Welcome to Spike’s blog! Raising a dog for Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) is incredibly rewarding — and also a lot of hard work. Whenever anyone hears about Spike, they instantly ask me how ...

From a human perspective, it’s easy to look at a crate and see a cage, something that might be used as punishment. But many dogs see a crate very differently. Dogs are naturally den animals who will ...

I was talking to a pet owner the other day about their five-month-old puppy. This is a large breed dog, so it was pretty big for a five-month-old puppy. The owners were concerned that the puppy had a ...

A dog trainer on TikTok has explained how to stop your dog from crying in their crate. In her recent video, Lisa Burton ...

I’ve been talking with people about crates a lot lately. A couple of weeks ago, Jitterbug and I were guests on “The Pet Place,” the weekly television show that aims to find homes for homeless animals ...