Modern Dog gets glowing notice

Modern Dog, the Vancouver-based magazine, gets favourable notice south of the border in MediaPost's regular (hard to please) Magazine Rack feature. Tanya Irwin, who writes the review, says:

I can honestly say that every single article is well-written and interesting. Reader-content is kept to a minimum, with the exception of the page at the back wasted on dog horoscopes.

She cavils a little about the magazine's Canadian-centricity (that's rich), but apparently this is the dog magazine she has been waiting for. For instance:

A Q&A with spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle (author of bestseller “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”) is a little out-of-character for the mostly tongue-in-cheek tone of the book. But it’s fascinating and like nothing I’ve ever seen in a pet-oriented magazine. Tolle, who is photographed with Maya, his Cavalier King Charles spaniel, talks about the role dogs can play in helping people to be happier. “I believe dogs are keeping millions of people sane who would otherwise become deeply neurotic in our alienated world,” he says.

Thinking like that makes you feel less silly for reading a dog magazine, now doesn’t it?