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recovering from heartworms. So while Maitzen was recovering, she was dedicated to helping Rosie get well, too. “It’s really nice to be caring for other things other than yourself,” she said. “It keeps me active and not always thinking about myself.” Maitzen said it’s easy to fall into depression with her cancer, but her pets help keep her in a “much better place.” Even during her recovery when she couldn’t walk, they still stuck near her. “They keep me positive, keep me active and doing new things,” she said. “With all the trials and tribulations I have been through, they’re a part of my recovery and still help me out so much. If it wasn’t for my animals, I don’t know where I’d be right now. “They’re not just my pets, they’re my friends, and I love them.”
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Dunn started caring for poodles in the 1960s and has never had another breed since, prizing their intelligence and independence. Three years ago, she fell, breaking some bones for the first time in her life, and found out just how helpful her four-legged friends could be. “This dog was my therapist,” she said of her poodle Baxter. “He is almost 13, and he has never done anything other than be helpful. As I got better, I could tell he was recognizing he could be more relaxed in taking care of me.” Dunn said she’s lived a scientific life. She worked in a laboratory for 22 years. Her first husband was a neurophysiologist and her second a chemist and mathematician. But there’s something she feels strongly about – pets can be more than just animals. “This dog is human,” she said. “I’m sure I’m not the first person in the world to say that about their dog. This dog and I have a long history, he’s empathetic. I can see in his eyes. I’m not anthropomorphizing.” And as such, she said she has never talked to her pets in high-pitched voices. “That dog is so attached to me and I am so attached to him that sometimes I think to myself, ‘my God, you’re talking to him not like he’s a canine but like he’s a homo sapien,’” she said. And just as Baxter helped Dunn recover from her fall three years ago, she’s caring for him through the pain of his arthritis. “He is a senior citizen as I am, I’m noticing he’s getting older,” she said. “I can see in his eyes when he hurts. I’m taking care of him and he’s taking care of me now.”
Unified Newspaper Group February 2021 Young at Heart 21 Resources for seniors with pets
Pet food at pantries Pets for Life
Dane County Humane Society partners with the Community Action Coalition for South Central WI, Inc. to supply pet food and cat litter to participating Dane County food pantries. A list of participating pantries is available at giveshelter.org/ resources/pet-food-pantry.
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If you live in the 53713 zip code or Allied Drive neighborhood and are looking for pet food or medical treatment for your animal, Dane County Humane Society’s Pets for Life program provides free services and supplies to everyone in that area – and is looking to expand wider in the future. Fifty percent of its client base are considered senior citizens. Free services include spaying/ neutering, microchips, some medications and veterinary care including eyes, ears, skin and urinary tract infections. Free supplies include toys, beds, collars and leashes. The pet food and supplies are delivered to your door. Residents of this area also receive discounted adoption rates at the Dane County Humane Society and transportation for their pets to get to veterinary appointments at the humane society or at WisCARES. For information, call or text Abbi Middleton at 608-513-4262, or visit giveshelter.org/ourservices/pets-for-life.
Wisconsin Companion Animal Resources, Education, and Social Services is an outreach extension of the University of Wisconsin-Madison that provides low-cost veterinary medical care including routine care, chronic care, surgery and dental work to Dane County pet owners who are low income, are currently experiencing or are at risk of homelessness, and those who are unable to pay for veterinary medical services needed for access to housing. Many seniors also qualify such as those on social security or fixed incomes. For more information, visit wiscares.wisc.edu. To schedule an appointment, call 608-5617387.
Wisconsin Academy for Graduate Service Dogs
WAGS teaches dogs the skills and commands to help people do things they can’t do for themselves, training the dog to go everywhere the person goes from church to grocery stores. The dogs typically go to the homes of individuals with disabilities or in wheelchairs. For seniors, dogs through the Home Help Me program provide services at home such as pressing panic buttons in an emergency, helping with cooking, and the dogs can even let themselves out of the house. For information, visit wags.net or call 608-250-9247.
Paws and Claws Mobile Veterinary Services
A mobile vet clinic housed inside of a 26-foot-long truck, owner Carrie Bunger has a goal to provide services for seniors, to help allow them to keep their pets at home and not have to give them up to shelters when aging makes travel to clinics difficult. She provides medical services and physical examinations with a house call fee, coming directly to your doorstep. For appointments, emailing paws.claws.dvm@gmail.com is preferred, or else call 608441-8579. For information, visit pawsnclawsvet.com.
Unifi ed Newspaper Group February 2021 Young at Heart 23 by MICHAEL TIDEMANN Wisconsin Books
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Eight-Five . . . Still Alive
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Abook demands a sequel when that sequel focuses on a diff erent set of characters. That’s what happens in “Eight-Five” and “Eight-Five ... Still Alive,” by Bruce, Wisconsin, writer Arian Knops. In this duology, Knops traces the crimes of serial killer Avarde Kolt, alias Michael Barrett, who is relentlessly pursued by Minneapolis homicide investigator Dan Costello. “Eight-Five” focuses on Costello as he begins to unravel the mystery of a serial killer who attaches cattle tags with the numbers eight-fi ve to the ears of his victims. The killer also sends taunting clues to Costello, who makes it his life’s mission to fi nd the killer. Costello enlists the help of police throughout the country, including Bill Thorp, a sheriff ’s deputy in Rusk County, Wisconsin. Barrett, however, who serves as a county supervisor, outmaneuvers his pursuers, leaving them with much suspicion but no proof. What compels Barrett in his homicidal spree becomes clearer at the end of the fi rst novel and the beginning of the second. Abused by a cold and heartless father, taunted in high school and early in his Navy career, Barrett undergoes a transformation from enlisted man to Navy pilot, surviving harrowing incidents in Vietnam to pursue his victims through a lifetime of cold-blooded murders. However, we start to see a hidden humanity within Barrett, who has claimed the lives of over 100 victims, when he fi nds his beloved cat Sparky dead in a laundry basket. “His wonderful pal Sparky was dead. Michael felt tears creep into his eyes. He had never really cried when a human died, but the loss of the cat was touching the soul he doubted he had.” Barrett starts to change when he decides not to kill Greg Gregory, a target he fi nds in Wann, Okla. Gregory welcomes Barrett into his home with a warmth Barrett had never felt in his own home when growing up. When Barrett reunites with Rhonda Warshski, a girl he had known in his youth, he is again transformed as he regains the lost humanity of his youth. And then ... Knops convincingly tells his story from the point of view of law enforcement. Even more convincing is how he explores the mind of serial killer Barrett. Just as we think we see where his story is going, Knops veers into unknown directions that are vivid and convincing. These are great mysteries and a great read.
Michael Tidemann writes from Estherville, Iowa. His author page is amazon.com/author/michaeltidemann.
