At K9 Magazine we’re kind of obsessed about what dogs know that we don’t yet know they know if you know what I mean. It seems like there isn’t a year that passes where we don’t learn something new about…
At K9 Magazine, we get about five books or announcements of soon-to-be-released books every week. Some are re-issues of the classics, others are novels from new writers and we also get biographies, training manuals, humorous hardbacks and sentimental softbacks -…
Swedish athlete Mikael Lindnord grew up to be – above all other things – tough. He trained himself to do without sleep, to be super fit, to be able to climb, bike, trek in the toughest of competitive conditions, the…
Every morning when I wake up I can’t believe how lucky I am to have Buddy in my life. Since the day I found him back in April 2009 he’s been my best friend, and although I rescued him, in…
Dogs and stories are wound tightly through my life. And though they did not exactly save it they have made it infinitely richer, and – I think – made me a better person than I would have been without them,…
Ten years ago, if you’d told me I’d ever write a book about dogs or animal rescue, I’d have said you were crazy. I was a food and travel writer, and not a natural born animal lover. I wished all…
We often hear stories about dogs who have changed their owners lives and at K9 Magazine we love a story that tells the tale of a dog doing a ‘job’ and thriving in it, leading us to wonder what dogs…
Have you ever noticed how often dogs appear in your favourite stories? We have. In movies and TV shows there’s an unwritten rule that if you want a character to be liked or loathed, put a dog in their way…
Puppy farming is a subject which has gathered much deserved (and needed) momentum to educate more dog lovers in recent years. But while many adults are still learning how to spot the signs of a puppy farmer, how do you…
For most of my adult life I’ve owned, trained, bred, shown and loved dogs. At first it was Irish Red Setters, including my beloved Show Champion Sowerhill Sarong of Kingscott. After that I owned two German Shepherds, one of whom…
I first tried to write my memoir Dog Medicine as a novel. As I was writing, I slowly began to realize that I had chosen to fictionalise the story because I was scared to write the truth, writes Julie Barton.…
When special ops warrior Jason Morgan parachuted into the Central American jungle, he figured this would be no different from countless other anti-narcotics operations. A Combat Weatherman, he was serving with the Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR). However, this mission…
Have you ever sat down and recalling your dog’s many nicknames pictured what accent they’d have if they were human? It would certainly make it easy to commentate on their daily adventures. But would you consider going one step further…
I dreaded losing my first dog, Jude, and it was every bit as bad as I’d anticipated. He died when he was 12, his kidneys failed after years of treatment for allergies and itchy skin, which we had managed with…
I was happily minding my own business penning historical novels, when everything went topsy-turvy, and suddenly there I was writing Stepdog – a contemporary romantic-comedy reflecting my own up-ended life, says Nicole Galland. While penning the historical novels, I’d been…
Once abandoned and sentenced to death, then rescued and adopted, now life-savers themselves and beloved family members . . . this is the story of three former stray dogs, Noodles, Scout and Ioli. The book ‘Nice Nosing You’ by Elke…
Dogs have fought alongside man in combat since at least the 7th century BC, when the War Dogs of Magnesia helped battle the invading Ephesians. During WWII, the number of dogs that saw service ramped up considerably, as did the…
Some people are lucky enough to recall memories of growing up with dogs by their sides, others remember pleading with parents and jumping through hoops to show they’re mature enough to care for another being. Yet sometimes fate intervenes and…