It’s traditional for dog owners to take their dogs to the park for a walk and indulge in an ice-cream (or two) to help cool down from the heat. Meanwhile the poor dogs usually have to be content with a bowl of water, if they’re lucky, as of course ice-cream isn’t particularly good for dogs.

However, there is a new ice-cream van that intends to change all of that, being aimed solely at dogs and offering doggie flavours, such as chicken, gammon and dog biscuits. The idea has been perfected by some crazy boffins who have worked on the flavours to ensure that they are safe for dogs.

The new ice cream van will open its shutters to doggie punters at the Boomerang Pets Party, which takes place in Regents Park this Saturday. The van will offer two flavours of ice cream, and will cost 99p for each one (as ‘99s’ used to actually cost for us humans too). The flavours are ‘canine cookie crunch’ and ‘dog eat hog world’. ‘Dog eat hog world’ offers chicken and gammon flavour ice-cream, with crumbled dog biscuit and sat on top of a doggie cone. ‘Canine cookie crunch’ is a simpler affair of ice-cream with crumbled dog biscuits.

Once the van has debuted in Regents Park this weekend, it will appear at (more…)

Titan world's tallest dog

On November 12th, Guinness World Records’ Day, the world’s tallest dog was announced.  Titan, pictured here courtesy of Guinness World Records, is aptly named and lives in sunny California.  Commonly mistaken by local children for a horse, this dog has a very peaceful temperament.  He is a Great Dane and 4 years old. Titan is an amazing 3.5 feet tall, and that is just measuring from the ground to the shoulder!  Delighted owner Diana Taylor (more…)

With no thought for his own personal safety, a mayor in Southern Texas climbed up a ladder to scale the side of a building in his bid to rescue a dog that he thought was in distress. As it turned out though the dog was just sunbathing, and the dog’s owner was very bemused to find the local mayor in his kitchen!

The dog owner complained that Mayor Pat Ahumada illegally entered his house.

He broke into my house. My dog is very well taken care of. He shouldn’t have done that.

This isn’t the first time that Pat Ahumada has got into trouble in an attempt to rescue an animal, and he claims that the (more…)