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Dear Readers: Remember that kid's song that goes, "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands?" In the New York Times online this morning we read a Metropolitan Diary entry about a little girl on the subway just after the Paris attacks who got the whole car to sing along. You can find it at NYTimes.com. Just search for Fighting Fear with Nursery Songs. Pretty soon you will be clapping and stomping and shouting "Hooray!"

Dear Porky & Buddy: I am adopting a twelve week old kitten. She will be coming home soon to join me and I am wondering how I go about litter training her? Signed, Jim

Dori has one of those back stories that makes you sort of, what’s the word . . . furious. She was abandoned in the TOPS parking lot in Pulaski and was trying desperately to get into anyone’s car so she could get to a safe place to have her—yes, you guessed it—four babies, just two days later. But we don’t have time to be furious, especially now that Dori is happy and safe. All her babies were adopted and now she's ready for her forever home.

Readers: We’ve talked about this last fall and in prior years, but we still get questions about dogs left out in the cold, so it never hurts to repeat ourselves. THE COLD IS HERE. And it never hurts to repeat ourselves—so we want to remind dog owners and dog lovers of the New York statute about shelter for dogs.

Charming is a happy and handsome boy, about five months old, who was rescued along with his sisters from under still another porch in Oswego.

Dear Porky and Buddy: Last week you talked again about shelters for dogs left outdoors and I have no problem with that for most dogs. But my dog, Bubba, is a Siberian Husky and even if he had a dog house, he wouldn’t go in it. Seriously. That breed came from Siberia! Bubba likes being outside in the coldest weather we get. In fact, the only time he seems to like being indoors is in the summer when it’s really hot out and then he finds the coolest spot in the house with air conditioning. So why should I be forced to have a shelter for him when he absolutely doesn’t need it. Signed, John

This little mare is Indy. Her tattoo name is Saratoga Dolly. DOB: 2-23-1999. She is very good with kids and other animals, about 15.2 hands. She is good with the vet and farrier, and good in a stall or run in shed.

Junior is a sleek, cuddly black youngster with a white tip on his tail. He is very playful and gets along well with young kids and other cats in his foster home.

Dear Porky and Buddy: My big old black lab, Pluto, does not run around outside as much as he used to and I am noticing that when he walks on the hardwood floors in my house I can hear his nails clicking on the floor. I suppose I need to figure out how to trim his nails, but I don’t have a clue even where to begin. Any tips? Signed, Linda