DOG CARE

Recipe Ideas for Quick and Healthy Homemade Dog Treats

Recipes ideas for quick and healthy homemade dog treats your dogs will love. Read more

Dog Feeding Tip Video #1

Here’s a tip on how to use feeding time as a way to strengthen your relationship with your dog. Read more

Top 10 Checklist for Your Puppy

What you need to know in your puppy's first year. Read more

Puppy Feeding Guidelines

Hello. I am rescuing my first puppy next Monday. She'll be 11.5 weeks when we get her, and I've never had a dog that young. The people fostering her are feeding her litter 3/4c twice a day. She's an Australian shepherd/great pyrenees/golden retriever mix. I keep reading mixed things about feeding them twice or three times a day. Which do you recommend? And if it is 3 times a day, given that she's almost 3 months old, how much would you feed her each time? Read more

Tips & Whispers: Treat Smart

Last summer, we reported gleefully on an ice cream truck for dogs that had just opened for business in London’s leafy Hyde Park. Good idea? Read more

Ask the Vet: Speed Eater

We have had issues with our 7-month old puppy, Philly, and her eating...she always seems nervous when she eats -- tail tucked between her legs and she will consume her food very rapidly. She often eats her breakfast and within 10 minutes will throw it all up. We have taken her to our vet to find out there is nothing wrong as far as they can see. What do we do? Read more

Dog Nutrition: A to Z

26 things you may not have thought about—but need to! Can something as simple as carefully reading a dog-food label add three to five years to your pet’s life? Can the wrong bite of an ostensibly healthy fruit have nasty and lasting consequences? Does your dog need a diet—and would you know if he did? For pups as for people, scientists are constantly -reexamining and revising the official live-longer-and-better guidelines. Read more

Switching to Adult Food from Puppy Food

I am reading conflicting information about when to transfer our puppy from puppy food to adult dog food. Our vet says anytime between 6 and 18 months for our type of dog (Basset hound). The dog food guide says 12 months, the 30-year pet store owner says 6 months, and our back-up vet says 12 months at the longest. Read more

Ask the Vet: Rock-eating “Pica” Pup

We have a 7-week-old Rottie/Dobie mix puppy. He was gotten from a rescue organization. He came to us with ticks, terrible diarrhea and a terrible behavior: compulsive rock eating. In his last stool, I counted 45 rocks. We try to keep him confined to our grassy area when he's outside, but he still manages to find rocks. I "googled" this behavior and it was suggested that he might have a vitamin deficiency. We have him on a multiple vitamin with iron. Any other suggestions? Read more

Overweight Dog

My Cheena (a Chihuahua/pekinese) is overweight at 11 lb. I have had numerous suggestions on how to get her to lose about 3 or 4 lb. Can you give me some advice on how to take some weight off her? Read more