My neighbor asked me last spring if her nine-year-old Beagle counted as a senior dog yet, and I realized how

A friend in New York texted me a photo last month of her cat curled up in the exact same

Somebody at a dog park in Denver once told me her Labrador was “basically 70 in human years,” and I

My neighbor in Denver once told me her ten-year-old Beagle was “basically 70,” and she looked worried when she said

A reader from Denver emailed me last month, confused because two different tools gave her cat’s age a five-year gap.

My own dog put on weight so slowly last year that I didn’t notice until a friend visiting from New

A rescue foster I worked with in Denver once told me her new dog was “just naturally skinny,” until a

Saturday morning changed everything the day I brought my first puppy home. Food bowls sat ready. Toys covered the living

Ten p.m. and your dog will not stop coughing. Your cat, who normally inhales dinner in under a minute, walks

Warm Saturday morning, and your dog trots back in from the yard with grass stuck to its paws and its

Nine years into owning dogs, I finally understood something a vet tech told me on a random Tuesday. She said

Standing in the kitchen with a food scoop in one hand and my phone in the other, I once spent

My cat once ignored a sixty dollar bed and slept inside the box it came in for three straight weeks.

Something about a hot afternoon walk always sends my dog straight to his water bowl the second we get home,

My old lab mix used to flop down on the cool kitchen tile the second we got home from a