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Hair of the Dog

  Ever wish you could kick back and share a cold one with your pooch? Thanks to Bowser Beer you can http://bowserbeer.com. The bottle looks familiar; you can even send in a photo and get a custom label made. But there’s no alcohol or carbonation, instead there’s chicken or beef, malt barley and glucosamine.  It’s even…

Happy Hannukah!

Weird or Wonderful? Poultry-Flavored Toothpaste

I love it and my Vet says he can see the difference in my gums since my we started using it.  We use Petrodex Enzymatic Toothpaste for Dogs – Poultry Flavor. We got the toothpaste and Pet Dental Finger brushes by Four Paws from Amazon http://www.amazon.com. I am also a fan of Pedigree Denta-chews.  At my April…

May I come in?

“Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that’s how dogs spend their lives.” Sue Murphy  

The Next Best Thing

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend.  Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” Groucho Marx. These recycled rascals combine both — the written word and the noble beast. Each started out as shredded and rolled newspapers and grew into an adorable eco-friendly canine — one headline at a time….

Holiday Helper

The holidays can take a lot out of a dog… Just over half of American pet owners will buy gifts for their pets this holiday season, and they’ll spend an average of $46 on their animals, with toys and treats topping the list, according to a new AP-Petside.com poll. Sixty-eight percent of pets getting gifts…

It’s my belly and it’s a beauty.

“Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.”     -Franklin P.

How to Read a Dog’s Facial Expression

Me, I wear my emotions on my mug. And if I can’t get my message across through my expression, I can talk. I have several varieties of specialized barks (“I heard the grass growing”) and whines (“I really gotta go”) and hard-to-describe squeals (“Pet me. Pet me now.”). Some dogs keep it a bit closer…

One Small Puppy

By Shirley Uphouse The air-cargo warehouse at the Atlanta airport was huge and noisy. The acoustics in the concrete structure did nothing to soften the cacophony of overhead fans, trucks, iron-wheeled carts and the steady roar of a large machine from someplace out of sight. I hugged her one last time, holding her small, warm…

Pleeeease, pleeeease. I haven’t eaten since breakfast — 20 minutes ago.

“A well-trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it.“ -Helen Thomson