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Spoiler alert: Twice as much sleep, twice as much food.
Summer road trip!
Planning to hit the road with your favorite furry sidekick? Whether you’re embarking (haha) on a day trip, a weekend getaway or an epic cross-country adventure, we’ve got everything you need to pack your doggie bag and travel in style.
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Who’s a pretty boy then? A dog with animal designs at a creative grooming competition in Seacaucus, New Jersey. From picture desk live: the best news images of the day
Photograph: Ren Netherland/Barcroft Media
Poodle birds? This is a lot to absorb. Make sure to click through the slideshow. — heidi
A day in the life of Bailey
Why do dogs have dewclaws?
Good question! The answer: It’s a leftover thumb.
Back in the day, dogs’ ancestors walked on their whole foot, including four toes and a thumb-like appendage. As dogs evolved and began to specialize as runners/chasers, they started to walk on the tips of their fingers and toes to increase speed and agility, causing their bodies to shift and lift their thumbs/big toes off the ground. Over time, those bones shrank into the dewclaws that we know today.
Some modern dogs have dewclaws on both the front and back legs, some only have them on the front legs and some don’t have any dewclaws at all. If present, dewclaws are pretty much useless, although depending on how much muscle or bone attachment there is, a dog may use its dewclaw to help hold onto objects such as bones or toys. And some rare dog breeds such as the Basenji, the New Guinea Singing Dog and the Catahoula Leopard dog use the dewclaw to help them (get this) climb trees. Crazy, right?
Hey! I want to pitch a new book concept to y’all for next year. I would love to hear what you think!
50 sandwiches in 50 states! Maddie hits the road across America to find her favorite sandwich! It would be filled with images of Maddie holding a sandwich in her mouth that she loves, stories of why she picked that sandwich, the recipe of how to make it and a portrait of her with the sandwich maker! So a neat hybrid book of travel, food and Maddie!
What do ya think?
We say YES.
Mod: For you, for them
[FOR YOU] CB2 Dylan Dining Table
[FOR THEM] Drip Module® Dog Bowls
On a related note, a public service announcement on the dangers of mid-century modern homes.
Things on Dogs by Benjamin Flouw
I keep hearing all this talk of dogs standing on things, but back in my day, we put things on dogs and they LIKED IT. Prints available at Society6.
The Clinton family’s White House pets, Socks and Buddy, get a well-deserved close up on BuzzFeed. So cool that they found all 30 photos from the Clinton Presidential Library on the U.S. National Archives online catalog!Photos: Socks the Cat sitting behind the President’s desk in the Oval Office. 1/7/94; Buddy the Dog and Socks the Cat in the Outer Oval Office, 1/5/98.
