With temps still reaching the 70s in SF lately, North and I have been taking advantage of the weather, and going for nice long walks on the weekends. You can pretty much bet that two out of three times, I'll forget to grab his pop-up bowl from my car, leaving me to buy a sports cap bottle in the nearest convenience store and play drinking fountain with it as he laps water mid-air. Although there's nothing wrong with this practice, I've found a solution I will never run out of the house without (unless I forget my wallet .
While visiting the awesome
Heathy Spot pet shop in Santa Monica, I spotted these super cute
Rope Toys ($14) from
Jax & Bones that I knew North would love to sink his chompers into. Made from 100 percent natural dyed cotton thread, you can be sure that these toys are not only good for hours of chewing fun, but are good for your pooch and the earth. Not only that, but for each toy purchased from Jax & Bones, part of the proceeds will be donated to the
Rescue Train Organization, which helps find homes for pets and operates a no-kill rescue program.
Pet Fashion Week's over 'til February, but
New York Fashion Week starts soon! I can't get enough of the
Lifestyle Innovation Awards from this event, and you may recognize several of the designs from past posts on the site (like
Whiner and Diner,
Tigrito, and
Kevy K.). Even though, the grand prize winner, HugX, is stunning, if you had to choose with money as no object, which style best fits your home's décor?
The hunt is on! Let your dog get back to his savage roots (well, sort of) with this
Poor Pig Pet Bowl ($24) from Urban Addition. Coming in either gray or pink, this number is
not like any other food bowl — Fido gobbles up his meal from piggy's belly, and knows he's done when he gets to the exposed ribs at the bottom!
My fave competition at
Pet Fashion Week is the Lifestyle Innovation Award offered to the company that has the top product design in a different category each year. This year "pet dinnerware" was displayed and this super-cute bowl won. Learn all about it in this slideshow!
Now I've been a fan of the well-designed
Wowo feeders for quite some time now, and I am totally digging the new metallic models. There's something about the tiny circles and glossy red underbelly that makes my heart pitter-patter.
The
Aluminum Wowo 2 Series HD Feeders ($165 and up) still come with removable stainless-steel bowls and in three heights, but now boast a pebbled or hammered aluminum veneer option, in addition to the four wood finishes.
Sometimes I call it a bowl, other times a dish – what do you call the receptacle for your pets' food and water? I simply can't decide and often see the products labeled as one or another — technically a dish is "a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food" and a bowl is "a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids," so either word can work . .
Remember the
DogPause for those speedy eaters? Well, there's another version, the
EatBetter, as well as this model especially for fluids. I'm especially interested because, although my pooch is quite the gobbler, he most often gets sick by throwing up some clear liquid when he drinks too much too fast.
We've seen our share of
feeders and bowls on the site, but honestly there are few that I could see myself actually picking up. This Artisan Feeder from
PDX Dog, which I caught in the newest edition of
City Dog, might be one that I would spend my hard-earned money on. Coming in three sizes — six-, 12-, and 18-inch heights — and a number of cool modern colors, I can confidently say that any of these would look great in my apartment.
Citrus fruit used to mean cocktails should be kept at room temperature. However, fruit left to roll around on the counter will only end up bruised or on the floor. A fruit bowl is necessary to properly hold (and display) the citrus.
