When her father died two years ago, Karen Wright was terribly worried about her mother Violet, then 72. "Mom had always been energetic and full of zest," says Wright, 39, a media-relations expert in Mankato, Minn. "But after Dad died, she didn't take care of herself and got sick frequently." There didn't seem to be much left to live for--except an 11-lb. docile Pomeranian dog named Buddy. "I never paid much attention to Buddy when my husband was alive," says Violet Wright, who lives in Amery, Wis. "But suddenly he depended on me for his survival."
It's well-accepted dogma that pets...
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