By Sharon L. Peters, Special for USA TODAY

Maitre D’og at your service! Engaging in any sort of commerce is more enjoyable when a little canine welcome is part of the deal. Pet reporter Sharon L. Peters introduces four four-legged (in most cases) greeters who lend their owners’ businesses a special ambience.

Tiny Tim
He’s an award-winning New [...]

Spider-Man’s best friend…Spider-Dog.
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Do you have a favorite DOG perfume fragrance?  The average person associates the word perfume with women.  But a company called Pepper and Tanky is helping to forge a new association between perfume and dogs.
This concept may seem strange. But it is worth considering. Yes, it is true that celebrities love the dog perfume by [...]

I’ve been noticing that there are so many dog books out there with such great titles. I love the title that Kathy Nimmer chose for her upcoming book, Two Plus Four Equals One.

Amazon is pretty clever at enticing you to buy more things. When I was looking at Every Rescue Dog Has A Tale I also found these.

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Pregnant actress Christina Applegate is concerned about how her dog will react when she brings her new baby home.
Christina Applegate worries her dog will be jealous of her baby.
The ‘Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore’ actress - who recently announced she is expecting her first child with fiance Martyn Lenoble - [...]

I found an article by 101 Dog Training Tips about different types of house training issues. I’ve seen some of these posted in Ask Dogasaur and thought it would be helpful to share their advice with our members.

It was interesting how this article regards regular potty training as a separate category from the other types of issues. Dogs who fit into this group are ones who have just never been house trained. They will sometimes eliminate indoors and sometimes outdoors.

With other dogs, the issue may be a little more complicated.

The BARF diet is a highly beneficial raw food diet for your dog. We interviewed Robert Mueller, who is the company’s co-founder. This will probably answer a lot of your questions that come to mind. The rationale behind the BARF diet is quite interesting. And it will make you think twice about the food you are giving your dog.

There are many owners that are not aware that dogs cannot have grapes. Other fruits like strawberries, blueberries and bananas are okay. But grapes are a whole other story. The fact that grapes are bad for dogs is a rule of thumb that some people are familiar with, while others are not. Perhaps some of us have not taken the time to do a Google search on this topic. But for our own knowledge, it is important to try and find out why.

Dr. Nancy Kay is a veterinarian who writes the blog, Speaking for Spot. She recently wrote a post on the subject of dogs and grapes.

History records that at the first Thanksgiving, no dog choked on a splintering turkey bone.  The humans at that 1621 feast, indeed, were into venison, not gobble-gobble.  Yet the celebration lasted three days, plenty of time for a canine to encounter life-threatening perils.  You have to believe that Squanto, without whom those Mayflower peeps would [...]

You’ve got the costume ready to go. He’s going as a pumpkin, a biker, an elephant, or Miley Cyrus…whatever it is, it’s pretty darn funny. But before you dress your dog in something that you can safely assume is going to be a one-shot deal (unless you repeat for next year, but where’s the originality [...]