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Dog Lady answers questions about Jon and Kate's German shepherds, and whether dirty dogs carry health risks.

Just about everybody who owns a dog thinks his or her dog is smart. I've never really felt that way about any of the dogs I have had. They were lovable, cute, loyal, cuddly and great company, but I never thought of them as that smart. I used to tell people that I never met a dog that could beat me at chess.

Oct. 26 marked the end of an era on the Internet. Yahoo GeoCities shut down after 15 years of free — or inexpensive — Web hosting for people who wanted to publish their own Web pages. In the early years, personal Web pages on all sorts of subjects appeared by the hundreds of thousands. Among them were mine.

Dog Lady offers advice on dealing with naysayers, and the risk of irresponsible pet owners.

Barely five minutes after we flushed our dead goldfish down the toilet, the kids were bucking for a replacement.

Dog Lady offers advice on reviving your relationship with your dog, walking your "inner dog," and speaking a dog's language.

When Mary Lou Thall and her husband, Bob, bring miniature horses Toot and Bucky to nursing homes, they’re not just horsing around. Toot and Bucky have a job to do: They’re therapy horses.

A Tecumseh man with the Tri-County Humane Society is caring for and feeding 153 dogs after the operator of an alleged puppy mill signed them over to him after experiencing difficulty taking care of them.
Now he’s looking for a few good homes — and needs lots of dog food.

Bruce Indek isn’t just an average chiropractor. In addition to humans, he works on horses and dogs.

Dog Lady offers advice on stinky dogs and dog-walk etiquette.

The call came over the police scanner. The dispatch officer relayed the info to an officer on patrol. A woman had been walking her collie in a local park when the dog slipped the leash. The woman said a man driving an SUV then picked the dog up and drove away with it.

Dog Lady offers advice on dog custody and a boyfriend's other "lady," his dog.

There’s a saying that goes, “The first to come is the last to leave.” In the case of our fish, Vlad, he was the last to come and the first to leave.     

Dog Lady offers advice on neutering, and how to “curb your dog.”

A Canton, Ohio, woman whose pregnant dog was shot in the head last week during a robbery attempt said the dog gave birth Tuesday to seven puppies.

Dog Lady offers advice on dog shows, and why men don’t like playing second fiddle to a pooch.

Today, as I sat between parking places arranging the Starbucks coffee I had just purchased so that it wouldn’t spill into my lap as I drove, a slender brown bird lighted atop my vehicle’s hood staring straight inside the windshield at me.
The bird’s feathers appeared matted, torn or even missing and I thought for a moment, “Hmm, he must have mites.”
For some, the event might have presented good reason to spill the aforementioned hot beverage all over one’s lap or at least to flip on the wiper blades. But for me, it aroused silent reflection and sparked recollection of one of my fondest memories from my teenage son’s earlier childhood.

Dog Lady offers advice about irresponsible dog owners and Border collie personalities.