Tove Danovich

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Writer focusing on animals and the human-animal relationship. Author of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them. Find me weekly: tovedanovich.substack.com

Bag of Joyride sour strawberry strips candy. “80% less sugar. No junk. Amazing taste.” The bag says.
A mottled grayish moth with a very fuzzy head extends his little tongue into the bottom of an empty cereal bowl. There’s a hint of a spoon in the background.
Still of Mufasa from The Lion King. Good dad. Caring leader. Great grooming.
A lazuli bunting perches on a grass stem in the middle of a field. He has a perfectly indigo blue head, copper neck and off white belly with a black tail.
Have you filled your bird bath today? Help prevent heat stroke. It’s baby birdie season! -the birds, squirrels, and bees.
After network executives responded positively to the character, Bartlett developed the show's cast and setting using inspiration from people and locations from his childhood in Seattle, Washington, Portland, Oregon, and Brooklyn, New York. Bartlett created the pilot episode in his living room in 1994, and full production began in 1995. The series transitioned from clay animation in its early concept stages to cel animation for its first three seasons, before later adopting digital ink-and-paint techniques for its final two seasons.
An Odyssey with a Virginia license plate TRADWF
A woman with a large tan backpack stands next to a small pittie with a bag on each side of their body.
Red BMW with license plate reading “GOONER”
A photo of a packet of butter lettuce seed next to a small brown envelope saying SEED OF THANKS and a spoon with one seed on it.
For the first time since 1986, your donation to The Sun will not be tax-deductible. Following a routine audit precipitated by financial losses we experienced during COVID, the IRS decided that what we do here does not differ significantly from the activity of a commercial publication. Yes, we hold workshops and retreats, collaborate with educators, and provide free subscriptions to prisoners, classrooms, and readers facing hardship, but mostly we publish a magazine, which is not a recognized charitable activity. As a result, our federal tax-exempt status has been revoked.
Photo of A WOMAN IN THE POLAR NIGHT by Christianne Ritter
Two Canada geese parents swim with their six newly hatched goslings across a lake
Looking up at a tree canopy on a blue sky day
A photo showing a bungee cord lock in action. I simply cannot explain this. It’s black plastic and locks cord in place
A very large mostly black bumblebee with a splash of yellow on her butt and head. She’s on top of a stick being held in someone’s hand.
A black dog with a gray face, fresh from a bath. She is the most perfect and beautiful dog in the world.
Author holding the book UNDER THE HENFLUENCE by Tove Danovich next to a shelf that has a chicken statue on it.
Sign on a telephone pole saying “do your friends keep giving you items with chickens on them” with a QR code for UNDER THE HENFLUENCE
A Canada goose sits on eggs next to a stream. It’s very peaceful for a few seconds and then a BLUR runs past the goose, she lunges up suddenly to bite it, and the video abruptly ends. (It is a rabbit running too close to her nest)
Screenshot of goodreads review. 4 stars. Well. Now I own six chickens. March 28, 2026
A blonde woman absolutely ecstatic to be feeding a piece of lettuce to a capybara. The capybara is a perfect creature with a face so calm it seems unreal. He looks almost as large as the woman because they are both sitting
A woman looks at a small fluffy chicken while holding a copy of the book UNDER THE HENFLUENCE by Tove Danovich.
A white woman with bangs wears a red backpack and waders. She smiles big!
Photograph of a grocery freezer shelf with a line of “Protein pints” ice cream in different flavors with 30g of protein. On sale for $7.99 American dollars. Located just above the Ben and Jerry’s.
A Chinese dragon puppet is held up by people blocked off by caution tape. On the left and right of the frame, people hold up phones to take a picture.
A copy of The Sun sits on a person’s lap. They’re sitting in a park next to a river. The sky is blue. The sun is shining.
A woman stands with her hands on her hips. She has chest waders over a dark green sweater and looks absolutely thrilled.
A goose swims alone in the fog. A misty shadow of trees peeks out in the distance. The line between water and sky is hard to see except for the ripples on the river.
We Lived Happily during the War And when they bombed other people's houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house- I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us lived happily during the war.
An old black dog lays on a couch covered in a white sheet and blanket and pillows. Three paws are scrunched together and one is out long.
A bedraggled bald eagle on the ground
A small mug of coffee next to a large glass of water that looks chalky
Paperback cover of TILT
"Ben Weatherstaff, he answered, and then he added with a surly chuckle, "I'm lonely mysel' except when he's with me," and he jerked his thumb toward the robin. "He's th' only friend I've got." "I have no friends at all," said Mary. "I never had. My Ayah didn't like me and I never played with anyone." It is a Yorkshire habit to say what you think with blunt frankness, and old Ben Weatherstaff was a Yorkshire moor man. "Tha' an' me are a good bit alike," he said. "We was wove out of th' same cloth. We're neither of us good lookin' an' we're both of us as sour as we look. We've got the same nasty tempers, both of us, I'll warrant."
she should ever see him, but she knew that if she did she should not like him, and he would not like her, and that she should only stand and stare at him and say nothing, though she should be wanting dreadfully to ask him why he had done such a queer thing. [highlighted text]” People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises." [end highlight] She thought of the robin and of the way he seemed to sing his song at her, and as she remembered the tree-top he perched on she stopped rather suddenly on the path. "I believe that tree was in the secret garden—I feel sure it was," she said. "There was à wall round the place and there was no door."
A blurry hawk is chased in the sky by crows
I'm contacting you today to urge you to vote against H.R 845, disingenuously referred to as the "pet and livestock act". This bill would remove protections for the grey wolf in Oregon as well as other states. Though the wolf has rebounded from extinction, there are still only 200 of them in Oregon and each one is under threat. Grey wolves, despite what some are claiming, are get from a "recovered" species. Threats from landowners as well as habitat fragmentation continue to harm wolf populations. More importantly, the years since wolf populations have risen has shown the importance of returning predators like the wolf to our ecosystems. Wolves' impact on elk populations and other grazers are beneficial for songbird species as well as important ecosystem engineers like beavers. They also balance out coyote populations. Time and time again, we've seen that killing wolves doesn't benefit livestock owners, it just disrupts the healthy ecosystem and creates more issues in the form of overgrazing by prey species, disruption of predator dynamics, and so on.
REAL ESTATE EXCLUSIVE Jeffrey Epstein's antique Viennese desk kept inside his creepy NYC home heads to auction — the latestin a secret sale that has already netted $100K By Emily Davis 46 Published Dec. 12, 2025, 6:45 a.m. ET
Woman with an open notebook smiles with delight. She sits next to a river. A fuzzy lump of nutria is hunched over himself about 3 ft away.
A white woman with long hair smiles insanely as she holds a gray chicken in her arms
Screenshot from website. EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL BEYOND HUMAN Photo of a large sturgeon swimming while framed in a window or box. What's In a Name? "Herman" should have his own name. And his own story. BY TOVE DANOVICH Coming soon
Many many copies of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them laid on top of each other. Each has the title and a photo of a distinguished yet grumpy illustrated chicken on the cover.
A pine tree which looks like a shadow against a slightly purple sky. The outline of a heron can be seen on one of the branches.
Gift boxes full of pears and one in each box of four is wrapped in gold foil.
Cover of A Sick Day for Amos McGee Snow Day Amos McGee Written by Philip C. Stead Illustrated by Erin E. Stead
A pot of beans merrily simmering away.
A giant box of yellow and red apples with a sign reading “local Ludacrisp Apples” (1.50/lb)
So many zines and chapbooks and journals in different styles. More than a few are about animals.