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Is Your Dog a Butterface? This Guy Can Help

It’s no surprise that dog owners around the world spend bazillions to ensure that their butt-sniffing buddies are happy, healthy, and looking good—including paying plastic surgeons to achieve their ideas of pooch perfection. Edgard M. Brito is one of the world’s leading plastic surgeons for animals. Full story

From Rags to Bitches

My dog Herb was found wandering the streets. Now he drinks puppy chinos and has a $65 lead. I’m reluctant to let anything from the mere supermarket touch his baby fur seal soft body. This has caused me to wonder: What can I get for Herb? Full story

What’s the Best Way to Kill a Puppy?

Even if you accept the premise that kill shelters are a necessary evil and that ownerless dogs should be put down so they don't live aimless lives as nonpets, wouldn't you agree that puppy gas chambers are a crime against civilized sensibility and a furtive affront to the cultura… Full story

My Life Online

The Real Cat Ladies of Minneapolis

While in Minneapolis for the first-ever Internet Cat Video Film Festival, we hung out with a few ladies who take their cats very seriously. Meet our new friends Squirrel the Kitten, Rex the Cat, Vanessa, Kai + Ro, Whitney, Lucien, and Artemis. Full story

Is It Weird When Pets Watch You Have Sex?

I used to date a guy who had a beautiful gray cat, and as a cat mommy myself, it pleased me to no end that I’d found a cat daddy to copulate with. That was until, midcoitus, I found myself face to face with said feline. Full story

Your Dog Is Full of Dirty Diseases

Recent research has shown that sharing an ice cream cone with your dog or letting your cat nap on your face isn’t just unhygienic, it could kill you, shit-for-brains, so cut it out. Full story

The Cute Show Page!

Syrian Hamsters

These furry bags of joy love desert climates and stuffing as much food into their cheek pouches as possible—in fact, their Arabic name roughly translates as “Mr. Saddlebags.” Not joking. Full story

Question of the Day

Is There an Afterlife for Animals?

When Lassie bit the big one, did she go to some Beggin' Strips-laden paradise where there's always a willing leg to hump and the toilet lid is never down, or did she just get all maggoty in the dirt behind the wooden tool shed? Full story

Sorry Your Dog Got Decapitated

If there’s a golden rule for people who run a dog-sitting business, it is this: Don’t let the dogs you’re watching get mauled by other dogs. Full story

“Fathers and Snakes”

By Clancy Martin

Clancy Martin used to make a living as a jewelry salesman. Now he is a translator of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard and an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri. Full story