Sascha and Britta — two owners, two Old English Bulldogs (Amadeus and Mila), long-standing aquarium-keeping on the side. With this blog we want to build, on our own initiative, a small lexicon around the dog. Sober, with named sources, without marketing vocabulary. We open with the topic on which most owners are badly advised — the choice of dog food.
Heatstroke kills one in seven affected dogs — and most owners cool them the wrong way, or too late. What peer-reviewed VetCompass data from the UK and the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover say about recognising it, cooling correctly, and the decisive phrase 'cool first, drive second'.
Few species generate as much confident misinformation as the domestic dog. Four sentences hold up especially well — and all four, on a careful reading of the last thirty years of research, are simply wrong. A tour through a genome, a Swiss zoo, an Arctic island and a Siberian fox barn.
For years dog schools have said: harness, not collar. What the rule of thumb conceals: even the most popular harnesses shift load — from the neck to the sternum, the shoulder, and a point between the front legs. A survey of the biomechanical literature from 2006 to 2025.
An Australian veterinarian founds a movement in 1993. A veterinary nutritionist in Boston has been warning since 2001. Between them lies a billion-dollar market, two decades of peer-reviewed studies, and the question of how soberly raw feeding can really be judged.
No debate over canine nutrition is fought as emotionally as the one about grain. More than a decade of genetics, an open FDA investigation, a billion-dollar premium segment — and one named voice in Boston who has said the same thing since 2018: 'It isn't just grain.'
