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Daily Affirmations for the Dog In Your Life
Andrea Cáceres Shares a Few Lessons in Perspective Learned From Her Dog Tobi
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Andrea Cáceres
| October 29, 2025
Dogs
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| August 13, 2025
Dogs Through the Ages: A Creative History of a Faithful Human Companion
Jessica Poundstone Explores Canine Depictions in Art From Across the World
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Jessica Poundstone
| May 5, 2025
What We Can Learn From a Dog’s Way of Looking At the World
Mark Rowlands on the Value of Appreciating Daily Life's Small Yet Significant Routines
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Mark Rowlands
| January 28, 2025
Canine Charms: Markus Zusak on Rescuing a Dog and Naming It After a Character in His Fiction
How Reuben the Rottweiler Shepherd Mix Jumped from Page to Life
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Markus Zusak
| January 21, 2025
Encounters with the Local Possum; Or, How Safety Can Hide Wonder from Us
Jarod K. Anderson Rediscovers Awe
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Jarod K. Anderson
| September 30, 2024
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Beyond Saviors and Suffering: On the Complex Dynamics of Animal Rescue
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Carol Mithers
| August 26, 2024
Joy Williams on the Wild, Lyrical Stories of Brad Watson
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Joy Williams
| July 16, 2024
Kill the Pet, Kill the Book’s Rating: The Perils of Writing Dogs in Fiction
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Clare Pooley
| June 12, 2024
How Our Well-Being Is Inextricably Linked to That of Those Around Us
Sarah Rose Cavanagh on the Invisible Leashes that Connect Us All
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh
| May 2, 2023
Falling in Love with a Dog and the World
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Ramona Ausubel
| April 19, 2023
How Dogs Explore the World Through Smell
Jules Howard Considers the Role of the Senses in Animal Consciousness
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Jules Howard
| November 28, 2022
Today in AWWWW: Reading out loud to dogs improves literacy in kids.
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Jessie Gaynor
| November 4, 2022
Lessons From My Lovely Patients: Facing My Own Cancer Diagnosis as a Veterinary Oncologist
Renee Alsarraf on the “deep bond that animals have with their human families.”
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Renee Alsarraf
| October 19, 2022
Ross Gay Finds Delight in Nourishing Need, Adult Braces, and Kissing a Very Small Dog One Million Times
"I have never kissed a creature so many times, and I have loved and kissed many creatures many times, believe me."
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Ross Gay
| October 18, 2022
On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging
Or: Encounters with Michael Ondaatje’s Dog
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Kailyn McCord
| September 15, 2022
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