Dog Park Etiquette and Perils

I love my local off-leash dog park! Unfortunately, some dogs and their handlers make my visits less than ideal.
In today’s mail, the September issue of The Whole Dog Journal arrived. It has an exceptional article about off-leash dog parks. It is subtitled: Rules of Dog-Park Etiquette and Deportment for Dogs and their Handlers.
It details many [...]

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Canine Mutiny: Dog Owners Fight Insurers

By M. P. MCQUEEN – WSJ.com – State Lawmakers Aim to Stop Practice of Denying Coverage To Homes With Certain Breeds – Dog owners are biting back at the insurance industry.

There is a push by lawmakers and animal-welfare groups to ban the growing insurance-industry practice of refusing to write homeowners' policies for people who own [...]

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Letter carriers worry about being bitten by dogs

By Tom Mitchell – LEADER TIMES – KITTANNING — When a 250-pound, not so friendly St. Bernard decided that it didn’t like postal letter carrier Mark Jones, Jones realized it was time to “discourage” the slavering jaw-snapping K-9 with a dose of pepper spray. To Jones’s horror, the spray can was [...]

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Does Your Pet Suffer From Separation Anxiety?

WPXI-TV Channel 11 Investigates Pet Panic – PITTSBURGH – If your dog's destructive behavior only happens while you're away, it's very likely it may be suffering from separation anxiety.

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Conservationist campaigns to keep Tibet’s mastiffs mean

By Blythe Yee – The Wall Street Journal – GUJI VILLAGE, YUNNAN PROVINCE, China — Wong How Man is rounding up the toughest puppies he can find. For the past two years, he has spent weeks at a time scouring the Tibetan plateau for mastiff puppies with bushy tails, big heads and very bad dispositions.   [...]

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Dogs bite babes and toddlers more often

Child Health News – According to a new study, dog bites in children occur frequently and the breed of dog, behaviour of dog owners, children, and parents are all influencing factors.
Dogs bite very young children more often, and the researchers say that children 1 year of age or younger have the highest risk of being [...]

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Cultivating a Golden Retriever’s nose for mealybugs

By JULISSA McKINNON – The Napa Valley Register – A litter of week-old golden retrievers look more like big hamsters than canines. But these nine tiny balls of fur are a big source of hope for Napa Valley growers whose vineyards are blighted by infestations of vine mealybug.

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Against all odds: in dire need of woman’s best friend

By NATASHA SURLES – The Pitt News - My cousin’s dog, Rambo, was the closest I’ve come to owning a pet.

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C’mon, Pooch, Get With the Program

By ANNA BAHNEY - NYT – IT took the success of “Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog” by John Grogan, which has bounded to the top of best-seller lists, to expose a secret not easily given up by dog owners. Their dogs are often bad dogs.  

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David Inge talks to Stanley Coren about, How Dogs Think

RealAudio or MP3 HOW DOGS THINK: UNDERSTANDING THE CANINE MIND – David Inge’s 53 minute interview with , Stanley Coren, Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia

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Bob McDonald talks to author Stanley Coren about, How Dogs Think

Listen to BobMcDonald’s 15 minute interview in mp3 or Ogg formats. Most dog owners can entertain you with stories about the greatness of their pooch: How smart they are, how perceptive and brilliant and emotionally deep they are, etc. But are they really or are we just anthropomorphizing? In his new book, How Dogs Think, Dr. Stanley [...]

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