As an homage to photographer Elliott Erwitt, who famously photographed a floating pooch, NPR asked listeners to submit photos of their own dogs in mid-flight.

Now that's one very intelligent dog!

"Humour"

About Dog Fort:
These are comics about a recon team of dog lobsters, led by team leader Red Lobster. and a communications officer named Dog Fort. They battle other beings lead by Cat Fort.

"From luxury caravans to extraordinary mansions, meet ten extreme dog houses.

"Dogs Decoded" reveals the science behind the remarkable bond between humans and their dogs and investigates new discoveries in genetics that are illuminating the origin of dogs—with surprising implications for the evolution of human culture.

Detailled instructions on how to do this properly.

With Halloween just a week away, it's time to keep animals indoors — and make sure they're supervised when they're outside — to avoid any vicious pranks.

"As people have become more health conscious, so have they been paying more attention to the health needs of the furry members of the family. To this end many animal lovers have become aware that the majority of commercial pet foods contain unhealthy ingredients and have shifted instead to sharing the refrigerator and cupboards. While natural, fresh food is far healthier than byproducts and preservatives, keep in mind that the foods listed below are known to be toxic to cats and dogs because of the different ways animals metabolize them.

"There are hundreds of feline folktales and superstitions - cats predict the weather, sense domestic disharmony, steal a baby's breath, steal a dead person's soul, bring either good or bad luck and carry away a sick person's germs. Cats' eyes tell the time or the tides.

Cats are witch's familiars, enchanted princesses, beloved by priests and prophets or envoys of the devil since they were sneezed forth by lions on the Ark and not created by God. This is very much a romp through some of the feline folktales and superstitions found around the world.

Late last month I ran outside to investigate this horrific squealing I heard through my window . It turned out to be a baby squirrel that Knievel was preparing to dispatch . Knievel is the daredevil and mighty hunter of a cat who shares my roof .

" ...there arose a situation around the time she had her kittens that Emmy has stepped up to the plate and helped solve. Well, she's taken in a baby squirrel and is providing a plate for the little squirrel at her table along with the rest of the kittens.

"She's very protective of it. If it starts to move and she don't like where its going she'll reach up and pull it back and start licking it and taking care of it like she would one of her kittens," said Jim Watkins.

Jim Watkins and his wife Karen of Carthage have helped organize Central Mississippi T.A.I.L.S.

"It stands for taking animals into loving shelters," said Jim Watkins.

At our house the dogs are a little short and the bed is very high so we have come up with a plan to build a stairway to dog heaven, the bed... where all dogs love to be.

"For the 19th consecutive year, the Labrador retriever is the most popular purebred dog in America, but could this be the last year for the Lab's reign?

According to AKC's 2009 registration statistics, the German shepherd dog overtook the Yorkshire terrier last year and is now ranked second most popular in the nation for the first time in more than three decades.

"Like the telltale tail, the ears are a vital part of a cat's body language, and proper interpretation can help you better understand your pet's moods and, in some cases, keep you safe from injury.

"I admit to feeling something close to rage watching this video of a SWAT team breaking into this family's home, shooting their dogs in front of their seven-year-old boy, and then arresting the father and charging the parents with child endangerment all over the possession of a small amount of marijuana. Perhaps it was empathy I was feeling, but it felt a great deal more like rage. I suppose it was both.

Cute!

Animal abuse..sort of.

"This 5 year old male was a pet in a home, and now lives at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. This little guy had been given an apple to eat, and seems to act more like a puppy than a porcupine!"

"A couple days ago we posted a photograph of a little girl holding a kitten. Needless to say it was adorable and we went so far as to call it "The Cutest Picture Ever Taken." But it's now up for debate! And that's where you come in. If you've got an adorable picture of your kid and a pet, send it our way! This will easily be the most adorable gallery of all time. "

People painted their dogs to create panda dogs and tiger dogs and were on display in Zhengzhou, in eastern China's Henan Province.

"With a gun in one hand and a sack of bobcat kittens in the other, an Alabama hunter proudly plopped the newborns down on the counter and asked the veterinary assistant to raise them so he could eventually give them to his kids as pets. The vet tech was stunned, but quickly recomposed herself and told the hunter she would see to the welfare of the kittens, but didn't disclose that she had no intention of turning them into pets.

"This is not a trick that was taught to Nora. She began sitting at the piano at about one-year-old. She's four now. She plays only when the mood strikes her, which is usually several time a times a day for short periods."

About two years ago I saw an Op-Ed article in the local paper about old dogs in our local shelter.

Like millions of pet owners, Fiona MacMillan was anxious to do the very best for her cat.

A collection of photos of animals on computers. (Whether or not these animals are actually using the computers is another matter...)

"Given to the right cat, catnip can cause an amazing reaction! The cat will rub it, roll over it, kick at it, and generally go nuts for several minutes. Then the cat will lose interest and walk away. Two hours later, the cat may come back and have exactly the same response.

Information of vital importance to all cat owners!
(Note: this is supposed to be humor! :-)

There was a time when I thought that dressing up pets was weird. Not to mention annoying for the pets. Then I became "mom" to several fur persons – three dogs and a cat, to be specific – who loved dressing up.

"Saudi Arabia's religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said on Wednesday.

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Just when you think you heard it all from Iran, something like this comes along:

A young Iranian who was searching for his lost puppy in a Tehran neighborhood has been arrested and ordered to stand trial for 'moral corruption'.

According to the Tehran daily, Etemad Melli, the young man was caught while putting up a notice in which he was promising a reward to anyone who found his dog.

"Looking for a lost dog indicates the spread of a corrupt culture, which indirectly popularises keeping a dog at home, something that is completely foreign to the culture and Islamic tradition," said Tehran police spokesman, Mehdi Ahmadi.

"In arresting this young man, we wanted to send a very clear message to our young people, you need to steer away from the corrupt culture imported from the west."

"Angels (of Mercy) do not enter a house wherein there is a dog or a picture of a living creature (a human being or an animal)."-- The Prophet Mohammed (PBUH)
(Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 54, Number 448)