Many dog owners eventually face everyday decisions about equipment, toys, and environments that shape how their dog behaves at home and outdoors. Should a dog wear a harness or a collar?…
Walk into almost any living room at bedtime and you’ll see it.
A plush, orthopedic dog bed sits empty in the corner. The dog stretches out on the cool hardwood floor a few feet away instead.…
A lot of new dog owners assume the fix for a puller sits in a pet store aisle. Swap the flat collar for a front-clip harness, or the harness for a martingale collar, and the leash will finally go slack.…
You’re scrolling through your phone, thumb moving faster than your brain is really following.
Then a paw lands on your wrist.
A second later, your hand disappears, buried under thirty or sixty pounds of dog, warm and immovable, planted directly on the one body part you were using.…
One dog, a scruffy terrier mix named Biscuit, grabs the corner of his blanket in his teeth on a chilly evening, drags it three feet across the bedroom floor, and flops down on top of it with a sigh.…
Picture two moments.
In the first, a dog is mid-wrestle with another dog in the yard. For a second or two, he plants himself squarely across his playmate’s shoulders.…
You’re barely awake. The room is still gray with early light.
Somewhere in the last twenty minutes, forty pounds of dog has relocated from the foot of the bed to directly on top of your ribcage.…
Dogs turn out to be surprisingly easy to study when it comes to sleep because their brains cycle through sleep much like ours do.
That overlap is why a twitching, paddling, softly whimpering dog on the couch isn’t a mystery to researchers.…
It’s one of the first things people say when they see a dog thread himself between someone’s ankles: he’s scared.
A car backfires, a stranger gets too close, the vacuum cleaner switches on, or a sidewalk suddenly fills with strangers and other dogs.…
A dog walks a slow circle near your feet, then draws one paw across the rug two or three times before finally lowering herself down. There’s no dirt flying and no floor gouged out.…