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Boomers' love of pets could change as both age

Aging America Boomers And Pets

The loving link between baby boomers and their pets is well documented. But will the beautiful relationship last? Pet ownership rates tend to drop among people in their golden years.

Breeder struggled with size of kennel over the years

Long before scores of starving huskies were found at his home this week, Montana Creek dog breeder Frank J. Rich struggled with the size of his kennel. Dogs died that time too.

Scores of near-starved dogs jam Valley shelter

STEVE DALE: MY PET WORLD

Feral Cats Deserve More Than a Bullet in the Head!

What do you think of the story about allowing the shooting of feral cats in New Jersey? We're torn, having a problem with some cats spraying in the garden and yowling some nights and waking us.

STEVE DALE: MY PET WORLD

There's a good reason we're 'stupid in love' with pets

Just look at a puppy or kitten and you probably feel good. There's a biological reason behind that, according to certified applied animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell.

COMIC STRIP

Tundra: May

Flip through daily issues of "Tundra," Alaska's famous locally-drawn strip from Chad Carpenter.

POST A PIC

RSVP: May

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in May, 2012.

SECTION

Gardening

It's that time of year to dig in the dirt. Find gardening columnists, photo galleries and events in this section.

PHOTOS

Barrow whale rescue 1988

Archive photos of the rescue of 3 California gray whales from the ice in Barrow.

PHOTOS

Best of 2011

Flip through galleries featuring the Daily News' picks for best images from 2011.

PHOTOS

Anchorage New Year

Anchorage was busy Saturday night, Dec. 31, celebrating the new year.

READER PICS

Best of 2011

From more than 4,000 reader photos posted to adn.com in 2011, we picked 100 of our favorites.

PHOTOS

Steam Engine #557

Alaska Railroad steam locomotive, Engine #557,arrived in Anchorage on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. The locomotive first came to Alaska in Dec. 1944 and was sold to a private museum in Moses Lake, Wash. in 1964. The Alaska Railroad hopes to restore it for excursions.

PHOTOS

Santa and reindeers

The Reindeer Farm hosted a holiday celebration on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2011, in Butte.

PHOTOS

Cirque de Hanukkah

The Alaska Jewish Historical Museum & Cultural Center's annual Hanukkah celebration at the Egan Center on Tuesday, December 20, 2011. The event featured the "African Acrobats" in their performance of "The Macrobats" a play on words referencing the Maccabees, the historic heroes of Hanukkah.



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