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On Guard – What to Do When Your Dog Starts Resource Guarding

I confess: Every once in a while, I take advantage of my role as WDJ’s editor and ask an author to write about something that...

You Guessed It

Until now, in the 20 years I’ve been fostering dogs and puppies for my local shelters, I’ve kept only one. Six years ago, Woody...

On The Fence

I’ve been fostering a very special scruffy-faced pup for a little more than two months now. It pains me to say that, while I...
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Benefits of Mixed Breed Dogs

In 2021, the Nationwide pet insurance company reached a landmark of actively insuring more than a million pets. At the same time, the company...
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Pet Food Companies: Show Us the Analyses of Your Dog Foods

Last month, I encouraged you to ask the makers of the foods you feed your dogs for complete nutrient analyses of those products. If...
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Let’s Raise Our Expectations For Dog Food

We often encourage our readers to ask dog food makers for the “complete nutrient analyses” for the products they feed to their dogs. These...

Who We Are

I didn’t mention it last month, but this is the start of WDJ’s 25th year of publication. These milestone anniversaries call for a bit of...

Don’t Have a Cow

When I was a teenager, I had a Jersey cow, and I had to milk her two times a day. No one made me...

Barking with Joy

I adopted my dog Otto, seen in the photo with me, from my local shelter. He had been brought to the shelter by a...

Sunrise, Sunset

I recently fostered a litter of eight puppies for my local shelter. Every time I foster a litter, I develop a favorite puppy – and...

Pretty As A Picture

There’s a Twitter hashtag that never fails to make me laugh: #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob. It’s where people share photos taken by some of the less imaginative...

New Solutions

After 23 years of editing this publication, there are some topics I could speak knowledgeably about for hours to any random crowd of dog...

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Straight talk for senior adopters

The older we get, the more we need a backup plan for our dogs, in the event of our deaths.