If you live in the United States east of the Rockies, and your horse show signs of dizziness, ataxia, or confusion, you should alert your veterinarian to the possibility of EPM: Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis. Though I’ve owned or looked after horses for over 30 years, I had never heard of this disease until earlier this week, when a report came from western Kentucky that a horse there
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Simon on the fence. For most of my life, I’ve been a cat magnet. I haven’t had to look for cats. They’ve come to me. They’ve walked up to the doors of successive student apartments and refused to leave. They’ve followed me into elevators at my office building. They’ve been left behind at houses I’ve moved into. I’ve loved
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I’ll never forget the frogs in my shoes, that first spring we lived here. I discovered the first one when I slid my feet into some old gardening clogs I kept in the garage. I nearly levitated. The frogs kept appearing. Baffling. Then, one day, I saw the black cat bring his gift from a nearby pond, and place it carefully in the shoe.
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