My sister-in-law is constantly complaining about her Dalmatian pup, Howard, doing his business in undesired areas. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard dog owners complain about their dogs handling their business in the middle of the lawn or even worse, in the house. How do you deal with it? Many pet [...]

Weight loss is always the number one New Years resolution for us humans but what about for our dogs and cats? I recently learned from my vet that over 50% of American pets are overweight. That’s 93 million dogs and cats!!! My vet also educated me on the fact that we can increase a dog’s [...]

My least favorite part of living with my cats is the clean up. With family coming into town for the holidays, I’ll be doing an extra-complete de-cathairing of my apartment tonight. First, both kitties will get a wipe bath (to avoid consternation I’ll use the calming bathing wipes) and then a full brush out with [...]

Four years ago on Thanksgiving, I was living on my own in a small Louisiana town, studying ecology. I didn’t hardly know a soul. On the day itself, two thousand miles from my family, without an open restaurant within 50 miles, I decided to spend the day walking in the near-frozen winter woods near my [...]

Luke’s favorite filling for his Kong is peanut butter mixed with Durango Peanut Butter Chiplets. I load it up and then put it in the freezer so that the filling is nice and firm. It’s gotten so that Luke gets up and comes into the kitchen every time I open the freezer. Nine times out [...]