We all have at least one photo of our pet we think is absolutely stunning (or hysterical). In my case, it’s a few hundred, which is what lead me to look for different options for superizing the best of ‘em. Since it’s way more pawesome to share, we’re hosting a month long contest in which the winner will get their pet photo splashed across an 18-by-24 inch (1.5-inch deep) gallery wrap canvas from Canvas Pop. Even better, anyone who enters their pet photo in the contest will get a $25 gift certificate from the fine folks at Canvas Pop!

After the jump, all the deets!

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Earlier this week, I stopped into the Curiosity Shoppe and came across these handmade bird houses by San Francisco artists Luke Bartels and Jeff Canham made exclusively for the store. The bird houses each represent a bird business, many of which play off common bird idioms and clever word associations: The Condor Club Peep Show, Seedy’s Liquor, Puffins Cannabis Club, Hawk’s Pawn Shop, Madame Cuckoo Psychic, Night Owls Bar, Pigeon Hole Motel, Swallows Diner, et. al. See the whole collection of these amazing creations after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

You’ll have to be patient for the first 16 seconds, but it’s well worth the anticipation. Granted, I watched this after a few, ahem, libations, but I can pretty much guarantee you will LOL and then PYP.

via Best of YouTube

The rescue world is overflowing with animals that need homes. While it sucks that so many pets are homeless, it’s during crunch times like these that you see the ingenuity of the rescue community. This Saturday East Bay Rabbit Rescue will host an adoption event in which their adoptable bunnies (they have 32!) will be featured alongside original artwork of a few of the bunnies. Bay Area artists lent their talents to the group, using each of the available rabbits as muses for orginal works of art.

The bunnies and their painted pals will be shown off at the East Bay SPCA in Dublin from 11 am to 4 pm tomorrow. If you can’t bring a rabbit home, consider buying one of the artworks. Money from the sales go to help East Bay Rabbit Rescue do the wonderful work that it does.

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Many of Brooklyn-based design company enormouschampion‘s products have animal themes, which of course makes them Pawesome-worthy, but we also like that they use renewable resources, post-consumer waste recycled paper, and friendly cleaning agents to make them, and that their designs are so darn cute that they’re sure to make the receiver of any of these products smile with delight (even if the giver and receiver are both you!)

This Baby Love card can be found at their Etsy store for $5.  See more of my fave enormouschampion animal-themed products after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

With so many pet stories around the web each week it’s hard to keep up. Table Scraps is our weekly roundup of memorable pet news around the internet.

• In honor of Hurricane Earl, let’s all learn how to batten down the hatches in order to keep our pets safe in windier times. Please don’t kid yourself into thinking Toto had all that much fun on the ride over. (The Herald News)

• Considering this happened in Ireland, I’m just going to go out on a limb and say this cat was drunk and didn’t realize he was boarding a train.  We’ve all been there.  Often.  (Boing Boing)

• Between the kick ass toy xylophone and the iconic Rock-a-Stack, the level of nauseatingly cute photographs I can take of my cats doing people things just shot through the flippin’ roof. (Pet Sugar)

• I’m pretty sure My Dog Tulip is My Weekend of Tears. (NPR)

• Ladies and gentlemen, I’m super happy to introduce to you, Nico SwanGarris of Indianapolis, Indiana.   (L.A. Unleashed)

• Apparently vegetables are good for animals and when they spend the entire meal shuffling them around the dinner bowl, it’s just plain darling, not maddening.   (The Huffington Post)

Image:  Rowdy Kittens