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...

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...

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...