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A Fairy Tale Vacation With Your Furry Tailed Friend

If you’re tired of walking around the same old block day after day, then chances are your dog is too. It may be time to take your dog on what the Bombard Society, a rather unusual but highly successful vacation planner, calls “an aerial nature walk” – coasting over the

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Wendy Diamond

Heavenly Kennels Make Dogs Feel like Gods

If your furry friend has grown tired of sleeping on the floor or in your bed then maybe you should get a one-of-a-kind habitat that he/she is sure to love. After famed designer Marco Morosini finished designing his handbag line, Brandina, he decided to launch a line of sanctuaries for

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Wendy Diamond

Florence: L’amore degli Animali

Originally built on an Etruscan settlement,  Florence, or Firenze as only one who’s been will come to know it as, remains as beautiful today as the artworks that were born there hundreds of years ago. The birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, Florence is also the birthplace of many of the

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Wendy Diamond

Dogs Bark Ciao! at Bau Bau Village, Italy!

So, you’ve been fantasizing all winter about spending two weeks basking in the Mediterranean sun, but Scooter, your pooch, has had that hangdog look on his face ever since those slick travel brochures started pouring in. Another so-called “vacation” at Grandma’s where he gets fat on table scraps while you’re

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Villa Feltrinelli Lake Garda, Italy

From Mutts to Mussolini, this beautiful waterfront villa has history. Its history intriguing, Villa Feltrinelli was once the famed quarters of Benito Mussolini.  He stayed at the villa situated on the shore of Lake Garda, Italy towards the end of World War II, as the German government attempted and failed

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