Archive - Paws and Reflect

Testing a dog's commitment to relaxation?

I want my dog to interact with me as a social creature. Of course she responds to my own movements!

Oct 28 •

Why my dog and I won't mind our manners

Because "polite" is subjective—and the rules we’ve maintained are the ones that most affect our own daily existence.

Oct 22 •

Positive punishment and prancing prairie dogs

Dog training nuance, "positive punishment", and sharing space with Montana's wild creatures

Oct 16 •

I get a little closer each time I try

How much time have I wasted on adrenaline in social-media comment sections when instead I could be loving my dog right here, right now, in front of me?

Oct 10 •

I love when my dog plays with things that aren't toys

I consider it one of our greatest accomplishments that Scout's expanding her idea of what constitutes a “toy”.

Oct 5 •

September 2025

August 2025

Gifts for and of an old dog

She greets me when I walk in the door—everything different and everything the same—as if we had not spent the bulk of our lives hundreds of miles apart.

Aug 20 •

I am not spiritual (and yet)

A prose-poem about the universe

Aug 4 •

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