Happy 9th Adoption Anniversary, Caroline!
After losing four companion animals to illness in the last year, I am celebrating the spring birthdays and adoption anniversaries of six who are still with me. Today June 21 is Caroline’s day, the 9th anniversary of the day Greg and I brought her home. PETA’s fieldworkers found and rescued this petite mare with her…
Read MoreGreg Fund Featured in The Foundation for Enhancing Communities Annual Report
I am honored to share that The Foundation for Enhancing Communities (TFEC) has just released its 2022 annual report, and has chosen to feature the Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund with an in-depth profile. TFEC, based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has managed the Greg Fund since January 2022. Established in 1920 as one of the first…
Read MorePETA’s 8th Annual Greg Award to Animal Rescue Kharkiv, Ukraine
On Greg’s 60th birthday today, I have an extra special honor: PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has just presented its 8th annual Gregory J. Reiter Animal Rescue Award to Animal Rescue Kharkiv (ARK) in Ukraine. Animal rescue is heroic work even in the best of times — but imagine rescuing horses,…
Read MoreRemembering Greg on his 60th Birthday
My late husband Greg was born June 6, 1963 — 60 years ago today. As one way to keep Greg’s memory alive, I share here the tribute I wrote in the first weeks after his death, and delivered at the celebration of his life on December 6, 2015 — which still holds up very well…
Read MoreProtesting the Preakness
On the afternoon of Saturday, May 20, I joined a group of 50 animal advocates at Baltimore, Maryland’s Pimlico Race Course to protest the Preakness Stakes — second in the horse racing industry’s Triple Crown series, between the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs and the Belmont Stakes in New York. As we chanted “You bet,…
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