Rocco poses in a Leo tux, inspired by one worn by actor Leonardo DiCaprio to the Oscars, at Little Lily in Los Angeles. Pet fashion label Little Lily has designed a range of dog clothes inspired by the actual gowns worn by A-listers on the Oscar red carpet.
Socke, a 3-year-old llama, lies in a dining room in the western town of Muelheim, Germany. Socke has lived in the house of owner Nicole Doepper since birth, after being injured by other animals and having a leg amputated.
Vava, a 3-year-old female, is groomed at luxury pet care centre "Irion" in Seoul, South Korea. The center has a hospital, luxury hotel, kindergarten, grooming room, training room and store, all for pets. The price of a room at the pet hotel ranges from $36 to $180 each day.
A man takes a break as he sits with his dog on a scooter in Istanbul.
A dog jumps into the swimming pool at the Dog Resort in Sao Paulo. City dwellers in the South American concrete jungle of Sao Paulo are increasingly living on their own in high rise apartment blocks, turning to pets for company rather than traditional family cohabitation.
A Chinese Crested takes a bath with petals for relaxation during a beauty treatment for dogs at Pet Salon in Sao Paulo. Brazil's pet care market accounts for 0.31 percent of the country's gross domestic product, a share bigger than output related to home appliances, electronics components and beauty care.
A child kisses her bird outside Mijas's San Anton hermitage, near Malaga, southern Spain. Pet owners bring their animals to be blessed every year on the day of San Anton, Spain's patron saint of animals.
A German Spitz is massaged during a beauty treatment for dogs at Pet Salon in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Peanut, a chihuahua, poses after winning the Dog Day Masquerade, an annual costume contest, in Times Square. Peanut was dressed as Elle Woods, the main character from the movie and Broadway musical "Legally Blond."
Two Yorkshire terriers Billy, right, and Jully sit on the bed at a pet motel in Sao Paulo. The doggy love motel, complete with a heart-shaped mirror on the ceiling and a headboard resembling a doggy bone, has opened for amorous pooches in Brazil. The doggy love motel was inspired by the thousands of such establishments that rent rooms to Brazilian couples for four-hour periods for trysts. The air-conditioned pet love motel room, with a paw print decorative motif, has a special control panel to dim the lights, turn on romantic music or play films.
A dog wearing sunglasses sits in a stroller before a New York Pet Fashion Show event during Fashion Week in the Manhattan.
Reseda, left, and Dash, both Papillon dogs, exercise on a dog treadmill at the Affinia Hotel in New York.
A dog sits next to toothbrushes at the Dog Resort in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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