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...
Tempting Treats
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...
Freshening Up
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...
My First Dog
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...
Sound Solutions
Many of the people reading this have the magazine in their hands (or these words on their screen) because they once went looking for...
Thanks, Pat
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...
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Don’t Adopt Littermates
STOP! Don’t do it! Whether the idea of adopting two puppies just occurred to you, or you had been planning to adopt two all along, every trainer I’ve ever met would advise you to think twice and adopt just one. Because training and socializing littermates well is more than twice as difficult as training and socializing one puppy.