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
A Los Angeles animal shelter has slapped actress Anna Faris with a $5,000 penalty fee for breaking the terms of an animal adoption contract she signed four years ago. Laurel Kinder, the head of Kinder4Rescue, says the emaciated Chihuahua was found Friday wandering the streets of North Hollywood. When a vet checked the dog for a … Read more
A Michigan man thinks he has come up with a way to flush away the dog poop problem. Curt Fournier, of GreenDog LLC, is ready to start marketing the “PowerLoo,” an outdoor, flushable toilet for dog waste. It lists at $1,000 a unit, which I’m assuming includes the required tie-in to your home’s water and sewer … Read more
You wouldn’t expect a “leg man” to own a breed of dog that barely has any. But that is the case — ousted Fox News loudmouth, bestselling historian and accused sexual harasser Bill O’Reilly is the proud owner of a Corgi, who he has been spending a lot more time with since leaving his job, … Read more
There’s an old school bar in Bangor, Maine, that has a dog mural on a wall that many have wondered about for decades, including the bar’s owners. Where did the original version of it come from? They didn’t know. Why leave such a retro monstrosity on the wall? Because they love it. The ten-foot mural … Read more
Most dogs, when they chase a cat up a tree, leave it at that. Some walk away, deeming their mission accomplished. Some might skulk away, feeling, or so we’d guess, outwitted. And some might stand sentry at the base of the tree, waiting hours for the cat to come down. But once in a rare while, … Read more
Previously available only on the Internet, the Potty Patch — basically a porous slab of artificial grass situated atop a drainage tray — will now be available at PetCo, one of the nation’s largest pet retailers, and will be sold under the American Kennel Club name. Eagle Eye Marketing, makers of the indoor doggie restroom, announced … Read more
The techniques matchmaking services use to help humans meet their mates are increasingly being used by animal shelters, and for pretty much the same reason — in hopes of ensuring lasting bonds. The ASPCA’s “Meet Your Match” program has been adopted by at least 200 shelters across the country since it was created in 2000, including at the The … Read more