In the five years since she launched Simply Wed
in Lynnwood, Kirstie Warren has discovered there are plenty of brides and
grooms who want Rex in on the celebration. "Dogs are often like a
couple's first children, so it's natural they want to incorporate them
in the day," she says.
July 7, 2008
A cat in a garden is a romantic, poetic image. A cat in a garden is a plant-chomping, turd-dropping nightmare. It really depends on your point of view.
June 23, 2008
Pet Dish
I usually wash my dogs in the backyard with the hose. It's a cold, chaotic, treat-heavy experience. But today, I turned my guest bathtub into a mini dog spa to sample one of a new line of animal skin care products recently launched by Bellevue organic chemist Adelia Ritchie.
June 20, 2008
Pet Dish
After closing its doors for a long nap, High Maintenance Bitch reopens this weekend. If you haven't heard of High Maintenance Bitch (HMB) or read the sassy, pink book by the same name, or watched brother-and-sister founders Lori and Ryan Pacchiano on reality TV (Ryan most recently on Showdog Moms and Dads), you probably aren't the proud, pampering parent of a blinged-out lap dog.
June 19, 2008
Pet Dish
The Northwest School of Animal Massage is best known as a place for professionals to earn certificates in animal massage and study related pet health and wellness topics. But the new Wellness Workshop series welcomes the rest of us who want more holistic tools in our pet's health toolbox without going to "grad school."
June 13, 2008
Pet Dish
So I'm just back from a book signing in Boulder, Colorado, and I'm happy to report that the Berkeley of the Rockies is one dog-infatuated town.
Lean, shiny, smiling mutts peer out from nearly every funky truck bed,
snooze under every sidewalk café table, and pad alongside nearly every
lean, shiny, smiling human. For outdoor-adventure-loving quadrupeds,
it's hard to imagine a better hometown or destination than Boulder.
June 11, 2008
My last cat -- a gray, tiger-striped kitten from a shelter in Spanish
Harlem -- was named Katie Nightmare. She earned that name thanks to her
passion for scratching, biting and nocturnal ambushes. If she'd been a
dog, I would have hauled her off to obedience training or at least
sought expert advice in the pages of a training manual. Instead, I just
considered her occasionally hair-raising behavior part of the cat
package.
June 9, 2008
Pet Dish
My dog will not wear the Velcro-strap, rubber-soled booties that look so adorable on sled dogs. Whenever I put them on her, she goes into a berserker frenzy. So, when I saw Pawz Protective Dog Boots, I thought, maybe.
June 4, 2008
Pet Dish
Today, while working on a piece about cat training for next week, I was happy to learn that it's possible to teach a cat tricks and good habits despite my abject failure (or rather non-effort) with a cat named Katie oh-so-many-years ago.
June 2, 2008
Pet Dish
While families tethered kayaks to roof racks, laid in the charcoal briquettes, and scrambled to finish up work details before the holiday weekend, details of a settlement in the largest pet food recall in the nation's history began to surface.
May 26, 2008
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