Valerie Feldner This is Me

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1. 1. Good News For Pets | The Run For the Rosettes

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   Published on: 3/13/2007   Last Visited: 12/15/2007

   Wandering in and sitting with us was Valerie Feldner, formerly of TV Guide and now gone freelance and Lisa-Croft Elliot and Mary Bloom, two of my favorite dog photographers.

2. 2. Good News For Pets | What's A Nice Dog Like You Doing With A Joint Like This?

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   Published on: 3/13/2007   Last Visited: 12/15/2007

   Fortunately for me I was seated across from a dear friend and colleague, Valerie Feldner, who is a staff writer for TV Guide, an editor and teacher, one whom I admire greatly. Valerie has been a life-long lover of animals with a special passion for elephants, is a staunch member of the Dog Writers Association of America, and for TV Guide writes about natural history, programming, animals, and the media. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Wildlife and a number of in-flight magazines, among others.
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   Valerie came through like bread upon the waters. She told me that her Greyhound at home lived with the painful disease. He was first diagnosed at the age of nine. She started seeing symptoms when he began to favor his right shoulder and was not walking normally. In his previous life as a racing dog, he sustained a track injury on that very shoulder and leg. Valerie had adopted him when he was four.
   
   I peered over my hot Pastrami sandwich, which was piled five inches high, oozing mustard and half-sour pickles, and listened attentively between bites and sips of Doctor Brown's cherry soda. Lord, I love luncheons. She told me that Sir Snoutleigh is a thirteen-year-old male dog, weighs 78 pounds and has a white coat. Feldner, who resembles the "Draw Me" illustration on matchbook advertisements said, "Greyhounds often sustain pain so well that it's hard to tell that something is wrong. They bear it in a very dignified way, but from the beginning I could tell something was wrong because of the way he favored his shoulder, especially when he was running. You can usually tell if something is wrong by the dog's body language." She mentioned that he is on a prescribed medicine, which has helped him quite a bit. She continued to explain that the weather usually has an adverse effect on the condition with heat and cold causing some pain. "With the passage of time every day has become a troubled day, where before it was intermittent, it is no longer an occasional pain." The dog now requires medication on a daily basis.
   
   Valerie was quick to point out that all kinds of dogs with all kinds of owners can get this. I mentioned that I had a Siberian Husky who became arthritic as an older dog. Evidently, it can come from old age, from an injury, hip dysplasia, ruptured ligaments and various other conditions of the joints, although it is seen largely in old age. She also gives her dog vitamin supplements and fish oil capsules hoping to help the things surrounding the arthritis such as the skin and the cartilage. "The thing about joint disease is that you are always medicating, rather than curing. "Dogs," she says, "require a lot of love, time, energy and care.
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   Valerie believes it is the issue of the next 10 years.
   
   So the moral of this piece is that when the muse is out to lunch, it's a good idea to join her.

3. 3. Good News for Pets > Pet World

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   Published on: 4/7/2002   Last Visited: 9/9/2005

   Fortunately for me I was seated across from a dear friend and colleague, Valerie Feldner, who is a staff writer for TV Guide, an editor and teacher, one whom I admire greatly. Valerie has been a life-long lover of animals with a special passion for elephants, is a staunch member of the Dog Writers Association of America, and for TV Guide writes about natural history, programming, animals, and the media. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Wildlife and a number of in-flight magazines, among others.
   ...
   Valerie came through like bread upon the waters. She told me that her Greyhound at home lived with the painful disease. He was first diagnosed at the age of nine. She started seeing symptoms when he began to favor his right shoulder and was not walking normally. In his previous life as a racing dog, he sustained a track injury on that very shoulder and leg. Valerie had adopted him when he was four.
   
   I peered over my hot Pastrami sandwich, which was piled five inches high, oozing mustard and half-sour pickles, and listened attentively between bites and sips of Doctor Brown's cherry soda. Lord, I love luncheons. She told me that Sir Snoutleigh is a thirteen-year-old male dog, weighs 78 pounds and has a white coat. Feldner, who resembles the "Draw Me" illustration on matchbook advertisements said, "Greyhounds often sustain pain so well that it's hard to tell that something is wrong. They bear it in a very dignified way, but from the beginning I could tell something was wrong because of the way he favored his shoulder, especially when he was running. You can usually tell if something is wrong by the dog's body language." She mentioned that he is on a prescribed medicine, which has helped him quite a bit. She continued to explain that the weather usually has an adverse effect on the condition with heat and cold causing some pain. "With the passage of time every day has become a troubled day, where before it was intermittent, it is no longer an occasional pain." The dog now requires medication on a daily basis.
   
   Valerie was quick to point out that all kinds of dogs with all kinds of owners can get this. I mentioned that I had a Siberian Husky who became arthritic as an older dog. Evidently, it can come from old age, from an injury, hip dysplasia, ruptured ligaments and various other conditions of the joints, although it is seen largely in old age. She also gives her dog vitamin supplements and fish oil capsules hoping to help the things surrounding the arthritis such as the skin and the cartilage. "The thing about joint disease is that you are always medicating, rather than curing. "Dogs," she says, "require a lot of love, time, energy and care.
   ...
   Valerie believes it is the issue of the next 10 years.
   
   So the moral of this piece is that when the muse is out to lunch, it's a good idea to join her.
   
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