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- Deputies arrest women after dead cat, sick pets found in Safety Harbor - St. Petersburg Times
- Poll: A third of pet-owning married women say pets ... - San Jose Mercury News
- A hospice service for pets thrives in Florida - Palm Beach Interactive
| Deputies arrest women after dead cat, sick pets found in Safety Harbor - St. Petersburg Times Posted: 30 Apr 2010 02:20 PM PDT | By Katie Sanders, Times Staff Writer SAFETY HARBOR — Deputies on Thursday night arrested two women who live at a home where authorities found several abandoned and malnourished animals. Deputies arrested Yanita Baranovsky, 25, and Monica Marie Auten, 23, on charges of animal cruelty. Deputies say the women are related and live at the home, 1145 Withlacoochee St. Baranovsky, who was also arrested on an unrelated Hillsborough County theft warrant, was being held at the Pinellas County jail Friday morning in lieu of $10,500 bail. Auten's bail was set at $10,000. The women told deputies Thursday that they had last been at the house on Tuesday, said Cecilia Barreda, a Sheriff's Office spokeswoman. The women told the deputies they were "shocked about the condition of the animals," Barreda said. Baranovsky and Auten were arrested after neighbors called the Sheriff's Office about 7 p.m. Thursday and said the women had returned to the flea-infested home, deputies said. Deputies had investigated the home earlier Thursday after neighbors reported that the women had not been home for several days. Deputies saw an emaciated English bulldog and a potbellied pig in the back yard. Inside the home, deputies found a dead cat and malnourished animals in cages, including two beagles, a pug, a parrot and two rabbits. The cat looked as if it had been dead for days, according to an arrest affidavit. The investigation is continuing. [Last modified: Apr 30, 2010 08:56 PM] Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | ||
| Poll: A third of pet-owning married women say pets ... - San Jose Mercury News Posted: 01 May 2010 12:00 AM PDT [fivefilters.org: unable to retrieve full-text content] ... are better listeners than their husbands, according to an Associated Press-Petside.com poll ... whether Bill Rothschild would take a problem to his wife of 19 years or the animal he considers a pet — a palm-sized crayfish named Cray Aiken. | |||
| A hospice service for pets thrives in Florida - Palm Beach Interactive Posted: 01 May 2010 06:41 AM PDT By ALEXANDRA ZAYAS The Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — An hour before, Dr. Dani McVety begins to prepare. "Come on, girls," she calls to her two rat terriers, "in the crate. "You too, Foose." A big, brown mutt settles into the third cage in McVety's Lutz home as she shuts the door and heads out to the garage. She pulls a green scrub shirt over her head, opens her trunk and unlocks a black box to reveal liquid-filled bottles. She inserts a syringe in one and slowly extracts a pink fluid, the last she'll use today. It's part of a list of things she does before she gets to someone's home, things she doesn't want them to see. She also fills out their authorization form in advance, because she has seen how hard it is to write with shaking hands. As a rule, she never arrives early. So she heads to Starbucks first and orders a dark cherry mocha — decaf, because she and her husband just found out she's pregnant for the second time. In many ways, the 28-year-old veterinarian is just starting her life. Yet on this morning, the career path she has chosen takes her to a Land O'Lakes home. To end one. McVety is a hospice veterinarian, part of a growing movement to revolutionize the way animals die. It's modeled after human hospice, focusing on pain and grief management and creating a comforting scenario for families and pets when the end comes. Some veterinarians have been doing these things for the past few decades, but hospice care is only now becoming a recognized field in veterinary medicine. It's no surprise. Pets have evolved into family members, and better medicine means they're living longer with serious illnesses. Meanwhile, more and more people have had good experiences with human hospice. The demand is high. McVety performs five in-home euthanasias a week. In one day this week, she had four. When she graduated from the University of Florida's vet school last year, she never imagined this would become her job. She grew up with horses in Odessa, wanting to become an equine veterinarian, but shifted to a different kind of pet care because she preferred the connection she felt with owners of dogs and cats. She knew losing animals came with saving them, but she dreaded her first death. She was at the Tampa Bay Veterinary Emergency Service on Bearss Avenue when she realized she had a talent for dealing with people in pain. A woman came in at 8 p.m. with a cat that had only hours left. The woman insisted her cat could not die that day, the one-year anniversary of her last cat's death. She said she didn't know how she could drive home, but told McVety she wanted to leave the cat there, and asked the doctor to call when her pet was dead. McVety told her she needed to stay. Her cat needed her. At 12:01 a.m., they put the cat to sleep. And the woman, who had the time she needed to say goodbye, was able to drive home. All she needed was for it to happen on her terms. The doctor saw herself in the grieving pet owners who walked into the clinic night after night. She was a year or two into college when her childhood dog, Dusty, developed such severe arthritis she couldn't stand. The family had to pick up the 80-pound Doberman, put her in the car and unload her at the clinic. McVety already had enough medical knowledge to know how much pain that caused Dusty. She remembers walking into the waiting room and having to pass a bouncing puppy. Seeing the doctor for two or three minutes. Wishing she could hold her dog, but not being able to because of where the IV was placed. Wanting to rip the tube out of her dog's leg once it was over. In August, she started a hospice practice. She settled on a name after watching a chihuahua die curled up in a woman's lap. She called it Lap of Love. McVety runs her hand through the thick white fur of a German shepherd sprawled by the sliding glass door of a lakefront Pasco County home. "He's gorgeous," McVety says. His name is Rudy. He is 14 years old. He has arthritis, bad hips and tumors throughout his body. His hearing and sight have faded and he can't stand up or hold his bladder. His family — Judy Turner, her husband and their 14-year-old son, Jacob — scheduled this visit weeks ago to fall on spring break. They feel like they've waited too long. They tell McVety about Rudy, the way he used to dip his paws in the swimming pool, as if he were soaking his nails. The way he used to squeeze out of the yard when they were gone, but return just before they got home. The way he wouldn't go into the house before each one of them was inside, safe. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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