Know anyone who can write a pet column for a magazine?

Answer 1

the ajc

Answer 2

i am 10 and i am a wonderful writer i have 1 dog and i watch my uncles dogs when he is away . i have 3 cats and 1 fish . my dream is to be a journalist and have been searching for news paper or magize jobs all the time . i love animals and i live right near an animal hospital and could inter view some of the workers for my first job i would love to do this job if you need me just email me at : [e-mail]

i could do an column on "De-clawing cats and other animals " i can see it now ! or maybe a poll " do you think de-calwing animals is animal curtly?"

Answer 3

I'm 10 years old, (too young?) and I want to become an author!
EVERYONE says I'm a good writer, and I've had a lot of experience
with pets! If I could write a Column about pets, it could get me noticed by publishers! If you let me write this, it could be my BIG
break! Even if I don't get noticed, I could still live my dream of becoming a writer!PLEASE LET ME! If you need to email me, my
email address is: [e-mail]

Answer 4

I think I could write a wonderful column for a mag. I have several animals and lots of experiences to share!

Answer 5

I could.

Experienced writer for monthly magazine and freelance subjects. Email me and we can talk.

Answer 6

Yes, me!

Answer 7

i would love to!

Answer 8

i might be able to?

Answer 9

Well i could but i guess you want a proffesional huh?Here are some examples that might give you some ideas-


this one is for cats


A cat will amaze you with her endless curiosity about the world around her and her ability to get into spots you thought were inaccessible. To keep your cat safe at home, remember these tips.
Clear the yard, garage and basement of all toxic household poisons, insecticides and anti-freeze.

Don't leave bathtubs or basins filled with water, close toilet lids, put secure screens on all windows, flatten dangerous tin cans and properly dispose of sharp lids. Put any sharp sewing or arts-and-crafts supplies (especially needles, thread and yarn) away, and keep any dangling electrical cords and string out of your cat's reach.

Cats are fascinated by small, cozy, enclosed spaces. Be sure that your cat isn't in the closet, dresser drawer, cupboard, or washer/dryer when you close the doors.

Common house plants can cause a problem, especially philodendron, poinsettia, dieffenbachia and ivy. Hang the plants out of your cat's reach, and provide other objects to appease his curiosity. Consider growing a pot of cat-safe grass if your kitty likes to munch on "salad."

At holiday time, keep your cat away from the Christmas tree and decorations. Hang "cat safe" ornaments made of cardboard on the lower branches. Broken ornaments, tinsel, ribbon and cord, if swallowed, can cause serious health problems.


and heres another for dogs-


Imagine this. Your dog goes potty on your command. I mean, your dog does his business instantly-the moment you ask him to. This might be the most useful thing you can teach your dog.
If you happen to live someplace where the winters are really cold (like I do), think about days like this: It's 10 below, the wind slams you in the face so hard it feels like you're being pounded by a polar bear, the snow is knee deep so you can barely stand, let alone walk, and now it's time to take the dog out. Here's your choice: Do you want to wait 10 minutes for shivering Fido to do his business, or would you rather have him go faster than you can make instant hot chocolate?

Of course, there are exceptions. Some dogs, notably crazy Malamutes, Siberian Huskies, and other arctic breeds, delight in the winter weather However, you'll still be doing even those dogs a favor, since most don't like standing in the rain.

It's surprisingly easy to teach potty-on-command to puppies, but adult dogs can learn too. Stuff your pocket with a few pieces of hot dog or lunch meat. We need the heavy artillery treats for this one to really work. Take your dog out to do his business on-leash. As your dog is actually doing it, in the most excited voice you can possibly muster, say "Go potty!" Repeat "Go potty!" over and over as your dog is going to the bathroom. Just as he finishes going, offer that amazing treat from your pocket. Don't use this special treat for any other purpose except to train your pooch to potty on command. Now, tell him what a good boy he is. Remember, enthusiasm is as important as the lunch meat.

There's one more step in this process. Play with your pooch when he finishes the treat. The play session can last as short as a minute or as long as you have time for.

After about a week of repeating the same potty program, become a tad more active. Just a split second before your dog is about to piddle (this requires careful observation), pre-empt him by saying "Go potty!" The truth is he was about to go anyway, but you're on you're way to convincing him that it was all your idea. What's more, for following your instructions you he receives the most amazing treat. Again, follow up with lots of lively praise and a game.

For this next step, timing is crucial. Anticipate, so that just before you're certain your dog will do his business, confidently command "Go potty." If your dog proceeds to do what he's supposed to, hooray -- you're on your way.

