Category Archives: Animals

A Trenton lawmaker is proposing a ban on foie gras, the cracker-meat that comes from, well, read for yourself, from the story in the Atlantic City Press: "To produce the delicacy, poultry farmers force-feed ducks or geese through metal tubes...

Disaster planners in New Jersey will have to come up with strategies for saving pets in an emergency under a law signed by Gov. Jon Corzine yesterday. The law was inspired by numerous reports of pet owners forced by circumstance...

Rumsonite/Colts Neckian Bruce Springsteen accompanied his 14-year-old daughter, Jessica, to a horse-jumping competition in Saugerties, N.Y., recently. She did well. Even won $780. Dad had dinner three nights in a row at the same restaurant in nearby Kingston, at least...

Psychologists call it the “hedonic treadmill,” the seemingly never-ending pursuit of goals and possessions that we think will make us truly and enduringly happy, if only we could attain them. Having been bombarded all their lives with the messages that...

Freelance illustrator and painter Wendy Born Hollander reached a career breaking point about six years ago, thanks to a little yellow cartoon bird with a speech impediment that all the world just loves to love. At the time, she’d been...