It’s National Pet Week this week! NPW was created to celebrate the bond between people and their pets while raising awareness for responsible pet ownership and care.
National Pet Week was founded in 1981 by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the AVMA Auxiliary and is now widely celebrated throughout the United States and other parts of the world. Each year, its goals are: to promote responsible pet ownership, celebrate the human-animal bond, and promote public awareness of veterinary medicine.
Here are 10 suggestions from Animal Planet on how to celebrate this week!
Pets can get lonely when their owners are away …read more

National Pet Week is coming up next month, May 3-9th! This year’s theme is “Pets—The Spice of Life,” and was inspired by New Orleans, which held last year’s annual convention.

National Pet Week celebrates the bond between people and their pets while raising awareness for responsible pet ownership and care.
PetSmart and Animal Planet, two entities that know all about the love of pets, have teamed up for a line of pet products that are sure to please the four-legged and their owners. The high quality toys feature popular Animal Planet creatures like meerkats and ostriches, and are made with …read more

The Super Bowl is just over a week away, which means one thing: Puppy Bowl V!
The Puppy Bowl is an annual broadcast by Animal Planet that coincides with the Big Game. For its fifth year, the Bowl will feature over a dozen rough and tumble puppies of all breeds romping around a small “field” with cameras catching every playful minute. It will also bring back the cute “tailgating puppies” from the third year, and will introduce Pepper the Parrot, who will sing a unique rendition of the National Anthem!
The Bissel Kitty Halftime Show was introduced in the second year of …read more

Animal Planet will be airing its own performance reality TV with “Dancing With Dogs” this Saturday, December 6th!
The show puts a unique spin on people’s relationships with their dogs, involving something known as “canine musical freestyle,” and it’s exactly what you think it is! People and their dogs will be getting down to rock, hip-hop, classical and country and will include every breed from poodles to retrievers to mutts.
The video clip above maybe isn’t as good as others we’ve seen but the show looks like it’s got potential! Will you be watching?
“Dancing With Dogs” premieres Saturday, Dec. 6 at 9 …read more

Think you have a talented pet? Animal Planet and Bissell want to know about it!
The Bissell Pet Games Video Contest wants talented, funny pets that can do more than roll over or beg, and if you know of one it’s your chance to win $10,000 for a charity of your choice!
Submitted videos will be featured on the website where visitors can vote for People’s Choice and the Grant Prize. Once your video is featured you can encourage friends and family to vote for it!
Videos no longer than one minute can be submitted here, and watched and voted on here. …read more

We are huge Meerkat Manor fans here. We actually didn’t start watching until season 3, and I’m not sure what actually prompted us to start recording it. I think the girls may have stopped on an episode and my husband and I got interested in it too, and we decided to make it one of our family night shows.
Even after just seeing one season of it I think it’s safe to say we’re hooked for the duration of the series. It was easy to get caught up in the apparent dramas of life in the Kalahari Desert, especially with Sean …read more

Every year for the last few years Animal Planet has been broadcasting their Puppy Bowl pre-game show. Tune in Sunday, February 3 from 3-6 PM (ET/PT) to see puppies of all breeds do what puppies do best: frolic, tumble, and make you say awww!
From baby beagles to mini dachshunds to mixed breeds — viewers are in for a fantastic lineup that’s itching to play in a winning combination of tackles, puppy penalties and fido first downs. The renowned Harry Kalas, voice of NFL Films, returns to call the play-by-plays of this year’s game.
Cat lovers aren’t left out either. …read more

Years ago Animal Planet had a two hour feature all about cats. They had a segment about a husband and wife who customized the inside of their house for their horde of cats by building little shelf-like cat walks around the tops of their walls and knocking out little holes to connect all the rooms in the house this way. I was fascinated and truth be told, if I could get away with doing something like that I totally would. I know that makes me sound like a crazy cat lady but you’ve got to think of how much …read more