Category: Stewardship & Society

The 10 Things Dog Breeding Should Be :

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…

I keep finding myself doing this. I will begin reading something that appears to be about one subject, and somewhere along the way I realize I am no longer thinking only about what is written on the page. Today it was an article about the history of dog shows and the changes that occurred when…

This exchange stayed with me for days. Not because I think the veterinarian gave bad medical advice. I don’t. It stayed with me because it reminded me how easily “your dog is healthy enough to carry puppies” can become “my veterinarian thinks my dog should be bred.” Those are two very different questions. I have…

Life has taught me that very little is accidental. Over the years I have developed the habit of quietly revisiting the moments that leave an impression, especially the uncomfortable ones. A conversation that lingers in my mind, a disappointment I did not expect, a door that suddenly closed, or an opportunity that appeared from nowhere…