This weekend I was boning up on canine fashion, and one of the trends I learned about was wigs. Wigs for dogs!
By Lisa Wogan | March 24, 2008
Got a difficult pet and no interest in pinning him to the ground?
By Lisa Wogan | March 18, 2008
I recently met some ferrets and their folks on Vashon Island and got a
first-hand taste of what makes these little guys and gals so popular.
Their charming, goofy, freewheeling zest for life is like two pounds of
furry Prozac.
By Lisa Wogan | March 3, 2008
It's hard to get excited about spaying and neutering -- that doesn't sound right - well, you know what I mean. It took America's sweetheart and devoted animal lover Doris Day to pioneer and underwrite a national one-day campaign to reduce pet overpopulation through affordable spay/neuter. More than one million surgeries later, tomorrow is the fourteenth annual Spay Day USA.
By Lisa Wogan | February 25, 2008
Last week, a the 26-year-old Seattle vaccine scientist hung up his lab coat to pursue outdoor adventure with his dog full-time. In a few weeks, David Sylvester and Chiva, a shepherd-husky mix, will begin a quest to bike the continental United States and climb to the highest point in each state.
By Lisa Wogan | February 21, 2008
I remember the first time I saw a laser-etched tile on a tombstone. I was at Pet Haven Cemetery in Kent, Washington, a few years ago, and the photorealistic portraits of cats, dogs and people on grave markers startled me. These weren't the weathered, chiseled stones with barely legible names and dates that I remembered from my last visit to an old cemetery.
By Lisa Wogan | February 19, 2008
A recent tidbit circulated through local blogs about a little black kitten with a kink in its tail that went missing from Twice Sold Tales, a used bookstore on Capitol Hill, earlier in the month. It's sad about the cat, especially if it was truly taken. In a city where thousands of unclaimed cats are euthanized every year, who needs to snatch one from a good home, er, store? My advice to would-be catnappers: Steal a book about a cat and then go adopt one.
By Lisa Wogan | February 18, 2008
Who really needs an excuse for taking their best furry buddy out? Not me. Usually, it's the destination that's the problem. Not tonight. On this hump day (pun sort of intended), dogs are the toast of the town.
By Lisa Wogan | February 13, 2008
The Seattle Animal Shelter hosts a cat-fostering orientation tonight. If you have the crib and the inclination, fostering a "homeless" cat is a concrete way to support these deserving animals.
By Lisa Wogan | February 12, 2008
It's 10 a.m. in New York, the Big Red Tennis Ball. Carefully coiffed and meticulously groomed purebred dogs are hitting their marks in the rings at Madison Square Garden. Handlers dressed for boardrooms are gnawing on dog treats (the best way to inspire eye contact, or at least eye-to-mouth contact, with your dog). Already, ten lucky canines have clinched best of breed.
By Lisa Wogan | February 11, 2008
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