Havin Obrien 
Having a pet is a great responsibility, think about it, it’s like when you have a kid. You will need to provide the necessary attention to your pet and take care of its diet properly. Furthermore, you should remember that not all animals out there can have the same diet. For instance, dogs cannot eat … Read more
Giving your dog a bone — any bone — is a dangerous practice that can cause serious injury to your pet, the Food and Drug Administration says. It’s not like they’re recalling bones, but the agency has issued a warning in an article appearing on the FDA’s online Consumer Updates page. However popular the idea may be that it’s … Read more
The amazing and still evolving relationship between dogs and humans is the subject of “Dogs Decoded,” a NOVA episode that airs tonight. The program looks at how dogs — domesticated for longer than any other animal on the planet — have come to understand us in a way other animals cannot, how they can read our … Read more
Despite their efforts to appeal to families, Walt Disney World theme parks and resorts have always been about as kind and welcoming to one family member, i.e. dogs, as the Evil Queen was to Snow White. Signs are that is changing — a bit. A Walt Disney World blog, WDW News Today, reports that some areas … Read more
For more than a decade, they were a familiar sight around downtown Salisbury, Maryland — the homeless man and his silky white dog. You could often find them stationed outside Benedict the Florist, or located in what was an even shrewder spot to panhandle — behind the Dunkin Donuts, where cars lined up at the … Read more
French bulldogs are now the most popular breed in New York and Los Angeles, and the fourth most popular nationwide, according to the American Kennel Club’s annual ranking of breed popularity. This year’s national ranking show Frenchies climbing into the top five for the first time. Twenty years ago, the breed was 76th on the … Read more
Blue Buffalo has issued another dog food recall — the third in the last two months. The company says its Blue Wilderness Rocky Mountain Recipe Red Meat Dinner Wet Food for Adult Dogs has the potential to contain elevated levels of naturally-occurring beef thyroid hormones. The voluntary recall applies to one production lot (840243101153). The … Read more
Bob Barker — game show host, outspoken proponent of animal rights and a man who has been putting his money where his mouth is — turned 98 yesterday. And he was back on TV for the occasion. Barker, who stepped down after nearly 35 years as host of CBS’s The Price Is Right in 2007, returned in an episode … Read more
The way they saturate the market, it’s easy to get tired of car insurance ads. They’ve always tended to air over and over again, until — as imaginative as they might be — we become sick of them. Perhaps you too have fallen victim to seeing a little too much of the Progressive spokeswoman, or, … Read more
“The Blue Boy,” artist Thomas Gainsborough’s most famous work, featured a dog at one point in its evolution, and come September you’ll have a chance to see its ghostly image in person. At some point in its creation, “The Blue Boy” lost his dog. Gainsborough painted over the fluffy white dog in the painting’s lower … Read more