by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ Back in the days when it was unimaginable to a health nut like me that I’d ever get cancer, much less a vicious, life-threatening one, I was just as crazy about animals as I am now. And I was just as maniacal about helping them. All of my hands-on, in-the-trenches […]
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris Many of the world’s Christian faithful celebrate the Easter season as a time of rebirth, renewal, and reawakening. One of the most popular images for this sacred day is the rabbit. Some say this symbolism traces back to Western European pagan cultures where spring festivals honored Eostre, the goddess of fertility, […]
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ At first, you might wonder why the organizers of the Animal Film Festival would pick an out-of-the-way place like Grass Valley, California for their annual event, instead of more obvious choices like Los Angeles or San Francisco. Nestled in the Sierra Nevada foothills, it’s a hamlet of only about 13,000 […]
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ Rescuing animals gives us more than the opportunity to meet wonderful critters; along the way we make fabulous human friends too. One of RescueDiva.com’s main missions is to spotlight and support rescuers around the world, including those who have become our dear friends, so I decided that for this debut […]
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ It happens all the time, all over the world. People leave dogs at boarding kennels, or with kindhearted rescuers or friends or relatives, promising to come back for them, then they never do. Sometimes they won’t even return phone calls or emails. For whatever reason, they’ve decided they no longer […]
