Advice Buying the Right Pet Food: A Primer from Dr. S
The Toast's in-house veterinarian, Dr. S, offers a guide for hand-wringing owners who are standing in the pet food aisle, confused.
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Advice How to Kill a Wasp Indoors: A Guide for the Weak
Charlene Cheung provides some helpful counsel on how best to deal with a wasp in your house, apartment, or place of work.
Animals Animal Rescue Questionnaire: Are You Good Enough To Save This Dog?
A brief animal rescue questionnaire to see if you're ready to adopt a pet.
Animals Gal Science: Stalking Zombie Tree Swallows at Dawn
Natalia Piland, on the sometimes-solitary life of a field ecologist, which occasionally leads her to pretend she's stalking zombie tree swallows.
Animals My Violent, Foul-Mouthed, Misandrist Parrot: A Love Story
Katie Turner, on the vicious, yet beloved parrot she inherited from a hoarder.
Animals “It then began to eat the crocodile, surprising residents”
The only thing that even gets Australians 'a little surprised' is snake-on-crocodile violence.
Animals This Week In Illuminated Manuscripts
Illuminated manuscripts, rocket cats, and bringing the dead to life.
Animals Cat Bites: A Case Study in Stockholm Syndrome
A selection of comments in The New York Times by people who are sufficiently in thrall to their demon cats to believe that cat bites are your fault.
Animals Bird of the Month: The Raven
Hannah Rosefield's "Bird of the Month" series takes on the raven, Edgar Allan Poe's muse, and eater of blood-soaked bread chunks.
Advice A Veterinarian Would Like to Answer Your Questions!
Announcing an upcoming series of columns in which a veterinarian will answer all your weird pet health questions to the best of her ability.
Animals Burning Bright: Tigers and Fireflies and Bioluminescence
Cassie Barton, on the night she spent on with more fireflies than tigers on a reserve in South India, and bioluminescence.
Animals Advanced Elephant Societies Use Physical Affection To Isolate, Distress One Another
Just like humans, elephant societies have a highly sophisticated way of withholding physical affection from each other.
Animals “Like human children, young crocodiles are more likely to climb trees”
The trees are full of crocodiles.
Animals Talking to Authors About Dogs: Amy Spalding
In which Allegra Ringo asks YA novelist Amy Spalding a bunch of questions about her dog.
Ancient Grains How Many Snake Corpses Is Too Many Snake Corpses?
How many dead snakes is too many dead snakes?
