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...
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 –...
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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?”