In a recent newsletter I provided a copy of a study claiming that dogs will align their bodies north/south when defecating if the earth’s magnetic field is not out of whack due to some sort of disturbance. The video below features a claim that foxes hunting prey under the snow do the same thing. Also […]

New research suggests that dogs are not as closely related to what we know as wolves as previous research has led many to believe. It seems their actual ancestors are extinct. The study goes on to propose that a dog’s ability to digest starch developed later than earlier thought. I’m providing an attachment of the

In this issue * Newsletter Design Simplification * Ask the Expert event at Pet Valu this Saturday * New study says dogs align their bodies to magnetic North/South when they poop * Now doing appointments in Stratford, Kitchener/Waterloo, Woodstock, Ingersoll * Why do unqualified veterinarians offer behaviour advice? * Recent Ask the Dog Columns NEWSLETTER

I really, really, really enjoy and highly recommend Dr. Mercola’s human health daily newsletter. It’s one of my favorite morning reads. However recently he provided an article about dog behavior that sort of made me mad. I’ve read the same sort of tripe before and normally it goes in one ear and out the other but

I had my doubts about the validity of results of this study until I read it. The researchers concluded that if there aren’t distortions in the earth’s magnetic field (and there frequently are) dogs reliably lined their bodies north/south when they pooped. The theory as to why was that dogs need to navigate and as