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Who’s Cutest Canine in the City?

Who's Cutest Canine in the City?

D magazine in Dallas is hosting a contest to pick the city’s cutest dog. We think every city should get in on the act and celebrate the beauty of four-legged friends. Though we could live without the “survival” bit in the name as it might make the runners-up think they’re in for a dire fate. [...]


Bow Wow Brew

Bow Wow Brew

Ready to serve your best pal a nice cold one? Well a fellow in Oregon has just created Dawg Grog for thirsty pups. No worry, it’s alcohol-free, so you’re dog is free to drive after a drink.    


Auld Lang Canine

Auld Lang Canine

As you ring in the New Year tonight, consider a few resolutions focused on your dog’s care in the year ahead.


Dr. Dog

Dr. Dog

Drug and bomb-sniffing dogs are renowned for the powers of their sensitive noses. A hospital in The Netherlands decided to use the superior canine sense of smell to sniff out a bacterial infection that plagues patients in long-term medical facilities ranging from hospitals to nursing homes. Early results show that dogs are faster and cheaper [...]


High-Society Hounds

High-Society Hounds

Groucho Marx famously said he wouldn’t want to belong to a club that would have him as a member. Well, now there’s a new dog club opening in NYC that makes membership so elusive, Marx would give it a thumbs up. The Ruff Club requires prospective dog members to pass a background check regarding health [...]


Dogs to the Rescue

Dogs to the Rescue

A team of comfort dogs from the midwest arrived in Newtown, Connecticut yesterday to provide Sandy Hook survivors with gentle, quiet support.  Sometimes a lick or tail wag can provide a boost that words just can’t.    


Sniffing sugar, saving lives

Sniffing sugar, saving lives

A new breed of service dog is making great strides in protecting Type 1 diabetics from dangerous insulin fluctuations. The dogs can smell changes in their human’s blood sugar level and bark to alert them when its getting too high or low. The dogs are faster and more accurate at detecting these dangerous changes than [...]


Doggie Drivers

This just in from the BBC—a story on a New Zealand adopt-a-pet program that’s teaching dogs how to drive cars–rather than chase them. We just hope the dogs are comfortable behind the wheel.  



Pet-ometer

Pet-ometer

Tech giant Fujitsu has developed a digital device to measure your dog’s steps during the course of the day. The Wandant uploads data to a website that also provides ways for owners to track their pups’ weight and dietary intake each day, too. Read more here.


Giving Thanks For Her Dog

Giving Thanks For Her Dog

Rock songstress Fiona Apple is delaying some of her current tour dates to be by the side of her beloved pitbull Janet, who is slowly succumbing to age and illness. It’s a beautiful tribute to her dog and reminds us all to give thanks to the four-legged friends who fill our days with companionship and [...]


Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter

After losing their homes to Hurricane Sandy, there are nearly 40,000 New Yorkers competing for new places to live. For many, it’s meant moving from friends’ homes to hotels to relatives’ apartments. It’s a constant journey of transition that’s tough on people, but even harder for pets who don’t understand why they can’t settle into [...]


Design For Dogs

Design For Dogs

An article from FastCompany’s Co.Design newsletter tipped us off to a website dedicated to a new breed of accessories for dogs. Check out Architecture for Dogs and see some amazingly high-style home solution ideas for the haute hound. If you’re a builder, you can download blueprints and plans to make some of the items yourself. [...]


Of Turkeys & Dogs

Of Turkeys & Dogs

  When it comes to Thanksgiving: Stuff the turkey, not your dog. That’s what the experts at dogster.com recommend because several key Thanksgiving Day ingredients are really unhealthy or even harmful for dogs, including turkey skin, turkey bones and the sage so many of us use in our stuffing. If you really want to show your [...]


A Dogged Search

A Dogged Search

Working in conjunction with New York City officials, The Humane Society of the U.S.  has a rescue team going from house to house in Staten Island and other hard hit areas to rescue dogs, cats and even snakes that got trapped inside homes or simply got loose during the chaos of the storm. Some of [...]


From Bow-Wow to Boring

From Bow-Wow to Boring

That’s pretty much the emotional trajectory of a dog during the first 5 minutes upon receiving a new toy. A recent study of dogs and toys showed that most dogs lose interest in toys partially because of the toy isn’t all the interesting in itself, but mostly because they really want a human to help [...]


Hurricane Hounds

Hurricane Hounds

Dogs were hit hard by the high-winds and floods of hurricane Sandy, too. Click here to see some of the brave and awww-inspiring rescues of some of the dogs caught up in high-waters.


Honoring our Four-Legged Veterans

Honoring our Four-Legged Veterans

This is a study for what will eventually be a national monument saluting the dogs that have served our country. When it is completed sometime in 2013, the monument will reside at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, the spot where most of our nation’s military dogs are trained. The featured breeds are: Doberman [...]



Running Like Huskies

Running Like Huskies

Just as a sled dog team can cover long distances in great time, so too can our Microdry Pet leadership team. Two of our executives completed the Scotia Bank Toronto Waterfront Marathon on October 14th. Antony Pereira, our Global Controller, and Edin Mesic, our Chief Supply Chain Officer, set out under rainy skies at the [...]


Haunting Hounds

Haunting Hounds

The annual Halloween Dog Parade in New York City’s Tompkin’s Square Park took place this past Saturday. It’s an incredible display of creativity and canines that really is a must-see Halloween tradition in NYC. We certainly hope that these pups got treated to comfortable accommodations post-parade. Check out a great slide show of costumes here.


Pound Puppies

Pound Puppies

With about 53% of the canine population weighing in at obese levels, a cottage industry of dog exercise products is developing and growing fast. This treadmill caught our eye both for its good looks and a price tag that will certainly help wallets get skinnier. We’re still fans of encouraging people to get out and [...]


A Book With Bite

A Book With Bite

Famed Hollywood hound Uggie, star or at least the scene-stealer in the Academy Award-winning film The Artist, may have retired from cinema, but he’ll be back in the spotlight this coming Tuesday with the release of his biography. He evidently barked the text to his owner, who captures his adventures before the camera and behind [...]