Fri 26 Feb 2010
Posted by Linda Chavez under News, entertainment
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Have you ever wished you had enough fashion sense to dress your dog up in the trendiest of outfits? Or have you pondered fluffing up your puppy’s ensemble with some high-fashion couture, the likes of which even celebrities would envy? Well, if you don’t know your left paw from your right, or an argyle sweater from a cashmere one, your plan to make your dog the neighborhood’s sharpest pet fashionista may hit a few snags.
Not to worry, pet style junkies. Luckily, the fashion world has bestowed upon dog lovers the ever effervescent, and bow wow chic, Dara Foster, pet stylist extraordinaire and co-founder of PupStyle.com. Established in 2003 in tandem with Foster’s own brand of boutique dog collars, PupStyle.com has since become the online universal center of luxury dog products. Though her collars became a popular accessory among New York’s elite, Foster soon shed the neckwear and focused her attention on selecting only the most perfect dog fashion trends to highlight on Pupstyle.com.
Instantly popular, Pupstyle.com catapulted Foster into pet fashion stardom, positioning her as the premiere pet style expert. Though a powerhouse of dog fashion, Foster’s sweet nature isn’t lost in this “snobby dog blog.” The woman behind the trendsetting comes with an exemplary background that any dogvocate would applaud. (more…)
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Fri 19 Feb 2010
Posted by Laura Goldman under Event, Health, i Love Dogs
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Winds of 10 miles per hour were reported in the i Love Dogs office on a recent Saturday due to all the tails wagging at our first Wellness Party.
People gathered with their pooches to meet and greet the i Love Dogs staff and ask questions of Dr. Mike Zareski, owner and head veterinarian at Western Veterinary Group, and our own in-house dog trainer, Eugenia Vogel. (more…)
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Fri 12 Feb 2010
Posted by Elisa Jordan under i Love Dogs
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If you’re in the movie industry, the highest honor you can receive is an Academy Award nomination. If you play baseball, it doesn’t get any better than a chance to win the World Series. If you’re in the competition dog world, the chance to compete on the Westminster Dog Show’s green carpet at New York’s fabled Madison Square Garden symbolizes the highest achievements in breeding and conformation excellence.
This year, i Love Dogs ambassador Jo Anne Ybaben will have her first opportunity to shine at the nation’s highest profile dog show. Ybaben, who represents i Love Dogs at various events around the country, will accompany Dash, a young but already accomplished Papillion champion. (more…)
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Mon 8 Feb 2010
Posted by Elisa Jordan under News
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With President Barrack Obama’s call to increase the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan by 30,000, the need for systems to support those numbers will also increase. The estimated cost for the first year alone is approximately $30 billion.
At least a fraction of that cost seems likely to fund the need for military-trained dogs that accompany soldiers on their patrols. By all accounts, dogs trained to sniff out explosives and mines have saved countless lives in the Afghan desert, but these dogs cost a significant amount of money to train and maintain. The San Francisco Examiner reports that amount to be about $40,000 per year, per dog. (more…)
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Fri 5 Feb 2010
Posted by Linda Chavez under News
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Radio and T.V. personality Ryan Seacrest, host of FOX’s American Idol and morning host for 102.7 KIIS FM, has sent some woofs out through the airways. In recent months, he’s been discussing with his on-air staff the possibility of bringing home a new dog.
Thursday morning he went back and forth with co-host Ellen K about the proper procedure for choosing a new best friend. Seacrest’s line of thinking led him down the path of picking a name first and then letting the name lead him to the dog that perfectly suited the name. Seacrest’s unique, perfect name? Zinger.
Security guard Roger, who’s often featured on the program, wasn’t too crazy about the name, while co-host K suggested the dog be named after someone Seacrest admired, like his buddy, famous news anchor Larry King. She suggested the name “King” would be a perfect pick for Seacrest’s new pawl.
