The good pedants at Metafilter have discovered Pan-Kun, our favorite chimp, and his pet bulldog James, uncovering a wealth of Pan-Kun-related merchandise and videos. (Several of which I have linked after the jump.))
There is even an company that makes Pan and James plushies. I doubt you could get them outside of Japan, but getting separate [...]

Hero-ape Chimp A-Pan returns in this video that will appeal to exactly one reader of this website, leading five adorable, well-behaved bulldogs in adventures galore.

I am shocked—shocked!—that someone would make a chew toy for dogs shaped like alleged dog electrocuter Michael Vick.
Mostly because I didn’t think of it first.
The creators claim that the proceeds will go toward animal welfare charities, but who knows. I think you should skip over the Michael Vick toy, karmaful as it is, and give [...]

I mentioned to a friend last night that Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has been indicted on dog-fighting charges, and he sort of shrugged. “Don’t you eat meat? What’s wrong with letting animals kill each other?” The problem is, of course, that hunting animals or raising them for food doesn’t require—in theory—any unnecessary cruelty. I don’t [...]

Finally, an excuse for me to get an ape. It’s for the dog’s health! (Thanks, Susie!)

My old friends at Wired.com have put together two great tastes that taste great together: cute widdle doggers and gadgets. (Seriously, dogs taste awesome. Try it.) Their ten-picture gallery, which, if I may be so bold, is a “fluffy piece of digg bait,” shows the latest in useless accessories for your K9, none of which [...]

Legozilla, who clearly knows my love of both Lego and bulldogs, must have made this model just for me. If I’m parsing that correctly, it’s modeled after a dog named “Bacon.”
Legozilla’s Photostream [Flickr]

George, a Jack Russell terrier, died Sunday in New Zealand, when he lept to the defense of five children who were being threatened by two stray pit bulls, giving the children time to escape.
Richard Rosewarne (11), the oldest of the children, said the pitbulls came up behind them and were going for his brother [...]

Just because we can’t possibly have had enough dogs on this site lately, here are a series of winners of the Cesar Dog Food “I Look Like My Dog” contest. Which one is your favorite? This is mine, because bulldogs are just too awesome.
Winers of the I Look Like My Dog contest [flyaboveall.com]

Like something out of a fantasy X-Treme Maury Povich Show, you can now run DNA tests on your dog for the surprisingly reasonable price for just $72. Why, might you ask, when the peanut butter appears to sit undisturbed on the shelf? Because you might want to lock down the history of your dog’s breed—as [...]

There are well over a million hits of this video on YouTube, but I’ve never seen this video, in which a hundred (or so) hunting hounds are led into a room where they are slaughtered by machine gun fire.
Just kidding! They’re led into a room with a big pile of food, but instead of going [...]