DARCY GRAY, The Hutchinson News HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Some recycling efforts at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility have really gone to the dogs. For more than a year, inmates at the local prison have been dismantling mattresses that would have otherwise ended up in area landfills. The steel from the springs and the cotton batting in the mattresses ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Sanderella has 150 collars and leashes, 200 couture dresses, 300 bows, a designer bed in every room and standing appointments with a groomer and an acupuncturist. The 17-year-old Bichon poodle mix rides in a carriage, eats macaroni and cheese from a bowl that has her name etched in gold and has ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — What makes a good baby picture? On ZooBorns.com, the babies have to be wild. Maybe obscure. Possibly endangered. Mostly, they have to be cute. “Cute always comes first,” said Chris Eastland, an artist and photographer from Brooklyn, N.Y., who joined forces with Andrew Bleiman of Chicago to create ZooBorns.com two years ago. Their ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jackie Simoni is a computer geek turned inventor of a special light to make dogs safer after dark. Now, she’s also a government contractor. Simoni invented PupLight six years ago. She came up with the idea of a light that attaches to a collar while fumbling with a leash, flashlight, poop bags ...

BEIJING (AP) — Walking into Ruowen Pet Spa is like entering a doggie Halloween costume contest. There’s turtle-dog, zebra-dog, Spider-Man-dog, tiger-dog and even panda-dog. Raphael the toy poodle runs around in his playpen like any other dog — except his snow white coat has been dyed neon green and is partially shaved with a protruding shell ...