On the everyday joy and complexity of living with a dog.
Living with a dog often looks simple from the outside.
But inside those routines, things appear that don’t quite make sense.
Pawplexity is a reflective project about the ordinary, fun, and complicated parts of life with dogs.
If you have ever looked at your dog and felt something is happening here that you don’t fully understand yet, you are in the right place.
Podcast - Essays - Reading & Research.
Pawplexity is not organised like a training website. It is organised around questions.
You can start anywhere. But most things connect if you stay long enough.
Episodes are the conversations. Each one begins with an everyday situation between a dog and the people they live with, and stays with what comes up.
Pawdcast posts are the written companion to each episode. Shorter, observational, sitting with the same question on the page rather than in your ears.
Essays go further. Longer pieces that move through one specific moment in detail, often quietly, before arriving somewhere the conversation could not.
Digging Deeper connects some of these questions to research, and holds the books and articles that shape how we think about dogs and about living alongside them. The findings sit underneath the writing across the site. When you want to look closer, they are here.
Small moments often turn into questions.
Some of them are explored here.
Recent essays and pieces from my dog Makenzie’s journey.
From the Pawplexity Pawdcast.
Conversations that begin in everyday life and continue a little longer.
Living with a dog often leaves small things behind that we think about later.
This week’s question is:
What did you change just before your dog started eating again?
Here is something from our community last week.
"It took me weeks to notice my dog only finishes her bowl when the dishwasher is off. I'd been switching her food, thinking she'd gone off it."
An untouched food bowl has weight to it.
For many of us, appetite has become one of the few daily signs of wellbeing we can observe without guessing.
This essay reflects on feeding, participation, and what we quietly expect from a simple meal.