Pets

There's a great deal of truth in Marvin Gaye's blast-from-the-past, "I'll Be Doggone". Marvin is actually the one who's gone and next month, some money from your billfold will also be gone if you don't have your dog vaccinated and licensed by next Wednesday, the 29th...

2012 marks the 136th year of the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and the competition has been ferocious! While some canines seemed to shine more than others in the eyes of the judges, they all looked like winners to us.  But the actual winner this year is…

Martha Stewart is unarguably America’s domestic goddess. And now she can add one more feather to her (most likely hand-made) cap: on Monday morning, her dog Ghenghis Khan won Best in Breed at the Westminster Dog Show.

There is a new awards ceremony to add to the list of Hollywood events this year. For the first time, on February 13th, the unsung heroes of the movies will be celebrated at the Golden Collar Awards.

It's a beautiful book and presentation and the author of "Dreams with Horses" will be my special guest tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at 4:35 on the Puffman Show. She's Rachel M. Jessop and she lives across the mountains over in Hamilton, Montana...

They say that beauty is skin deep. Apparently, the same goes for cuteness, which is why the ASPCA’s Meet Your Match pet pairing program — designed to match pet and human personalities — has been such a success.

Another day, another hot new internet craze. First came “planking,” followed by “Tebowing” and most recently “breading cats.” And now, “Lion King-ing,” the act of raising a pet into the air like Simba in ‘The Lion King,’ is all the rage.

The waiting is almost over and the competitors are drooling in anticipation. The big game is on Sunday. Rawhide bones are being anxiously destroyed, but soon ears will perk and heads will tilt when the first squeaky toy is tossed for 2012′s Puppy Bowl VIII on Animal Planet, Sunday February 5th at 3PM Eastern/Pacific.

In the extended version of this year’s highly anticipated Volkswagen Super Bowl ad, a chubby dog named Bolt puts himself on a weight loss plan so he can catch a 2012 VW Beetle. And Darth Vader himself appears in a reference to VW’s awesome “Vader Kid” commercial from last year.

Take note, receptionists. Your job has gone to the dogs…literally. A dog at a vet’s office pulls a receipt from a printer, waits for it to be stapled, then delivers it by mouth to a man waiting on the other side of the counter.

Who's doesn't remember that old "house song" from the late Rosemary Clooney! The City of Shelby's housing assistance program is still going strong these days. This Shelby Homebuyer Assistance Program gives low and moderate income families an opportunity to buy a home here in Shelby through a no-interest, deferred loan program...

While on tour of duty in Afghanistan, soldier Donny Eslinger adopted an adorable dog that he named Smoke-pup Barbarian. But after he was critically wounded during a mortar attack and shipped to Germany, Eslinger was forced to leave the pooch behind.