Amanda Ripley Author of The Unthinkable

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Water, Food & Dog Toys

My old friend Michael Schaffer has a delightful new book out called, One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food. It’s about the strange and central new place that animals have taken in our lives, homes and markets. He makes the point that modern-day pets even influence life-or-death decisions about where we live and when we decide to flee.

We know that before Hurricane Katrina, many people decided to stay because they couldn’t take their dogs to shelters (a situation that has actually…

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