Jessica Peralta
Jessica Peralta has been a journalist for over 20 years and an animal lover all her life. Her children are black cat, Riot, and Hawkeye, a Rhodesian Ridgeback/Border Collie puppy.
Latest Blog
When a Cup is Not a Cup
I’m infamous among my friends and colleagues for asking people if they are aware that their dogs are overweight. It’s because I have seen firsthand how fat dogs suffer in their senior years when they are too heavy to exercise without pain! And their burden of carrying extra pounds makes the ordinary aches and pains of arthritis even worse. AND YET, I have to give myself a stern talking-to from time to time about helping my older dog stay trim.