This new way of celebrating our furry friends includes
dog-sized party hats, cake that is friendly to your pooch's digestion and a specially brewed beer, made with boiled carrots and bananas, your canine can enjoy without wobbling home afterwards.
Football-crazy dog, Sam, who has a collection of impressive
dog-sized Liverpool kits to match his dribbling skills
Now, though, SoftBank has its eyes on the fetching and carrying capabilities of BigDog and Spot, the
dog-sized pack robots developed by BostonDynamics.
However, experts are said to be "less certain" and the
dog-sized creature is due to be taken 1,160 miles to regional capital Yakutsk for studies.
Visitors to Agate Fossil Beds National Monument can see the remains of other extinct creatures (in addition to the Palaeocastor, above) including small camels called Stenomytus,
dog-sized rhinoceroses known as Menoceras, and "bear dogs," such as the Daphoenodon, whose name means, evocatively, "blood-reeking tooth."
The rats that play up and down 13th Street are
dog-sized, but even they don't scare the drug dealer off our corner.
Ushuaia Ibiza Beach Hotel (www.ushuaiabeachhotel.com) boasts an invasion of giant
dog-sized ants, and anthropomorphized chairs, which reflect its position as hosts of the fantastic open air club, right next to the Hard Rock Hotel, (www.hrhibiza.com) a must for funseekers who like to party in grown up luxury.
The fossilised skeleton of the
dog-sized creature, a theropod dinosaur, is described as a cousin of the giant tyrannosaurus rex and is believed to be the earliest specimen of a Jurassic era dinosaur ever to walk the Earth.
Nana the dog makes a startling entrance through a
dog-sized door flap, then bangs his head on exiting before getting stuck completely.
Archosaurs, whose living relatives are birds and crocodilians, are of interest to scientists because it's thought that they led to animals like Asilisaurus, a dinosaur-like animal, and Nyasasaurus parringtoni, a
dog-sized creature with a five-foot-long tail that could be the earliest dinosaur.