Four people, nine dogs, one shared group chat
We are not a media company. We are a blog that got bigger than expected.
Zoomies Again started in 2019 as a Google Doc I kept for myself. My third foster had just become permanent, I had spent $2,300 on a dog I was not supposed to keep, and every time I searched something at eleven at night I got the same article rewritten six ways. None of it told me what things cost, what actually happened, or what the writer got wrong the first time.
So I wrote that down instead. Then people started emailing. Then three of those people started writing too.
What we do here
We write from inside actual houses. If we tested a bed, we bought it and a dog slept on it for six months. If we say a food costs $2.40 a day, that is what we paid, at a store, on a receipt we still have. If something did not work, that is the more interesting half of the post and we leave it in.
We update posts when we learn we were wrong, and we say so at the top rather than quietly editing. Our editorial policy spells out how that works.
What we are not
None of us are veterinarians. Marta is a certified veterinary technician with fourteen years in general and emergency practice, which means she is very good at explaining what your vet said and is still not the person to diagnose your dog over the internet.
Nothing on this site diagnoses, treats, cures, or prevents anything. If your dog is limping, vomiting, not eating, or acting wrong in a way you cannot name, close this tab and call your vet. That is genuinely the advice.
How we pay for it
Some posts contain affiliate links, and occasionally a brand pays for a post. When that happens the post carries a label at the top before you read a word of it, and the disclosure is in plain English rather than eight-point grey. Paid posts do not get to change our other coverage, and we do not run them for products we would not have in the house. The full arrangement is on the disclosures page.
The writers
Kelsey Moran
Founder & editor · Asheville, NC
I am not a vet. I am a person who has spent an unreasonable amount of money and time on dogs, and who got tired of reading the same six recycled articles every time I searched a question at 11pm. Zoomies Again is what I wish had existed then: real notes from real houses, with the boring parts left in.
Danielle Oyelaran
Contributing writer · Chicago, IL
Six years at a municipal shelter in Chicago will teach you that almost no dog is broken and almost every owner is exhausted. I write about the gap between those two facts.
Marta Quinn, CVT
Veterinary technician, contributing · Portland, OR
I have held a lot of dogs while somebody drew blood. Most of what scares owners is the vocabulary, not the diagnosis. I try to fix the vocabulary part.
Russ Delgado
Gear & testing · Boise, ID
I buy the gear myself, I use it for months, and I tell you when it falls apart. Cooper does the destructive testing free of charge.
Say something
Corrections, arguments, and dog photos all go to the same place. See contact. We answer most things within a week, which is a promise we break about a quarter of the time.