Herd on the Street: Animal Stories from The Wall Street Journal Book

	Foreword	ix
	Introduction	xiii
Chapter 1	Pet Theories
1	Listening to Prozac: "Bow-Wow! I Love the Mailman!"	1
2	Surgery on an Odd Scale	5
3	A Horse Is a Horse, Unless of Course ...	10
4	Much Chow, No Hounds	14
5	Polly Wants a Scholarship to Harvard	20
6	Two-Stepping with Four Legs	23
7	Big Bird Is an Emmy Shoe-In	26
8	Barking Mad for Joyce	30
9	Little Beauties	33
10	Fido Forever	38
Chapter 2	Political Animals
11	Kill Kitty?	43
12	Anglers Away!	51
13	Bite the Lawyers	54
14	Bambi Uncensored	58
15	Horns of a Dilemma	63
16	The Military-Chimpanzee Complex	67
17	High on the Hedgehog	71
18	I've Got You, Babe	75
19	A Man Among the Predators	79
Chapter 3	Odd Ducks
20	Splat Man	91
21	Next, They'll Want a Stadium	96
22	Pinky, Phone Home	97
23	The Toad People	101
24	Elvis Has Left the Forest	104
25	Bugged in Rhode Island	108
26	The Worm Economy	112
27	Not Your Mother's Nutritionist	115
28	The Greening of Frog Dreams	119
Chapter 4	Pastoral Pursuits
29	Shear Excitement	125
30	Bucks, Sex and ...	129
31	Yoking It Up in Maine	133
32	Another Thing to Grouse About	139
33	At Least They're Not Elephants	143
34	The Polish Pickle Over Buffalo	145
35	New Zealand's Woolly Problem	149
Chapter 5	Fish Stories
36	An Operative Theory of Caviar	153
37	The Devil Ray as Angel Food?	158
38	A Wail of a Tale	161
39	A Biting Reappraisal of Sharks	165
40	If Guppies Rise Up, You'll Know Why	169
41	Getting With the Drill	172
42	Bugs, Bass and Loons in Moonlight	176
Chapter 6	Wild Things
43	Paddling with "Psycho Sam"	181
44	We'd Guess Punxsutawney Phil Is Next	187
45	Not Only That: Rudolph Sells Crack!	191
46	Feral TV	194
47	Where's Dumbo?	198
48	The Monkey Bomb	201
49	This Zoo's a Killer	206
50	Gentle Ben's Big Bad Brother	209
51	Barking Up the Right Tree	213
Chapter 7	Buzz
52	After the Oscars, Please Call Orkin	217
53	A Grubby Little Secret	222
54	The Dean of Doodlebugs	226
55	With Crickets, I'd Try a Nice Pinot Grigio	230
56	The Roach Has No Friends ...	233
57	... Save One	238
	Epilogue: Only in America	243
	Acknowledgments	245
	Index to Authors	247