Carly Fox and Dennis Slade

Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen by Randy Cohen

May 9, 202627:31Society & Culture

These veterinarians enjoy their work. He says, "I'm always excited when someone from exotics says, 'Hey, do you have time tomorrow? We need to try to get a screw out of a macaw.'" A sentence never before spoken in all of...

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