Buying dog food is starting to feel a lot like buying toothpaste: Whitening? Brightening? Fluoride? Wholecare? Sensitive? Advanced Care? How’s a person to choose? If you’re trying to decide what to feed your dog, you may find yourself equally confused. Gone are the days when you simply went to the store to pick up a […]
I get the questions all the time. “Isn’t working with shelter animals too sad?” “Don’t you want to take them all home?” “How can you do it?” The answers I give people are usually long and involved. So here’s the short version: 1) Yes, working with shelter animals can be very, very sad. 2) While […]
How do you recognize an unfriendly dog? Is it when he growls or isn’t wagging his tail? It’s true that growling can mean, “Give me space” and the absence of a tail wag may be telling you to keep your distance, but this isn’t always the case. In fact, if you wait for these signs […]
How much time each week do you spend walking your dog? Dog owners typically walk an average of 300 minutes per week, compared to 168 minutes for people who don’t have dogs, according to the ASPCA. So that’s about 43 minutes a day of dog walking. It may sound like a lot, but is it […]