Gear & Reviews
Keeping a Dog Cool: What Works and What Is Marketing
Cooling mats, vests, bandanas and paddling pools — what actually removes heat from a dog, and what just feels like it should.…
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Health
Body Condition Scoring: How to Tell If Your Dog Is the Right Weight
Scales tell you very little. The nine-point body condition score takes thirty seconds and is the single most useful health assessment you…
Fun Facts
How Dogs Sleep: Positions, Patterns and What Is Normal
Twelve to fourteen hours a day, in short bouts, with more REM than we get. What the positions mean and why sleep…
Dog Care
Summer Paw Care: Hot Ground, Grass Seeds and Sand
Pavement burns happen silently because dogs keep walking. The seven-second test, and the other summer hazards to the feet. Includes affiliate links.
Health
Seasonal Allergies in Dogs: Managing Atopic Dermatitis
Environmental allergy is the most common cause of chronic itching, and modern treatment has improved enormously. Here is the management plan. Includes…
Health
A Puppy’s First Year: The Health Timeline
Vaccinations, worming, socialisation windows, teething and growth — what happens when, in one timeline.
Gear & Reviews
Head Halters: Real Control, With Rules
The most control per gram of any walking equipment, and the most frequently used badly. How to fit one, condition it, and…
Nutrition
Feeding a Large-Breed Puppy: The Decisions That Cannot Be Undone
Excess calcium and rapid growth cause permanent skeletal damage. This is the one area of puppy nutrition where getting it wrong is…
Fun Facts
The Guilty Look Is Not Guilt
The experiment that tested this is elegant and the answer is clear: the look appears when you look cross, whether or not…
Dog Care
Home Grooming: A Realistic Routine
What to do daily, weekly and monthly, and how to build a dog who tolerates all of it. Includes affiliate links.