We brought home a dog before we were ready, and spent the first weeks guessing — googling at 2 a.m., second-guessing every choice.
Nobody hands you a manual for the hardest, best thing you'll do this year.
— M. Ruiz · for Lobo
So we made the manual. Plain language, sourced from AAHA, AVSAB and the ASPCA — never cute, never fearmongering. The thing we wish someone had handed us.
Written in English and Spanish, because good information shouldn't pick a language.














































