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Designer Roberto Negrin’s Couture Has Gone To The Canines!

 Hec-lin Designs for Dogs by Roberto Negrin is a canine couture line showcasing elegant gowns for dogs and their pet parents. Negrin was inspired to design by his Poodle, Hec-lin, after his dog won a design costume contest in New York City. When Negrin designed a Pope Costume for Karen Biehl and her dog Eli [...]

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Clodagh, An Animal Inspired Designer

Worldly designer Clodagh was born in Ireland and grew up in the historic Moytura House, Oscar Wilde’s summer home. Early on, her lasting connection to animals was shaped. Having been raised with a multitude of animals Clodagh reflects, “I had a pony, two peacocks and my father had sixty dogs at one count but it [...]

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Create Your Own Green Catscape: Feline Landscaping Ideas

    Your garden is a whole world to your cats.  It can be either a very boring or a very fascinating place for them, from where they can survey their territory and guard it as their own.  The more complex the garden, the happier the cats are.  They like places to sit in the [...]

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Pets Are Doing The Wedding March

wedding of Jennifer Simonelli and Jonathan Kayne

  Walking down the aisle isn’t just for people anymore. More and more dog lovers, including celebrities like singer Carrie Underwood, rock star Gavin Rossdale, actress Tori Spelling, and Dylan Lauren (Ralph Lauren’s daughter and Candy Bar fame) are including their dogs in the most romantic day of their lives. If you’ve been lucky in [...]

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Furtastic Find – BOOBOOLOON the comfortable alternative to the pet cone!

Boobooloon in action! A comfortable alternative to the pet cone!

Do plastic Elizabethan cones cause your pet more stress than their actual injury? The BooBooLoon is a fun and comfortable alternative. You wouldn’t put a hard plastic cone around a toddler’s neck, so why would you let your pet suffer? Boobooloon in action! A comfortable alternative to the pet cone! After struggling with ineffective inflatable [...]

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Your Dog will Wiggle it with Wigzi! Safe play with Non Toxic Dog Toys!

Dogs are wiggling it with Wigzi! Non Toxic dog toys!

Are you tired of your pet’s smelly rubber toys? Worried about the harmful effects of BPAs and Phthalates in plastics? Nathan Chefetz and Cade Goldenberg, pet-parents and co-founders of DC-based Wigzi’s Pet Products, have come up with a fun, safe, and tasty alternative to the average dog toy. All products in the Wigzi line are [...]

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Keep Your Pet’s Home Clean, Green, and Cancer-Free!

Dog lying down on couch

  Everybody wants to have a clean home, and the shelves of grocery stores are overflowing with attractively packaged options to keep your living space “sparkling!” and “anti-bacterial!” – but at what cost? Most commercial cleaning products contain extremely high levels of cancer-causing chemicals that could be harmful to your entire family, but especially your [...]

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Ruben Toledo Paints A Vivid Picture – Inspired By Animal Subjects And His Designer Wife Isabel

  Artist and designer Ruben Toledo’s creative influence has little, if any, boundaries. He is, as his official biography describes, “at once a painter, sculptor, illustrator, fashion chronicler and critic;” Toledo himself says that he is simply an artist – he “tells stories and invents ideas, and tries to express emotions in a visual way.” [...]

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Sami Hayek: An Award-Winning Designer in Puppy Love!

Sami Hayek and his dog Blue.

  Sami Hayek has been working in the industry of furniture and architectural design for nine years. His work is greatly respected and has been showcased at the Los Angeles Pacific Design Center and the Paris Sulon Du Mueble. Throughout the years, Sami has established quite a roster of clients and his breathtaking designs can [...]

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On A Blue (Dog) Streak In New Orleans – George Rodrigue

Since its creation, the Blue Dog became George Rodrigue’s obsession. “Painting it has become as natural to me as eating and sleeping. I have become the Blue Dog man.” Known for his darkly evocative landscapes of his Bayou home in Louisiana, Rodrigue first conjured what would go on to become his staple image when he [...]

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