Dr. Hess, owner of multiple Australian shepherds and Australian shepherd mixes, can help with Designing for your Dog. Creative solutions to keeping a nice home and multiple pets are something she has worked on/struggled with regard to textures for textiles, creative ways to thwart the counter-surfer without baby-gates and how to DIY. Dr. Hess is an advocate of keeping it simple and dog-happy and cat-happy chic.
Dr. Hess is a huge fan of genetic geneology as well as traditional geneology, for humans. She can also explain your dog's DNA results.