EDITORIAL STANDARDS
Useful enough to act on. Careful enough to trust.
Argo publishes for dog owners trying to understand one dog over time. We make the source, uncertainty, author, review status, and product boundary visible.
Who creates the guides
The Argo Editorial Team researches and drafts each page. Every page has a named updated date and states whether professional review is complete. We do not imply that a veterinarian, trainer, or behavior professional reviewed a page until that review occurred.
How AI is used
AI may help organize research, compare source material, or create an early draft. A human editor remains responsible for every claim, example, link, and safety boundary. An independent model may perform a separate source, safety, clarity, and SEO review. Each published page names that review without presenting it as credentialed expertise. Automation is never used to manufacture first-hand experience.
Sources and professional review
Behavior and Care guidance prioritizes veterinary schools, veterinary manuals, recognized animal-welfare bodies, and professional veterinary-behavior organizations. Articles involving medication, vaccination, symptoms, emergencies, or treatment require veterinary review before indexing. Behavior prescriptions require an appropriately qualified humane professional. Low-risk observation, comparison, and record-organization pages may publish after their sources and safety boundaries pass independent editorial review, with the lack of credentialed review stated plainly.
What Argo will not do
Argo does not diagnose health or behavior, guarantee change, choose a treatment, change a dose, or replace a veterinarian or qualified behavior professional. We separate what an owner observed from what it might mean and preserve uncertainty when evidence is incomplete.
Corrections
Material corrections should change the reviewed date and be recorded in the article's editorial history. A source changing is a reason to re-check a page, not to silently update its date.