A Diagnosis for Foster Puppy Coco’s Strange Gait
Since I last wrote about Coco, the little dog with the strange gait (her front feet move normally, but she can only bunny hop...
Read Your Dog’s Medicine Label Carefully
The last time my senior dog, Otto, had a wellness examination, our veterinarian recommended that I start giving him a medication that treats arthritis...
Affection Can’t Hurt
This is a guest blog post that touched us deeply. Its author, Jenny Efimova, KPA CTP, is the founder and owner of Dogminded. Efimova...
Acorns Can Pose a Danger to Dogs
Not that anyone asked, but my favorite tree in the whole world is the oak tree. We have dozens of species of oaks in...
Bits Of Advice For New Dog Owners
Last week, I “fostered” a dog for four nights – not a big deal. He was a hound-mix, about a year old, who had...
An Update on Foster Puppy Coco
If only it was summer. I have been so eager for the end of the hot, dry weather that characterizes every summer in my...
Haunted by a Mystery Hero Dog
Have you ever read a short little news piece – a bit of journalistic fluff – that you nevertheless couldn’t stop thinking about? Maybe...
My Latest Foster Dog Is Something of a Mystery
There’s an old Chinese parable that goes something like this:
A farmer gets a horse, which soon runs away. A neighbor says, "Oh, so sorry...
Keeping Your Dogs At a Healthy Weight Can Be Tricky
Over the past two years, my senior dog, Otto, has started having trouble maintaining his body mass at a healthy weight. He has had...
Rescue Workers From Across the Country Join the California Wildfire Animal Rescue Efforts
Last week, I mentioned that there were a number of people coming to help locally with the emergency animal shelters established here in Butte...
Disaster Readiness – Yes, Again!
If you have been following the weather news, you might have guessed what this post was going to be about, am I right?
So, we...
When Dog Ownership Gets Tough
Dog ownership is not all puppy breath and humorous or beautiful Instagram photos of our dogs; there are times when it is breathtakingly difficult....
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A Fish Story
What’s worse than a skunked dog? A dog who has rolled in a long-dead, rotten salmon carcass. Rolled in it at length, luxuriously, with relish while ignoring the calls and whistles of her foster provider—even after being abandoned by the other dogs, who did heed their owners’ calls.