Tag: Pets
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Waste Receptacle Offers Wi-Fi in Exchange for Dog Poo
Bullmastiff owners in Mexico City are about to become extremely popular among laptop-wielding parkgoers, methinks
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The Week in Animal News: Cheetah-Dog Friendship, Robotic Animals from Old Computers and More
A cheetah and a yellow lab at Busch Gardens have been friends since they were little, an artist makes sweet robotic animals from e-waste and more.
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Pamper Your Pet With These 10 Natural and Organic Pet Foods
Set a high standard for your cats and dogs with these healthy alternatives to traditional food.
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Un-TreeHugger: World's First Stairlift for Obese Pets
Like their human counterparts, pets are becoming obese -- spawning temporary fixes like this costly stairlift for pets.
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7 Humane Solutions to Rat and Mice Infestations
These are the nice guy alternatives to poison and sticky traps.
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6 Tragic Stories of Exotic Pet Ownership Gone Wrong
From a toddler's confrontation with a python to a bear named Teddy that was not a toy, these dark animal captivity stories should deter some from keeping an exotic animal as a pet.
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Green Gift Guide: The Animal Lover
From sushi cat toys to adopting a lemur to an award-winning film documenting colony collapse disorder, find a gift for your animal lover right here.
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TV Chef Likens Eating Puppy Meat to Eating Pork
British celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has made a name for himself by venturing into the darkest corners of culinary arts. Throughout his career as host of several cooking shows in the UK, Fearnley-Whittingstall has put
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The Week in Animal News: Surfers Save Shark, Skinned Alive for Fake Uggs, and More (Slideshow)
It's been a good week for sharks -- a baby great white was rescued by Venice beach surfers, the world's largest shark sanctuary was declared, and faux shark fin soup may be catching on.
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The Week in Animal News: Long Lost Cat Comes Home, Animals Bathing, and More (Slideshow)
A Colorado family that had long ago given up on finding their cat got some incredible news this week, when Willow was found in New York City -- five years later and 1,800 miles from home.
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The Week in Pictures: Camping Trailer is also a Boat, Cats Nap in TVs, and More (Slideshow)
Wouldn't it be nice if you could just take your car from road to lake? Well now you can, and while camping to boot: This wild design morphs a trailer from a tent into a boat.
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Old TVs, Suitcases and VCRs Upcycled into Vintage Pet Products
Design firm AtomicAttic loves vintage, and vintage plus the urge to create new things is the perfect recipe for upcycling. Their most interesting work is made for pets. In Miles and Aimee's workshop, old television
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Who Would Steal Spot? Pet Thefts Are On The Rise
My beloved dog, Betsy, has been taken from me on three occasions. Twice ruffians took her when she was tied outside of a café; and a well-intentioned Whole Food's staffer took her, thinking Betsy was abandoned outside her store. I
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Adorable Puppy Gets a New Home in an Old Fridge
I'm a little late posting this, but it's just as irresistible as when the pictures first came out: an old refrigerator recycled into a dog house for a puppy that had nowhere to sleep. Inhabitat reports that the Y-town folks in
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City Imposes Cat Curfew to Bring Peace to Possums
In hopes of curbing a troubling trend in wildlife fatalities from the jaws of pets, city officials in one part of Sydney, Australia have implemented a plan to forbid cats from roaming the streets between dusk and dawn -- yes, a
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Virtual Dogfighting App is Back on Android Market
They may only be virtual dogs engaged in virtual fights to the death -- but somehow even virtual dogfighting seems really creepy and wrong. Last week. a new app available for the Google Android, called Dog Wars, created quite a
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The Week in Animal News: Flame Retardants Found in Pets, Inmates Eating Elephants, and More
Researchers at Indiana University have found flame retardants in the blood of pet dogs at levels five to 10 times higher than typically found in humans. Could dogs be the canary in the coal mine for how accumulating polybrominated flame retardants will af
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High Levels of Flame Retardants Found in Dogs
Researchers at Indiana University have found flame retardants in the blood of pet dogs at levels five to ten times higher than typically found in humans. Could dogs be the canary in the coal mine for how accumulating polybrominated
