Want to find out more about the new movie “Hotel for Dogs?” Check out the ET interview with Lisa Kudrow.

Thanks to ETOnline for this video.

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If calendars are on your gift list, how about these calendars with impressive, cuddly, sweet, beautiful big dogs? Lucy’s furmom, Nikki, is very busy getting out the good word on Pitties and other misunderstood big breeds. Part of her mission is Howll911’s Good Dogs Calendar.

Nikki W. wrote:
Hot off the presses — three new anti-BSL “Good Dogs” calendars for 2008, each featuring a bevy of all-new breed ambassadors!

Breeds and breed mixes represented in the new 2008 calendars are Pitties, Staffies, Rotties, Dobes, Bulldogs, Huskies, Wolfdogs, Mastiffs and more. At least one Dogster pup that we know of is featured, Daisy Mae and possibly more, as we posted liberally on the Dogster forums announcing our call for submissions. To all those Dogsters who sent in photos, thank you so much for your submissions! And if your pupster’s pic didn’t make it into this year’s calendars, keep trying; we are already accepting submissions for next year! Photos and your dog’s info should be emailed to calendar2009@howl911.com.

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Those super-creative canines at the Pet Poetry Group have been at it again! And Gizmo is the winner with The Harvest Moon.

BTW, if you want to read an amazing story, check out Gizmo’s page. He’s one lucky furkid!

Thans to Tammy, furmom to The Nebraska Pack, for sharing this lovely acrostic with us!

Tammy wrote:

Once again the Pet Poetry Group poets gave us wonderful poems to read this round.

Congratulations to the furry faces who entered!

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What do Alexander the Great and Sigmund Freud have in common? Both men’s lives were heavily affected by dogs. Check out this informative article from CNN.

Ten dogs that changed the world

By E. Bougerol

(LifeWire) — Fifty years ago this Saturday, Laika — a sweet-tempered stray plucked off the streets of Moscow — was thrust into the global spotlight when she became the first living creature sent into space.

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Congratulations you darling Corgis!

Thanks to the New Zealand Herald for this entertainment news.

Mirren’s supporting corgis are top dogs at the Fido Film Awards
October 29, 2007
By Sadie Gray

Stephen Frears’ hugely successful film The Queen has won more than its fair share of top awards, so perhaps it should come as no surprise that even the dogs featured as the monarch’s faithful companions have picked up a gong.

The five corgis, who played the Queen’s pets, were the main winners at the inaugural Fido Film Awards.

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Renowned dog photographer Jean Fogle has some marvelous Halloween pictures on her site! And if you’re looking for some excellent Halloween e-cards, check out her gallery at the Dog Writers Association of America site.

This article from ScientificAmerican.com is fascinating! Once again dogs lead the way in understanding humans and human development.

Dog Tails as Tell-Tales:
The Evolution of Brain-Hemisphere Specialization

Peter F. MacNeilage
University of Texas at Austin

A dog earns its reputation as best friend in part because it wags its tail in joy at the sight of its owner. But as a team of Italian researchers led by the University of Bari’s Antonio Quaranta reveal in a recent article in Current Biology (”Asymmetric tail-wagging responses by dogs to different emotive stimuli,” 20 March 2007), the wag of a dog’s tail tells a much larger story. Quaranta and colleagues, examining closely the lesser-remarked fact that dogs wag their tails not just in pleasure but also when they are uneasy with an animal they are encountering, found a dog wags its tails differently in these two types of encounters: it wags the tail more to the right while greeting its owner but more to the left when meeting an unfamiliar dominant dog. Because the brain’s control of the body is crossed, a bias in one direction means more activation of the brain hemisphere on the opposite side. Thus a dog’s tail reveals which half of its brain is responding. This finding ties into a fascinating line of research regarding hemispheric specialization, evolution, specialized tasks versus routine, and how much like monkeys — or dogs — we humans might be.

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Fabulous idea!

Thanks to the Associated Press for this article.

Arf! Walk of Fame to Honor Doggie Stars

LONDON (AP) — Bow wow, and take a bow: The furry and famous of the silver screen are being honored with their own walk of fame in London.

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This is soooo cool!

Thanks to the Times of India for this article.

Dog story: off the leash at FTII
Anuradha Mane,TNN

PUNE: A walk into the creative environs of the Film and Television Institute of India here would find you in the midst of a high number of canines roaming on the campus.

For almost a decade now, the campus has been home to several dogs ‘adopted’ by the present and past students of the institute, many of whom are now famous names in the film industry.

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Thanks to Tammy, furmom to Dakota and the rest of the Nebraska Pack, barked in about this lovely poem from Tawny’s furmom, Kathy.

If you cross-post or copy and send this poem, please remember to include the copyright.

Clothed in Fur

I have a loving heart that is clothed in fur
in mutual trust, my soul is shared with her
Her love’s the shape of infinity & forever more
and she travels with me through life’s every door

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