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Parts 1 and 2 of this series were about understanding what food reactions actually are, how to identify them and what is in the food that might be triggering them.

When someone says their dog is allergic to chicken, what they almost always mean is that their dog reacted to a food with chicken on the label.

"Reaction to food" is not one thing.

A few nights ago, I saw a story on Instagram - the person had x-rayed her young dog and the HD score came back as C/D.

The first two posts in this series were about mechanisms and limits: how breeding decisions shape populations over time, and what genetic testing can and cannot tell us when outcomes are uncertain.

Health discussions in dog breeding often sound more decisive than the evidence allows.

A lot of misunderstandings about dog breeding start with language.

I’m writing a short series of three posts to separate some of the questions that tend to get mixed together in discussions about dog breeding.

We ask modern dogs to tolerate noise, crowds, novelty, and confinement—often without asking how prepared they were to cope.

Hip dysplasia remains one of the most frequently discussed yet misunderstood topics in canine health.