Having heard the news through the grapevine, Larry King himself left Seacrest a humorous message giving Seacrest approval to name his dog after him, with the condition he name his dog “LarryKing,” all one word, so that he be more unique. (more…)
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Fri 5 Feb 2010
Posted by Linda Chavez under activity, training
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When i Love Dogs traverses the country for various events, we have the pleasure of meeting dog lovers from all paws of life. This previous December, while at the AKC/Eukanuba Agility Invitational, our booth had an intriguing visit by a woman and her pooch who had come to the invitational all the way from Brazil! Simone Lessa and her 6-year-old medium Border Collie Hera were in the United States for the very first time showing off their pawsome agility skills.
A systems analyst by day, Lessa trains with Hera three times a week with one goal in mind: to make the Brazilian Agility World Team and go to the next world championships in 2010. Formed in the year 2000, the Brazilian Agility World Team is already a considerable agility powerhouse. Since their formation, the team has taken home first place Large Team at the FCI Agility World Championships in 2002, and first place in Large Team and first place in Small Team in 2008. These are only a few of the team’s many accolades. The team’s hard work has made Brazil’s Agility World Team the top ranked team in all of Central and South America. How do you say “Wow!” in Portuguese? (more…)
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Tue 2 Feb 2010
A pooch yelps and the sound carries across a hotel conference room full of attentive listeners all waiting to hear the wise words of the man at center stage. Though one expects to hear a chorus of “Ssh!” resound throughout the room, the audience instead breaks into fits of laughter in response to the squeal.
“May be the first time anyone’s ever been heckled by a dog,” chuckles the man at center stage. The audience bursts into another round of laughter.
Warren Eckstein is no stranger to dog yelping and barking in the middle of his speaking engagements. In fact, Eckstein has made a 30-year-long career out of deciphering barks and yelps. This particular yelp might have been a heckle, the next may be an emotional outcry for attention, and even the next still may be a bark voicing fear of abandonment. Most humans wouldn’t be able to tell you either way, but Eckstein can tell you all about your pooch’s emotional state in a few seconds flat; in fact, he can do it all with a quick dog sit on his therapist’s couch. (more…)
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Mon 1 Feb 2010
Posted by Laura Goldman under News, Prizes, i Love Dogs
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We are so honored that the i Love Dogs blog is nominated for the Best Informational Blog About Pets award in the 2010 Brodies for excellence in pet blogging, presented by Pawcurious!
Voting is only open for one week, so if you enjoy all the pooch information and news our blog provides, please vote for us here.
Veterinarian “Dr. V.,” creator of Pawcurious, decided to start the Brodies (named for Brody, her “Goldenbeast extraordinaire”) after the 2009 Weblog Awards were cancelled last December.
“Since the Weblog Awards went kaplooey for the year, I decided to make up my own awards specific for that underrepresented segment of the blogging world, the pet lovers,” she wrote on her blog. (more…)
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The tall, dark and handsome Mario Lopez has settled down with the love of his life — short, chunky, pointy-eared and clumsy Julio Cesar Chavez Lopez. No, it’s not the Julio Cesar Chavez known for blows and knockouts; this little tub of chub is four-legged, smushed faced and the most perfect ball of love for the popular Lopez, who hosts EXTRA and MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew. He’s now the proud owner of a French Bulldog who he’s named Julio Cesar Chavez after the famous ex-boxer.
(AKC) had him take a compatibility test to determine which breed fit him best. The top dog? The French Bulldog, followed by the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Smooth Fox Terrier, Japanese Chin, and the Wire Fox Terrier. Though Lopez went through a 5-month trek researching breeds and learning about all things dog from celebrities and trainers, he came around full circle to the exact breed the test reported fit him best from the beginning — the Frenchie.
Lopez’s transition from television hunk to dog dad has been incredibly smooth. In a video on his show’s website, you can see Lopez kissing and cuddling his new Frenchie Julio as if it were second nature. No one should be surprised to soon see Julio pampered on the same level as Paris Hilton’s Tinkerbell or Perez Hilton’s Teddy.
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