The Animal Issue 2013
Legislative Animal Acts; Winners of the Pet Photos Contest; Therapy Dogs Lick Anxiety
Cover Stories
Best of the Beasts Photo Contest Winners
“Doggone Adorable” may be our most-entered category, but this competition is about more than puppy love, for sure. Once Seven Days staffers selected finalists from the 250 entries to our pet photo contest, more than 1500 readers voted, via Facebook and Survey Monkey. It can be hard to winnow down the images of awww-some fuzzy,…
Obituary: Renée Helen Boucher
Renée Helen Boucher, age 23 years, died unexpectedly Sunday June 30, 2013. Born in St. Albans, Vermont on January 13, 1990, she was the daughter of Denis and Deborah (Toof) Boucher. Renée was a 2008 graduate of Missisquoi Valley Union High School and participated in several varsity sports as well as most of the schools…
Obituary: Eleanor Louise Gaboury
Eleanor Louise Gaboury, age 76 years, died unexpectedly Saturday June 22, 2013, at her home on Maquam Shore. Born Eleanor Louise Hatfield on November 24, 1936, she was the daughter of the late Charles and Mildred (Brosseau) Hatfield. Eleanor was raised in St. Albans, VT with five sisters, Carol, Betty, Sally (deceased), Beverly (deceased) and…
Chicken Shit Happens — and Pampered Poultry Has It Covered
Something was wrong with Maxine. Rachel Moutoux’s 1-year-old hen was having trouble laying her egg. Moutoux worried it might be stuck. Moutoux, who teaches medical ultrasound at an Ohio college, began raising chickens — for both their eggs and pet potential — in her family’s small backyard coop last year. “They’re spoiled rotten,” she says…
Williston Funeral Home Offers Services for Pets
When Lynn Wilkinson met her new neighbor, Stacey Rousseau, she didn’t expect to need Rousseau’s business services anytime soon. Wilkinson, owner of the Mane House & Boutique in South Burlington, was in Rousseau’s client pool — pet owners — but her English pointer, Opie, was still young and vital. Rousseau plans end-of-life services for pets…
Service Dogs Offer Some Mentally Ill People a New Leash on Life
Melanie Jannery of Burlington isn’t ashamed to admit it: Her life was a train wreck before she met Winston. Seven years ago, Jannery, then 33, suffered from depression, severe anxiety, agoraphobia and suicidal tendencies. She was unemployed, smoked three packs of cigarettes a day, was severely overweight and took 26 pills a day to cope.…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “To know when to stop is of the same importance as to know when to begin,” said the painter Paul Klee. Take that to heart, Aries! You are pretty adept at getting things launched, but you’ve got more to learn about the art of stopping. Sometimes you finish prematurely. Other times…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again When long-distance runner Sarah Tatterson, 37, saw a man ride off after stealing her husband’s bicycle from her garage in West Seattle, Wash., she gave chase on foot. The thief saw her gaining on him, so he jumped off the bike and fled while she continued running alongside him, yelling for neighbors…
Vermonters With Pets Struggle to Rent Housing
When Kyle and Gail Pivetti decided in April 2012 to move from St. Cloud, Minn., to central Vermont, they booked plane tickets to visit the area, scope out neighborhoods and make a decision on the best living place for themselves and their Boston terriers, Sophie and Scout. They did not anticipate the circumstance that would…
Kids and Parents Survey New Ice Cream Companies
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Taste Test: Mule Bar
It’s got to happen eventually: The Winooski roundabout’s restaurant row, which has seen its share of turnover in recent years, will surely play host to a stinker sometime. But it’s not the newest addition, Mule Bar. At its heart, the 49-seat eatery is more beer bar than culinary destination. While I dug into the well-thought-out…
All Local Mixtape: Summer 2013
More than any other season, summer requires a soundtrack and at least one or two good anthems. While many will turn to the guilty pleasures of mainstream pop, we’d encourage you to add some local flavor to your summer playlists, too. After all, one can’t subsist on Kanye alone. So with that in mind, here’s…
A Writer Reflects on Keeping a Turtle
I take an early-morning visit to my irises and tomato plants, with a Popsicle stick for scooping and a washed-out peanut-butter jar, and return with my catch — a slimy mass of slugs. They will be breakfast for my turtle, Pedro. I bring the jar into my living room, where Pedro resides in a 55-gallon…
Eyewitness: Painter Anna Dibble
There’s something magical about Anna Dibble’s house, tucked up on a hill in tiny Landgrove, Vt. It’s easy to imagine that if you waited there quietly until after dark, the resident animals — living, painted and sculpted — might prove they had the power to talk. The 62-year-old artist has spent her career giving voice…
Letters to the Editor
Tribune)Burlington or Topeka? It looks like Ken Picard and his bosses at Seven Days would fit right in with the Christian psychopaths from Topeka [“Vermont Police Take Hands-Off Approach to Investigating Massage-Parlor Prostitution,” June 12; “Unhappy Endings,” June 5] What is wrong with a massage parlor that sometimes helps an extremely horny man release tension?…
