Drug Ads for Veterinary Products
Something I noticed while on the elliptical machine at the gym (while trying to notice anything but my heart and respiration rate): There are...
Happy Birthday Karen Pryor
I read the headline with disbelief – “Karen Pryor turns 90 this week!” How can that be possible? It seems like it was just...
Editorial Independence
I’m going to expand here on an exchange that was sparked in the comments section of the online version of a WDJ article that...
A New Strain of Tick-Borne Disease
I'm just back from a week's vacation, wherein my husband and I picked up his grandson from a suburb of Boston and drove to...
Our New Prescription Dog Food List
In the May issue of WDJ, you’ll see an article about prescription dog foods, as well as some tables that list information about all...
How Dog Ownership Has Changed
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how different the experience of dog ownership is today than it was in my youth.
In the April...
An Update on Recent Foster Dogs & Rescues
I’ve been doing a lot of fostering and co-fostering and rescuing lately, and I’ve written about it here and on the WDJ Instagram page,...
Protein and Senior Dogs: Does My Dog Need a High, Moderate, or Low Protein...
I just used WDJ’s new searchable dry dog food database to look for potential new foods to feed my 14-year-old dog, Otto. One goal...
Interesting Dog Breed DNA Test Results On My Foster Puppies
Whether or not the dog DNA tests that purport to reveal the breeds that have gone into your mixed-breed dog are accurate, they are...
When Your Dog Hurts, What Should You Do?
A few weeks ago I shared that my 14-year-old mixed-breed, Otto, was showing signs of age-related dementia. He’s also showing more discomfort related to...
Looking for Lower-Fat Dog Food for Overweight Dogs
I’ve written a few times lately about how excited I am to be able to search for dog foods with certain attributes using WDJ’s...
Fostering Adolescent Dogs Takes Patience and Experience
We all have different breaking points as dog owners. I’m currently fostering a dog who is really barky – whose immediate, reflexive response to...
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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.