Pet Dish
Got a difficult pet and no interest in pinning him to the ground?
By Lisa Wogan | March 18, 2008
For folks like me who are fed up with the headache of at-home bathing but don't want to fork over the extra cash to have someone else wash their dogs, there are a handful of quality self-serve washing spots around town. At some locations, cats (and even ferrets at one place) are also welcome. You bring the dirty pets and they provide the supplies -- and clean up the mess.
By Jen Harper | March 10, 2008
Pet Dish
I recently met some ferrets and their folks on Vashon Island and got a
first-hand taste of what makes these little guys and gals so popular.
Their charming, goofy, freewheeling zest for life is like two pounds of
furry Prozac.
By Lisa Wogan | March 3, 2008
I was prepared to be bored all the way to my prenatal gills when I visited The Fish Store in Ravenna. While I've never had an aquarium of my own, I lived with my sister and my 10-year-old nephew when he caught the fish bug. They put together a tank, which, over the years featured danios, plecostomuses and Oscars -- pretty standard freshwater fish plagued by unfortunately high mortality rates that took some of the fun out of what seemed to me an already low-thrills pursuit.
By Lisa Wogan | March 3, 2008
Pet Dish
It's hard to get excited about spaying and neutering -- that doesn't sound right - well, you know what I mean. It took America's sweetheart and devoted animal lover Doris Day to pioneer and underwrite a national one-day campaign to reduce pet overpopulation through affordable spay/neuter. More than one million surgeries later, tomorrow is the fourteenth annual Spay Day USA.
By Lisa Wogan | February 25, 2008
Pet Dish
Last week, a the 26-year-old Seattle vaccine scientist hung up his lab coat to pursue outdoor adventure with his dog full-time. In a few weeks, David Sylvester and Chiva, a shepherd-husky mix, will begin a quest to bike the continental United States and climb to the highest point in each state.
By Lisa Wogan | February 21, 2008
Pet Dish
I remember the first time I saw a laser-etched tile on a tombstone. I was at Pet Haven Cemetery in Kent, Washington, a few years ago, and the photorealistic portraits of cats, dogs and people on grave markers startled me. These weren't the weathered, chiseled stones with barely legible names and dates that I remembered from my last visit to an old cemetery.
By Lisa Wogan | February 19, 2008
Pet Dish
Who really needs an excuse for taking their best furry buddy out? Not me. Usually, it's the destination that's the problem. Not tonight. On this hump day (pun sort of intended), dogs are the toast of the town.
By Lisa Wogan | February 13, 2008
Pet Dish
The Seattle Animal Shelter hosts a cat-fostering orientation tonight. If you have the crib and the inclination, fostering a "homeless" cat is a concrete way to support these deserving animals.
By Lisa Wogan | February 12, 2008
Pet Dish
It's 10 a.m. in New York, the Big Red Tennis Ball. Carefully coiffed and meticulously groomed purebred dogs are hitting their marks in the rings at Madison Square Garden. Handlers dressed for boardrooms are gnawing on dog treats (the best way to inspire eye contact, or at least eye-to-mouth contact, with your dog). Already, ten lucky canines have clinched best of breed.
By Lisa Wogan | February 11, 2008
