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Name: Murphy King (original name “King Kong” but we had to change that because otherwise he’d be King Kong King, and it would be a problem if we ever wanted to get something monogrammed for him)
Birth date: February 4, 2007
Breed: English mastiff
Distinctive feature: Clumsiness
Favorite color: I don’t care what color it is as long as […]

After his co-defendants entered their guilty pleas and agreed to testify against Michael Vick, the Atlanta Falcons quarterback didn’t have a lot of options left.
On Monday, he pleaded guilty to dogfighting conspiracy charges. (He originally entered a plea of not guilty on July 26.) According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch,
The plea agreement calls for a prison […]

Ty’s DogAge is 11.2!

That’s 4.8 years younger than the average DogAge for Ty’s breed.

DogAge is the biological age of your dog, measured in people years. Your dog is as young as he can be! Your dog is lucky to have such a wonderful caretaker. Make your dog even happier by checking […]

After I posted about my Horrible Real Age Confession over at my women’s health blog, Lively Women, my friend Nancy forwarded me the link to CatAge, from the makers of RealAge. I’m going to do all of the pets, but Zoe was up first!
Zoe’s CatAge is 25.0 That’s 8.1 years younger than the average CatAge […]

Well this came out of left field. Fox News reported Tuesday that Michael Vick has been accused of having ties to Al Quaeda and is being sued for $63 billion by a prisoner in a federal correctional facility in South Carolina who claims that Vick stole his dogs and then sold them for money to […]

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Michael Vick’s remaining co-defendants in his dog fighting case are pleading guilty and have agreed to testify against him in exchange for leniency in sentencing. Read the whole article.
More recent Vick news:

 Greatest Threat to Vick May Be Links to Gambling
Pressure On Vick Increases: Quarterback’s Attorneys Negotiate Potential Plea

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CNN.com reported that a man was recently mauled to death by as many as four dogs for whom he was reportedly the caretaker at the home of actor Ving Rhames. Four mastiffs were seized from the property. Rhames was not home at the time of the attack. Read more.
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We were the perfect little summer family this weekend. On Saturday afternoon, we slathered on the sunblock, packed some sandwiches and drinks in the cooler, and headed to Lake Anna with dogs in tow. We’d never been there before and neither had they, so it was quite an adventure.
But when we arrived we realized that […]

So I leave the living room to check my e-mail while waiting for the dryer to finish, and when I come back not only has Ty turned the TV on, but he’s navigated to Animal Planet.
With his butt.
By lying on the remote.
And he was actually staring at the TV like he was watching the safari […]

By Cynthia Pinsonnault
Today, my fish died. It was very sad.
As I was trying to get him out of his cute little bowl with the colorful rocks and into the toilet, I tried to think kind thoughts about him. I remembered all the fun times we had together: seeing him swim in seemingly endless circles in […]