I'm planning to write two characters who live in Toronto and use wheelchairs (they can walk, but it's safer if they don't try). One of them also has a (sapient-but-pretending-not-to-be-to-regular-people, magical, well-behaved and responsive to his person's verbal instructions) cat, who prefers to accompany her when she's out and about. What ( Read more... )

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( Cut for effects of dog attack on six-year-old girl )

In the story I'm currently working on, one of the main characters has a cat who's about to kit. That part I'm fine on and won't have trouble writing when it comes to it, but my plans were to have him take a train trip that would be about four hours and he's taking the cat and kittens with ( Read more... )

Possibly the most annoying and strange question I have ever asked.

It's 1875 on an airship somewhere over the Atlantic. Our French-speaking character, Max, has two fancy rats as companions. She's from Lorraine or Alsace I think. That might change ( Read more... )

Where: London ( Read more... )

Setting: Present day (2006, if it matters), American small town animal hospital ( Read more... )

I need to find a degenerative hip disease that would cause problems for an older (teenage) dog. It can be a lifelong or chronic thing, so long it's plausible for the dog to live that long before the symptoms really start making trouble ( Read more... )

I'm currently writing a story which features a colony of feral cats in Philippine colonial society (under the Spanish), in the early 1800s. I'm trying to uncover a number of things: first, how cats got there (I'm assuming they arrived via trade ships, but it would be nice to have a firm reference), how they were regarded by various segments of ( Read more... )

setting: modern day Nevada (with irrelevant magic) google: "large pet snake", "pet snake (boa OR python)", and variations ( Read more... )