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Foobler A Smart Puzzle Feeder For Dog
Foobler is a new smart puzzle feeder for your dog. It is natural for dogs to hunt and forage for food in wild but domestic dogs should still use their natural instincts to hunt for food. Foobler is a self-reloading puzzle feeder with a real bell that challenges, stimulates and feeds your dog for up to 9
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Tigga Towers Luxury Activity Cat Tower System
Tigga Towers is a luxury activity cat tower system developed by UK cat breeders. The company was launched in May 2009. The system is comprised of scratching posts, beds and all-in-one activity centre. It is modular and crafted to withstand the heaviest and most energetic breeds of cat whilst fitting seamlessly into the home environment.
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Kittyo – Play With Your Cat Even When You’re Not Home
Kittyo is a new brand with an exciting and innovative product that is going to change our relationship with our cats. For those of us who don’t have the luxury of working from home or have to go away for work often, going out and leaving your cat at home can be quite upsetting, especially if
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Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium – London’s First Cat Cafe
Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium is soon to be London’s first cat cafe. It’ll also be one of the UK’s very first cat cafes. The company was successful with crowd funding via Indiegogo in February 2013. The Cat Emporium will be in Shoreditch, East London. The visitors are promised a relaxing cup of tea whilst having plenty
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Drawnimal – App To Teach Children To Draw And Learn The Alphabet
Drawnimal is a useful app that will help your kids start drawing and also learn the alphabet at the same time. Lucas Zanotto conceptualized, designed and created the animals for Drawnimal (with sound design and music by Ulrich Troyer and programming by Niels Hoffmann). It was their aim to extend mobile devices using simple tools like pen and paper. Drawnimal encourages
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Catswall – Innovative Cat Furniture and Supplies
Catswall is a company specialising in development and manufacture of innovative cat furniture and supplies. Their products are stylish but also designed to function perfectly for cats. The company launched Catswall design to the public in 2011. The owners of Catswall have more their twenty cats so they design new products to keep their cats
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Is it a bird? Is it a Plane? It’s Darcy The Flying Hedgehog
It’s not easy to keep up with who’s the top cat or the top dog on Instagram with so many cute faces emerging every day. Darcy The Flying Hedgehog (@darcytheflyinghedgehog) is definitely different to her counterparts. Her owner Shota Tsukamoto – who is based in Tokyo – regularly takes photos of Darcy and posts them
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Get You Very Own Grumpy Cat Plush Doll
This Christmas, treat the cat-lover Grinch in your life, or the secret Grinch inside with a Grumpy Cat Plush Doll. Just as we thought the Grumpy Cat Grumppucino was going to be the last of her products, now there is a new line of plush toys. There are many varieties of the Grumpy Cat Plush
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Green Dog Slow Feeder and Catch Cat Slow Feeder
Green Dog Slow Feeder and Catch Cat Slow Feeder are fantastic products that will help feeding time interactive and more fun for pets. Recently we featured Aikiou Stimulo, which is a slow feeder for cats, so we wanted to find an equivalent for dogs. Green Dog Slow Feeder Green Dog Slow Feeder Green Dog Slow
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Downton Tabby Book by Chris Kelly
Cat people know that everything is improved by adding cats right? Downton Tabby Book is another one of those things. It is a new hilarious parody of Downton Abbey, by Chris Kelly, published by Simon & Schuster, just released on December 5th 2013. We love Downton Abbey; so this book arrived just in time for us
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Poopy Cat The New Biodegradable Complete Litter Box for your cats
Poopy Cat is the new disposable, biodegradable complete litter box for your cats. The home-delivered litter box is hygienic, convenient and hassle free solution for you and your cats. The design of the litter box makes it easy to set up and dispose of after weekly use. There are four complete litter boxes in each
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The Giant Cat Sofa – Role Reversal
The Giant Cat Sofa is going to give you a chance of a life time for role reversal with your cat. Normally cats enjoy sitting on your lap at the most awkward time possible, for example, when you could really go to the loo. But one part of art installation Felis Domesticus by eight artists
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Hilarious blog – Cats That Look Like Pin Up Girls
Cats That Look Like Pin Up Girls is a humourous and creative blog on Tumblr featuring a comparison between adorable cats and stylised pictures of pin-up girls, published in the 40s through 50s. The picture comparisons are genius as she matches the cats to the pin up pose brilliantly and the pictures are well researched and hilarious.
