Pets on Parade at the Visionary Museum
“The best dog-gone parade” in Baltimore is coming up this weekend. That’s how the American Visionary Art Museum is billing its annual “Pets on Parade” event at 10 a.m. this 4th of July Sunday (with...
View ArticleASPCA says Coffee not being abused
View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. Is Norberto Fernandez exploiting his dog? Maybe. Is he abusing her? No — at least that’s the opinion of an ASPCA investigator who looked into the treatment...
View ArticleA new world record: 337 dogs in costume
The San Diego Padres may be in the basement of the National League West, but they set a record this week. Guinness World Record officials were at PETCO Park’s annual “Dog Days of Summer” event to...
View ArticleDogFest is just around the corner
It’s time for DogFest, the Baltimore Humane Society’s annual day-long celebration of dogs. It’s this Saturday, Oct. 15 (with a rain date of Oct. 22) at the Baltimore Humane Society, 1601 Nicodemus Road...
View ArticlePETA’s tips for a safe halloween
This year’s tips on how to ensure your pet has a safe Halloween are brought to you by PETA — the scariest animal welfare group of all. And while some of them are a little over the top for us — such as...
View ArticleHas costuming dogs gotten out of control?
We did it. We managed to do what I suspect no other dog blog pulled off — we got through Halloween 2011 without running a single picture of dogs in costume. I am not strictly opposed to dressing dogs...
View ArticleOne last word on doggie Halloween costumes
In response to yesterday’s post — the one that questioned whether dogs really enjoy the way we outfit them for Halloween, and whether all the money we spend doing that might be put to better use — a...
View ArticleJan. 14 — National Dress Up Your Pet Day
It’s “National Dress Up Your Pet Day.” And — with apologies to any advertisers or potential advertisers we might offend, to the founder of the day, and to dog dresser-uppers everywhere — we hate it. We...
View ArticleBillboard of dog as DeGeneres is taken down
As much as Ellen DeGeneres likes dogs, she apparently doesn’t like it when they’re dressed up as her. An Ohio woman who hoped to get her dog on Ellen’s show has been ordered to remove a billboard, not...
View ArticleIs dog dancing getting too footloose?
Seeing some doggie dance moves it finds inappropriate, the Kennel Club in the UK is cracking down, outlawing some “extreme” and “unnatural” steps it says could injure dogs. Effective next year, certain...
View ArticleCostume contest is part of BARCStoberfest
We’ll be tossing out a few more Halloween costume ideas this week and next (though this one looks more suited for Easter) so you can be prepared — not just for Halloween itself, but for the...
View ArticleDoggySpace costume contest benefits SPCA
Once you’ve gone to the trouble of dressing your dog up, you might as well enter him or her in the DoggySpace Halloween costume contest. DoggySpace, a social networking site for dogs, is sponsoring a...
View ArticleLicense and registration, please
The next in our continuing series of Halloween costume ideas for your dogs is this one from i-pets.com. How better to add to your bulldog’s already initimating look than by dressing him as a highway...
View ArticleHalloween Costume # 5: Matador Chihuahua
This one comes from Karen Ngo’s new book, Indognito: A Book of Canines in Costume, published this fall. Other photos from the book — and many more costume ideas, some less elaborate than this one – can...
View ArticleKeep your head on Halloween
One last doggie costume, and some final words of advice and — in a couple more nights, anyway — we can put Halloween behind us. To find this one, I had to venture into the unfamiliar yet very tidy...
View ArticleProtests held in South Korea over dog meat
Protests were held in Seoul yesterday — the International Day of Action for Dogs and Cats in South Korea — calling for an end to using dogs and cats as food. In Seoul, members of the group Coexistence...
View ArticleOK, OK, a dog costume, but just one
You may have noticed that we’re not real big on doggie Halloween costumes this year. We have some issues with the whole idea of costuming pooches — and encouraging the practice — that we are still...
View ArticleBruce the Funny Dog
Important Things with Demetri Martin Attention – Bruce the Funny Dog www.comedycentral.com Joke of the Day Stand-Up Comedy Free Online Games “Important Things With Demetri Martin” kicked off its...
View ArticleI love you just the way you are
You can call me Fuddy Duddy. You can call me Party Pooper. This Halloween, like every Halloween, I find myself put off by the effort, and money, we Americans put into dressing up our dogs for the...
View ArticleSecret Life of the Human Pups
All we can learn from dogs, and how, in many ways, we should strive to be more like them, are recurring themes on this website. But, for the record, this is not what we mean. A new documentary by...
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