Page 4 2024 Animal Stories Lincoln Daily News February 2024 Welcome to the 2024 Animals Stories Pet Magazine, a publication of Lincoln Daily News. We started this magazine during the COVID pandemic, recognizing that while we were in “lock down” our pets were all the more valuable to our general wellbeing. That was in 2020. When that first edition was finished, we realized how much fun it had been to put it together, and how much we had enjoyed the project that made us temporarily forget that as a newspaper we were also somewhat limited in what we could do for our readers. While we skipped doing the magazine in 2022, we missed it so much that in 2023 we brought it back and were pleased that Farm & Home Supply in Lincoln chose to partner with us by providing $50 gift cards to the Animal Stories Pet Contest winners. Again this year Farm & Home is providing gift cards to the contest winners, and each pet selected reported to Farm & Home to personally accept the prize and, of course, pose for a photo for Lincoln Daily News. In the magazine this year, every photo submitted is included, though some were disqualified from judging. Those disqualified included pets that did not live in Logan County as was the rule, and when multiple photos were submitted of the same animal in one category, only one picture was eligible for judging. Welcome to the 2024 Animals Stories Pet Magazine In addition to the contest, we have the Rainbow Bridge section which allows pet parents to memorialize their pets that wait for them at the foot of the Rainbow Bridge. When the pet owner arrives in the meadow, their pets will greet them, and together they will cross the bridge into eternity. Each year we attempt to feature articles that we hope readers will find interesting, educational, or just downright fun. This year a lot of the focus in the articles is on pets who have jobs as support, comfort, or therapy animals. These are animals that are beloved members of a family just as every pet is, but they have special talents and special training that enables them to be a significant helper to their human companion. We also have some tips on what to do when you are allergic to animals, and how you could possibly still have a wonderful relationship with a beloved pet. Look for a cute story about what happens when pet mom brings home a new pet dad and see if you agree that the pet trains the parent, not vice versa! Continued --
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