Michelle covers dog breeds for Puppies and Pooches — temperament, exercise needs, grooming demands, and the practical realities of living with a given breed that a cute photo never tells you. She's especially careful about matching a breed's real needs to a reader's actual living situation, since the same dog that's a perfect fit for an active household can be a genuinely poor fit for an apartment, regardless of how popular the breed is online. Her pieces tend to lead with the honest tradeoffs, not just the highlight reel.

Michelle keeps a running list of breed myths she still hears repeated constantly despite being outdated or flat wrong, and slowly working through that list is most of what decides her next topic. She'd rather correct a persistent myth than write about whatever's trending that week.