“How much does Hanni weigh?” That was the first question asked after our presentation at Jackson Middle School in Orlando Friday. Not a bad question, really. Just one I hadn’t heard after any of the talks I’d given before. Seems every time we visit a school, one of the kids in the audience comes up […]

Ask any guide dog user. They’ll tell you. When a guide dog encounters a fellow worker, the two dogs seem to act…well…respectful of each other. We had a chance to experience this phenomenon at the Outer Banks of North Carolina last week. I did a book signing at Manteo Booksellers there, and a friend piloted […]

Last Friday Bark Magazine sent me the link to a story in the Daily Telegraph about a blind Border Collie who has his own guide dog. Black and white hound Clyde is totally blind and relies on his partner and fellow collie Bonnie to guide him everywhere. She stays inches from Clyde’s side while guiding […]

A story on All Things Considered last Monday reported that U.S. soldiers are teaching Iraqi security forces how to use bomb-sniffer dogs. The NPR reporter interviewed Army Staff Sgt. Aaron Meier, an American adviser to the Iraqi National Canine Program. “The greatest tool you have in your inventory when working with dogs is love. A […]

A story in the San Francisco Weekly last week described Tita, a Chihuahua service dog who works with a man suffering from bipolar disorder. A happy, feel-good story, except for one thing. Tita bites people. “She’s vicious,” Esler says with a smile, cradling the dog, which licks his face with abandon. Once the story hit […]