That's Noice!

Puppy factories are the cruel hidden industry behind the pet shop window and glossy internet sites. The reality is mother dogs are kept confined and pregnant their entire lives to meet the unceasing demand of the pet industry. When their reproductive life is over, they are killed and replaced. These dogs spend their entire lives confined in dirt pens, in tin sheds or in raised wire cages with little or no veterinary care, they are simply treated as breeding machines. Their life when they hit the petshop isn’t much better.

Please help spread the word and boycott this brutal business. Don’t be an unsuspecting link in the supply chain of cruelty.

The lead-up to Christmas is a critical time for puppy farmers who rely on impulse purchasing at pet shops in order to profit. We can stop the puppy trade by not buying puppies from pet shops and showing others why they should do the same.

Oscar’s Law aims to change the way our pets are kept, bred and sold.

• Abolish the factory farming of all companion animals.
• Ban the sale of factory farmed companion animals from pet shops and online trading sites.
• Promote adoption through rescue groups/pounds/shelters.

Watch and share this video to help educate others why we should not be buying any animals from pet shops.

What can you do to help?

• Don’t buy anything from businesses that exploit these poor animals, especially puppies and kittens.
• Help educate family and friends why is it is not OK for puppies and kittens to be sold in pet shops.
• Sign the online petition
• Join Oscar’s Law on Facebook and become proactive!
• Email the Premier, the Leader of the Opposition and Minister of Agriculture in your State, you can also email Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott. The website makes it easy, they have the letter for you,  just add your details and hit send!

Having 2 insideish dogs, we have been through our fair share of dog beds.

Most have been eaten, or peed on and ruined. I came across Molly Mutt beds about 12mths ago, and they are the perfect pet bed!

The best part of these beds is in the stuffing. Regular pet beds can be near impossible to wash. But the molly mutt bed is just stuffed with your old clothes and blankets, washing the insides is just as easy as washing the cover.

I wash mine at least once a week, and it still looks great. I have just bought a second cover, so we can rotate them so the robots last a bit longer ;) To make it even easier to keep clean, they have recently released a water proof cover to go under the regular cover. Perfect if you have a peer like me.

Molly Mutt beds come in a range of funky fabrics as well as different shapes and sizes. So there is a perfect bed for all the furry family.

From the crazy guy that brought you such videos as cows & cows & cows and Baa

Now we have Kitty City. Certainly a video to get the brain cells working on a Monday morning. Enjoy!

Yes, I am quite well aware that it is in fact November but  this was just too cute and LOL not to share.

Dogtober is a yearly fundraising campaign for Assistance Dogs Australia.

These are a series of very clever TV ads combining super cute Golden Retriever puppies and narration by funny man John Cleese.

I don’t recall seeing these TV ads? And they only seem to have been added to their youtube channel last week.

(if you are in your feed reader, you may need to click through for the super cuteness)

Pillowmob turns your high quality pictures into pillows! How would you like a loved one, or pet on a soft comfy pillow.

The pillows come in round or oval shape and you can customise the colour of the backing “hair”

Pillows cost $30US and that includes shipping to Australia. Turn around is generally 4-5 weeks. Gift cards also available.

Pillowmob

We all know how flexible cats are, the way they contort their body into the weirdest sleeping positions. Well, we now know their secret…yoga!

Yoga Cats (and Dogs) is the work of Texan couple Dan and Alejandra Borris. Dan uses his photography and photoshop skills along with Alejandra’s yoga expertise combine to make a wonderful series of dogs and cats doing yoga. Yoga Dogs and cats calendars and books are available.

All the animals used in Dan’s work are from the The Animal Defense League, with a portion of profits donated to charity.