Here's the poop. Those wiseguys at King Pup take me for a spin every lunchtime and in return I agree to cast a beady eye over the latest dog related developments and churn out a few words for the perusal of any dog enthusiasts in earshot. It is I feel a quite satisfactory arrangement for the time being and one that I fully intend to maintain until such a time as they've had enough of me, or I become blog-tired and decide to let sleeping blogs lie - whichever comes sooner.
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There’s a million and one different formulas and theories which purport to convert human years into dog years so to keep things simply I’m just going to go with the popular myth that the ratio is a straight 1 to 7. Many happy returns of the day Max, you wizened old 182 year old goat [...]
Some dogs don’t even need a mirror to take issue with themselves. I’ve heard of bone envy but this is ridiculous. Or is there a more sinister explanation? I’m reminded of Peter Sellers’ role in the seminal movie Dr. Strangelove, in which he played an ex-Nazi physicist acting as scientific adviser in the President’s war [...]
I’ve always been weary of the claim that a wet nose is a sign of canine health. If that were really the case then I’ve yet to meet a sick dog. A pooch with a dry nose is like Columbo without a cigar. You know it has to happen sometimes but you can’t ever recall [...]
Providence took another blow today with the release of the SNIF tag - an unfathomably pointless $300 collar-mounted doohickey which allows dog owners with absolutely nothing else to do the opportunity to go online and blow 5 disinterested minutes checking such things as their pooch’s daily activity level and the names of the owners of [...]
Stop the press! When us dogs catch tennis balls, we’re actually solving very complicated differential equations. This is news to me! There I was thinking that I was just using my eyes and accumulated sense of judgment to hone in on something that’s round, furry and fun to chew. How wrong it was of me [...]
Watson being, of course, one half of the famed egg-headed duo James Watson and Francis Crick - the chirpy English geezers who unlocked the secrets of life through their discovery of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or “DNA” for those with tight schedules.
They would have literally exploded with pride had they known, all those years [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
