I was recently reading a couple of articles about breed-specific legislation (where municipalities ban certain breeds of dogs because they are viewed as being aggressive or dangerous) and which breeds are really the most aggressive. You can read the articles here: The Three Most Aggressive Dog Breeds and Dog Bite Statistics. Many people will find [...]
In my last post I mentioned a book I was skimming through at the time: Animals Make Us Human, by Temple Grandin. I’ve also been reading a book called Inside of a Dog, by Alexandra Horowitz. Can you tell I read a lot of books about dogs?
Anyways, this book has been truly fascinating [...]
Like many pet lovers, I like to regularly scan through the pets section on my local Craigslist. While I was looking through it the other night, I found one person selling a dog seatbelt. Now, perhaps to my shame, I’d never heard of that before, so I started searching for more information on Google.
I found [...]
One thing I like to always do when I’m traveling with my dogs is check where the local dog parks are in any place we’re visiting, and make sure I take the girls there to blow off some steam at some point during our trip.
Unless your dog is the best traveler ever, most likely he [...]
Continue reading about Visiting the Dog Park while Traveling
My last post talked about traveling with cats, and how to make it a bit easier by acclimating a cat to the idea of taking car trips — and staying in new places such as pet friendly hotels.
As if on cue, the next day I was skimming Temple Grandin’s new book, Animals Make Us Human, [...]
So far, most of what I’ve talked about has been traveling with dogs. However, I also sometimes travel with my cats, and I know a lot of other cat owners do, too.
When I was growing up, we had two cats, neither of which was very good in the car. One would crawl under the seat and [...]
This past week my brown dog, Emma, was sick. We weren’t traveling, thank heavens, so I was able to get her into the vet right away and get it taken care of. But it did mean several overnights of having to get up every hour or two to let her outside to do her business.
So [...]
Sorry for the week with no posts! I’ve been really busy with work, and haven’t had much time to blog.
I was originally supposed to go to North Carolina this week for another business trip, and I was planning on bringing at least one of the dogs with me. I’d even already done the legwork of [...]
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