Entries from November 2009

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving! Don’t let your dog eat nails! (Video)

We’re all dashing off to our Thanksgiving celebrations with friends and family, and will be taking a few days off, but we wanted to leave you with some sage advice. This time of year we read all kinds of tips about how to keep dogs safe at Thanksgiving. (No undercooked meat, not too much food, [...]

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Nectar of the dogs?

OK, we know dogs are hot. Humans are forever creating new inventions to make us happy. We have swanky beds and gourmet foods and organic doodads and even our own videos to entertain us. But until now, we have been lacking one thing that’s utterly ubiquitous in the world of humans: The aluminum beverage can [...]

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Kangaroo tries to drown dog, “disembowel” farmer

And a good Monday morning to you, mate! We figure there’s nothing like a little kangaroo gore to get you started with your work week, so we bring you this bizarre tale from across the globe.
Australian farmer Chis Rickard was walking his two dogs on his 20-acre farm earlier today when one of his dogs [...]

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

We thought we were just making a dark joke…

In our previous post, about fat dogs being taken away from their owners in Britain, we made a facetious comment wondering if fat human children were next.
Of course, that would never happen. It was just a dark joke. Right? Wrong.
A Twitter follower, doggiestylish, sent us a link to an article that shows our faux prediction [...]

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Britain coming down too hard on fat dogs and their people

It was with sadness that we learned of yet another British dog being torn out of the loving arms of a person who had inadvertently made him obese.
According to a BBC report, John Green testified that “he treated Barney as more of a friend than a dog and that he did not set out to [...]

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Twilight co-star Kellan Lutz: “My dog is my life”

The male stars of The Twilight Saga: New Moon are positively balmy for dogs. Yesterday we reported on Robert Pattinson’s desire to become a dog. And today, on the eve of the movie’s release, we find out that co-star Kellan Lutz’ dog is the world to him. “My dog is my life,” he said in [...]

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Another person blames a dog in fatal shooting of a spouse

We reported a few days ago on a woman who was charged with murder after blaming her dog for shooting her husband. (It’s a long story. Read about it here.)
Now we bring you the story of a California man who claims his dog tripped him while he had a semiautomatic weapon in his hand. The [...]

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Robert Pattinson dreams of becoming a dog

Robert Pattinson would very much like to be a dog.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon actor feels a “deep connection” with dogs, reports Monsters and Critics. When asked what he’d become if he could truly transform from being human, he did not say a vampire. No, he said what any brilliant, wonderful person would say: “I [...]

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Video: Chuck, the steer who thinks he’s a dog

This is one of the coolest “dog” videos we’ve seen in a long time. Meet Chuck. He’s a steer who thinks he’s a dog. And with good reason: Dogs helped raise him from calfhood. Chuck even used their ears as pacifiers. We just hope Chuck’s people didn’t give him this name because of the cuts [...]

Monday, November 16th, 2009

It’s raining embarrassed dogs in Great Britain

Over the weekend, British rescue crews had to save two dogs who managed to fall off major cliffs in Scotland and England. These weren’t ordinary dogs with no common sense, like our Zulu. One was a German Shepherd. The other was a Collie of some undetermined vintage.
What is the world coming to when the Rin-Tin-Tins [...]