THE ANIMAL ISSUE

When Your Heart Is Your Guide By Lisa Burwell I’ve met many talented, successful, and impressive people in my journey through life, but not many [...]

Saving Animals One Day at a Time By Wayne Pacelle  |  Photography by Romona Robbins Laurie Hood has never been an armchair advocate for animals. [...]

Gracious Mobile Shows Its Mardi Gras Spirit Year-Round By Larry Bleiberg Spend any time in Mobile, Alabama, and you’ll quickly learn that it—and not that [...]

By Kelsey Ogletree Holding downward dog takes on a near-spiritual quality when a bleating baby goat jumps on your back, as these three farms prove. [...]

By Suzanne Pollak | Photography by Mark Furniss Life before the war was normal. I was eleven and hadn’t watched television and I knew little about [...]

By Nicholas S. Racheotes Now look, before all you owners of surrogate children, otherwise known as the family pets, write to the editor and cost [...]

By Anthea Gerrie Joint replacements undreamed of years ago, surrogates for mothers too precious to take time out to give birth to their own babies, [...]

Capturing Animals through a Lens Story and photography by Mark Furniss For anyone with a passion for nature and a love of the great outdoors, [...]

30A 10K Goes the Distance By Jordan Staggs | Photography by Shelly Swanger In the New Urbanism beach communities along Scenic Highway 30-A in Northwest Florida, [...]

By Anthea Gerrie  |  Photography courtesy of BowWow Haus Who says architect-designed houses are only for humans? Not Zaha Hadid and other world-class design firms that [...]

The Art of Conservation By Chad Thurman | Artwork by Rob Decker The year was 1872, and the United States, still reeling from the Civil [...]

Love Is the Answer As I paw my second editor’s column, I am delighted to be VIE’s canine ambassador, allowing me to use my voice [...]