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...Pets Stay, Kids Go What to do with the pet that's left behind long after your children have grown up and moved away...
...week to minister to Mikey's osteoporosis. "Her bones were damaged," Rubens, 55, reports. "She had X rays and shots, and now I have to cook her food." Rubens isn't sure whether, even if Alex took Mikey, her son's lifestyle would permit the care this exotic pet requires. "It's hard to have much rapport with a turtle," Rubens admits, "but I feel responsible for this fragile, vulnerable creature...
Whether parents accept their child's leftover pet with grace and affection or with grudging acquiescence, few of them, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (A.S.P.C.A.), try to unload the critters. Some do make an effort to hand them over to their adult kids, only to meet a stubborn resistance that has little to do with the practicalities of caring for the pet...
...course. The family pet can help parents continue the bond with their adult children, and it "reminds kids that parenting is a hard job and that, old as they are, you're still there as their safety net," says Stephanie LaForge, senior director of counseling at the A.S.P.C.A...
...will be affected by the progressive brain disease, 3 million more than previous projections. Although the illness is still definitively diagnosed only at autopsy, advances are being made in finding it earlier. Doctors can improve the accuracy of detection 30% by combining various cognitive tests with positron-emission tomography (PET). PET is an imaging technique that shows the brain's metabolism at work. Preliminary research suggests that it may also be possible for physicians to detect certain telltale signs of Alzheimer's disease--the so-called amyloid and tau proteins--in the spinal fluid...