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Must Love Dogs Dating goes to the dogs. Can a four-legged cupid lead to love? Our intrepid reporter, Marni Wedin, aims to find out. By Marni Wedin
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Herding Under the watchful gaze of the strong-eyed dog. By Patricia KoMar
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Healthy Affection VS Obsession Are you cultivating separation anxiety in your dog? By Jennifer Messer
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Cesar Millan: The Man Behind the Whisper An exclusive interview with the Dog Whisperer, Cesar Millan. By Mary-Jo dionne
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Old Dog Haven New hope for old dogs. Good Samaritans offer refuge to animals abandoned in the twilight of their lives. By carreen Maloney
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The Rising Star—and Well-behaved Dogs— of Sarah Roemer An exclusive interview with the actress. By Mary-Jo dionne
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A Dog’s-Eye View: 36 Hours in Tokyo Explore the crazy-cool dog-centric Japanese subculture, from dog salons specializing in fur extensions to canine cafes. By Karin sinKevicius
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Cheap and Chic Cool dog stuff under $20.
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Play! Top toys for hours of playtime fun.
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Spring Cleaning Clean up in a flash with these dog-safe, high-functioning products, so you can get it over with and get outside.
Pill-Popping Pups Mood-altering drugs and our dogs. By stanley coren
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Puppy Love Puppies, puppies, and more puppies. PhotoGraPhed By cate caMeron
The Modern Dog’s Guide to Seattle Where to shop, eat, stay, and play.
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Doggie Styles Fun stuff for feisty pups.
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103 Best Beauty Bets Grooming problems solved! At-home grooming products that make doing it yourself a snap. 136 Sleepless in Seattle Can you say “road trip?” Canine essentials for a west coast getaway. By Jessica noseK
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Diet Tips Get fit with a little help from Fido.
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Nutrition: The Raw Debate Thinking about making the switch to raw? Things you should know. BY LIZ PASK AND LAURA SCOTT
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Chinese Herbs Bring Ancient Wisdom to the Modern Dog’s Health
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Stuff We Love Modern Dog staffers’ picks of the litter.
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Dog Trick Back to Basics: a reliable stay. BY ANDREA ARDEN
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Smile! More smiling dogs in Modern Dog’s photo contest.
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DIY: Eat Make your own healthy dog treats.
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Keeping the Faith An amazing dog provides hope, inspiration, and the glue to keep a family together. BY COREY VAN’T HAAFF
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101 Art Attack Profile in style: Accomplice Design’s Linda and Ervin Bakhshian. BY MARNI WEDIN
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105 Connie’s Book Club Curl up with a good dog and a good book. Editor-in-Chief Connie Wilson’s selections for great spring reading. 109 Ask Dog Lady Dog Lady delves into your most dogged dilemmas. 115 The Party: Throw a Puppy Shower Welcome your new bundle of fur to the family with a pup-themed fete. BY KARIN SINKEVICIUS
Actress Sarah Roemer and Dylan, her King Charles Cavalier Spaniel.
