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The article offers information on things to learn from pets. It presents suggestions from professional animal lovers on lessons that can be learned from pets including celebrating everything in life, to be near loved ones and getting along with anyone. According to Nicholas Dodman, author and director of the Animal Behavior Program at Tufts University, in North Grafton, Massachusetts, he and his wife learned a great lesson from their parrot, on the irrelevance of the brain size.

Looks at cat toys. Discussion of an electronic toy featuring a fake fur mouse dangling from a plastic wand called the Panic Mouse; How the Panic Mouse jerks and swings the fur mouse causing the cat to attack; Why cats have surpassed dogs as the most popular pet in United States; Comments from Doctor Nicholas Dodman, director of animal-behavior clinic at Tufts University.