The unrelenting stress of the last eight weeks and the shock of the last two days have been replaced with a crushing misery that answers the questions my mind was screaming on Wednesday. “What does this mean? How will I be?” I know now, and I wish I did not. People who knew Bartleby, and [...]

Bartleby needs help and I need help giving it to him. In exchange, I’d like to offer something that I hope will be valuable to you. If you and I have connected for more than 5 minutes over the last 9 years, you know that the most important thing in my personal life is Bartleby, [...]

I’m both sad and glad to report that my friends’ Beagle mix, Sassafras is still missing. It’s sad because she has been on the street since April 8th. It’s glad because recent search tracks have indicated that she is still out there. (See the latest in her blog here.) I spoke to one of Sassafras’ [...]

Just recently, I witnessed a well-meaning dog person pinning his puppy to the ground, his hand around her neck. He used an alpha roll in an effort to teach his dog to not jump on other dogs in the park. The puppy screamed so loudly and for so long, that I broke off a conversation [...]

For years, I’ve been advocating that people leave puppies with their litter mates for at least sixty days and, preferably eighty to ninety. Doing so gives the puppies the chance to learn natural bite inhibition from their razor toothed mates in a way that human intervention simply can’t. This leads to a soft mouth later [...]