As many of you are aware, there has been severe flooding in Iowa causing major devastation to not only humans but to our animals friends as well.A grass-roots fundraising effort was recently started by a young woman named Brooke Suchomel who grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. All funds raised by the Iowa Flood Relief Auction will be directed to a special "Friends of the Animal Shelter" fund via the Kirkwood Foundation (tax ID 23-7076632), which is the fundraising division of the Kirkwood Community College, currently serving as the temporary shelter for displaced animals. ...more

June 19, 2008

Some of your co-workers may be drooling Friday. They can't help it. They're dogs. ...more

June 18, 2008

Washing a dog, especially a big one, is messy. The dog shakes. Dirty, soapy water splashes on the walls. Your knees, your back, or both, hurt from kneeling next to the bathtub. Then there's the big lump of dog hair in the drain. ...more

January 1, 2008

When Lane Nemeth, who founded Discovery Toys in 1978 and sold the company to Avon two decades later, decided to start a pet products company a few years ago, one of the first things she did was to look for regulations about how to manufacture pet toys safely. ...more

December 22, 2007

Pets rule at the holidays, especially dogs, and that helps keep many retailers' registers ringing. ...more

November 23, 2007