There’s a famous moment in an old Peter SellersPink Panther movie in which his character Inspector Clouseau asks a hotel desk clerk, “Does your dog bite?” After the clerk says no, Clouseau reaches down to pet the dog, which bites him. The punchline to the routine is the clerk explaining, “That is not my dog.” […]
A question I get all the time is this: “How do I deal with my dog if they’re going blind or deaf, or both?” There’s a very simple answer to that: You deal with them pretty much the same way you’d deal with a dog that isn’t going blind or deaf or both. Yes, you […]
I saw a video on YouTube recently that’s pretty amazing. You can watch it in that link, although you’ve probably seen similar videos. In it, a couple of small dogs are barking at something in their backyard. One dog is a terrier, maybe thirty pounds at the most. The other is a Dachshund, about two […]
Happy Halloween! In honor of the day, I wanted to start with a scary story that one of my human pack members told me. When he was about seven years old, his uncle took him to an amusement park near his mom’s home town, and they went on a roller coaster. It wasn’t much compared […]
In a few sentences, I’m going to give you a command and I want you to do it. It’s nothing complicated or too physical, so don’t worry. This is just a test. Are you ready? Okay, here we go: Besloor. Did you do it? Come on, it’s easy. Anyone can do it. Besloor! You’re not […]
Humans are good at a lot of things. When it comes to creating art or doing science or excelling at any of hundreds of other pursuits that we have invented, no animal can beat us. A dog will never write a symphony. A crow will never discover a cure for cancer. An elephant will never […]
One thing I’ve learned about the weather in L.A. is that it’s unpredictable. The best way to describe it is “consistently inconsistent.” We can go from gloomy and foggy one day to hot and sunny the next, and if you want to know what season it is, you need to look at a calendar, not […]
In a lot of the world, this time of year seems to be dedicated to eating. Sure, there are lots of occasions happening between now and 2017, but most of those apparently serve double duty, with a civil or religious celebration wrapped around a meal, or at least a lot of snacking. We have Halloween […]
At the end of September, the city of Montréal in Québec, Canada voted to ban new ownership of pit bull and “pit bull-type” dogs within the city, as well as require owners of such dogs to go through a criminal background check, pay $150 for a permit, and have their dog sterilized, vaccinated and microchipped. […]
It’s hard to believe that we’re down to the last three months of yet another year, and that it’s a leap year (i.e. Olympics and elections) again. It’s also that time of year when the seasons change from harsh to mild no matter where you are in the world. In the Northern Hemisphere, summer has […]
