south Bend. Sushi had been aggressively biting her own tail, which veterinarians recognized as a sign of dental disease. After several appointments with the clinic, Sushi’s owners decided they preferred euthanization as they […]

After more than a decade of hands-on reptile breeding and care, owner of High Desert Geckos, Samantha Weist, has turned a childhood passion into a thriving small business. What began as a hobby breeding crested geckos has evolved into a downtown Redmond storefront teeming with snakes, arachnids, lizards and more. In a field largely dominated […]

Donna Costley says that back when she decided to start a bird rescue operation in 2012, she didn’t even like birds. “I hated birds. My mom had parakeets,” Costley recalls. However, one of her sons, Jon, got into birds first and brought his mother along, under his wing, so to speak. And since then, Second […]