Paw Prints.

"True, feel-good stories from the world of pets, found and curated for the Talking With Pets family. We do not retell them, we point you to them, with a little Talking With Pets flavor along the way."

What this is

Every other week we go looking for true stories about animals that are worth someone's time, and we point you at them. We do not rewrite the reporting and we do not claim it. Each pick is a short reason to care, a line from the piece itself, and a link straight to the people who did the work.

Each edition carries one story from somewhere specific, one about an animal that is not a dog or a cat, and at least one thing we did not know before.

Every edition

Edition No. 4 · July 28, 2026 · 3 picks

The parrot who made scientists rethink what a bird's brain can do

The second real cycle, published two weeks after Edition No. 3, which is the cadence Paw Prints keeps.

Edition No. 3 · July 15, 2026 · 5 picks

The dog who cried when the walk was over

This is the first edition built end to end the way Paw Prints is meant to run. It is also the longest, at five picks, because it is where we worked out the shape: one story from somewhere specific, one about an animal that is not a dog or a cat, and one thing we simply did not know before.

Edition No. 2 · June 3, 2026 · 3 picks

The rescue a teenager built because nobody else would

Editions No. 1 and No. 2 were built as test editions, after the fact, while we were still working out how Paw Prints should read. The stories and the sourcing are real. The edition itself was assembled later, and we would rather say so than quietly date it forward.

Edition No. 1 · May 6, 2026 · 3 picks

The dog who never stopped waiting at the station

Editions No. 1 and No. 2 were built as test editions, after the fact, while we were still working out how Paw Prints should read. The stories and the sourcing are real. The edition itself was assembled later, and we would rather say so than quietly date it forward.

Paw Prints curates and links to reporting by others, with full attribution. We do not claim authorship of the original stories. Editions No. 1 and No. 2 were assembled after the fact as test editions while we worked out the format, and they say so on the page rather than being dated forward.

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Good stories about animals, found and pointed at. Nothing else.