Who’s getting ready for Easter? Thank you Nara from Westchester, New York for sending this photo! You will receive a signed copy of Wendy Diamond’s best selling book It’s a Dog’s World: The Savvy Guide to Four-Legged Living (Random House) for making us smile! If anyone has a furtastic photo please submit to yappy@animalfair.com […]
Happy Passover! Kosher Foods Your Pets Should Passover!
The Jewish tradition of Passover starts from sundown. This is an eight-day spring celebration representing the freedom of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. The eating of unleavened bread during Passover is observed, and honors when the Israelites left Egypt. Jews do not eat – or keep in their possession – any […]
Why Does The Easter Bunny Bring Eggs?
It’s that time of the year again when young children prepare to go hunting for conveniently placed eggs that were left by a mysterious, basket carrying creature with big ears – the Easter Bunny. With the holiday getting closer there is a noticeable influx of stories that aim to explain the strange connection between rabbits […]
Help Save The Endangered Belize Jaguars!
I found paradise in Belize! The Kanantik Reef & Jungle Resort is an eco-sensitive, luxurious resort secluded on 300 acres in Southern Belize, and displays a beautiful 1,300 foot private, palm-fringed sandy beach. The Mayan calendar wasn’t correct when predicting “the end of time” on December 21st – but the 25 individual, spacious, thatched-roof […]
Cedarhill Animal Sanctuary Keeps the Purrs a’ Plenty
What cat lover among us hasn’t at least once taken in a homeless kitty? How about 158 of them, plus 23 of their exotic cousins — lions, tigers, cougars, and bobcats? That’s what Kay McElroy, the founder, president, and general factotum of Cedarhill Animal Sanctuary, has done. One day in 1987, McElroy, a former […]
#InternationalDayHappiness March 20! Smile! Adopt! #HappinessDay #HappyDay #HappyActs
What makes you happy? Nothing makes me happier than seeing my two furballs – Baby Hope and Pasha’s happy little faces and wagging tails when I wake in the morning! Pets are a blessing, and we should cherish them as such! What is happiness? Being happy means that you’re feeling, showing, or expressing joy and gladness, […]