This week we celebrate National Live Like a Cat Day. Trust us, even if you're a self-identified dog-person, you and your canine companion are going to want to play along. The first annual Live Like a Cat Day is a fine opportunity to...do nothing, as our guest, Kerri Thomson explains. Stay tuned later this month for an interview with the editors of BARK magazine about their new book, HOWL: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit.

Mark Hines, canine and behavior training specialist at the KONG company, gives us his holiday gift tips. And Mark Haynes of the Laurel Canyon Animal Company tells us about his CDs made especially for dogs.

This week, we've got a thought-provoking interview with professor of psychology Sam Gosling from the University of Texas, Austin. Dr. Gosling’s cutting edge research into animal personality promises to help shelters better match animals to human companions.

Jan McHugh Smith of the San Francisco SPCA joins us to talk about how to keep your pet safe during the holidays. Plus, Taffy the underwear-eating pooch and William Wegman and his Weimaraners.

Katherine C. Greer is curator of a touring exhibition about America's changing attitude towards pets from the 17th century to the modern day. She tells us all about it in this week's episode.

This week, our interview with famed photographer and lover of dogs Elliott Erwitt. Plus, dog news from China and India.

Costumes abound in this post-Halloween episode, as we interview dogs in capes and devil horns at a 7X7 Magazine event at Wag Hotel in San Francisco. We then go straight to the source to talk to Carla Reiss, founder of Meow-Wear.

This week, we're pleased to feature an interview with Ed Sayres, president of the ASPCA. In the news, vets in London are calling for a blood bank for dogs, and we get an update on the situation in Southern California.

This week, we talk to best-selling author Amy Tan. She recently visited Wag Hotel in San Francisco to take place in a radio broadcast and promote the book Tails of Devotion.