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Now you can eat your curry while watching the Red Pandas at Safari Land
Now you can eat your curry while watching the Red Pandas at Safari Land in Japan. You might think you’ve seen it all with all the different animal cafes in Japan like owl cafes, penguin bars and cat cafes. This restaurant is a part of Safari Land Animal park in Mine City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Eat your
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Guys Can Be Cat Ladies Too: A Guidebook for Men and Their Cats
Guys Can Be Cat Ladies Too is a new book by comedian Michael Showalter. It is a hilarious, illustrated, all-access guide to navigate a man through the hurdles and joy of having a cat. Cats can be strange and weird to people who don’t understand them. This book is perfect for those men new to cats
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Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway Winners Announced
Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway - Winners Announced We are delighted to revealed our Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway 2013 Winners. The winners are chosen at random by a webbased interface after we give you all an individual number for each prize draw. Congratulations everyone.We’ll get in touch. Please respond within 7 days otherwise we’ll do
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CatAcademy can help us learn languages better with cute cat pictures
CatAcademy can improve our ability to memorise foreign phases. We all know and love internet cats like Grumpy Cat, Colonel Meow, Sir Stuffington, keyboard cat and other hilarious cats. Now CatAcademy is actually utilising our love of cute internet cat pictures to help us learn new languages. It’s scientifically silly, cute but also an effective
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Scout the pit bull with a talent of balancing stuff on his head
Scout the Pit bull has an incredible talent of balancing stuff on his head and he’s also extremely patient. His owner has created a website Stuff on Scout’s head, showing him balancing objects: a massive sandwich, a vase filled with flowers, burgers, a giant block of cheese, cupcakes, donuts, board games and other random stuff. Scout is
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Lint Rolling Cats is trending in Japan right now
Do you have pets? If so, you probably used to rolling lint rollers on everything from furnitures, bedding to your clothes. Lint rolling cats is trending in Japan right now. Lint Rolling at the source surely must be a effective way of reducing malting cat hair! Well here a gallery of Japanese people getting busy
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All Things Cute Gift List – Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway
This is Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway – All Things Cute Gift List is the ultimate cute product with animal designs gift ideas to get you ready for your Christmas and Holiday shopping. Gift ideas from homeware, kitchenware, toys, accessories to stocking fillers. And to make this even better, our featured All things Cute Gifts from
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Cat Accessories Gift List – Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway
Our Fourth instalment of Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway is Cat Accessories Gift List with plenty of inspirations for presents for your cats. Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway – Cat Accessories Gift List Featured Gift: Bobby Reflective Pet Collar from Pet Runway Pet Runway is a fantastic one-stop shop online store that stocks from high fashion to
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Dog Accessories Gift List – Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway
Here is our exciting third of the Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway and Gift List, Dog Accessories Gift List. The product we cover for this dog gift ideas are dog collars, bowls, treats and toys. Featured Products on Dog Accessories Gift List - Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway Bobby Safe Collection – Reflective Dog Collar Pet Runway is
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Animal Christmas Cards & Holiday Ornaments – Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway
This is the second Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway instalment which is Animal Christmas cards and holiday ornaments. Yes, we know it’s still early but if you want to order these amazing cards and ornaments from independent designers then, we thought it is best to allow our readers enough time. Christmas card and holiday Ornament List
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Accessories and Jewellery Gift List – Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway
This Accessories and Jewellery gift list is the very first one in the series of Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway. Here we will explore many of the best independent designers and online stores to find fantastic accessories and jewellery with animal designs from handbag, purses, earrings to necklaces and more. Accessories and Jewellery Gift List –
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Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway – November 2013
Pause Product Cuteness Giveaway – November 2013 Hello Pause readers! You know how much we love to shop for cute products. It’s getting closer to Christmas so it’s time to start your Christmas shopping. We are bringing you the very best gifts from different categories to make it effortless for you to shop for pet/animal
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Dicke Katze and Pause – Cat of the Month Competition
Dicke Katze and Pause Cat of the Month Competition Dicke Katze Panel has now chosen the winner of Dicke Katze and Pause Cat of the Month Competition! The winner is Ginger which was submitted by Donna P. See the Dicke Katze Style illustration below the picture of Ginger the kitty. Grand Prize: Win a drawing of
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Worldwide animal sounds and illustrations by James Chapman
Have you ever wondered about Worldwide animal sounds? If you are a bilingual animal lover then you probably thought about the sounds different animals make in other languages. “Wan” is how Japanese dogs sound, Danish ducks say “Rap”, Japanese cockerels go “Kikiriki” and “Op Op” is how Thai frogs sound. James Chapman illustrated them brilliantly
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British dog owners – can win a chance to clone your dog
Have you ever wanted to clone your dog? Soam Biotech Research Foundation, a South Korean firm, is offering British dog owners a chance to clone their beloved pets. The service, to clone a genetic replica of a dog, usually costs £63,000. To mark the UK launch, the company is offering you the chance to win and
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Angora Rabbit – The Fluffiest bunny in the world
We all love how fluffy bunnies are but Angora rabbits the fluffiest bunnies in the world. Potentially this one in the top photograph could win the fluffiest bunny in the world prize! The fluffiest bunny in the world They are one of the oldest breed of domestic rabbit in the world. Historically Angora rabbits were
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Cuddle Clones – a perfect plush replica of your pet
Cuddle Clones is a fantastic company which create a one-of-a-kind plush replica that looks just your pet. They handcraft a plush toy version of your pet. You can submit several photos of your pet and choose a few customization options such as eye colour, ear position and tail position. Not only are the Cuddle Clones
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Dicke Katze and Pause Competition- The Competition Prizes have arrived!
