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Pets

A wife’s last smile.

The Science and Art of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

This intrepid photographer documented Depression-era Americans’ pride and spirit

A female Boxer provides the DNA for the first complete sequence of the dog genome—what will it mean to the health of man and dog?

Lots of love in a too-short lifetime

Carving lifelike carousel dogs shows off artist Tim Racer’s well-honed talents

Maggie Mae is buried – there just beyond my kitchen window

The canine supernanny

Doing life on her own terms

A Poem for Cammy Jane, 9/5/2000-2/9/2007

Unraveling the genetic tapestry provides clues to breeds and their mixes

Wiley & Sons, 256 pp., 2010; $21.99

Scribner, 368 pp., 2009; $26

Sniffing out the facts and exploring the relationship between our two species

Henry Holt, 304 pp., 2009; $25