Results: È la vita di un cane -- It's a dog's life!

Wondering how that couch might look with your dog on it? There's an IKEA in Catania, Italy that solves that problem. The store has opened its doors to local strays, providing a safe place, out of the elements, for needy pups, and giving a little more life to their living room displays. Catania, located on the east coast of Sicily, has a mild spring and autumn, but hot summer days and chilly winter nights, along with a heavy rainy season. The dogs find both shelter and food and water and are pampered and controlled by volunteers. Some of the dogs have even found new homes, thanks to the program, with shoppers opting to adopt them. Customers seem to love it, posting photos all over the internet. Do you think this is a great idea?

While it's not a company-wide policy (yet), IKEA stores have been known to lend a helping paw in the past. Several years ago, a store in Arizona added cut-out images of adoptable pets from Home for Hope to some of their displays to give shoppers an idea of what a four-legged friend might look like in their new space. All of the six animals featured in cutouts at the store were adopted from the Arizona Humane Society. This was following a similar endeavor done at a Singapore IKEA earlier, where at least eight pups had been adopted in Singapore. Do you think more stores should do as IKEA is doing and help our four legged friends?

IKEA's partnership with Hope For Paws is a shining example of what good can come when businesses and pet charities work together to improve the lives of animals in need -- but there's an opportunity for so much more. Here are a few things businesses can do -- have you seen any of these things in businesses you frequent?

Some businesses even go one step further. As more communities across the country embrace no-kill programs, millions of pets, who would have been at risk, are instead being saved. There's still a long way to go, with more than 4,100 dogs and cats killed in America's shelters every day — not because they're ill or injured, but because they're homeless. The following companies, along with IKEA, are committed to savings animals in any way they can. How many of these companies did you know were active in this area?