While this may not fit your Pom, this keg-collar may be a wise investment if you ever decide that your dog needs to have two dozen shots of liquor with him/her at all times. (continue reading…)

This is serious old skool, and we love it. Nylon lined with a waxed cotton exterior, this almost makes our dogs speak in full sentences and without conjugation.

you can pick it up here.

The Bark decided to do some digging into the ubiquitous rawhide product our dogs all know and love and found some unnerving realities about the processes/effects of production/consumption. The following a handy bulletpointed distillation of the article

- “If rawhide manufacturers were held to the same standards as drug makers, they’d be forced to add an equally long list of warnings to their labels: May cause stomach torsion, choking, vomiting, diarrhea, salmonella poisoning and exposure to various chemical residues.”

- “Producing rawhide begins with the splitting of an animal hide, usually from cattle. The top grain is generally tanned and made into leather products, while the inner portion, in its “raw” state, goes to the dogs. Removing the hair from hides often involves a highly toxic recipe: sodium sulphide liming. A standard practice is to procure rawhide in the “split lime state” as by-products from tanneries. In the post-tannery stage, hides are washed and whitened using a solution of hydrogen peroxide. And that’s just one step…Other poisonous residues that may show up in rawhide include arsenic and formaldehyde”

- “Even dog skin is a possibility. An ongoing investigation of the fur trade by Humane Society International, an arm of the HSUS, resulted in this information, as listed on their website: “In a particularly grisly twist, the skins of brutally slaughtered dogs in Thailand are mixed with other bits of skin to produce rawhide chew toys for pet dogs.”

- “Rawhide is a by-product of the CAFO—or concentrated animal feeding operation, the bucolic term for today’s industrial farm.” There is a “major problem with various drugs… antibiotics, arsenicals and hormones [which are] used to boost production” in hogs/beef in that their residue inevitably end up in domesticated dogs.

- don’t buy “rawhide. Instead, [buy] free-range chews, bully sticks, and organic raw bones”

Ruffwear just released their sweet new dog harness and its seriously legit. Featuring hardware and webbing that is rated to withstand 8.9 KN (2000 pounds) of force, (!!!) it will be able to handle a sudden deceleration force of your 50 pound mutt from 30MPH (That’s like a Thirty foot fall!!!) to 0 and still be within the safety rating. With specs like that, your dog/climbing buddy can seriously emulate Chris Sharma to his/her hearts content (That lab I imagine, might actually sound/think like him).