Dogs With Scars (Behavioral and Otherwise)

Lilly got her staples out a week ago Wednesday. That part went fine, but Lilly had a little trouble in the parking lot and in the reception area

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Lilly Plays Fetch – aka Stick – A Photo Essay

Lilly, our intrepid canine heroine, is picky when it comes to toys she’ll fetch. However, she also remains connoisseur of the silliest sticks imaginable. Often she’d rather play

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3 Dangerous Instincts That Put Dog Lovers in Danger

Dangerous Instincts: How Gut Feelings Betray Us is a new book by Mary Ellen O’Toole, PhD, a former FBI profiler. She is a friend of a friend and

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Newsworthy! No More Pet Store Puppies

The ASPCA launched a campaign to educate people about the puppy mill sources of puppies sold in pet stores. You too can take the pledge NEVER to shop

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Hearts, Dogs, and Heart Dogs

Our dog blogging and dog training friend KB from Romping and Rolling in the Rockies recently posted a quote that got me thinking. Have you heard the term

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Dog Product Review and Giveaway: Teddy the Dog

Last Friday, our favorite Life is Good Store (called Positively Jake) went out of business. We’re so sad about that. But it reminded us that we wanted to

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Dog Product Review: Petstages Heartbeat Pillow

The Petstages Heartbeat Pillow features a noise-making, electronic device that sounds like a momma dog’s heart beating. It’s meant to comfort young dogs. You know, like the old

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Newsworthy! New Email Tool for Champion of My Heart

We’re taking a break from our normal routine to announce that we’ve switched tools used for sending blog subscriptions via email. The new format from Mail Chimp (we

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The Benign Fallout and Celebration

Just a week. That’s all I had to survive between learning Lilly’s lump needed to come out and finding out it was nothing scary. I tried not to

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Update Lilly’s Lump: Canine Adnexal Nevus

If you missed the news from late last week, the lump our veterinarian surgically removed from Lilly’s neck was BENIGN … and kind of a weird one, called

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