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Dog Diapers

Whether for incontinence, urine leaking, heat cycles, or male dog wraps for “leg lifting,” dog diapers are simple and convenient.
Dog walking in the snowy weather. A middle-aged woman wearing a yellow winter jacket is walking with a Bernese mountain dog along a snowy street.

Beware of Rock Salt and Other Ice-Melting Products

If you live where roads and sidewalks are treated with ice-melting rock salt or other chemicals, you need to protect your dog’s paws!
Traveling With Pet On Airplane

Should You Drive or Fly Your Dog Long-Distance?

Are you planning some long-distance travel with your dog? Here are some important things to consider when deciding whether you should drive or fly with your dog.
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Driving Long-Distance with Your Dog

Best practices for safe long-distance travel with your dog in a car.
Dogs traveling by airplane

How to Travel With a Dog on a Plane

There are many things to know and do in advance when flying with your dog in cabin or in a carrier in cargo. Here’s what you need to know before bringing your dog on a plane.
The bow wow buddy is a toy that helps prevent swallowing the end of bully sticks.

Review of the Bow Wow Buddy

The Bow Wow Buddy is a safety chew/bully stick holder that prevents your dog from swallowing or choking on the end of a bully stick. It’s not perfect – we would like to use it with more slender sticks – but it definitely helps increase bully stick safety.

All About Elevated Dog Bowls

Raised food and water bowls may be good for some dogs with specific health needs but are potentially harmful for others.
dogs playing with collar can injure them

5 Things I Would Never Do With My Dogs

There is a trend on TikTok right now where various experts are sharing “things they would never do” after some years of experience in...
dog with dog sitter

Dog Sitter Checklist

At last! You have an opportunity to travel, go on vacation, or attend a fabulous “destination wedding.” But what about your best friend? Who...
outside dog kennel

Outside Dog Kennels

Maybe your home lacks a fenced-in yard. Or maybe it doesn’t, but you want to protect its lush landscaping. Or maybe your dog needs...

Which Dogs Need Raincoats?

A dog raincoat keeps your dog warm in cold, wet weather. If your dog is one of a single-coated breeds (such as Boxers, Dalmatians,...
safe stick toys

Safe Stick Toys for Dogs

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Informing? Or Selling?

A couple of days ago, I received a text from a dog-training client, wondering about a video she had just watched—and which she linked in the text. “Is meat meal bad for dogs?” she asked. She followed that message with, “I get that she’s selling her own pet food, but is it (meat meal) that bad?”