Editor’s note: Have you seen the new Dogster print magazine in stores? Or in the waiting room of your vet’s office? This article appeared in our December/January issue. Subscribe to Dogster and get the bimonthly magazine delivered to your home. You know how you want to send your friend a cute dog card to mark a …
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Editor’s note: Have you seen the new Dogster print magazine in stores? Or in the waiting room of your vet’s office? This article appeared in our December/January issue. Subscribe to Dogster and get the bimonthly magazine delivered to your home. The holidays can become a frenzied mess of mall crawling and gift wrapping. Take a moment …
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I don’t want to alarm anyone, but the last calendar page of your 2015 dog-themed calendar is now in use. After scribbling January dates at the bottom of December’s page, I decided it was time to shop for a new one. Here are a few that I found that I thought you would enjoy as …
Last month, the police department in Poughkeepsie, New York, welcomed a new K-9 to the force. Most people expect K-9s to be a German Shepherd, Belgian Malinois, or the like, but the Poughkeepsie Police Department branched out and added a rescued Pit Bull named Kiah to its team. She is one of several rescued Pit Bull-type dogs across the country who have been trained as narcotics-detection …
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Duke, a 10-year-old Lab mix, came to live with us almost by accident. We had been fostering dogs for a couple of years already and had established a system that worked well for us: Get and foster ONE dog at a time, two if — and only if — they were very young sibling puppies. …
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Short of hiring a vet to follow my dog, Finley, around 24/7, I have no way of knowing how she’s doing. Are her vital signs normal? Is she running and playing and sleeping enough? Does she get plenty of fresh air? I tend to assume she’s fine. But when a pup becomes sick, wouldn’t it …
Finley the Vizsla Tests Out the Voyce Health Monitor Read More »
My 10-year-old mixed-breed pup is half-German Shorthair Pointer, half-Samoyed, and all perfection. As a dog sitter, I have experienced the personalities of many different breeds. I’m here to tell you that mutts like Riggins are the best! Riggins looks like neither of his parents’ breeds. He’s missing his father’s white fluffy features, and you don’t see …
