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Karen Asp
Karen Asp is an award-winning journalist and author who writes about companion and farmed animals (and fitness, health, nutrition and travel) for numerous publications, including Better Homes & Gardens, O, Daily Paws, Prevention, Reader's Digest, Insider, Sentient Media, USA Today's magazine, Great Pet Care and Best Friends. She's the fur mom to a (plant-powered) Golden Retriever and Maine Coon and a foster dog mom, her first (and recent) foster being a paralyzed Pittie mix from Mississippi whom she spent 15 months socializing and nursing back to health. She volunteers regularly at her local shelter.