Editorial

A couple of months ago, I was in the house, gathering stuff to take with me and the dogs on a hike: Bait bag for...

You may have noticed that the April 2021 cover looked a little more packed with article descriptions than usual. We’ve been tinkering a bit...

When I was 13 years old, my 19-year-old sister came home with her 3-year-old hound-mix, Frecklebelly (FB for short), and FB’s 10 puppies. My...

Many of the people reading this have the magazine in their hands (or these words on their screen) because they once went looking for...

This is the first issue of WDJ’s 24th year of publication – wow! The only time that it genuinely feels like it’s been that...

Writing something for this page is almost always the last thing I do before I send the issue to the printer. This time, though,...

I've always been sort of a wuss about my dogs, but just typing the headline above made tears spring into my eyes. Otto is...

Every month, it seems, we have an opportunity to share with you another pandemic-inspired article. This month, it is Stephanie Colman’s piece on “do-it-yourself”...

September is when we editors are expected to write “back to school” pieces. Dog magazine editors tweak the usual parenting advice about helping kids...

About five years ago, we ran an article about “counter surfing” – the euphemism for the act of dogs taking any food they can...

One of my sisters – the one who has three little dogs – lives just a few miles away from me. Even so, we...

I’m incredibly fortunate to have had a career that has allowed me to work from my home for the past 25 years or so....