Similar services have sprung up in other countries like in France, where company PatchGuard provides doggy day care in some of the country’s biggest cities, allowing dog owners to more easily ...

This innovation comes via a London-based startup, Bauadvisor, that launched two years ago with paid dog-sitting services for €10 per hour at 300 cultural sites across nearly sixty cities.

At the Tocotoco Zoo in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, visitors will get to try out a human-sized dog costume and live ... a mouth that opens and closes like that of a real animal.