Adopt or Shop
Wanna see a fight? Start a debate on social media about what’s best: adopting a dog or puppy from a shelter or rescue group...
Puppy Mills and the Inadequacy of the Animal Welfare Act
Here’s something that all of us can agree on: No one should ever buy a puppy from a puppy mill. Puppy mills are horrific...
Statements Made By Dog-Training Groups in Support of Diversity
Several of the major dog training associations have addressed the issue of racism with recently crafted position statements and messages sent to members. This...
How to Increase Diversity in the Dog World
As an African American, I’ve found these past few months difficult. I’ve been examining different aspects of my personal and professional life and reflecting...
Life Lessons Learned From Training Dogs
When I first started to learn about training, it was in the world of competitive dog obedience. In that specialized niche, dog training was...
Fostering Dogs: What You Should Know
It’s a rare dog lover who hasn’t at least considered fostering a dog. Woebegone canine faces in shelter and rescue appeals tug at the...
Preventing Food-Toy “Fails”
There is an ever-widening variety of food-filled puzzles, food-dispensing toys, and “slow feeding” dishes for dogs on the market. Many trainers (and this publication)...
5 Indoor Dog Games for When You Can’t Go Out
Here are some of our favorite brain activities to help you and your dog survive the coronavirus shutdown.
Wildlife Protection Dogs
We don’t usually think of dogs as the best friends of elephants, whales, hedgehogs, Chinese Moon Bears, bandicoots, or white-footed voles, but their incredible...
Howling in the Uncanny Valley
There’s nothing modern about human beings anthropomorphising animals in stories; some of our earliest spiritual practice is called “animism,” and it’s common for traditional...
Porn-Sniffing K9’s? Growing Demand for Electronic-Storage Detection Dogs
Humans have trained dogs to use their amazing noses to identify all kinds of things – explosives, illegal drugs, bedbugs, cancer, even ancient burial...
What You Should Do (and Not Do) If You Find a Lost Dog
If you are a dog lover and you spend any amount of time on Facebook or any of those community website/discussion groups such as...
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Spay Surgery Is Not Required to Stop Canine Reproduction
While estimated numbers for 2023 and 2024 won’t be available for another year or two, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that the number of euthanized pets will be far higher than the lowest historic counts.