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I was checking out the pet supplies at my local Big Lots this week and found they have the Shed Ender grooming tool for just $5.00! I had purchased one recently at Rite Aid for $14.99, so I am bummed, but I wanted to pass that along. Not all stock is available at all Big Lots, but might be worth a trip to your neighborhood Big Lots to see if you can get one for $5.00.
If you haven’t seen this on the news lately, Gibson, a Great Dane, has gone down in the record books as World’s Tallest Dog alive.
Gibson stands at 42.2” tall, but when he stands on his hind legs, he is around 7 feet tall!
He has his own Web site and you can see a video here.
That is one big lap dog!
On Friday April 4, special correspondent Lisa Ling will appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show with an investigative report on puppy mills. Winfrey says the show is “for anybody anywhere who loves a dog, has ever loved a dog, or just cares about their basic right to humane treatment.”
Oprah is dedicating the show to her late Cocker Spaniel Sophie, who died last month due to kidney failure. Oprah’s 2-year-old Golden Retriever Gracie died last July when she choked on a ball she was playing with, so it has been a rough several months for Oprah and her pets.
Although Oprah hasn’t bought any of her dogs from a puppy mill, but after seeing the show has decided to get any future dogs from animal shelters.
If you like traveling with your dog, you may want to head to the Big Apple. According to the magazine Animal Fair, New York city is the most pet-friendly in the country due in part to the many restaurants and hotels in the area that allow pets.
Delta Airlines, Volvo, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess resort in Scottsdale, Arizona and The Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas also received awards from Animal Fair for being pet-friendly.
Do you travel with your dog(s)? Where do you like to go?
If you have seen the Pedigree TV commercial with the dog Echo in the shelter and being passed by, you know how heart-wrenching it was.
Apparently, the Pedigree ad campaign was very successful in more ways than one. Pedigree was happy to see dog food sales rise, but even more exciting was the interest and awareness it has raised for shelter dogs. Per an article from MediaPost Communications, there was so much interest in Echo’s story, Pedigree was compelled to show how Echo fared.
Echo, a Border collie mix, who struggled to find a home was adopted out to a loving home, as were 12 other dogs featured in the six-week campaign.
You may have seen the sequel to the first commercial. It begins with showing Echo in the shelter and the line, “I don’t know how I got here, (screen goes dark) but I’ll never forget the day I got out.” It’s followed by Echo in her new home running around playing and enjoying a belly rub.
The Pedigree company launched a non-profit foundation dedicated to providing grants to shelters around the country that has raised $750,000 so far.
The original ads were targeted around the Westminster Dog Show, but they expanded it since it has done so well, not only for the company, but for shelter dogs everywhere.
To find out more about the Pedigree Adoption Drive, go to DogsRule.com.
And always, if you are interested in rescuing a dog, visit your area shelters and rescue organizations.
This is just a little too cute not to share.
According to an AP article…
“NAHA, Japan — At a Zen Buddhist temple in southern Japan, even the dog prays. Mimicking his master, priest Joei Yoshikuni, a 1 1/2-year-old black-and-white Chihuahua named Conan joins in the daily prayers at Naha’s Shuri Kannondo temple, sitting up on his hind legs and putting his front paws together before the altar.”
Read the whole story and see pictures here .
I was checking out the winners of the Humane Society of the United States “Spay Day USA 2008 Photo Contest” and saw “Brian, Oakwood, Ohio” and it jumped out at me.
Brian’s cat’s name is Wally and, according to the caption, the owner suffers from depression and Wally helps lift his spirits. While Wally is a cat and this blog is devoted to dogs, there are also dogs who were finalists in the contest. And who doesn’t like looking at cute pets?
I always find it nice to see people from close by win national contests. It is exciting that our area gets represented. And I also love to see the various ways our pets help us through life in so many unexpected ways.
You can see the grand prize winner and all the finalists here. Wally is number 3 in the slide show.
The Humane Society of the United States held the contest to raise awareness of the importance to spay and neuter pets. The contest raised tens of thousands of dollars to benefit the spay/neuter efforts. The actual Spay Day USA was Feb. 26, 2008.
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