September 16th, 2008
Dogs the world over received a mortal blow today with the announcement of a new line of - I can hardly bring myself to say it - dog soap.
As if it’s not enough that all of our tireless bestinkification efforts are scuppered once a month when humans bring it upon their sadistic selves to [...]
Filed under: Dog Bravery, Dog Health, Pooch Predicaments by Bob
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September 15th, 2008
There’s a new Chihuahua movie coming out October 3rd and demand for the little scraps is expected to spike as a result. But, says Lynnie Bunten of the Chihuhua club of America, many fans won’t know what they’re getting into.
Chihuahuas suffer from a genetic disorder known as “Napoleon Complex”, which means that they have an [...]
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September 13th, 2008
If you’ve ever worried that your dog’s chances of being mugged on the streets of New York were too low, then look no further than these stunning canine crime-magnets. Masterfully crafted by master craftsmen who are masters of their craft, you won’t find a swankier set of dog diamonds for less than $2-million, not even [...]
Filed under: Deluded Humans, Lassie Grave Spinning, Puppy Pretense by Bob
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September 12th, 2008
The two day festival of dog-debauchery at Kenosha, WI, is over…leaving local residents reeling as fears of another era of moral decay among dogs are expressed nationwide.
By all accounts, the event was scheduled to be a civil affair, with owners being advised to keep their dogs leashed at all times. However, like the famed Woodstock [...]
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September 11th, 2008
There sure are a lot of robots taking the form of dogs these days. Perhaps it’s because robots represent an innate desire in humans to remake themselves in their ideal form, and that ideal form happens to be canine shaped.
Or maybe it’s just because balancing on four legs requires fewer equations than balancing on two. [...]
Filed under: Dog Science, Dog/Cat Relations, Harebrained Humans, Lazy Humans by Bob
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September 10th, 2008
One thing which really gets under my whiskers is the tendency for humans to expend large amounts of effort conducting elaborate “studies” into animal behavior, without it ever occurring to them that all they have to do is ask us what they want to know.
Take this latest study into the relationship between dogs and cats, [...]
Filed under: Deluded Humans, Dog Science, Dog/Cat Relations, Lazy Humans by Bob
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September 8th, 2008
Nero, a greedy Doberman-Great Dane crossbreed, had a close call recently after he swallowed an entire Nokia cellphone in one of those momentary lapses of reason known as “24/7″ to us dogs.
Not about to let Ozzie the rubber duckie swallowing hound hog the limelight for too long, this precipitant pooch wasted no time in abducting [...]
Filed under: Attaboy, Dog Health, Dog Science, Pooch Predicaments by Bob
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September 7th, 2008
Pants of relief were heard all over America today with the news that a dog-draft will not be enforced after all. Rumors had been circulating that the Pentagon was considering the idea of compulsory service for dogs in order to take some of the pressure off of our already overstretched military - the most persistent [...]
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September 6th, 2008
This is Snuppy, the world’s first cloned dog - soon available at Wal-Mart, Target and participating branches of Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Snuppy was “cloned from adult cells by somatic nuclear cell transfer.” I have no idea what that means, but I should imagine the other dog has to stay very, very still while they’re doing [...]
Filed under: Dog Science, Harebrained Humans, Lassie Grave Spinning by Bob
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September 4th, 2008
I was excited as every other dog in America this morning to hear that iRobot has finally released its “Pet Series”, the latest in its line of sloth-enabling dusting droids.
However it quickly became apparent that my excitement was much a-poo about nothing as the new doohickey does not, despite our numerous pawtitions and letters of [...]
Filed under: Bad Dogs, Pooch Predicaments by Bob
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