Ok this is a blatant advertisement but it is dog related and just watched it on the local news and thought it deserved a plug :-)

http://www.grandappeal.org.uk/gromitunleashed/

Reminds me of the Lambananas that are situated all over L'pool, the hospital I used to work in had families of different colour/patterned ones dotted around the place, I think there was some sort of fund raising behind them.