Insights, tips, and stories to help you better understand and communicate with your dog.
Copper hepatopathy kills Labrador Retrievers quietly. By the time most owners notice anything wrong, the liver has often been accumulating copper for years, and some of that damage doesn't reverse.
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A study published on October 7, 2026 in PLOS One put activity trackers on co-sleeping dogs and their owners, and the finding is a bit embarrassing for us. When one party stirred at night, it was more often the human who moved first, with the dog following, not the other way around.
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A paper published in 2020 in Scientific Reports became something of a landmark in dog behaviour circles. It surveyed 13,715 Finnish dogs and found that 72.5% showed at least one problematic behaviour, with fear and aggression cropping up at rates that genuinely alarmed owners and vets alike. That figure got cited everywhere. It shaped how a lot of people talked about whether their dog was "normal".
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Published September 29, 2026
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A study published in Scientific Reports on September 24, 2026 found something that will feel immediately familiar to anyone who's ever had a rough evening on the sofa with a dog pressed against them: dogs pay more attention to human crying than to humming. All dogs. Across the board.
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The top reason dog owners refuse vaccines, according to a study presented at the Fetch National Harbor Veterinary Conference on September 19, 2026, is not cost. Not convenience. Not distrust of vets. It's that owners simply don't believe their dog is at risk.
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A dog in Florida died within hours of swimming in a lake last summer. The cause was cyanobacteria, commonly called blue-green algae, and the owner had no idea the water was dangerous. It looked fine.
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A study published this month in Animal Cognition found that dogs, despite thousands of years of living alongside humans, consistently pay more attention to the sound of another dog than to a human voice. Not a little more. Consistently, behaviourally, measurably more.
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On September 9, 2026, the FDA confirmed a Salmonella contamination risk in two Fi dog supplements, and if you have either one in your cupboard, you should stop using it today.
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Fifty thousand dogs. That's the sample size behind a study published in GeroScience on September 3rd, 2026, out of Texas A&M University, and the finding that jumped out was this: dogs carrying five or more chronic conditions had more than double the mortality risk of dogs with fewer.
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A paper published in Veterinary Record on September 2, 2026 did something that veterinary research rarely does: it looked at what epilepsy costs the owner, not just the dog.
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Two specific products. That's what the Northwest Naturals recall comes down to, and if you feed raw, it's worth two minutes of your time to check.
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