While millions of people tune in for the Superbowl this Sunday, there’s a growing movement of the gentler (and cuter) variety–The Puppy Bowl. Yes, it’s as adorable as it sounds.
Animal Planet has taken a silly idea and turned it into a winner. It all started in 2004, when Animal Planet’s first annual Puppy Bowl was [...]

Show your team prde this Sunday. Or have Fido do it for you!

Check out this Arizona Cardinals doggie jersey priced at $29.95 and available in small, medium, large and x-large.
Not to be left out, Steelers fans can also get in on the game with this Pittsburgh Steelers doggie jersey also the same price and sizes.

Both [...]

The recently-released film, Hotel For Dogs, features a young cast of up and coming actors/actresses, but the real stars are of the four-legged variety.
The film features Friday, a white Benji-esque Jack Russell Terrier; Lenny, a Bullmastiff; Georgia, a Boston Terrier; hairless Chinese Crested Romeo; Cooper the English Bulldog; Shep the Border Collie; Juliet the Poodle; [...]

In December 2008, a five-month-old pit bull, Gigi, was hit by a car. Gigi and her owner were crossing the street near their Staten Island home when a car struck the dog.
According to Gigi’s owner, the car was on the wrong side of the street. The driver left the scene of the accident. Gigi suffered [...]

There are several things to consider when selecting a vet to treat your pooch. I speak from experience learned the hard way when I say that you get what you pay for, and even in tight economic times, money should only be one of many factors you consider when choosing a vet for your fury friend(s).
Here are [...]

Last summer, 9-year-old Calli Vanderaa found seven-week-old puppies in the garbage dumpster behind her house. In November, she wrote a letter to her local newspaper, the Winnipeg Free Press, detailing her rescue efforts.
Here is the letter:
Dear Sir
My name is Calli Vanderaa.
I’m 9 years old and I live with my daddy.
One day we found a little puppy in [...]

According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), the danger of stray voltage on city streets can turn walking, biking or running your dog into a dangerous and devastating event.
The occurrence seems to be most common in northern climates and urban areas. What happens is stray voltage occurs when dormant utilities leak [...]

Increasing travel — global travel in particular — is leading to new diseases spreading from country to country. Chronic Wasting Disease, Monkeypox, Avian Influenza — you name it and chances are it moved quickly from one country to the next.
One of the latest diseases starting to show up in the United States is Chagas Disease, [...]

While the new film Marely & Me may be hot at the box office, and surely it portrays puppies in all their glory, there’s a chance that it might be glamorizing puppies and encouraging dog lovers to get a pup without thinking things through.
That’s why the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior
(AVSAB) sent out a press release the [...]

Over here, I often talk about my greyhound, Greta. And just last week, I shared a story on this blog about an amazing greyhound in the U.K.
If I had property and enough money and a husband who would let me, I would most likely have adopted a dozen greyhounds by now. Until I win the [...]