A Home for the Holidays

By Kayla Chandler More families adopt a pet during the winter holidays than at any other time of year, according to the Helen Woodward Animal Center’s website. A well-known Christmas adoption myth is that pets given as holiday gifts would eventually end up back in a shelter. But Kathryn Newton, a Texas Tech student from Austin, Texas, […]

Kittens! So Cute—But Proceed with Caution

By Maddy McCarty, Nicole Crites, Hannah Hipp and Alyssa Herzog An adorable, fluffy kitten appears at your doorstep. Do you feed her? Do you pick him up? These are questions with which many Texas Tech students, faculty and staff have had to grapple over the years. David Perlmutter, dean of the Tech College of Media & […]