Archive from 7/16/07 – Got pets? Jon Katz does – four dogs, four donkeys, a cat, several chickens, a herd of sheep, and a giant steer named Elvis – although he considers some of them livestock. Katz, who frequently writes about his menagerie for the online magazine Slate, was our guest last month to discuss the goings-on his upstate New York farm, and his book “Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm” (Villard, 2007).