Heavy Petting: The Pet Issue; Backyard Business; The Mourning After; Ready, Vet, Go; Picture Purrfect; Wild, Wooly and Weird; A Boy and His Bird Dog; Julia Alvarez on Feline Phobia; Meeeow Music; Peter Kurth Breaks the Rules — Again; Inside Track: Campaign Post-Mortem; Shelburne Museum: Last Impressions?; Films: Bill Murry Pachs It In