I’m always excited to learn about new organzations that work tirelessly behind the scenes to do good things. So when I recently saw an ad for the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SM), I felt compelled to go to their website immediately and learn everything I could about the group. The mission of the Search Dog Foundation [...]

This week (May 18 through 24) is National Dog Bite Prevention Week, and although the majority of attention-getting dog bites pertain to dog v. human, I can attest to the fact that dog v. dog bites are just as traumatic and harrowing. I know of what I speak, because when I was a child, I was [...]

  Back when we knew Greta was going to be a part of our household, but she had yet to join our lives, I was reading a lot of “dog training” books. A lot. One of them (who can remember which one?) mentioned that when training your dog to “go” on command, you need to [...]