We have got fantastic news for our readers – our November Dicke Katze and Pause Competition Prizes have just arrived! The photo competition starts in November and contestants can submit a photo of their cat showing “Why Cats Are Better Than Men” and also a little caption explaining why. Dicke Katze and Pause Competition Not
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Cat Cafe Nekobiyaka Kuro Neko cm – The very first Japanese Black Cat Cafe
Cat Cafe Nekobiyaka Kuro Neko cm is the very first Japanese Black Cat Cafe. There are many cat cafes in larger cities in Japan where living space is limited. The Cat cafe customers can pay an hourly rate to enjoy having a drink and play with their favourite cat cafe resident cats. In the current business world, one
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T-Pai – smart home for small dogs is set for release in 2015
T-Pai – smart home for small dogs is set for release in 2015. T-Pai is a doghouse designed for small dogs living in urban areas, epecially if the dog would be left by itself. This intelligent doghouse has just been awarded U.S. patent and it has reached the final stages of development by Hong Kong
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Nyan Nyan Nouveau – Now Cats can drink wine too
Pet supplement company B&H Life has just released a cat wine in Japan! The cat wine is called “Nyan Nyan Nouveau”. The word “Nyan Nyan” in Japanese actually means a cat’s meow. And “Nouveau” is probably used to create a product association between the cat wine and the famous “Beaujolais Nouveau”. Nyan Nyan Nouveau – Cat
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Daily Cat Drawings – Your daily cat illustration fix
Daily Cat Drawings is a blog of an illustrator who aims to blog feline sketches and illustrations daily. The subjects range from domestic cats to big cats. Concentrating on a single subject gives the illustrator more opportunity to experiment with new designs and techniques. The doodles can be 5 minute pencil sketches or full illustrations. Daily
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Rihanna visits Johannesburg Zoo and Cape Town Aquarium in style
Rihanna visits Johannesburg Zoo in a long-lined t-shirt and knee high combat stiletto boots. She visited the zoo before she performed on her sold out Diamonds world tour on Sunday. Her visit to the zoo turned into a high-fashioned photo shoot. She shared the photos that were taken with the zoo residents including the Cheetah,
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Discover the hidden world of Animals on the Underground map
London Underground map has always been useful to get us around London but never have we imagined that there has been a hidden world of animals on the underground map. We have discovered Animals on the Underground map which is a concept by Paul Middlewick. He found the elephant (Elephant & Castle) in 1988 during
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Dicke Katze – These round kitties are going to melt your heart
What is Dicke Katze? You may ask. Well we can tell you that – especially for cat and comic lovers – Dicke Katze is going to change your life. Plus, if you have a soft spot for chubby kitties, Dicke Katze will melt you heart. Dicke Katze & Friends is a celebration of why we love
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Old School 8-Bit Pixels illustrations of the most well known Pop-Culture dogs
These amazing 8-bit pixel illustrations of famous dogs were created by - re:design studio – graphic designers Eurydyka Kata & Rafał Szczawiński. The illustrations form a poster titled “Dog Days”. The poster features 30 of our favourite pop-culture dogs from cartoons, games and films such as Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo, Snowy, Beethoven, Milo (from the mask), Bolt, Snoopy
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Pause’s Product Cuteness – the ultimate Pug products, accessories and gifts
Pug products and gift lists – this is another instalment on Pause’s product cuteness list. We all at some point falled in love with the little squidgey faces of the pugs. Pause’s product cuteness #pauseproductcuteness is a collection of only the most adorable, unique and quality products we can find for each categories. With this
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The Seal Sanctuary Mablethorpe – a haven for seals and us
Yesterday we visited The Seal Sanctuary Mablethorpe as a treat and may we say it’s one of the best animal sanctuaries we visited to date. The Seal Sanctuary Mablethorpe has rescued about 1,000 seals since 1974 and most of them have been returned to the wild after 3 to 4 months care. The Seal Sanctuary
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Guinness World Records 2014 for dogs – from the tiniest to the tallest
The Guinness World Records 2014 for dogs is out online on their website. Last time we looked at Colonel Meow’s Guinness World Record for longest fur on a cat (we’ll compile a more comprehensive list for cats next time). Now we are looking at the Guinness World Records 2014 for dogs. Guinness World Records 2014 for
