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PET NEWSMAY 22, 2013

It takes only minutes: Please don't leave pets in hot cars!

Each year, thousands of beloved companions succumb to heatstroke and suffocation when left in parked cars.

DR DAVEDR. DAVE HEPBURN  |  MAY 22, 2013

Things you should know

Doctors have nightmares. They’re not the usual nightmares of sitting naked in Grade 12 math class being taught by a stegosaurus as your teeth slowly fall out. Nope. We have nightmares about taking out the wrong kidney, taking out night nurses or ordering take out with a side of bacteria gone wild.

james k whiteMULLET OVER BY JAMES K. WHITE  |  MAY 22, 2013

Works of the devil

The oldest known (thus far) recipe for brewing beer was recorded some 4,000 years ago in Sumer. Biomolecular archeologists (not many of those running around loose) conjecture that the brewed beer was actually safer for humans to drink than most of the amoeba/bacteria infested river and lake waters available in that era.

SCOOTERBOOK REVIEW  |  MAY 8, 2013

Scooter, canine hero

Scooter, Cave Creek's late canine hero and one-time mascot of the Sonoran News, may have crossed the Rainbow Bridge, but his story, Scooter Challenges the Day, lives on and is available on ebook through Xlibris.com.