Dancing With the Strays was the theme of the sixth annual Best Friends Ball, a gala fundraiser for the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society Sept. 24 at the Mayernik Center in Kilbuck. Joining 20 shelter animals were board co-presidents Jeff Sterling and Linda Leonhardt and executive director Lee Nesler.

Mackenzie Carpenter's video program, "Omnivore," is available exclusively at PG+, a members-only web site of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Our introduction to PG+ gives you all the details.