2023 Animal Stories Magazine

Page 4 2023 Animal Stories Lincoln Daily News February 22. 2023 Welcome to the 2023 Animal Stories Online Magazine, a special publication of Lincoln Daily News. This is one of the all time favorite publications of LDN. Staff enjoy writing and reading the stories that are part of the magazine and hope that you will too. Among the stories this year is a piece by Derek Hurley that is written with a little bit of a tongue in cheek attitude, but is also research based, and personal experience based about animal behavior. It is a great article, and we hope you enjoy it. Of course, not all animals are pets. In our magazine this year you will hear about two animals in our community that have specific jobs to do, and they do them very well. A Tail of Two Dogs will introduce you to Lincoln Police Department K-9 Officer Ace and his handler Office Ryan Sullivan. The second of the two dogs is Maverick, a trained comfort and therapy dog, who is also the official mascot for the local Marine Corps League. Maverick’s owners and handlers are Gene and Marsha Hickey. The dogs are very different in their attitudes and their jobs. If we gave each one a mantra, Ace’s would be “To serve and protect,” while Maverick’s would be “I’m a lover not a fighter.” In this world, there are basically two kinds of people, those who love animals and those who do not. And there are some fence sitters who say they can “take them or leave them.” We think the “take them or leave them’ group could be those who have just not met the pet- love-of-their-life yet, but that day will come, we hope. 2023 Animal Stories Online Magazine Continued --