Friday Focus: Pet travel – the new frontier

I asked on Sunday for people’s pet pet-travel peeves, my own being excessive fees for dogs staying in hotel rooms. The comments I got in response divided into two categories: Those, like mine, that focused on the travel vendors’ (hotel, airlines) practices, and those that focused on being a responsible pet owning traveler. The latter…

Show Some (Car) Restraint!

After I recently posted about the importance of restraining your dog properly in the car, I asked two of my favorite pet travel bloggers to explain the best way to achieve that goal. Speaking for the large — and multiple — dog contingent today is Rod Burkert, co-creator with wife Amy Burkert of GoPetFriendly.com. These…

The New Dog Age Calculator

I considered calling this post, “Ahead of the curve, behind in work.” Or maybe, “Promotions, shameful and shameless.” That is, after my last post, on keeping old dogs healthy and happy,  I was planning to move on to new and cheerier topics — including the announcement of a new contest that I’m co-hosting with DogJaunt.com…