animal shelters Archives - Jacki Skole

October is Adopt-a-Shelter-Dog Month

Dogland Blog I’ve seen a number of Facebook posts and news stories about October being Adopt-a-Shelter-Dog Month. I even shared such a post on my Facebook page. But after I did that, I got to wondering: Who deemed October Adopt-a-Shelter-Dog Month, and when did they...

Fireworks + Fido = Fear

Dogland Blog July 4th holds an extra-special significance for my family. It’s the day my daughter Lindsey was born—in Philadelphia, in the very hospital founded by Benjamin Franklin back in 1751. When Lindsey was young, we would tell her the fireworks lighting up the...

Dog Tales, Part Two

Dogland Blog People love stories—telling them and listening to them. Perhaps that’s why we start telling our children stories when they are just days old. Then, by the time they’re talking, they’re telling them, too. In 2010, a group of first, second, and third...