Be on the look out for interesting articles about… well, everything you love! We’re going to travel to more bizarre landmarks around the world and see some more cute pets do stupid things.

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Visit your local pound or RSPCA where you can see for yourself those innocent eyes staring back at you longing for a loving owner and a caring home. These abandoned dogs need nothing more than your love.

The 2011 Pedigree adoption drive is here yet again aiming to reduce the number of killed neglected dogs this year. Trying to find homes for 6,000 dogs in just two months!

Check out the pet rescue page at  - http://www.petrescue.com.au/ where you can adopt a dog straight away, easy as a click of a button. Or if owning a dog is not in your realms of possibility right now, volunteer or donate to Pet Rescue so that you can support their mission in finding homes for homeless dogs.

Adopting a pet can be a wonderful gift for your family, with the added benefit of knowing that you’ve avoided a terrible fate for a loving canine. Not to mention what a fantastic addition to your family, dogs will give extra love and guaranteed smiles all around.

If you do decide to adopt a pet, make sure you get it checked at the vet properly for any diseases it may carry. Sign it up for vaccines and take it home and give them a big cuddle!
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This is an incredibly epic video. At first you’re as curious as he is about the plastic bag and then the last few minutes is just a frenzy. I laughed out aloud when he fell to the ground but really didn’t expect that whizz around the living room like his tail was on fire.

Definitely worth the watch!

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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!

Count yourself lucky if you ever have the chance to go on the African Safari. There is something incredible about going back to nature. The thousand year old trees with the wind sifting beneath every hair on your body, travelling in a green camouflage jeep along the uneven road and just admiring the beauty of the land we live in.

Some may gawk at the idea of a back to nature holiday but the African Safari is not your usual off the beaten track trip. You get to see hippopotamus in their natural habitats and baby elephants fresh from his mother’s womb, giraffes, herds of zebras running across wild plains and lions proving to you why they’re named King of the Jungle.

As a kid, I visited the zoo quite regularly, loved the animals and watching them at feeding hour. But as a grown up, going to the zoo is like entirely new field trip on its own. I am seriously in awe of seeing real live animals, after being stuck day to day in four by four buildings; ironically there is a certain kind of freedom in watching these animals just do their thing.

But I would imagine the African Safari to be nothing like my local zoo. For one, the animals in the Safari are literally free and roam about as they like. We are almost capturing a candid snapshot of them and that is a beauty that no words can express. The safari is one of my dream adventure holidays and a summer travel plan that got unexpectedly cancelled recently. After months of daydreaming of the African plains, researching the best South African beaches… my days now feel hopeless as I squander my eyes back to the poster of the African Safari hanging on my wall.

If I were going to South Africa for my summer though, I would definitely buy myself some travel insurance. The health benefits is one thing, as I know a couple of days roaming the plains I will no longer be as fit as a cheetah due to my deficient travelling immune system. Cities in South Africa also don’t have the lowest crime rates so a protection over my belongings will save me putting the padlock on my purse.

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The African Safari at Sunset. 

Source: journalweek.com

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

Enjoy your week

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!