I have serious puppy lust. I can’t walk past a dog on the street without my heart going into full on meltdown mode. Spotting Found My Animal collars and leashes is not going to make this an easier. The beautiful rope leads are exactly my style. I’m almost considering buying one and putting it away until my doggy day finally comes. The best part about Found My animal is this: 25% of ALL their profits go directly to the Louis Animal Foundation, a unique non-profit group dedicated to spaying/neutering and providing homes for animals who have not yet “found” their people. –Erica P.

Our one-year-old mastiff keeps destroying her dog beds. It doesn’t seem to matter if she’s had a lot of walks, or new toys, or lots of attention that day; she’ll randomly decide to tear a bed apart like it’s a toy. Even the Ruff Wear beds I enthused about last year aren’t safe. Apparently a zipper can be a bad thing for a dog like ours — she usually goes for that first, and once that’s destroyed, it’s a pretty short trip to tearing out all the bed’s stuffing. After losing three expensive beds to this, we’re wondering if our only solution is to have the dogs lie on bare ground! No, I’m not serious — that’s not good for their joints, and not good for doting dog owners. But this is getting expensive. Someone suggested the Dura-Bed — anyone tried it? Any other solutions? –Mary T.

That’s not my dog in the photo above; it’s the adorable Zora by Flickr user Joyful Abobe.

I’m always on the look out for cute cat litter boxes, or rather, litter boxes that don’t really look like litter boxes. It’s a constant battle for any feline-loving, decor-dreaming gal. I was excited by this ModKat box (via Outblush), until I thought about it for a half a second. It’s shorter in length than most boxes, and has a “roof-access” entry from the top. That’d be great if we owned a spry, bouncy kitty, but our 17-year old, half-blind guy would literally be bouncing off the walls of this thing. And at $180, that’s one pricey plastic box. Still, if you do have have to look at it everyday, and so do your guests, it could very well be worth the splurge. What do you think. — would your cat dig this square cube? Do you? –Angela M.

I picked up rather an alarming brochure at my vet the other day: “101 Things You Didn’t Know Could Harm Your Pet.” Plants! Cleaners! Foods! Objects! Even holidays are on the list of potential pet hazards. Not that these aren’t real dangers, but the brochure is printed by ASPCA Pet Health Insurance, so yes, they are trying to sell me something. Even though I once had a cat who ended up costing me $4,000 in medical bills over the course of his lifetime, I have yet to purchase health insurance for my pets. If it were offered as part of my health insurance plan, I might. What about you? –Mary T.

Photo by Benjamin Earwicker