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...
Socially Conscious Sheltering
One might imagine that the world of animal sheltering would be filled with people who care about animals and want to save lives –...
Do The Work To Keep Your Dog Comfortable During New Experiences
In November, I went to a seminar about dog behavior and training and, for the first time in my life, brought a dog so...
Take a Hike! (With Your Dog)
I love hiking with my dogs, and one of my favorite things about living in the Pacific Northwest is the abundance of dog friendly...
Dog Kisses: Is Your Dog Really Kissing You?
You either love it or hate it: the wet, warm sensation of a dog licking your face. Many of us seek out this kind...
Service Dog Scams
Imagine scraping, scrimping, and saving all your hard-earned dollars to realize a long-held dream – the purchase of a well-trained service dog for yourself,...
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What If You Get the Wrong Dog?
It’s a sad fact (but a fact nevertheless) that sometimes people adopt a dog or buy a puppy that turns out to quite unsuited for life with those people.