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Pet Care 101
A shelter pup has found a calling as an ambassador to teach animal welfare with the Humane Society.
A shelter pup has found a calling as an ambassador to teach animal welfare with the Humane Society.
As a puppy with no home, Sierra found herself among the other strays at the Ontario County Humane Society shelter. That is, until Animal Control Officer Bill McGuigan took a fancy to her and took her home.
Now she’s a tail-wagging ambassador for the society — and other animals like her.
She and McGuigan — who is also the society’s education coordinator — visit schools, senior citizen sites, day care centers and other venues to teach people about proper pet care and all facets of animals, from how to be safe around strange dogs to what neglect investigations are.
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The Finger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program is one of the first facilities of its kind in the country
The Finger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program is one of the first facilities of its kind in the country
“Magic brought me here,” says Carly Tangney.
She’s not talking about the kind of magic that results in pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Rather, this Magic is a horse.
A retired race horse, specifically.
Carly is now program manager at the Finger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program, through which she first met Magic Man when she was still in college at SUNY Cobleskill.
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Who said the fun of a glorious Finger Lakes wine-tasting excursion should be restricted to humans? Certainly not Nancy Irelan and her husband, Michael Schnelle, owners of the Red Tail Ridge Winery on the western shore of Seneca Lake, where wine tasters and their pups are equally welcome.
“We have doggy biscuits in the tasting room and a water pan.
