SUSAN M. SEIDMAN has been writing professionally for five decades. Since l978 she has worked independently as a freelance journalist and advertising consultant. Earlier, she was a senior editor with the Foreign Policy Association, a copywriter with American Heritage Publishing Company, and the circulation promotion manager of Realites in America. While her published work has included gardening, travel, international affairs, vision handicaps and social commentary, her chief interest has long been companion animals. Her articles about them have appeared in CAT FANCY, MODERN MATURITY (now AARP T...