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Grumpy Cat – the internet grumpiest cat on the cover New York Magazine
Grumpy Cat has made it on to the front cover of New York Magazine. The October 7th 2013 issue has a feature on “Boom Brands of the Post-Crash Economy”. There is also an interview here with Ben Lashes – Grumpy Cat’s brand manager – who is responsible for turning Grumpy Cat into multi-platform franchises image via New York
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Dog Mansion – Unique and extraordinary dog houses from around the world
Dog Mansion is a dream for many dog-lovers! Today we are taking a trip around the world to look at the most unique dog mansions and dog houses from luxurious, large, modern, bizarre material to super adorable ones. Victoria Doggie Mansion by La Petite Maison Yorkies Chelsea and Coco Puff and Pomeranian Darla live in
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Winkelhimer Smith – The Painting Squirrel
Winkelhimer Smith - the painting squirrel – was adopted by Shyla Mouton after being rescued from the cat attacked when she was a baby squirrel. Shyla is a doll artist living in Louisiana. After the attacked Winkelhimer was left handicap but she soon learn how to paint using food colouring by watching Shyla. Since then Winkelhimer
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Architecture for dogs – blue prints to gallery worthy homes for dogs
Architecture for Dogs, is a project from thirteen different architects and designers. They are showing a collection of architecture and new mediums that they use to create unique dog houses and dog accessories. Every project has been styled to compliment each breed of dog and the aim is to make the dogs and their owners
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Sir Stuffington – The most adorable one-eyed kitten
Sir Stuffington - the cutest one-eyed kitten – has gained his popularity on the internet since his foster parent, Blazer Schaffer, set up a Facebook fan page for him in September 2013. He was a homeless, feral cat living on the street in Troutdale, Oregon. Sir Stuffington You can buy Sir Stuffington print here, proceeds go to Multnomah County
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The Kitten Covers – classic album cover artwork revamped with kittens
The Kitten Covers is a mashed-up of three of my favourite things in the world kittens, music and design. Alfra Martini was the creator of the Kitten Covers a website which photo-manipulated photos of kittens onto the world’s most well-knowned music album covers. The concept and execution of the artwork are exceptional with artworks from albums like
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Amanda Coffelt – Instragram cats has reached a new level idraw_on_cats
And we thought Instagram cats can’t get any cuter but we have to eat our words! Amanda Coffelt (idraw_on_cats) has been busy drawing and doodling on pictures of her cat Bob and his friends on her Instragram idraw_on_cats. She created extra personality and back story for each cat’s portraits from a businessman, an astronaut, a chef
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Petcube – a toy for playing with your pets while you are at work
Alex Neskin is the founder of Petcube, whose innovative pet toy will solve a problem for millions of working people – not being able to check on their pets during the day. It’s quite upsetting to know that your pets are alone at home, probably really sad and bored, while you are working hard. The
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Grumpy Cat and Boo Cake Pops – Life has just got sweeter
Grumpy Cat and Boo (the “world’s cutest dog), two of the world most famous internet pets has been transformed into cake pop by Bakerella. The Grumpy cat and Boo cake pops tutorial was featured on Bakerella, a blog about baking and cake decorating by Angie Dudley. The tutorial shows step by step instructions with super
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Florentijn Hofman – Giant Sunbathing Hare
Florentijn Hofman is known for his playful urban art installation such as the Giant Rubber Duck. His new installation is the Giant Sunbathing Hare which is currently displayed on Hare Island during “Jump into the City”, a Russian public-art program at the Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg. The hare is part of the cultural programme
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Design idea for indoor cats – Kitty Loft by Uhuru Design
We’ve found this Kitty Loft by Uhuru Design. (Pronounced: oo-hoo-roo) through a friend. Uhuru is a design + build furniture company. The Kitty Loft was built for Bill Hilgendorf and Maria Cristina Rueda (from Uhuru Design)’s cats. Kitty Loft by Uhuru Design The Kitty Loft is a wall-mounted cat path which goes around half of their living room
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Adam Ellis – Paper hats VS kitten
