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It's easy to see why dog rescue is a mushrooming culture. Turning a troubled person's life around is difficult, but rescuers with commitment... →
Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new... →
Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and... →
Some rescue groups are highly organized, experienced, well-funded, nearly professional. Others are small amateur operations run out of garages and... →
Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especially powerful, sometimes inexplicable, ways.
Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.
Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our... →
I owe my dogs much - more than I can say - but they are not my 'companions' - as if we voluntarily chose to hang out together but none of us... →
I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole... →
I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are millions of them needing... →
Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim of a fatal dog attack will be a burglar or human... →
When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a lot of company at book... →
Owners sometimes think their dogs have already suffered so much that they couldn't possibly inflict any more criticism. Yet it's that very... →
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