The parade showcases dogs and their owners dressing up to win prizes given for “best dressed” throughout the day. Interesting choices of costumes, I must say, very creative ideas indeed.

Winners included a dog dressed up as Lady Gaga in the meat costume, a tribute to Gaga’s entrance at the Golden Globe earlier this year. This little puppy has now put a new spin on the usual ‘hot dog’ joke.

Source: http://www.buzzfeed.com

However, the top winner of the day is this little Corgi who was dressed up as a bus. But what’s better is that the owner dressed up as the bus stop…a perfect duo combo the judges couldn’t resist. Too bad there are no photos of the owner but here’s the little puppy who now has street cred over his other puppy friends.

Source: http://culture.wnyc.org

For more photos from the parade, check out these websites:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-top-25-costumes-at-the-tompkins-square-hallowe

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/oct/23/halloween-dog-parade-new-york#/?picture=367994653&index=7

Have the photos given you ideas for dressing up your own puppies? You gotta love New Yorkers and the crazy ideas they come up with! Maybe this Halloween we should start dressing up our dogs as well? Room for thought Australia!

The law will only apply to breeders of dogs as they are known to discard puppies at six months of age. The Victorian government is against animal cruelty and supports the protection of animals, especially dogs, from abuse and neglect.

If you are intending to buy a puppy, ensure that your seller is legitimate and are not practicing animal cruelty. Report abusive practices of animals to your local council and help protect Victoria from harboring illegal puppy farms. Dogs in puppy farms are caged, fed only at a bare minimum and are treated with little care and love. Help save our puppies!

Ted Baillieu putting down new tough laws against illegal puppy farms. 

Source: heraldsun.com.au

It started at 9 pm yesterday night when I heard the usual occasional bark from my two dogs outside. They were growling quite noticeably but I was too engrossed in my TV show to take any particular action. They always bark and growl outside so I thought they were just playing with each other or was chasing after a bird.

About ten minutes later, they both ran in panting excitedly and that was when I thought something peculiar was up. It’s night time with no birds in sight, and they weren’t ‘chasing’ anything yet they were excitedly panting like they’d just finish a marathon. Kiko, the female pomeranian, ran back out followed by Kenji and when they pranced back in, it looked like they were gnawing at something.

The object had them both facing the ground and occupied and I did a poke on Kiko and then she revealed what the object was. IT WAS A RAT!

I screamed my lungs out and jumped on the couch and yelled for my brother. They killed a rat and then brought it into the house! Talk about untrained dogs. Disgusting! I couldn’t even look at the rat, it was quite disfigured and there was blood and falling hair. I’m getting sick at the just the thought of it.

So this little debacle ended up in my dreams last night. I had a nightmare that all the dogs in my neighbourhood ran wild and took over our whole street. Yup, nothing to do with the rat, just the nightmare of domestic pet chaos!

Watch this funny video about dogs. Will sure to get you laughing!

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Coco and Scarlett perhaps hasn’t received as much spot light as their owners which could be a good thing for them. Who likes to be watched on their morning walk or their monthly trip to the vet?

It’s hard to be a pet of a famous person being wagoned around to movie sets and having weekly trips to the groomers. Always looking pretty.. when all a dog’s want is to be scruffy and play around in mud. You can’t expect anything less from the pets of designer Victoria Beckham.

There is no doubt that other than always being super fancy, the Beckham pets would be well insured just in case anything happens. We wouldn’t want a chipped nail to make the headlines of a magazine would we?

So maybe we can’t get our pets weekly trips to the groomers but we can get them some pet insurance…they start off as cheap as 28 cents! But then again there’s no price for being super fancy.

Visit our Pet Insurance Page for more information on how to make your pets super fancy with pet insurance without it robbing your bank account!

There is a new Victorian law put in place that all Pit Bull Terriers must be registered before the 29th September 2011. The consequence for not registering is immediate seizure and then they will be put down.

A bit severe of a punishment in my opinion. How dangerous can these cute little things be?

Pit Bull Terriers are considered to be a high risk dog breed and are more likely to attack humans and other animals than other dog breeds. Although they show no signs of aggression, they pose a risk to community safety. This new registration law will also entail owners to muzzle their beloved pet and put them on a leash while outside or in any public area.

If community safety isn’t motivation enough for you to register your dog, then perhaps the hefty $2500 penalty fine for failing to register might get you to call your council ASAP.

