AR-News: (US NY) Pets: Beyond Euthanasia

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MSNBC
NEWSWEEK
July 12 issue - When Kathryn Marocchino's 13-year-old  cat, Nikki, was 
diagnosed with kidney failure in 1996, Marocchino's  veterinarians told her 
euthanasia was the only option. It was then, but it isn't  now. Marocchino had Nikki 
euthanized, but the experience prompted her to create  the Nikki Hospice 
Foundation for Pets, an organization that teaches owners to  care for their pets 
until they die naturally. "It's new, it's revolutionary,  it's exciting," she 
says. "And it's very needed." 

full  story:
_http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5359293/site/newsweek/_ 
(http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5359293/site/newsweek/)  



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>From beasts we scorn as  soulless,
In forest, field and den,
The cry goes up to witness
The  soullessness of men.
~M. Frida Hartley
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