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Frank living the sweater dog life this winter. How invasive is the handling required to put on a sweater? More so than w...
11/09/2025

Frank living the sweater dog life this winter. How invasive is the handling required to put on a sweater? More so than we’d ever expect Frank to put up with. Good boy Frank.

My wife and one of our daughters will be at the Petaluma fairgrounds this weekend.
11/08/2025

My wife and one of our daughters will be at the Petaluma fairgrounds this weekend.

11/07/2025

Chico is starting to figure it out. At this stage in his process it’s; “if I know you, being touched is not so scary.”

Hey folks, rescue training at 11AM on Sunday. Meeting at Howarth Park.
11/07/2025

Hey folks, rescue training at 11AM on Sunday. Meeting at Howarth Park.

11/07/2025

Domino (not the retriever) from Arley’s litter, now about a year old is one of two of her pups still looking for home. He had one of the harder starts, worried about people more than some of his siblings, he always gravitated toward other dogs. He’s come a very long way since the few days he spent at an animal shelter that was going to try and place him.

Meet Domino and our other adoptable dogs Sundays at Howarth Park in Santa Rosa or come help us train them.

11/05/2025

Rainy days are for playing inside.

Every Age Has Its WheatWe like to believe progress is always forward, that the struggles we face today are signs of mora...
11/04/2025

Every Age Has Its Wheat

We like to believe progress is always forward, that the struggles we face today are signs of moral decay rather than growing pains. But history rarely tells that story. Yuval Harari once wrote that it wasn’t humans who domesticated wheat, but wheat that domesticated us. A quiet reminder that every leap forward binds us to something new before we understand what we’ve gained or lost.

This reflection is the first thread in a larger conversation I’m exploring for the next blog post: the idea that our dogs may be living through their own version of that same transition.

When Harari wrote that we were domesticated by wheat, he was pointing to something important to notice. It fed us, yes, but it also confined us. We traded the flexibility of hunter-gatherer life for the predictability of agriculture, and for generations, people suffered because of it. Poor nutrition, harder labor, shorter lives, the price of progress was paid in the bodies of those who never reaped its long term benefits.

We like to think we’ve outgrown that kind of bargain, but maybe we haven’t. Every generation builds something it doesn’t yet understand. Our ancestors planted wheat; we’re planting code.

Artificial intelligence, like agriculture, will probably feed the world in ways we can’t yet imagine, but for many living through the transition, it won’t feel like abundance. It will feel like loss.

Because evolution is slow, and culture is fast.
The tools we create evolve faster than our nervous systems or ethics can keep pace.
And just like the early farmers, we’ll adjust eventually, but not before we mistake disruption for decline, and confusion for chaos whether or not it ends up being justifiaby so.

It’s not so different for the dogs living in our homes, though it’s unclear whether they’re adapting to the changes we’ve built, or slowly being left behind by them.
Our cities are denser than ever, our schedules fuller, and the cost of care higher than many can manage.
Dogs that once roamed fields and slept near the hearth now spend long days alone in apartments, their instincts compressed into the margins of human life.
More of them wait in shelters than find homes, and those that do often struggle to navigate a world that keeps shifting under their paws, flooded with noise, confinement, and contradiction.

Maybe this is adaptation in progress.
Or maybe it’s the beginning of another quiet disappearance, not through malice, but through mismatch.
Either way, it deserves our attention.
Because evolution doesn’t ask who’s ready; it simply moves on.
And if we fail to notice the widening gap between what dogs were made for and what we’ve made of them, we may one day realize that kindness wasn’t what ruined them, indifference was.

Maybe we are not going to be replaced by machines, and maybe dogs are not being ruined by softness.
We’re all just being asked to evolve again, to find our footing in a world our descendants may one day call obvious.

11/03/2025

Part of the Monday group walk crew ready to kick off another week.

Hey folks, rescue class was really great today. I didn’t take pics or anything but Chico, Domino, and Leonard all got to...
11/02/2025

Hey folks, rescue class was really great today. I didn’t take pics or anything but Chico, Domino, and Leonard all got to hang out with our wonderful volunteers while I introduced some loose leash stuff for Buddy, the boxer that just had his adoption formalized (informally).

After class and 3 subsequent consultations, my voice is gone. Such is life.

I’m doing blog posts to flesh out ideas that are just too much for a Facebook post. I was up until like 3AM on this one ...
11/01/2025

I’m doing blog posts to flesh out ideas that are just too much for a Facebook post. I was up until like 3AM on this one last night. This is why it takes so long to finish writing anything, there isn’t really an end to how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Anyway the article is linked here on my website:

"Everyone Has A Way: Rethinking Freedom, Power, and Perception in the Human - Dog Relationship"

Hey folks, rescue training class this Sunday at 11am. We’ll be meeting at Howarth Park. I think I’d like to take the cre...
10/31/2025

Hey folks, rescue training class this Sunday at 11am. We’ll be meeting at Howarth Park. I think I’d like to take the crew for a walk for class.

Most of what we believe is probably wrong. Not because we’re lazy thinkers, but because we rarely attack our own opinion...
10/30/2025

Most of what we believe is probably wrong. Not because we’re lazy thinkers, but because we rarely attack our own opinions. We don’t test them for strength. We don’t try to break them. We just believe them, especially when they’re convenient.

Heres an example from a popular trainer:

“Just because a dog feels something doesn’t mean he should act on it.”

If I woke up one morning and thought that, Id believe it too. But if you apply pressure to it, the logic quickly cracks.

The irony is: the reason he wants to suppress the dog’s emotional response is due to his own emotional discomfort with the behavior. The barking. The lunging. The reactivity. It makes him feel a certain way, and he acts on it.

So the very principle he applies to the dog, “don’t act on how you feel,” he fails to apply to himself.
And this isn’t a jab at him specifically. It’s a mirror. One that reflects back how often we all do this.

We form a belief, and then build an entire system around justifying it, without ever asking if we’re the ones reacting. If we’re the ones needing to feel in control. If we’re the ones acting on emotion while telling others not to.

That’s why I stopped using “does it work?” as my measuring stick.
Because “working” often just means a dog stopped doing something we didn’t like. And we call that a win, never mind the dog’s own experience, or the deeper reasons behind the behavior that we never explored.

We owe it to dogs, and to ourselves, to do better than that.

Because everything we justify doing to a dog is built on what we think we know. And if what we think is so easily contradicted by what others think they know, then maybe we all need to be a little less certain and a lot more cautious. Especially when the stakes of our certainty are measured in someone else’s own experience.

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