Why is My Dog Obsessed with Chasing Shadows or Light Spots? It starts harmlessly. Your watch band glints on the wall. Then your dog takes chase, her every ounce of being in pursuit of a little patch of light with pure, uninhibited joy. Initially it’s funny. Now you find yourself observing for hours as your…
Decoding Mental Boredom vs. Physical Tiredness in Working Dog Breeds. If you are a owner of a high drive working breed (e.g., German Shepherd, Border Collie, Belgian Malinois) you likely have experienced this at the end of a long day: Your dog is either a panting, solid lump lying somewhere on the floor, or they…
Why Does My Dog Get the Zoomies After Eating Dinner? We’ve all witnessed it. A dog just a moment ago was methodically lapping the last remnants of food from their dinner bowl, and now they are a furry dervish, ricocheting through your living room, ricocheting off the furniture and skidding across the kitchen tiles. This…
Learn How to Tell If Your Dog is Bored or Just Tired? As a veterinarian, and as a human who has lived among fast-and-furious, top-tier working dogs, I witness a single, enormous, dangerous error most handlers make, in some form, every day. Mental exhaustion is misidentified as boredom/mischief; physical exhaustion, as lazy idleness. For a…
How to use snuffle mats to reduce destructive chewing in puppies?. If you’ve ever come home to see your favorite slippers ripped to pieces or the legs of your furniture looking like they’ve been attacked by a woodchipper, you know the joy (and rage) of a chewing pup. While it’s a natural, important behavior for…
Why Does My Cat Suddenly Stare at Me and Meow Aggressively?. You are lounging on your couch and then you sense it: that unexplainable feeling of being observed. You turn to face you cat who just happens to be intensely staring right at you, fully dilating their eyes and making a string of aggressive-sounding meows….
From House Cat to Balcony Explorer. A balcony is an enticing slice of “outside” for your indoor city cat. It has an appealing mix of bird sounds, a cool breeze and warmth of sunshine to pull him out. However, this tempting spot outside can also be fraught with peril, from a fall that could prove…
Recognizing Signs of Obsessive Compulsive While your feline companion spends a good chunk of the day pampering his mane – nearly 50% of his waking hours, by most accounts such habits are perfectly natural and healthy: the process helps regulate body temperature, aids in circulation, and redistributes skin oils throughout the fur. But excessive grooming…
Your Cat Wakes You Up If this happens as you’re blear eyed, with a coffee mug in your hand, I truly do know how you feel! To millions of cat lovers the country over, the morning alarm of the human (being woken by the cat at 4 a.m.) is a tired, repetitive ordeal. The instinct…
How to Stop Two Cats from Fighting If you have heard it before in your multi cat house A yowl from the laundry room, immediately followed by a flurry of small paws. Although we think of cats as detached and aloof creatures, their social lives are more complicated, and their litter boxes are often centers…