Tag Archives: Your Dog newsletter

Showdown in the Canine Diabetes Corral

October 17, 2009
I’ve been stewing the last few days about a discussion that I became involved in on a veterinary blog. No point naming names. It’s a vet for whom I have a great deal of respect — which is why I read her site daily. In this particular case, I felt that she had conflated canine and [...]
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Cruel to be kind

September 28, 2009
I’ve just finished lunch. The point here is not the food — although my foodie friends would no doubt beg to differ — but the ‘tude. Frankie’s attitude that is. During the entire meal, he was in his traditional spot on a hemp rug about four feet away from the dining room table, staring at [...]
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How to find a good dog trainer, Part 1

September 26, 2009
After another bout of a mystery intestinal problem — apparently not related to his diabetes, fortunately, but still worrying — Frankie’s feeling much better, and expressing himself through enthusiastic doggie flatulence. It’s a good thing he’s little. And that I wasn’t planning any dinner parties. So, as promised, I’m beginning my series on how to find [...]
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Dog trainers, behaviorists & dupes, oh my!

September 24, 2009
Somehow, my post on how to find a good dog trainer keeps getting sidetracked, and I’ve begun to realize why. It’s not just that I felt the need debunk the most popular notions of training so as to put the subject into context. It’s also that training is unregulated, and therefore difficult to discuss without [...]
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Diabetic and loving it? Yes, says an Alaskan malamute

July 8, 2009
At first, she seemed like just another Twitter dog; great looking, I’ll grant, and with an exotic home base in Australia, but not otherwise distinguishable from the pack of tweeting pooches. She was a dog without a blog, unaffiliated with either a pet business or  rescue organization. But a phrase in the short biography of Jasmine_woo_woo, [...]
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