Andrew Adam Newman of the New York Times, on why sales of pet food cookbooks are suddenly on the rise: "A month ago, the thought of preparing home-cooked meals for a dog or cat might have seemed obsessive even for the most devoted pet lovers. But with tainted pet food being blamed for at least 16 pet deaths — and some veterinarians predicting hundreds more to follow — preparing lamb stew for the family pet suddenly sounds sensible to at least a few more people." As pet health writer Christie Keith said in the San Francisco Chronicle a few weeks ago, "The human race and its assorted domesticated animals have managed to survive and reproduce for hundreds of thousands,... More