From this point on, puppies actually catch on faster, but adult dogs will get the idea too. Each time your dog goes outside, wait less and less time before saying "Go potty!" If your dog isn't 'getting it,' and doesn't potty on your "command," repeat the words "Go potty" over and over again until he does go.

Eventually, you'll be able to let your dog out in your enclosed yard without a leash; all you'll have to do is say "Go potty," and he'll promptly oblige. When your dog does go on your command, continue offering that really great treat until you're sure he understands the recipe for instant potty.

This process isn't as tedious as it sounds. It won't take you long to figure out if it's worth the bother. Remember when your dog spent 20 minutes sniffing the ground while you were running late for work? I can't promise you won't be late for work again. But I can promise you won't be able to blame the dog,

A final note: This technique is about urinating on command. The same training technique is used to teach dogs to defecate on command, but that's a trickier issue. You certainly can speed many pokey dogs up, but when nature's just not calling there's not much a command is going to do.


and here is one more for horses.....


A lot of amateur trainers MythUnderstand what the training process is all about. They think that training involves dominating a horse, showing him who's boss. They approach training as though it were a battle in which one party wins and the other loses.
Good training is not about confrontation. It's about building a horse-logical communication system. As trainer, you do your talking as a non-hunting predator just walking through the herd or in the role of lead mare in your little herd of two. But you don't ignore the horse's side of the conversation.

To understand the horse's side of the conversation means learning horse-speak--how horses say things to one another. Then you use that knowledge to say things back to the horse for your own purposes. You want to communicate to the horse that you like it, that you're glad it's there, that you like to be around it. You're not going to just grab the horse and beat it into submission. In terms of horse-speak, grooming can be a powerful influence you can use to gain control and trust.

Wild horse survival requires strong herd instinct. Mutual grooming expresses camaraderie among horses and helps wild ones bond into a herd. Horses love to be groomed. Use this to your advantage to make friends with a horse when you first start working with it and to study how your horse communicates things to you.

For example, if the horse is totally relaxed and looking around and sometimes looking back at you then you got some good quality time going on. Pay attention as you groom the horse to see where it's sensitive areas are and where it really enjoys a good scratching. Horses often signal their pleasure by screwing up their upper lip or by arching or stretching their neck when you hit an itchy spot. If the horse pins its ears, swishes its tail, or threatens a kick, it's saying "back off." There are horses with very thin skin who dislike coarse brushes but if you groom them properly without sudden moves using soft brushes and a degree of pressure that agrees with them, there should be no problem.

When you are grooming, the horse will naturally want to return the favor because that's what it would do if you were another horse. If the horse starts chewing on you, do NOT slap it. If a horse tries to chew on you, you should have seen it coming if you were paying total attention to your horse. Grooming is not just moving a brush with your hand while you daydream about tomorrow. You should be thinking about now, about this horse. So if the horse wants to groom you in return, interrupt it unobtrusively. If the head starts around, and you've been paying attention and have a plan, you'll just put hand up near the neck to stop the head turning without making a big sudden attack on the horse. You interrupt the undesirable behavior without changing the horse's attitude, excitement level, or interpretation of what's going on.

The safe place by any horse is beside the front legs. If you are standing beside the front legs and have some way to control the head, you won't get kicked, bit, or tromped on if everything turns into a can of worms. So you start grooming where it is safe--at the shoulders--and you just keep working both directions. Take your time and keep working slowly to the back and find all the places. Keep making your safe bubble bigger and bigger. And by the time you and the horse speak the same language, the entire horse will be available to you and things will rarely if ever fall apart.

If, when you turned it loose, you saw that this horse did lots of kicking, you would never go to the back of the animal without taking the lead rope with you. That way, you can swing the horse's hindquarters away from you by pulling the head toward you if the horse tries to kick.

Actions and body language are the only things that make up horse-speak. Save your vocalizing for later. If you use vocal commands at the horse, you will leave out the horse-speak, and if you leave out the horse-speak you will be very frustrated with why the horse won't listen to you. If you always apply a methodical and directional pressure to create a shape that the horse feels and understands, then put a word or signal along with that methodical pressure, the horse may notice it or may not. However, over a period of time, the horse will begin to notice it and pick it up as having a meaning that it feels at that moment. But it is unenforceable.

If you want to talk to yourself, or hum, or sing to yourself while grooming, however, it is fine. Anything that will keep your rhythm and relaxation will keep the horse's rhythm and relaxation.

