Book Review Who Killed the Dog Lady

Now that so many of us are under stay-at-home orders during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, I'm making time to read even more than normal. To help you make

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5 Ways the COVID19 Pandemic May Affect Access to Veterinary Care

I wrote 5 articles for a major veterinary organization in 4 days about the ways veterinarians must adapt to the reality of COVID19 pandemic. Based on the interviews

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Big Changes in Veterinary Hospital Ownership

One-third of veterinary hospitals will be up for sale within the next 10 years. That's nearly 8,600 spots with big changes in veterinary hospital ownership. Some will indeed

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Please Support One of My Favorite Independent Authors

Recommended ! Books by Leland Dirks ! Over the holiday break, we received the devastating news that our amazing border collie friend Angelo earned his wings on an ordinary

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Dog DNA Tests – Mr Stix Big Reveal

After being somewhat underwhelmed by the transparency behind the dog DNA tests we did for Clover and Tori, we used a different dog DNA testing company (Embark) to

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Not the News We Planned to Share

It's an interesting thing to head into a new year thinking that goals and plans and purposes are all set. As hard as some things seem, we forge

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Foxtails and Dogs

A couple of weekend ago, we had a foxtail scare. Clover got one in her eye. Not good. Everything turned out okay, but if you want to know

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Yikes! 5-fluorouracil Deadly for Dogs

I saw this medication warning while scrolling through FB this week, and I wanted to be sure you saw it too. It's called 5-fluorouracil is deadly for dogs

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Trend Toward Smaller Dogs | Top 5 Ways It May Affect You

Through my long-time work as a journalist, I get access to stats and other information not always available to other dog folks. When I see something of interest

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Foster Puppy, Good Deed, Good Distraction

Yeah. In the midst of everything else, we took on a long-term foster puppy for our local shelter. The new executive director there is a long-time friend and

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