For 17 years, he perched on carts, took rides on the shoulders of patrons and made smile many who came to Pet Supplies Plus for dog food or kitty litter.Charley, a blue crown conure, wasn't just another pet store parrot. He was practically an employee, a bird who greeted and lured customers.A dog killed the parrot on Saturday.

You've been had. The nutritional scientists and dietitians, in conjunction with big business, have made shambles of the American food supply and your health. Here are a few things you can do about it.

Mattel says its supply chain just has a few bad apples. Where have we heard that before?

Where to buy dog foods.

Q: How do you know there's an Internet boom? A: A dog food portal raises VC money.

The dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term encompasses both feral and pet varieties and is also sometimes used to describe wild canids of other subspecies or species. The domestic dog has been (and continues to be) one of the most widely-kept working and companion animals in human history, as well as being a food source in some cultures. There are estimated to be 400,000,000 dogs in the world.The dog has developed into hundreds of varied breeds. Height measured to the withers ranges from a few inches in the Chihuahua to a few feet in the Irish Wolfhound; color varies from white through grays (usually called blue) to black, and browns from light (tan) to dark ("red" or "chocolate") in a wide variation of patterns; and, coats can be very short to many centimeters long, from coarse hair to something akin to wool, straight or curly, or smooth.