The Dog Zombie

I got a great question from Christopher of Border Wars on my last post . He wrote: “From the data I’ve seen, shelter intakes are dropping i...

This past week I was at one of the largest shelters in the United States. At one point, I was standing by a door chatting with some of my co...

I am totally digging the first week of Social Epidemiology , a course on Coursera . (Quick summary of Coursera: free classes; you don’t have...

I was on the phone with my mom yesterday, and she asked what I was doing next week. “Going to a large shelter in [big Southern city,] ” I sa...

Kittens like to nurse on things. It is best to nurse on mom, but orphaned kittens will nurse on other things. A favorite option for many orp...

Last week I worked in a kitten nursery — a small building off of a larger shelter, full of underage kittens (mostly orphans, some with moms)...

Tonight I tweeted: “Dog training is sexy. I wish more people understood how cool it is to train.” And then I thought: but who better than me...