We found Clover in the classifieds. Karen (then spouse, now ex) spotted the listing for mixed breed puppies, $50 each.
 
Clover’s mother, Cinnamon, a Chocolate Lab, was nursing a litter of 10 pups, the result of a romance with a Pointer down the road from her family’s farmhouse in Pepperell, Mass.
 
Clover was the runt. Her brothers [...]

New Hampshire Fish and Game has launched a fundraising drive to support research into “White Nose Syndrome” a mysterious disease that is decimating the brown bat population in the northeastern United States. So far, scientists have identified the fungus that gives the disease its name, but they still know little about what is actually killing [...]