Sassafras Lowrey
Sassafras Lowrey is an author and dog trainer and is the 2013 winner of the Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award. Sassafras’ books have been honored by Dog Writers Association of America. Sassafras holds an MFA from Goddard College in Fiction.
Sassafras is the author of Chew This Journal: An Activity Book for You and Your Dog and Tricks in the City: For Daring Dogs and the Humans that Love Them
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When a Cup is Not a Cup
I’m infamous among my friends and colleagues for asking people if they are aware that their dogs are overweight. It’s because I have seen firsthand how fat dogs suffer in their senior years when they are too heavy to exercise without pain! And their burden of carrying extra pounds makes the ordinary aches and pains of arthritis even worse. AND YET, I have to give myself a stern talking-to from time to time about helping my older dog stay trim.