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WHEN THE MIDDLE GROUND DISAPPEARS
My cat Thomas taught me something about modern veterinary medicine that I have never been able to forget. When he developed a urinary blockage, I was presented with two choices. I could authorize approximately $5,500 in treatment, or I could euthanize him. Somewhere between comprehensive hospitalization and death, every other possibility had disappeared. That moment…
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THE LIGHT IN THE OTHER PRACTICE ROOM
THE LIGHT IN THE OTHER PRACTICE ROOM Before allowing myself to stop practicing at night, I would look down from the boarding-school dormitory toward my friend’s practice room, and if her light was still on, I felt as though I could not leave. Leaving first felt like losing. My sister and I left home to…
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THE BITCH: A WORD WITH A NOBLE PEDIGREE
Long before people turned the word bitch into an insult, it was simply the proper word for a female dog. It remains the correct terminology in the world of purebred dogs and conformation. Males are shown as dogs and females as bitches, competing for placements such as Winners Dog, Winners Bitch, Select Dog, and Select…
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Grooming one moving target is challenging, but managing five puppies who believe the grooming table is a playground becomes a whole different sport. 😂 At approximately ten weeks old, the puppies had their very first bath today, and they all did wonderfully. Chianti also had her bath and grooming, which meant washing six dogs altogether.…
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The Work of Remembering.
Life is not what I once thought it was. It is stranger, harder, more beautiful, and far more purposeful than I could ever have imagined. The older I get, the more I realize how much of life is spent unlearning what we were taught to accept without question, peeling away assumptions, looking beyond what is…
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The 10 Things Dog Breeding Should Be :
The 10 Things Dog Breeding Should Be :
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THE FUTURE OF CANINE HEALTH BEGINS WITH BETTER QUESTIONS
I’ve spent years, like many of you, trying to encourage people to look beyond the surface when it comes to canine health. I have written, researched, shared, questioned, and spent my life building a breeding program around one simple belief: we cannot create healthy dogs by only treating disease after it appears. We have to…
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Where is the breeder ?
I read this post and while everyone else was probably already thinking about slicker brushes and dryers and shampoos and scissors and puzzles and lick mats and all the other things that people believe a ten week old poodle puppy needs, me, I kept looking at the words “frantically trying” and thinking about something entirely…
