You're a busy day at work? Have you considered the needs of the dog you know, while you're away? Many people who have gone on flexible working hours throughout the day often enough to give your pet your dog an alternative to stayed at home alone. This is where dog day care is needed. If you are considering this option, you should know that there are many benefits of leaving the dog in caring for people who understand and can meet the needs of your dog along for the times when you're outdoors.

Parents often tell their children that owning a dog is a lot of responsibility; they aren't kidding. Between the walks, the feeding, the grooming, and the visits to the vet, pet owners have good reason to compare their dogs to children. With all of the stresses of modern-day living, it can be easy to push long walks with the family pet aside in favor of finishing a work project or running errands But you may not realize the importance of walking your dog. Here are three reasons to grab that leash and head for the door.

1. Long walks can keep your dog in shape.

While there are plenty of animals looking for a good home, humane society leaders say you should think twice before giving one to a child at Christmas.

They tell us the holidays are too hectic to bring a new animal into your home.

Workers at the humane society say it needs to be a family decision.

They encourage people who are thinking about bringing an animal home to start out with a stuffed animal and give a gift certificate to the Humane Society instead.

If you’re hoping to impress a discerning dog lover this holiday season, you have come to the right place. This season, I Love Dogs Diamonds features a showstopper for even the most pampered of pooches: The $3,200,000 Amour, Amour diamond dog collar. (You would need good Pet Insurance to have that covered!)

The platinum, 18-karat white gold and crocodile collar is set with over 1,600 diamonds. So what self-respecting dog would wear this?

Dogs were excited Sunday to pose for photos with Santa Claus as part of a Lexington fund-raiser for the Bluegrass Animal Welfare League.

They were so excited that volunteers kept handy a spray bottle of cleaner and some paper towels.

"Don't worry, he's just doing what comes naturally," one volunteer assured Donna Brown of Nicholasville and her 4-year-old Yorkie, Mr. Mack, as she wiped a small puddle off the floor.
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Mark Ashley

The lighting in the treatment room is muted and soothing. Candles flicker on a shelf, rose-petals are scattered across the ­marble floor, and the air smells of geranium aromatherapy oil.

I’m in London’s latest luxury spa, on the fourth floor of Harrods. Only it’s not me blissed out on the massage table, it’s George, my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.