On Temper Tantrums & Standing Firm

This is a guest post by my wife, who is much smarter. Deb: I’ve decided that everything is about age. Bob and I got a puppy from the pound cause day-to-day life has been so boring of late. We named her Scout and handed her to our ten-year-old dog, Gus, as if we...

2019 The Year of the Dog

Of course, Cool Gus believes every year is the year of the dog. And who am I to disagree? For 2019 I spent a large chunk of December revising all my various survival guides into one book and it’s live today: The Procrastinator’s Survival Guide. It covers...

Alpha– how did wolves evolve into dogs?

Dogs have a very unique role, not just as pets, but in the way they integrated themselves into human society long ago. They are descended from wolves, but are now rather different. But what happened? How did this genetic break begin and evolve? The movie Alpha posits...