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...
Finding the Best Dry Dog Food with Meat or Meat Meal (Or Both)
A few years ago, we added a column in our “Approved Dry Dog Foods” tables – an additional data point for people who are...
An overabundance of needy dogs
My friend Leonora, owner of tiny Samson (my dog Woody’s BFF), is starting to search for a second dog. It’s been over a year...
Limited Ingredient Dog Food – How to Find the Best Dog Food for Allergies...
So much of what’s on dog food labels has to do with marketing, rather than nutrition. The phrase “limited ingredient” falls somewhere in between.
There...
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Old Dog, New Dog
I had the opportunity to read a pre-publication proof of WDJ contributor Kathy Callahan’s newest book, co-authored with Helen St. Pierre, and I can’t recommend the book strongly enough. Old Dog, New Dog helps dog owners anticipate the potential pitfalls of bringing a new young dog into a home already inhabited by a senior dog—and adroitly steer around them in order to seamlessly create a joyful, trauma-free blended canine family.