The adventures of a German Shepherd and a nematologist

Zeus, the German Shepherd, found Perla Achi at the Riverside County Animal Shelter on October 2, 2018. At the time, he was a seven-month-old pup and she was a 22-year-old biology undergrad at UC Riverside. Achi was rescued by Zeus after losing her first German Shepherd, King, to cancer earlier that year — making for a tough start to her first year...

By Malinn Loeung |

Therapy pets are on the frontlines of finals crash outs

Finals week checklist: caffeine, snacks, comfy clothes, scantrons, and — cats? Therapy Fluffies has been a UC Riverside finals week tradition for a decade, preventing countless week 10 wack-attacks and crash outs since 2015. As critical campus soothers, it’s only right that we share these therapy pets’ “professional” backgrounds. Animal rescuer...

By Malinn Loeung |

Book on shelter animals receives Distinguished Book Award

“The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals” concludes that animal welfare is also a social justice issue

By Holly Ober |