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Adopting a Senior Dog: Helping Your New Dog Adjust

This article comes from Grey Muzzle's free guide Caring for Your Senior Dog. The entire guide is available to download. Congratulations on the new old dog in your life! Adding a new canine friend to your home is exciting and fulfilling, and when it's a senior dog somehow it's even more meaningful. Here are some...

Planning Your Dog's Care for After You're Gone

No one likes to think about losing a dog to old age, though we know it’s a fact of life. Even more distressing is the thought of what might happen if our dogs outlive us, and they are left alone and homeless. Many dogs end up in shelters for just this reason. We already know...

Coping with Grief: When to Get Another Dog by Jennifer Kachnic

The entire article can be read in the book Your Dog's Golden Years – Manual for Senior Dog Care , edited by Jennifer Kachnic. If you are like most people, you will eventually decide to get another dog after your dog passes on. This is a personal decision and one that should be made very...

A Home for Hilda by Shirley Zindler

Shirley Zindler is an animal control officer in Northern California and the author of The Secret Life of Dog Catchers: An Animal Control Officer’s Passion to Make a Difference . She also writes a blog series for The Bark magazine. Shirley and her family regularly foster and care for dogs in need. Hilda wasn’t much...