by Ron Hevener | Sep 13, 2015 | Stories
When the chance came to produce a story for public TV, we grabbed it. A half-hour program for animal lovers? Move over, NBC peacock. There’s a new kid shaking his feathers! Public TV (which is a broad term meaning everything from your local cable station to the mighty...
by Ron Hevener | Sep 13, 2015 | Stories
He wasn’t the biggest puppy in the litter. Two others were bigger than him, and both had drifted into a sleep from which there would be no awakening. As gentle hands lifted him out of the whelping box and offered a bottle, he nuzzled into the tips of each...
by Ron Hevener | Sep 13, 2015 | Stories
The moon was high … the indigo/night air smelled like water and the air sizzled its arms around you . . . that’s how it felt, as we waited . . . . She hadn’t been born on the farm. Unlike the rest of the mares, she had been the expensive gift from a man to...
by Ron Hevener | Sep 13, 2015 | Stories
Over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to know lots of interesting animals. Horses, Dogs, Cats, Wildlife… If they liked people, I had a knack of getting to know them pretty well. When I started my career as an artist, animals were a natural subject for me...
by Ron Hevener | Sep 13, 2015 | Stories
Funny, how we never seem to know what’s just around the corner. We go about our lives: working, laughing, loving . . . and we never know how our life is going to turn out. I know this doesn’t sound like the goal-oriented thinkers that I encourage people to...