For Pit Bull owners who do not wish to register can surrender their dog to the local council where they will be put down or contact their veterinarian for further assistance on euthanasia .

Poor Pit Bulls! They have never attacked anyone yet they have been labelled as a restricted dog breed. When you register your Pit Bull to your local council, also consider getting them some Pet Insurance. Visit our Pet Insurance Page for more information!

Also check out this website from the Victorian government for more information regarding Pit Bull registrations:
http://new.dpi.vic.gov.au/pets/dog-care/pit-bull-terrier-registration

It looks like the wheel has finally turned for our feline friends. Well, at least for this one anyway. How often do you see a cat chasing a dog? Can you imagine the headlines: cat chases dog! After watching the cat do a “pink-panther” themed walk, it could not stand it any longer and ran to attack the cat only to find out that this was one mean tough cat!

A short brawl later and the cat had the dog chased, instead of the other way around!  This might call for a need to revise children’s cartoons as dogs are no longer the boss in the pet kingdom. Just wait until the video gets towards the end, that’s when it gets interesting. I nearly turned it off at the beginning too due to a slow start but trust me it’s very well worth it!

If you have a dog, you might consider signing up for a Pet Insurance plan just in case it meets a cat like this one tomorrow. Go to our Pet Insurance page today to find out how to get the best deals for your pet today!

Anyway, today Kenji ran away. It isn’t the first time and it looks like we’ve got to keep a better eye on that back door and make sure it’s closed at all times because the dogs seem to think that the open back door is the chance for an adventure. I don’t blame them since I can’t remember the last time I took them out for a walk so they must be itching for any type of adventure outside the boundaries of my backyard.

I didn’t realize that Kenji had ran away for a good 20 minutes or so. I was inside home alone and I’m not even sure who is to blame for leaving the back door open (I’m going to assume it was my brother rushing on his way to school this morning). At around 10:30 am, the doorbell rang and I was very surprised that Kenji and Kiko didn’t come barking like there’s no tomorrow running to the front door like they usually do. It was a very quiet front but I still did not think anything of it.

I opened the front door to find a man from the construction site going on across the road. Surprised and a bit confused, he asked me whether I own a dog because he saw one run out of my front gates earlier. After nodding furiously and feeling nothing but SHOCKED, I grabbed a pair of the nearest shoes and ran outside. Luckily he told me that he was just across the street prancing around the small row of shops; prancing like there is no burden in this world. Little did he know he just gave me a minor heart attack.

I ran across the street and picked him up whilst he still squirmed in my arms. Only when I was safely back in the quarters of my home did I realize that he had to have cross a busy street before and could have easily been run over! I didn’t what to think or say and was just terrified at the thought that he had just crossed a busy road in the middle of the day.

Thankful that he is home safe, I have to make sure that back door is locked always. Maybe I should take them out for a walk tomorrow so that the sight of an open door is not as inviting as it appears to them now. In all of this I am just really glad that he did not get hurt. But even if he did, I’m lucky that that he has a full comprehensive pet insurance and that he would be covered if he were to go to the vet.

Give your pet the best gift they can get: pet insurance! They can start as little as 28 cents a day and will give you a peace of mind. Go to our PET INSURANCE page to learn how to get the best deal on pet insurance. Don’t wait again, just in case they run away tomorrow…get some pet insurance!

NINJA CAT!

It goes to show that anything with a “Jaws” sound effects will sound or at least appear scary. I watched this earlier this morning before I even got out of bed and it nearly scared the apples out of me. Cute cat though.

If your pet is scared of inanimate objects like apples or likes to jump around unreasonably in random places…then make sure you get them some pet insurance just in case they actually get hurt doing stupid things. No matter how stupid they are, we can’t help but love our pets

Go to our pet insurance page to check out the best deals on pet insurance! Starts as cheap as 28 cents per day…worth all the stupidity!

Thankfully, they are able to give him a full allergen test and vaccination to avoid any more future rashes. However, the worst thing is that the little pup has been going in and out of the vets every month for the past 5 months. Not only that, since this pup had no pet insurance, my friend is stuck with 5 months worth of pet bills!

She is slowly paying it off and having learnt her lesson, she is buying her Jack Russel a comprehensive pet insurance plan from 1300 Insurance. My friend’s pup was a healthy dog once upon a time, but like humans pups can fall sick too.

Visit our Pet Insurance page for more information on how you can keep your pet safe and healthy without you getting stuck to pay the bills!