Most visitors to the shelter are greeted with a sweet greeting from Buddy, our umbrella cockatoo. His first greeting is a sweet one, and the other ones become even firmer. When he says, “hello,” he expects a response. Actually, he sometimes expects many responses! He was formerly known as Nu…

In this social media world, farm animals are getting the attention they deserve. Even people who eat meat are concerned by the pictures of the immense factory farms, by the sights of the trucks carrying poultry and pigs to slaughterhouses, and by the news reports of the millions of farm anim…