Prepare During National Pet First Aid Awareness Month From the Woof Report Fingers crossed you’ll never need to use them, but Pet First Aid skills are a pet parenting essential. With the month of April designated as National Pet First Aid Awareness Month, pet people are urged to prepare and prevent pet injuries all year [...]

Translating Puppy Talk by Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, and Lawrence Lindner Originally appearing in BARK Issue #41, Mar/Apr 2007 A basic truth about humans and dogs: We live in overlapping but not identical sensory worlds. To a pup, we are sort of like the Brobdingnagians of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, extra-large beings whose ways just don’t [...]

How much serious thought have you given to dog fitness? If you’re like many dog enthusiasts, you may believe that your dog is doing just fine managing things for himself, but the fact is that many dogs could benefit from a little active fitness management on the part of their caretakers. Just like their human [...]

There are many high-energy activities for keeping dogs physically and mentally fit, such as ball fetching, jogging, agility training, frisbee, flyball, tracking, lure coursing (with plastic bags, therapy visits and obedience competition. This tipsheet will focus on ways to exercise your dog by including her in your own outdoor aerobic exercise regimen. As the saying [...]