Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. What a fabulous place! Jim and I feel crazy lucky to have been able to have spent a week there with three other couples. We rented an AirBnB on Boularderie Island together, inspired by Celtic Colours, an island-wide celebration of music, and the sights and sounds of a truly multi-cultural place. […]

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24.10.2023

Do Dogs Need a Job? - The Other End of the Leash

A reader told us he’d repeatedly read that “dogs need a job.” Such advice is not hard to find, including on the AKC site, “How to Give Your Dog Jobs.“ Our reader then asked: Do they? Really? Ah, good question. Before we all try to send our border collies to coding school and turn […]

The Other End of the Leash

07.11.2023

Love and Dogs and Dogs and Us - The Other End of the Leash

Feeling a tad raw today. A combination of the untold suffering in the world, worries about the future (mine, yours, our country’s, humanity), and recovering from facial surgery on an eyelid–just a small carcinoma, but eyelid surgery is not to be recommended. Nor is anesthesia during reconstructive surgery when you have CFS and POTS symptoms. […]

The Other End of the Leash

21.11.2023

Unilateral Deafness in Dogs (and Skip?) - The Other End of the Leash

Ever since I got Skip, three and a half years ago, he has turned preferentially toward me to his left, even if to the right is shorter. If I call him when I am at six o’clock, and he is facing three, he turns to his left and runs 3/4 of the way around the […]

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Love and Dogs and Dogs and Us - The Other End of the Leash

Unilateral Deafness in Dogs (and Skip?) - The Other End of the Leash

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