dogs Archives - Jacki Skole

Take Two: Grab a tissue… or two, or three

Dogland Blog A news story recently caught my attention. It was about a dog, in Brazil, who has been sitting outside a Sao Paolo hospital for some four months. You probably know where this story is going. The dog’s owner–a homeless man–died at the...

Book Review: Being a Dog

Dogland Blog Dogs can sniff out some pretty incredible things—explosives, drugs, cancer, criminals—the list continues to grow, bounded only, says cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz, by human imagination. In her newest exploration of doghood, Being a Dog: Following...

Happy Birthday Galen!

Dogland Blog On September 25, the New York Times’ Sunday Styles section paid tribute to “Fashion’s Favorite Pets”: Marc Jacobs’ bull terrier Neville, Karl Lagerfeld’s Birman cat Choupette, and Thom Browne’s miniature dachshund Hector, all of whom, the article says,...

Costa Rica’s Territorio de Zaguates

Dogland Blog Photographs of the dogs of Costa Rica’s Territorio de Zaguates are making the social media rounds again, this time courtesy of Reuters photographer Juan Carlos Ulate. I wrote about this remarkable organization three years ago, when it launched an ad...

Books for Dog Lovers

Dogland Blog Love dogs? Love books? How about books about dogs? Right now, Ashland Creek Press is offering 30% off when you buy DOGLAND and STRAYS, a young adult novel by Jennifer Caloyeras. You can check out the promotion here. A little bit about STRAYS: My...