Last week, Nutro recalled several brands of cat food, including their Max Cat and Natural Choice brands. Check if your cat’s food is on the list here.

Tobi Kosanke owns and operates a 35-acre working farm northwest of Houston called the Crazy K Farm. The farm is home to 100 chickens, 25 geese, 30 ducks, four sheep, 12 goats, four horses, two donkeys, six dogs, five cats, four parrots and a golden pheasant. Nearly all of the animals are rescues, including animals recused in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.
Kosanke, a geologist with a Ph.D., recently left her job at a well-known oil company to take care of her special-needs daughter. Faced with more than 200 mouths to …

Interactive toy ideas to keep your pup busy! By Trainer, Stephanie Bennett

In my book of life, I have an entire chapter dedicated to after Christmas sales! There is truly no feeling as when you get a Ruff Lauren blazer for 75% off! What really rocks is that every major designer has jumped on the doggie bandwagon with fabulous new products including apparel, accessories, carriers, beds and yes, dog palaces!…(too pricey for my Platinum Paws credit card)!
My mom always said, “You don’t have to own something to appreciate it”. Although I think she was barking about humans and dogs, I’ll take the …

Jack Byrnes would be proud. The uptight character played by Robert De Niro in Meet The Parents made us laugh at the very idea of toilet training his cat, Mr. Jinx. In one comedic turn, Byrnes popularized something all cat lovers universally wish they could do: rescue their furry friends from the evils of litter - the odor, the clean up, the cost. Now, a quirky new gift book arrives in stores to offer felines a nine-step program for leaving litter behind.

Combining ironic humor with an utterly practical guide, ‘KiCK LiTTER: Nine-Step Program for Recovering Litter Addicts’ (November 2008, CDA Press) follows the adventures of two cats, Moxie and Cooper (and the big guy who feeds them), taking their message of recovery from litter addiction to the masses.

It’s that time again!  Calendars.  In this day of Blackberrys and IPhones, give me a good old fashioned wall calendar, any day. I love them and I love choosing my new calendar every year.  Naturally, I go for some kind of dog themed calendar and there are always plenty to choose from.  It seems like a very important decision.  Clearly, you want a calendar that is interesting enough to look at every single day for the next year.  This year, I got two.
The first one is the Snapshots calendar.  All …

 
by Helen Stroud, Proprietress of OLIVINE in Uptown Park
 A dog’s sense of smell is by far their most highly developed sense. The average dog can sense odors at concentrations nearly 100 million times lower than humans. For instance, a dog is able to smell one drop of blood in five quarts of water! This is because dogs have more than 100 million olfactory receptors in their noses compared to humans having only 5 million.
 Dogs have long made significant contributions to public health as police dogs, assistance dogs, therapy dogs and …

 
Tis the season…for dogs! Hotel for Dogs, the video game based on the upcoming feature film, “Hotel For Dogs” from DreamWorks Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies, will hit store shelves this January. Like the live-action movie, the video game will focus on dogs – lots and lots of dogs. Of the canine-centric videogames this season, only Hotel for Dogs reinforces the positive messages of caring for your favorite pooch!
In the game, players enter the old hotel to help two siblings, Andi and Bruce, feed and entertain dozens of pups by building amazing gadgets, playing with the …

Check out these great boutiques to find your pooch or kitty a gift for their stocking.

Dress your canine in style this Holiday season or surprise your favorite furry family member with a Fido Fashion’s Collar in their stocking.
These classic, high-quality collars are available in a variety of collars and are the design of Texan artist, Kevin Heady. Each beautiful leather collar is adorned with a sterling silver charm or sterling “bone” nametags engraved per request.
Visit www.fidosfashions.com to view Kevin’s creations.