Temptation

Japanese television.  Bizarre.  Incomprehensible.  And curiously intriguing.

IMO – the black lab was being tortured, the shiba must have been drugged and the chimp, well, he was a very good sport.

Head in the Clouds

For your weekend entertainment, a couple of whimsical end-of-summer treats from the Daily Mail:

Could this be the world’s biggest Great Pyrenees?

A very fluffy Poodle!

Or, you could have chartered a private flight

Image from padraicyclops' flicker page

Or (Hebrew for light) is a truly pampered pooch.  The eight-year-old boxer’s owner recently booked the entire business section on a Paris to Tel Aviv flight so that he could ride in the cabin with her.  USAToday reports:

The woman said her dog experienced extreme anxiety after being placed in the cargo hold on their last flight together, which was in 2006. For this trip, she is quoted by UPI as saying she thought it would be a better idea just to buy out the entire business class section so that she and the dog could enjoy the four-hour flight together. As for El Al, the airline allows pets in the passenger cabin, though it’s unlikely that a full-grown boxer would fit within the size requirements for that in a typical situation.

Flying dogs on airlines really stresses me out. It stresses me out enough that husband and I, who rarely travel without dogs, drive even on long cross-the-country trips. That said, even if I had 30-odd thousand dollars to spare, I don’t think I’d use it to charter an entire section on a passenger flight for the beasties to share with us.

I am surprised that the airline allowed her to do this.  Though given that that the airline was El Al, I’m sure there were plenty of security-related hoops for Or to jump through.  I wonder if a private charter flight would have been a cheaper option…

PeTA Pecks at Chicken Dance

The brilliant minds at PeTA took another giant step toward irrelevance this week.  Apparently having temporarily run out of fur coats to dump fake blood on and hot chicks to film in abstruse, sexually provocative ads – the group is now threatening NASCAR fans’ God-given right to dance.

Yes my friends, PeTA wants us to boycott the Chicken Dance at Talladega Superspeedway – an attempt to set a world record for the most people doing America’s Favorite Dance in one spot at the same time. 

Thousands of people simultaneously doing the chicken dance at a NASCAR event - how utterly horrific. 

Or maybe not…

Are Ingrid et al. incensed because the Chicken Dance represents a shallow, speciesist mockery of galline lifestyles?  Is PeTA concerned that vibrations generated by thousands of waggling NASCAR butts will attract flocks of bait-seeking worm charmers to Talledega where they can make a killing harvesting hordes chicken dancing annelids?  Are they worried that the hot, carbon-dioxide saturated exhalations of throngs of over-weight, out of shape, beer-guzzling fans will trigger a surge of polar ice melting?  No - our friends over at PeTA are madder than wet hens because the Great Talledega Chicken Dance is sponsored by Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Now mind you, I’ m no fan of factory farmed chicken. Or of battery eggs. I’m just amused (and a bit pleased) to observe that these days it appears that the folks at PeTA seem to be capable of little more than mindless, incessant fishing for media attention.  And the stunts they employ get more outrageous – and more pointless – by the day.  Are they morphing into:

Pathetic Egomaniacs Targeting Anonymity?

I can hope…

My Alter Ego?

Courtesy of the Hero Factory

The Amazing Walking Wizard!
She’s faster than a speeding whippet, more powerful than a bull mastiff
…and able to enter tall buildings with her faithful hound

(I cheated a wee bit with some help from my friends at Photoshop, ’cause why would I want to walk anywhere without a dog?)

Canine Valentine

An early Valentine from Zip and Audie, courtesy of ACME Heart Maker

Did Lucy Know Audie?

Lucy Dawson is one of the best known dog artists of the early twentieth century.  Dawson,  (who worked under the pseudonym of ‘Mac’) worked in pencil, pen, ink and oil, but was best known for her pastels.

The portrait above bears an eerie resemblance to a shepherd dog mentioned frequently in this blog.

Blog Stats Ballad

Taking a cue from William the Coronor (and not feeling otherwise inspired), today I’ve taken some of the google search terms that brought people to my blog over the last couple of days and rearranged them to create an odd bit of poetry. The strangely appropriate title is the top search term.
 

Tornado

pigs eating grapes in vineyard
owners believe dog seen from space
cats killed olympic games
four ways dogs and wolves differ in physique
can poo dissolve in the winter 

multi colored dachshunds
do dogs have emotional response to music
wet clothes in washer
are dogs better than cats state the science
kindred spirits chinese signs

dog holding wrench
what animal has the closest genetics to man
barbie with poodle dog
how can contaminated peanut butter hurt
where are the rockwilders

Vicious Pibble Attack!

%$&#@ EVIL DUCK!

It’s a crisis of epidemic proportions. We MUST ban Mallards. And all “mallard-type” ducks.

Saturday Night Blues