
The Work of the Walk, Pt 1: The Walk Your Dog Is Actually Taking
This is the first installment of The Work of the Walk, a series about canine psychology, what dogs are actually doing on a walk, and
News and stories about pets, pet care, and things we care about as a community.

This is the first installment of The Work of the Walk, a series about canine psychology, what dogs are actually doing on a walk, and

This past June, Baltimore City health officials warned residents about several foxes that tested positive for rabies near Stony Run Park in Roland Park. The

Baltimore is under a Code Red air quality alert today as smoke from Canadian wildfires moves through the Mid-Atlantic. Western Maryland is sitting at Code

Dog walking looks simple from the outside. You show up, you clip a leash, you go. What you’re actually doing is spending several hours a

Baltimore summers are not subtle. By July, the air sits on you like a wet blanket, the pavement radiates heat you can feel through your

I’m not going to tell you fireworks are evil. Plenty of people in this neighborhood love them — and in Baltimore they don’t stop at

A dog walking alone is doing a fine thing. Don’t let me undersell it — a solo walk is exercise, it’s a change of scene,

Marbles isn’t an aggressive dog. He was just having a bad day. My friend Sarah Jane has an Italian greyhound named Marbles (the obvious hellhound

This is Oso. He’s a throwback Pomeranian in a lion cut, which means he looks like a small bear that has just been told something