117 Training Trials? Ask an Expert. Top trainers answer your most pressing puppy questions.
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134 Lost Dog Remembrance of a childhood best friend and playmate, a stump-tailed mutt named Moochie. BY SUZANNE BEECHER
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t’s held that everything you want in the world is just outside your comfort zone. With the current economic decline disrupting everyone’s lives today, many a comfort zone has been pared down considerably or has disappeared altogether. But perhaps it’s a blessing in disguise; without that comfort zone luring us into status quo complacency, we’re left with little alternative but to step outside the familiar and contemplate a new reality. Perhaps this outlook will cause us to reevaluate our purpose on this planet and force us to realize that we’re all connected. When we do harm to another—human, animal, or the earth itself—it affects us all; conversely, the good we do has a ripple effect. Contemplation also makes us reexamine what’s truly important in life, which is rarely material wealth. With the news full of war, recession, and environmental crisis, though, it is easy to lose hope and feel too insignificant to create change. Here, our dogs help; they are a daily reminder for us to live our lives with the love, joy, trust, loyalty, and devotion that they convey simply in being. They remind us that one being can have a profound effect on another, from brightening a day to changing a course of action. So, as the spring solstice awakens the earth, bringing new life, it also hopefully witnesses our growing enlightenment and a renewed sense of optimism. In keeping with this theme, it seemed appropriate to photograph puppies for our spring edition’s photo editorial, “Puppy Love” (page 64). Puppies are a wonderful symbol of newness, innocence, promise, love and potential (not to mention cuteness). Remember, if you are adding a new dog to your family, please consider a rescue puppy or dog. Their numbers are legion and include puppies to seniors and every purebred and mix out there. Yours could be their forever home. In Faith, a mixed-breed dog born with only two functioning legs (page 76), we found inspiration and another symbol of hope. Amazingly, Faith overcame her disability by learning to walk upright on her two hind legs, proving an outstanding example to others fac-
ing challenges or disabilities. In this issue, we also shine a light on Old Dog Haven and the remarkable people that open their homes to abandoned senior dogs, giving them a place to live out their last days with love and dignity (page 58). With the weather warming up and flowers starting to bloom, perhaps you and Rover are itching to hit the road. In this issue’s City Guide, we bring you ideas for a great dog-friendly Seattle getaway (page 96). Or if you dream of heading further afield, we explore the dog-loving Japanese subculture in “Dog’s-Eye View: 36 Hours in Tokyo.” In our regular Activity department, we check out herding. But if you need to brush up on some basic training first, turn to pages 16 and 117–120. We also round up dog-safe, eco-friendly cleaning products just in time for some spring cleaning. And if it’s Rex that needs some sprucing up, we’ve got product suggestions for quick at-home grooming that tackle every problem, from tear stains to dry skin. Or perhaps those pleading eyes are actually saying, “Do I look fat?” If you’ve both put on a bit of winter weight, turn to page 70 for fun and easy suggestions for burning a few calories, as well as some figures on dog weight that might shock you. Our cover girl is rising star Sarah Roemer, who talks to us about her dogs and how they keep her grounded in Hollywood. We also look into the life of “dog whisperer” Cesar Millan in an exclusive interview. Plus, we’ve got recipes for healthy dog treats, alternative health and nutritional ideas, plus a look into the burgeoning market for mood-altering drugs for dogs, top toys, and great pup products under $20. We’re hoping this issue fills you with joy, hope, and puppy-like enthusiasm. Love,
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“I believe that dogs fill a vital function in the collective consciousness of humanity. I would call them ‘the Guardians of Being.’ They show us what we have lost and, once we realize that, they can help us in our shift into a deeper state of consciousness. Of course, we don’t want to be confined to only deep relationships with dogs, but they can teach us how to relate deeply to another being and then we can learn to relate deeply to humans also. That has to be the next step.” —Eckhardt Tolle, “Guardians of Being,” Modern Dog Fall 07
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For her first MD assignment, Polish photographer Angie Wojciechowska pulled on her work boots and went on location, lugging her camera equipment to a rural B.C. farm to capture Border Collies hard at work doing what they love—herding (page 38). Angie loves working with dogs, finding it challenging and rewarding. In fact, she loves her four-legged models so much she started Off Leash Photography, focused solely on pet photography. But Angie tells us this MD photo shoot was one of her favourite assignments; though Angie also loves commercial work and commissions from individual dog owners and their pets, she especially enjoys editorial photography, particularly when shooting in natural light and surroundings. See more of Angie’s work at off-leash.ca.
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This issue marks photographer Cate Cameron’s first contribution to Modern Dog, with “Puppy Love” (page 64). Cate is inspired by the beauty in the reality of everyday. She is the previous owner of Stone Fish Gallery in Calgary and an ardent promoter of photography. Her work has been published and exists in many private collections. Over the next three years she will travel internationally for the charitable organization Center for Affordable Water and Sanitation (CAWST) to document the significance of clean water in the lives of many developing countries, including India, Africa, South America, and Asia. “Photography is about capturing a moment, but essentially, it is a surface that can express a human experience, a way of seeing; it is the space between the individual and reality,” says Cate.
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