By Alejandro E. Trimper Important note: I am not a veterinarian or a pet nutritionist. This essay is our personal experience with our own animals, not medical advice. Please talk to your vet before changing any animal's diet, especially if they have an existing condition or are very young, very old, pregnant, nursing, or on medication. Let me ruin the ending in a useful way, as I so often like to do. This piece eventually gets to a freeze-dried raw food brand called Midwest Legacy Beef , and here is the discount code TG10 . If that is all you came for, you have it. If you are here for the story, and I hope you are, let's get comfortable. Because this is not where the story starts. It starts with a cat who was not supposed to live and a dog who decided my husband was worth keeping. It runs through years of expensive bags, good intentions, two unraveling endings, and one promise made in a kitchen at one in the morning. It is about food. It is also about the promise we make when ...
What a Certificate of Authenticity Should Actually Tell You A buyer’s guide to evaluating the document, the process behind it, and the right questions to ask before you buy. by Alejandro E Trimper Not long ago, in an essay on Collecting Keith Haring's subway drawings published in Incollect Magazine, I made what I thought was a passing observation: a Certificate of Authenticity should not be treated as proof simply because it uses the word "certificate" . That sentence did quiet work in my inbox. Collectors wrote asking what their own certificates were actually worth. Dealers wrote asking where I drew the line between seller documentation and authentication. Galleries wrote about how often serious documentation gets reduced to a single piece of paper. New buyers, more than anyone, asked the simplest and most important question of all: how do I know what I am holding? I'll preface this by saying YES, I know some of this will be repetitive. It's not because I like ...