Instead, the automaker will be catering toward animal – specifically dog – lovers with a set of commercials for the 2014 Subaru Forester that will appear during Puppy Bowl IX on Animal Planet.

There are also ads for the Ascent, Forester, and Outback. Subaru brings back the ... the canine stars for the automaker's "Dog Tested. Dog Approved." commercial campaign. On Repeat (embedded ...

the woman didn't actually hit the dog. This is just a commercial, and a fairly clever one after you get over the perceived canicide, that's meant to show off the desirability of Subaru's lifted ...