One afternoon, several years ago my cat Captain Jack Sparrow was with me in my backyard. He strolled up to a glazed flower pot saucer filled with water and started drinking. The saucer was perched upon a concrete stepping stone at the corner of my patio. Birds took baths in the water, squirrels drank the
Paralyzed by the staggering number of choices that face you at the pet supply store? Our list of approved foods will help you winnow down the candidates. Below, we’ve listed more than 50 companies that collectively make more than 1,000 different dry dog foods that meet our selection criteria. To think that these foods make
Many of the people reading this have the magazine in their hands (or these words on their screen) because they once went looking for an answer to a problem they were having with their dog. They may have Googled the problem and found a WDJ article on the topic in their search results. Or maybe
Lots of us enjoy bringing our dogs to the pet supply store when we need to buy food. Buy you should really have your hands free, so you can pull bags down and read the fine print on the labels. Which nutritional adequacy standard does each candidate meet? How much fat and protein do they
If your dog repeats a behavior that you don’t like day after day, despite your efforts to punish him by yelling, scaring, or hurting him, you’re not actually punishing him. More significantly, you don’t have to punish him to get the behavior to stop! There are more effective techniques that feel a lot better for
The Bucket Game is used to teach a dog to signal his consent for whatever husbandry tasks we might need or want to subject him to, such as brushing, nail-trimming, ear-cleaning, or eyedrops administration. Once dogs understand that they can control their handler’s actions, that their signal to stop will be respected and their consent
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Lexi before being lost. Over the past few weeks, I found myself following posts detailing the stories of two lost dogs – and the extraordinary lengths that people went to in order to find them. Yes! They were both found, and, weirdly, both were found on Monday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! I don’t know
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In my volunteer job as a cat socializer at a private shelter near my home, I met a lot of cats. But the one that stood out the most for me in the two years I spent petting kitties was a special guy named Blue. I first saw Blue on a day when I walked
