Hello, my name is Janet Ruttenberg. I was born at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, where my mother was working as an anesthesiologist. My father had grown up in New York City and wanted a change of scene, so after my youngest brother was born we moved to Newton, which is about fifteen minutes outside of Boston, MA. I mentioned my messing around with google translator over winter vacation in class today, but I also always have fun watching silly videos of house cats on youtube. It was also mentioned today that between my place here in Burlington and my parents home, I have one dog Hugo, six cats (Bootsy Collins, Ziggy Stardust, Wilma, Gregory, Television a.k.a. TV, and Shark), a turtle Elvis, and a late Beta fish Simon. I like that I can obtain accurate research via the web, but don't like how people often assume all the information they find on the internet is such. I would like to work in pet care, and hopefully work to make our pets' ecological footprints lower. I love domesticated animals and wildlife, but I feel it is very important to realize that our pets are just an extension of our human society, and have negative impacts on wildlife as well.
