‘Lost Dog’ Scams
Your dog has gotten loose. You put up signs all over the neighborhood in addition to posting pictures of your pet with your contact...
Your First Dog Might Be Your Most Aggressive
A person’s first dog is more likely to behave aggressively than a dog who lives with someone who has already had dogs. That’s the...
It’s Tick Season 12 Months a Year
By at least one estimate, the tick population has increased 15 percent since last year. These arachnids are capable of transmitting many diseases to...
Do Dogs Have Good Memories?
We frequently say in Your Dog that to teach your pet a trick, you must reward him immediately after he follows through on the...
The Right Way to Approach a Dog You Don’t Know
How many times have you seen someone try to make friends with a dog they don’t know by closing their hand into a fist...
Woodrow on the Bench
It’s hard to imagine that a book chronicling the last months of a beloved dog’s life could be anything other than heartbreakingly sad. But...
How Not to Choose a Dog
It’s easy to go to a shelter and fall in love with a little white dog that has fluffy curls, or a beautiful merle...
Words Can Harm Your Dog
You know the jingle, “Sticks and stones may hurt my bones, but words can never harm me.” It doesn’t apply when it comes to...
How Long is Too Long to Leave Your Dog Home Alone?
Search engine results tell you it’s safe to leave your dog home for 4 hours, but perhaps your gut instinct tells you otherwise. Your...
The Greatest Choking Hazard
Any number of objects can become stuck in your dog’s windpipe or at the back of his throat and create a choking hazard —...
For Giant-Breed Puppies, Less — Not More — Calcium
It would appear to make sense that a dog such as a Great Dane or Saint Bernard, or even a Labrador retriever, needs a...
Its Their Eyebrows That Make Us Love Them
You know that sad, wistful, puppy dog look our pets often get when theyre trying to communicate their needs to us, the way they make their eyes look bigger and more baby-like? Researchers reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have just discovered that dogs can achieve that look because of a small muscle above each of their eyes that allows them to intensely raise their inner eyebrows. Thats all it takes to bring out the nurturer in us.
