Screen Time Surprises: Unveiling Its Startling Impact on Your Dog

This will shock you!

Your Pet’s Thinking Here Will Shock You.

So folks, while there is no steadfast research on screen-time interactions between dogs and humans, this is still factual, and not the ravings of a cartoonist. (True, I am a raving cartoonist, but let’s continue.) I am also a trained dog trainer. Of very large and mostly homeless dogs that have lived on the streets of the Kathmandu Valley (if you don’t know where that is, don’t google it, it does not matter in this story).

So, as you walk your dog and look at your phone, I know that you all do, as I do. I am either fiddling with the tiny “watch-face” on my Apple wrist-trap or looking at a thin brick-sized iPhone.

I have to get my steps into the machine whenever I am out with the monster of a dog that I run with twice a day. And I’m 70. He’s 70kg.

So my exercise regime is being dragged a few kilometers around the hood by a wolf on the run as if I am his empty driverless sled. But hey, I’m healthy, also not the point of this article.

The point is,…