Archive for June 9th, 2007

New Toy Stimulates All 5 of Your Dog’s Senses

Dogzilla is the first dog toy that engages all five senses, guaranteed to help keep your dog entertained for hours. Dogzilla appeals to your dog’s sense of taste with an innovative material that includes protein flavors. Unlike humans, dogs have taste buds for protein, enabling them to smell and taste it. Dogzilla is infused with protein to make it deliciously crave-able. Dogzilla appeals to your dog’s sense of smell by adding vanilla into the rubber to bring the scent of human food to the dog’s toy. You can also fill the center with tasty treats whose aroma will keep you dog engaged. The design is specially created to visually appeal to the canine eye. Studies show that while dogs can see only certain shades of red and green, they see blue in all of the same shades as humans. In addition, evolutionary processes shaped the canine vision to be an acute detector of movement. The shape of Dogzilla enables the toy to be easily set in motion, which catches a dog’s eye.

Your dog’s sense of touch is stimulated by a tough rubber material that that can be chewed, and comes in wobbly shapes that keep a dog interacting with the toy with his paws, mouth and nose for hours. In addition, specially-placed ridges aid in gripping the toy in paws and mouth, which assists play and helps the dog to work on getting peanut butter, spray cheese or treats out of the center.

Finally, Dogzilla is made of rubber and not hard plastic, which protects a dog’s sensitive hearing. Dogzilla has a calming effect by not adding more noise to the dog’s environment during high-stress times such as separation anxiety, allowing your dog to play quietly and happily. For more stimulation, you can add kibble or small treats inside that will rattle and activate a dog’s hunting instinct. So you can have a quiet toy or a rattling toy, depending on whether you want to soothe or stimulate your dog.

By addressing all the senses, the manufacturer — in collaboration with an evolutionary biologist, an animal behaviorist and a color specialist — has created a toy with the ideal color, shape, size and scent for dogs to enjoy.

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Although it is designed to withstand focused chewing, you should never leave your dog alone with any toy until you determine that he will not break off small pieces and swallow them.


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Best Cities for Dogs

Men’s Health magazine recently ranked 50 American cities based on how dog-friendly they are. They ranked these major cities based on the following 8 criteria:

  1. Percentage of households that own dogs
  2. Number of dog parks

  3. Number of pet supply stores per capita

  4. Number of animal shelters per capita

  5. Number of dog boarding or daycare facilities

  6. Number of veterinarians

  7. Number of heartworm cases. Lowest incidence of heartworm sored highest. (Does anyone else think this is a bit off the wall?)

  8. As a tie-breaker, how severely the local laws punish animal cruelty and dog fighting.

And guess what? Nine of the top 10 cities for dogs are in the West. Why? Part of it may be room to roam, which means more and bigger yards, more dog parks, etc. But it seems that people in the West just own more dogs. But I’m not going to leave you hanging. Here are the top 10:

  1. Colorado Springs

  2. Portland

  3. Albuquerque

  4. Tucson

  5. Seattle

  6. Denver

  7. Austin

  8. San Fransisco

  9. Tampa

  10. Sacramento

DogFancy also does a DogTown USA feature each year, in which they name the Best All-Around City for Dogs in America. The 2006 winner? Portland, OR (#2 on the Men’s Health list). Runners-up were Sanford (FL), Albuquerque, San Diego, Bellingham (WA), Palo Alto (CA), and New York.


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