There are times when you go into someone's barn and all the horses in there will be in a depressed state because they don't like where they are and they don't like what goes on and they don't like anybody. The horses won't make any fuss, they'll just be mopey and down. Horses that have a happy thing going on are going to communicate with you as soon as you go through. One may stick its head out and tell you that you have no business going by without coming over to visit. One might try to get you into a game of duck and bite. But they are all going to be active. They will be doing anything they want. If you go into a barn and the horses get up immediately, you know that the horses are definitely afraid of the people. When you watch people around horses you will find out very quickly whether or not they understand horse-speak and have the knack for "nice-ing" the horses into submission. That is the skill that a lot of people don't understand.

Really good training is boring to watch. When it starts getting exciting and looking like a rodeo then you know that somebody is out of control or scared or angry. Good training should have about the same activity level as paint dryin


this one is called Heart Brake

I think that those of us who work in animal shelters are so much more passionate about the plight of animals because of the extreme sadness that we encounter each and every time that we walk into the shelter. Certainly the joy of placing animals into permanent loving and nurturing homes, and being a friend to the animals, sometimes in their final days, makes being at the shelter worthwhile.
Here are the stories of the three experiences that truly affected the very depth of my soul over the past decade at the animal shelter. I so profoundly grieved the departure of these innocent souls, and I will never forget.

There was a very, very sweet domestic short hair tuxedo female kitten in our medical unit at the shelter. She couldn’t have been more than eight months old, and she was very pregnant. It looked like her tail had been set on fire, as the tip to the center of her tail had no hair and was very hard, black and crispy. In spite of the challenges that she had endured during her very brief life, she trusted people. People had not kept her safely indoors. People had not assured that she was spayed. People had not come to the shelter looking for her after she and her unborn kittens were brought in as stray.

Every day that she was there, I would take a few moments from my extremely busy work load to go back to the medical unit to see her. Whenever she saw me approaching her kennel, she would quickly come to the front of her kennel, happily meowing, so that I could affectionately stroke her for the scant time that I could afford to remain there. On the sixth day, when she became the property of the shelter because nobody had come to claim her, I went back to the medical unit, and she wasn’t there. Naively, I asked where she was, and I learned that she had been euthanized early that morning.

Immediately, I began to sob uncontrollably, and I left the building so that I could attempt to make sense of the departure of the life of a spirit so sweet, and the loss of her unborn kittens. Though I knew that there were a limited number of foster families available to welcome her and her kittens into their homes until the kittens reached two pounds and eight weeks old, I was outraged that there are so many others like her, without shelter, food, water, love and veterinary care.

Perhaps her struggle ceased when her life ended. There were fewer kittens to find homes for, which would permit other homeless animals to occupy the limited number of adoptive homes. I knew that her kittens would have been adopted, but what about her? Often, mothers remain at the shelter long after their kittens have been placed into homes. The mothers inevitably become ill as a result of their prolonged stay, and when they are unresponsive to antibiotic treatment, they are euthanized. At least she and her beloved babies left this world together.

One of the shelter staff approached me, informing me that a male kitten with cerebellar hypoplasia, with the same neurological condition that one of my rescued cats, Andy has, was just brought in as a stray. The kitten had entered the man’s home through a doggie door. Like Andy, he was extremely affectionate, but because the kitten was a house soiler, the gentleman stated that he could not provide this very sweet little boy with a permanent home.

Immediately, I went to see the kitten, noticing that his neurological damage was far more severe than Andy’s. I visited him in our medical unit every day, appreciating his extremely delightful disposition, but knowing, that on day six, his life would end. Because I already had three cats that required frequent veterinary care and expensive prescription food and medications, I knew that veterinary expenses for yet another special needs cat would cause me financial hardship. I knew that I simply couldn’t save them all.

Animal shelters are excessively overcrowded between April and October, when the weather is warm and cats that are not spayed or neutered are permitted to roam outdoors. As a result of the epidemic breeding that occurs, the overabundance of litters born during these months often end up in animal shelters. People come in to adopt the frisky little kittens, and those cats who have reached adulthood have little opportunity to be invited into the hearts, homes and families of potential adopters. There is only so much space to house the multitude of homeless animals in any animal shelter during kitten season.

One Friday evening, I walked into the hall outside of the cattery, where 35 adult cats had been placed into carriers on rolling carts, for their final destination. Most of the 35 cats in those carriers, who so desperately longed for love and affection, meowed and reached out to summon me.

I quickly walked past these cats. I could not look even one of them in the eye, as I knew that within an hour, they would all be gone, following a life ending injection in an attempt to alleviate the severe overcrowding in the shelter. Their pleading eyes and final reaches remain with me, long after driving home weeping that night.




i hope you like this -i am avialible anytime 'k!good luck finding some-one!