Cat Scratch Fever, The Rake, May 2007

Inside the hidden world of exotic-animal ownership

click to read story at rakemag.com
This story took a year to research and write and I loved almost every minute of it. I’m expecting a lot of protest letters to the editor, but feel free to comment here. There are more pictures and video at the Rake site.

Posted at 10:36 am on May 2, 2007 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Articles | read on

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Hi. I’ve been writing as a freelance journalist and content provide for twenty years. It’s hard to believe I began my career at nine years old, but that’s my story.

My web site, sarigordon.com, is the best place to see what I’ve written. I don’t quite know what this blog will be yet, probably writing about writing and writing about reading. For now, this is a fancy way of saying “page under construction.”

As a journalist, I’ve been witness to some pretty amazing things. Working for an alternative metro weekly, as any journalist knows, can be a wide and wonderful way to explore the world and the words we use to describe it. I’ve enjoyed writing features and a few regular columns for the now-defunct (a story in itself) publication, The Twin Cities Reader. Though our circulation was confined to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, I bumped up against more than a few national stories, but what I love most is the fringe

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