How Safe Is Your Dog Riding In The Car? There is now a certification to help you to choose the safest dog harness on the market. Since this blog was originally published, the Center For Pet Safety (CPS) established a program for the certification of pet safety...
New Screening Protocol for Canine Elbow Dysplasia The 2016 IEWG published a new x-ray protocol to help distinguish dogs with normal elbows from those with dysplasia. Elbow dysplasia is a painful, inherited condition that is far more challenging for vets, owners and...
Splish, Splash! Six Mistakes to Avoid When Teaching Your Dog to Swim For many of us, watching our dogs play in the water is nothing short of wonderful! Splashing, wading, leaping, retrieving, diving–it’s just all good fun. Spending a warm afternoon at the beach, lake,...
Are BPA Free Dog Foods Safe or Even BPA Free? If you feed canned dog food, both regular and those advertised as BPA free, you should read the results of this new study from the University of Missouri (Koestel, Z.L., et al, 2016). Dogs come in contact with bisphenol A...
Lessons learned from the death of my dog. I wanted it to be a beautiful, sunny day. It was a stormy, overcast morning. I wanted my vet to be there. He was out of the country on vacation. I wanted it to happen when life was a bit calmer. It happened unexpectedly in...
An Argument for Individual Contribution to Herd Immunity Dr Pauline Chen wrote a compelling editorial linking dog poop to the measles outbreak in the US. Strange bedfellows, you think? Her point is that just as cleaning up after your dog is an act of personal...
