A word on longevity from Louis.
As Canine Culture Manager at Pesel & Carr, I feel compelled to address a matter of growing importance: my lifespan. According to a recent AFR article, investors are pouring billions into longevity science, with dogs increasingly viewed as both beloved family members and, rather awkwardly, test subjects for treatments designed to help humans live longer […]
What happens to your social media when you die?
Do you have a social media profile? Most Australians do. But very few people think about what happens to those accounts when they’re no longer here. When someone close to us dies, managing their social media profile is rarely the first thing on anyone’s mind. Yet long after the funeral and the paperwork are over, […]
The ones we keep
I have been thinking about Bobby. Not a dog I know personally, as he has been gone for over 150 years. Greyfriars Bobby is a dog whose name I carry in my heart, as I suspect all dogs do. He was a small terrier who lived in Edinburgh in the 19th century. When his owner, […]
Books and thinkers I recommend most often
I’ve spent nearly three decades advising leaders on how they communicate – and by extension, how they lead. Across corporate boardrooms, government offices and community organisations, I’ve developed a fairly clear set of convictions about what good leadership looks like, not as theory, but in the room, under pressure, when it counts. So when I […]
Reading the room (All four paws in)
I came across an article this week that said humans aren’t always great at telling when dogs are in pain. You’re generally good at spotting the obvious signs, but the quieter ones can slip past. Things like yawning, lip or nose licking, looking away, or blinking a bit more than usual. To be fair, we […]
Tagged: what happens when an employee’s comment becomes your problem
Sherele Moody is an award-winning journalist, femicide researcher, and founder of Australian Femicide Watch and The RED HEART Campaign, a project that maps and documents every woman and child killed by male violence in Australia. She counts the dead, names them, and refuses to let their stories disappear into a news cycle. Her advocacy is […]
