Activities

Just in time for Howloween, we’ve got the scoop on tips to keep your dog safe, events and some thrilling costume ideas.

The magnitude of positive pet-loving energy that circulated at this past weekend’s BlogPaws 2010 was unlike any we’ve ever experienced.

We’re proud to announce that i Love Dogs has signed on as the “Chow Hound” sponsor for BlogPaws 2010!

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! [...]

Zippity the Border Collie lives for agility, said her human Denise Thomas. “She is really a talented dog physically,” Thomas said. “She’s a very graceful jumper.” Thomas said agility is in Zippity’s family – her brother and father competed in agility on the international level. The 5-year-old Border Collie was scheduled to tackle the courses [...]

Agility has taken Karen Holik all over the country and the world. “We’ve been to Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Mexico and Costa Rica, teaching agility,” Holik, 42, said as she rode in an RV with six dogs and her boyfriend.  This year, Holik also traveled to Wyoming, California and North Carolina to teach agility. During the [...]

Marcy Mantell and Wave are world champions, but they still have something to prove at the FCI 2009 Dog Agility World Championships. “It’s a different kind of pressure,” Mantell said. “We’re going back to defend our title from last year. We’re going to do the best we can. We’ve been working hard all year long [...]

Bruno was stoic Sunday as he paddled through the surf, clambered on his surfboard and tried to catch the perfect wave. The English Bulldog found a wave and smoothly rode it until he bumped into another pooch stalled on his surfboard. The crash took a chunk out of Bruno’s board, but that didn’t matter – [...]

Editor’s Note:  Sherri Fries is an i Love Dogs Ambassador who has agreed to share with our readers her family’s summer adventure traveling  from Virginia to the Northwest. After a breathtaking boat ride from Juneau, they enjoyed seeing the totem pole carvings and other Alaskan traditional life of Ketchican.  Today is our last full day in Alaska, and we’re going [...]

Editor’s Note:  Sherri Fries is an i Love Dogs Ambassador who has agreed to share with our readers her family’s summer adventure traveling  from Virginia to the Northwest. Previous posts took us  through Canada to Fairbanks,  where she competed with border collie teammates Cleo and Wiki Wiki in AKC agility trials, and then  on to the Kenai Peninsula, the Katmai [...]