Yes, Dogs ARE our Children I read a headline this week that asked “Are Dogs the New Children?” This is a question that I answered in 2009, and much has been written since about how we really love our companion animals like family. I am not alone. Some surveys indicate that 97% of people consider […]
Human interaction has adverse effect on wild animals Most wild animals have a full complement of behaviors to avoid predators and stay alive, such as vigilance, freezing or fleeing. However, an international group of researchers found that contact with humans caused a rapid loss of “antipredator traits.” The initial change in behavior is likely a […]
If you wouldn’t do it to your child, don’t do it to your dog As an animal advocate, most familiar with dogs, I am often asked for advice about how to mitigate some unpleasant or puzzling dog behavior. Frequently, people are curious about what I would do in certain situations. Overtime, I have developed what […]
A reader of my previous Examiner page recently wrote me about puppy mills, which compelled me to post the following excerpt from my book that deals with puppy mills. Puppy mills are a horror of animal cruelty to which we must not turn a blind eye. We are the only ones who can stop this. […]
Amazon deforestation accelerates loss of species One of the first studies to map the impact of deforestation on biodiversity across entire regions of the Amazon has found a clear ‘threshold’ for forest cover below which species loss becomes more rapid and widespread. By measuring the loss of a portion of the dominant species of large […]