Adopting a Senior Dog

Coping with Grief: When to Get Another Dog by Jennifer Kachnic

The entire article can be read in the book Your Dog's Golden Years – Manual for Senior Dog Care , edited by Jennifer Kachnic. If you are like most people, you will eventually decide to get another dog after your dog passes on. This is a personal decision and one that should be made very...

A Home for Hilda by Shirley Zindler

Shirley Zindler is an animal control officer in Northern California and the author of The Secret Life of Dog Catchers: An Animal Control Officer’s Passion to Make a Difference . She also writes a blog series for The Bark magazine. Shirley and her family regularly foster and care for dogs in need. Hilda wasn’t much...

Helping Organizations Pay It Forward by Dr. Lisa Lunghofer

Dr. Lisa Lunghofer, Ph.D.—a member of Grey Muzzle's Advisory Board—is Executive Director of Making Good Work, LLC. Making Good Work provides grant writing, strategic planning, program development, training, technical assistance, and evaluation services to mission-driven organizations. Their areas of expertise include the human-animal bond, animal welfare, at-risk youth, juvenile justice, child welfare, violence prevention, and...

5 Reasons to Adopt a Senior Dog by Victoria Stilwell

November is Adopt a Senior Pet Month, and what a fitting time it is to talk about the benefits of adopting an older dog. In this season of thanks, I can't think of a better example of pure thankfulness than a senior dog. Having a senior Labrador Retriever myself, I am reminded daily how precious...