Hurrah for the Dogs Trust Honours!

The lovely people at the Dogs Trust are giving out honours to some special dogs in May 2009. You can nominate dogs (and one special human) for these awards until midnight on 15th April -- so what are you waiting for?! The awards are:

- the Hero Award
- the Dogged Devotion Award
- the Dogs' Best Friend Award
- the Golden Oldie Award
and
- the Rex Factor Award

Lots more info at: http://www.dogstrusthonours.co.uk/

So if you know a dog who fits the bill, get nominating fast!

Onion is extremely proud to be among the sponsors for this event, where a couple of Onion Lights will be making an appearance!

Onion's unique approach to agility

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ioNSQ-3A6t4
Time to share our agility shame...
We hope you enjoy it!

Onion and the Arctic Monkeys!

A very nice man just let us know that there's an Onion Light on the cover of Matt Helders (of the Arctic Monkeys)'s Late Night Tales. And there's a clip on YouTube too -- just Matt Helders, and lots of lovely drums, and then a dog light...the Onion Light! What an honour for Onion!

Take a look!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ORLHxXQhpIA

Onion Lights are available at oniondog.com! While stocks last...

Liberty for Onion Lights!

Posh department store Liberty of London has long stocked the Onion Light, but we have only just discovered that they include it on their website, in the category 'For the trendsetters' (of course!). Their description is rather charming:
"Dog is man's best friend, or so the saying goes; this could be just the gift for the animal lover in your life. The dog light will provide loyal companionship (in a very quiet sort of way) whilst shedding light on the darkest of places. Watch it light up when you walk into the room (at a flick of a switch), warding off intruders with the homely glow it casts. And possibly the best part is, there's no feeding, walking or grooming involved! This is the perfect gift for someone who either needs a bit of company, a bit of light, or both."


Thank you Liberty, for having a bull terrier in your shop!
To purchase an Onion Light online, visit http://www.oniondog.com/shop.html

Onion the muse - again

Onion has inspired another artist! This time, her YouTube catflap video has become a piece of as-you-watch art in which Onion materialises before your very eyes!

Thank you to Swedish animator SoiledArt for this contribution to Onion art!

For other Onion artworks, see
Peckham Pet-Tastic, a fancy-dress picnic for dogs - Onion is the face of the event!
Bullyton, a magazine focusing on bull terrier rescue - Onion is covergirl.
The Onion Skirt by Skirt Girl, aka Alison Willoughby - a garment inspired by Onion!
The Onion Light - a design classic - Onion immortalised as a stylish dog lamp!

Onion and the Chickens

Yes, see it with your own eyes: Onion sharing leftover rice pudding with Maud and Gertie, her hens! Quite what Onion would do if the rice pudding were removed from the equation, we're not too sure...but luckily this bullie's stomach is more important than her desire to pursue poultry!

Designer Dog or Loch Ness Monster?

Onion has been holidaying in Norfolk again.

This is a rare shot of her swimming (waves and water are generally to be avoided -- unless of course someone has carelessly thrown a kong in the shallows). As someone unkindly pointed out, she looks rather more like Nessie, Scotland's famous beast, than like a movie star.


But she luckily has also been snapped, celebrity-style, lounging about on the sand, showing off her latest designer togs. In Onion's case, these are a Liberty-print collar and blanket from LoveMyDog. So fabulously stylish, we can't believe she didn't get a spot in the new Sex and the City film!

Onion: The Return

Firstly, apologies to all those who have enquired about Onion in the past few months. Onion is fine and dandy. She did her bit when we moved house (predictable chaos in the packing boxes), assisted us in digging the garden (her forte being to reposition plants as soon as they have been planted) and is now kindly helping our new arrivals -- Maud and Gertie, two hens -- to settle in to life around a bull terrier (the bullie run now takes in a full circuit of the henhouse!).

She has been well (apart from when she ate most of a bone and bunged herself up completely, necessitating a trip to the vet for colonic irrigation -- what ALL the celebs are doing these days, so we hear) and enjoying some time out of the limelight!

Fame beckons again though, as there is talk of an imminent TV appearance... Watch this space!

Photos soon!