If you like dressing up your pet then you need to be careful. Animal welfare charities have claimed that forcing pets to wear clothes can be harmful and that in some case there could be grounds to prosecute. Many top fashion designers now produce clothes for dogs but experts have said that clothing should only be put on pets when it is necessary, such as protecting short haired dogs during cold weather. Animal welfare officers have also warned that in some cases dog clothing can cause your pet to overheat and that owners have a duty of care towards their animals. Well I think I am safe here, I would be lucky if I could even get a hat on any of my cats without losing a finger or two.

I see a lots of articles about people who simply have too many cats. This latest one looks at a case where a lady had 48 cats in her house. RSPCA inspectors found two dead kittens in a kitchen cupboard at her house with the other cats living in poor conditions. Three of the cats had to put down whilst the others were signed over the RSPCA who hope to find them new homes. This leaves the question how many cats are too many cats? I have four cats (pictured) which is quite a lot and they tend to take over the house, generally two sit on each sofa and you have to kick them off if you want a seat yourself. I think four cats is at the top end of the normal scale before you start turning into one of these crazy cat ladies that has 30+ cats. Saying that I did see a rather cute little kitten this morning......

This article suggests that the amount of calories contained in food could soon be printed on menus of restaurants and takeaways. The idea is part of an initiative to try and encourage healthy eating and steer people away from the unhealthy option. Its quite a good idea for those who are following strict diets. Personally I eat out so rarely now that when I do I want something tasty and full of calories, I don't think seeing how many the food contained would change what I ordered.

This is quite interesting its an article about a cat called Leo who's job is to walk past potential guide dogs to try and get a reaction. The cat is an important member of staff at a training school for guide dogs. If the dog passes the training exercise it will not pay attention when the cat walks past it. If in the worst case scenario the dog chases the cat then it is not deemed to be a suitable guide dog and fails its training. The dog in this picture doesn't seem to be too bothered by the cat, I think he probably passed the test.

This is quite funny, its a show home with a slight difference. Whilst most show homes are pristine and look and have like they have never been lived in, this one is set up to look like a teenagers bedroom, to give the room that authentic feel. The room features an unmade bed, a half eaten pizza on the carpet and a pair of smelly trainers as well as crisps trodden in the carpet and clothes spread all over the floor.

According to this article a device called the iPosture could help you to get rid of back pain in just two weeks. The iPosture device looks similar to a small badge. It can be stuck onto the skin, or attached to a strap. It works by vibrating when the wearer slouches for more than three degrees for one minute. The vibrations stop when the back is straightened and the head is lifted. Users of the device have been able to adopt a perfect posture after using it for four hours a day for two to three weeks. They have also been able to maintain a good posture after a few weeks without wearing the device. You might wonder why you would want to improve your posture if you are not experiencing any pain but the article also says that women with improved posture appear more attractive and men are viewed as more successful. It can also reduce the waist size in women by as much as two inches.

In a bizarre money saving exercise Poole council in Dorset are spending a total of £65,000 to find out how they can save money. The money will go towards paying top financial experts from a business consultancy firms that will advise the council on how to cuts costs on buying goods, advertising and other projects. I wonder whether the advice will include how to cuts costs by not hiring expensive £65K consultants, I think they might leave that part out, don't you?

This article suggests that people who drink too much coffee are more likely to experience hallucinations. In a study people who drank more than seven cups of coffee were three times more likely to hallucinate than those who had just one cup. Among the experiences reported were seeing things that were not there, hearing voices and seeing dead people. Whilst there does appear to be link academics have dismissed the study because it is likely that stress can also cause the symptoms and stressed people may also drink more caffeine. If you have recently started seeing dead people, then you might want to take a look at your caffeine intake.

I recently got Rockband and Rockband 2 for Christmas with all the instruments and have been having a lot of fun playing over the past few weeks. One thing that I initially found a little odd was that not all the songs advertised on the back of case were actually included on the game. It took me a little bit of searching around on the internet to find out that to access all of the songs you first need to complete either the game or the challenges to unlock them, there is however, no mention of this in the manual that comes with the game.

I went through Rockband on a solo tour as a vocalist and unlocked all the songs this way. There is a cheat that allows you unlock all of the songs by entering a sequence on the start screen but this apparently does not allow you to save your progress so I decided to do it the hard way. I later discovered that for $5 you can purchase a license key that allows you to import all of the Rockband songs onto your hand drive, so if you are buying both games together and want to access all of the songs from within Rockband 2 then this is quite useful. Since then I have been busy working my way through Rockband 2 unlocking the songs on this disk and now have quite a collection to choose from. My only problem now, is that I want to play in a band and my husband is always too busy to join me, so my band which I named Bunny Foot only has the one member, still it means I get plenty of practice.

When I got married three years ago the best part of my wedding was having all my friends and family around me and that's what made the day so special. Bearing that in mind this article made me a feel a little sad. Its about a woman who is advertising for wedding guests because she faces the prospect of having her wedding day without most of her friends and family. The reason is that they cannot make the trip from her home town in Ukraine to her wedding which is taking place in London. Her parents are able to make it but she will have no other guests on her side, the rest of the congregation will be made up of her husbands friends and family. She is advertising for 30 people to attend her wedding and is offering them a free meal at the reception. The guests need to send a picture and description of themselves. One will be asked to act as a bridesmaid whilst others will be asked to be ushers. I hope she finds some nice people and makes some new friends in the process.

According to this article a teenager in the US managed to send 14,528 in just one month. That's an average of one message for every two minutes that she is awake. The girls father Mr Hardesty immediately questioned the phone bill but it was correct and it seems his daughter just sends a lot of text messages. The average number of text messages sent by a 13 to 17 year old is just 1,742 in comparison which still seems like a lot to me. Mr Hardesty has since said that his daughter is not allowed to text her friends after dinner, I think I would go one step further and take the phone away altogether.

I think its quite easy to perform a three point turn but as this article shows some people can get it very wrong. One lady managed to put her car on top of her neighbours car when instead of hitting the break she hit the accelerator. It requires no further explanation you can see the results in the picture.

I have never really spent long enough on a Rubik's Cube to try and solve the puzzle but I have seen stories about people that can solve them in minutes. This one is slightly different. It's about a man called Graham Parker who finally solved the puzzle after 26 years. He started it in 1983 and since then has spent many sleepless nights battling to solve it. In all it has taken him around 27,400 hours, I'm not sure I would have that much patience.