This video is not only charming, it gives new meaning to the typographer's test sentence "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog," in a number of ways. Not the least of them is that the fox in question is actually a juvenile red fox.

Fleas... again! I just got rid of them... and the cost to to treat fleas is astronomical - or so I thought.

Its really aweful when our little buddies pick up fleas (and it happens alllll the time). They scratch and itch and I cringe - fleas are really gross and they can carry some nasty little diseases with them (hello, Plague?). When our little babies get the bugs we spring into action, wash everything, and really just want to get the whole ordeal over. Recently, my own little girl ("smiling" in the picture) had a nasty flea attack and it seemed like nothing would work - the fleas have become immune to our spray stuff. Nooooooooooooo!

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After a bitter cold winter in some parts of the country, long awaited hot summer months can be a great time for many people to spend with family, friends, and of course our dogs. Out door events seem to be on the "to do" list every weekend. We wouldn’t be great pet owners if we weren’t including our "fur babies" on that guest list.

We are very much aware of the negative effects humans can suffer from high temperatures and sun rays, such as heatstroke, sunburn, and skin cancer, but have you ever really wondered how our dogs must feel in the scorching heat and sun?

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Child in Car Called 911, Reported Drunk Mom

In New York, a 49-year-old woman driving drunk, with two of her kids in the car, was arrested, after her 12-year-old daughter called 911 from the car and remained on the phone with a 911 dispatcher until police pulled woman over.

A panicked girl made repeated calls to 911 Sunday night to report her mother for drunk driving on I-84. The girl called for help from the confines of Jamie Hicks's green Buick, telling the dispatcher that her mom was drunk and was swerving into other lanes. WCBS reports, 'The dispatcher heard lots of screaming and yelling and said the girl claimed her mom was hitting her, and there were multiple hang-ups.' But you've got to expect that when you narc out mommy for being boozy behind the wheel. "

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Loving our pets can be expensive - feeding, bathing, toys, muscle relaxers, vicodin, alcohol... oh wait some of those are for me.

In any case PETCO has a coupon for 10% off your purchase in store (for the stuff you just can not wait for) or online!

Click the links above to print the coupon for instore use or get the code for online use. If you prefer a different big box pet store I know that PetSmart accepts competitor coupons so print it out and take it in.

If your only interested in shopping online see the below information. You may want to click the above link fo rthe terms and conditions though.

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These are Cardian Welsh Corgie puppies, isntintively doing what they've been bred for; herding. In this case, they're herding a cat, not cattle, but you'll notice that the cat is enjoying herself, and when she's tired of playing, retires.

When it comes to puppy breeders, you have to wonder why we even allow them to be in business. I know there are plenty of kind and generous breeders who take good care of their pups, ensuring their safety and protection, making sure they go to good homes, and trying to make a living; I don’t mean to disrespect these individuals. But between the gross numbers of puppy mills where dogs are treated horribly and the numbers of overpopulation we face when it comes to dogs (as well as other companion animals, particularly cats), isn’t it time that we phased out this whole “purebred” business and instead focused on adopting the animals we already have?

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When you think about animal testing, you probably imagine all kinds of different horrors. Maybe you think about how Proctor & Gamble is famous for sewing the eyes of baby kittens shut just to test human beauty products on them. You might imagine lab rats, bunnies, monkeys, and many other animals kept in cages, unable to see the light of day, injected with all kinds of harmful chemicals and diseases just to ensure that we won’t break out by using some new skin cleanser. (Of course, studies have proven this to be ineffective at best and harmful at worst; since humans are not the same as these animals, we often still get sick—even die—though studies showed ingredients safe on animals like pigs.)

But did you ever think that man’s best friend, the domesticated dog, would be the subject of animal testing?

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In a move which is more controversial than most people might think, the American Kennel Club has approved mutts (which they have dubbed "All-American") as entrants to certain AKC events.  The skill-based contests, Agility, Rally, and Obedience, now allow mutts to compete.

This move has hackles raised on both sides of the fence.  On the mutt side, if you ask a lot of people involved in animal rescue and animal welfare, the AKC is the single worst thing that ever happened to dogs.  


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The best advice I’ve ever heard when it comes to avoiding getting bitten by a dog is this: don’t mess with a dog you don’t know. That’s pretty easy to do, right? Yes, it makes a wide assumption that any dog could bite, but in reality, any dog could bite. When provoked by a young child, my dog—then in the care of a friend while we were moving—did bite.

Though she did not cause much harm, she did have to be “put to sleep” over it, something I never understood at that age (I was nine) and never really got over. I haven’t really had a dog since. (We did try to have a puppy when my daughter was a baby, but that didn’t work out and we found her a better, baby-less home.)

Here are some tips to avoid being bitten by a dog.

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