Category: Pets & Family

An owner looking for a dog trainer online meets three kinds of disagreement in quick succession. The first is about whom to trust: in any local recommendations thread, nearly every trainer mentioned is described as “the one”, and the descriptions rarely overlap. The second is about method, with reward-based trainers and “balanced” trainers each describing […]

The salon door has a little bell on it, and the bell is the first thing the dog hates. He is a curly, apricot-coloured cross, eight months old, adopted in autumn, and he has never been anywhere that smells like this: shampoo, warm air, other dogs. He plants his feet on the mat. His owner […]

The best time to choose a vet is before you need one There is a moment every pet owner knows. It is late at night, your dog is restless and breathing oddly, or it is a Saturday afternoon and your cat has stopped eating, and you realise you do not actually know who to call. […]