HEAT STROKE!--It is a very preventable cause of death.
Kansas City gets HOT in the summer, but I don’t need to tell you that. I don’t know how many times I’m overwhelmed by the temperature the inside of my car reaches when I leave it for even short periods of time. We hear time and time again of people leaving their children in the car for “brief” periods of time and returning to find them lifeless. How that can happen is anyone’s guess. We’re horrified and outraged every time the story plays on the news. But what about our pets?

GLASS MENAGERIE
The Fragile Difference Between Helping and Hoarding Animals
We hear it on the news all too often, each news report more difficult to believe than the next. Case #1: Police in Anytown, USA, found 67 dead kittens and cats in Jane Doe’s refrigerator. They also discovered that even more cats and a dog were running loose; litter boxes overflowed. Doe, a 50-year-old retired police officer, was charged with 92 misdemeanor counts of animal abandonment. Before the arrest, neighbors said, she would go around the neighborhood feeding all the animals she could find.