8 a.m. Pick up the Amazon box left at your front door. Really, what’s important isn’t what’s inside the box — it’s the box. Leave out the box in the center of the kitchen for the cats to jump inside. Noon. Turn the same box upside down and cut mouse holes in the side for
You know how you felt being quarantined, trapped inside your home. Bored, lonely, isolated. Still, you had Netflix and an array of TV and cable options. You could pick up a book or use services like Zoom to chat with others. Think about it. Our cats are under quarantine 24/7 every day without TV or
The shape, size gaits, temperament, and abilities of many breeds have been radically altered over time to meet current demand for certain fashions. Breeders who produce dogs that display extreme deviations from historic breed standards may experience a bump in popularity and thus profitability, but often, the dogs suffer. The inbreeding practices that quickly produce
We often read discussions of whether dogs experience guilt; we’ve published a few, too. But here is a twist I don’t think I’ve ever seen discussed: A dog owner’s guilt over something related to their dog ownership. Many of us who are old enough to have owned dogs before the advent of positive-reinforcement-based dog training