Adam Ellis, a writer (Books of Adam: The Blunder Years) and illustrator has just shown us how much fun you can have at creating tiny paper hats for a kitten. He’s just got himself a new three-legged Kitten called Maxwell. He decided to show his paper millinery skills with various hats from Pokemon, Pretzel hat,
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The Manchester Pet Show 2013 – Part 2
This article is a second instalment of The Manchester Pet Show 2013 article which will cover the breeders, clubs, associations and more. The Manchester Pet Show 2013 – Part 2 TICA(The International Cat Association) Not only is TICA the world’s largest genetic registry of pedigreed cats, and the world’s largest registry of household pets, Tica also
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The Manchester Pet Show 2013 – Part 1
We’ve just experienced the Manchester Pet Show 2013 last weekend. It’s a brand new pet show and we were lucky enough to get to do press coverage for the show. The Manchester Pet Show 2013 has been designed to be a family fun-filled day for animal lovers. With hundreds of animals on display including dogs, cats, rabbits, reptiles,
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The winner of dog of the month September 2013
We would like to thank all our readers again for participating in our dog of the month September 2013 competition sponsored by Oz & Mr. Curious. We had 17 adorable dogs in the competition and we had many readers voting for their favourite dog. We are very excited to announced the winner of Pause’s Dog
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The world’s top 10 smartest Dog breeds
The top 10 smartest dog breeds is from the book, The Intelligence of Dogs by Stanley Coren, PhD. More than 200 professional dog obedience judges evaluated 110 breeds, assessing their performance on various tests. The top dog breeds followed the commands in less than five repetitions and obeyed them 95% of the time or better. The world’s
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Natsumi Tomita – Life-like animal sculptures made with recycled materials
We would love to visit Natsumi Tomita‘s “The Small Forest” exhibition at Gallery 412. Yes, it is an exhibition full of cute animal sculptures but Natusumi Tomita’s work is really quite unique. The animal sculptures are made out of found materials from kitchen utensils, household items, broken umbrellas, bottle caps, and other random things she
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Foo-chan the disappointed cat new internet cat on the block
Grumpy cat, happy cat, worried cat, business cat and all the other internet cats move aside for Foo-chan “the disappointed” cat! Foo-chan is the new internet cat sensation from Japan. He is a three-year old Chinchilla golden with heavy-set eyebrows that makes him look worried all the time. On Japan’s biggest internet forum he’s been
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Harry Pointer – The original LOLcats
What was the world of funny and silly animal photographs like before LOLcats? Harry Pointer (1822-1889) was a photographer from Brighton who began his career taking naturalistic photographs of cats. Later on he became well-known for experimenting with creative, hilarious photographs featuring his cats. In the beginning, Pointer was only taking photos of his cats
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Colonel Meow – holds the Guinness World Records for the cat with longest fur
Meet Colonel Meow, not only he’s probably going to beat Grumpy Cat for being the grumpiest feline on the internet scene. He’s broken the Guinness World Records 2014 for the longest fur on a cat and made it into their Guinness World Records 2014 book which will be release on September 12th. Colonel Meow with his Guinness
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What’s your name? – Top 10 cat and dog names UK 2013
Our pets are part of our family and there is certainly a change in how we name them. According to John Lewis Pet Insurance’s research we are now naming our pets with popular baby’s names like Charlie, Alfie and Ruby. Poppy is the UK’s most popular name for our cats and dogs according a study
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Longcroft Luxury Cat Hotel – True five-star experience for cats
Longcroft Luxury Cat hotel was launched by Abi Purser because she couldn’t find a premium cattery in her area for her own cats. So the first five-star cat hotel was opened in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. Abi firmly believes that cat owners should be able to get the kind of services the want to get for themselves.
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Life is Adveture – the new Creative campaign for Hill´s Pet Nutrition
“Life is Adventure” project is the cutest new creative campaign for pet nutrition ever, created by the team with art director Jiri Horut, photographer Miro Minarovic and Marek Farkas of Czech Republic. The project is for Hill´s Pet Nutrition with photographs of a puppy and a kitten having “safe adventures” with household items all shot from above. The concept was inspired by Miro Švolík work
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