I am a Special Features writer for our local newspaper on all animal issues, welfare, care and health; member of my county's Animal Shelter Advisory Board, and a known animal rights activist locally; Retired Emergency Unit RN; host a local blog site as a community service to residents in my county to re-connect lost and found pets with their human families; active in the Episcopal Church; own a horse farm with several resident cats, dogs, Pilgrim Geese, Canadian Geese and ducks;