If there’s anything I love more than uninformed veterinary advice and xoJane, it’s uninformed veterinary advice on xoJane. In “I Think My Dog Gave Me Ringworm,” Helena Andrews thinks her dog gave her…no, actually, she imagines her ringworm-infected dog could possibly give it to her. I’m serious: “I now believe my eczema is ringworm because my vet said so — sorta.” Oh boy. Anyway, this post, and the comments, are a goldmine of bullshit advice. Continue reading
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Gary Francione, a prominent legal scholar and animal rights activist, has written a new piece for Truthout.org conflating the actions of Michael Vick, Ann and Mitt Romney, and all you people who had a cheeseburger this weekend. Continue reading
Teamwork is important when pulling logs out of the mud. Or something like that. Continue reading
This is my niece, Rosie. She is a St. Bernard. She is wearing a monkey costume.
You see, there is a Halloween costume contest at her day care. Yes, doggy day care. And my sister wants to win this year. I said it seems kind of silly to put all this time and effort into dressing up dogs. You don’t understand, she said. This is doggy day care. This is cutthroat.
Last year, Rosie was a ladybug. And she didn’t win. My sister says one lady cheated last year by promoting her ‘fucking cocker spaniel’ on her personal Facebook page and directing people to the website of the doggy day car to vote for her ‘ugly fucking cocker spaniel’. My sister considers this cheating, because her St. Bernards are way cuter than ‘that fucking piece of shit spoiled cocker spaniel.’ Continue reading
There are puppies.
They are in a Death Factory full of lasers and acid pits and weird creatures.
How can you NOT want to rescue the puppies from the Death Factory? Continue reading
Arab Spring? Thai red-shirts? Student protests in Britain? Pah! As Tony Kornheiser has been telling everyone for years, it’s the animals that governments should be worried about! Here are some critters, both great and small, that have stood up to The Man. Continue reading
Well if you live in Cleveland, Detroit or Chicago you are, according to a new study from University of Colorado. The researchers looked at airborne bacteria found in these three cities and found a significant proportion of microorganisms from dog crap, a ratio which rises during winter.
Says the New Scientist: Continue reading
As some of you know, I recently started working at a doggy day care. It’s not that I just can’t get enough of other people’s dogs (I can and I have), but mama’s got to keep the lights on. Continue reading
Your pets. They have names. If yours do not, name them immediately, because it’s really demoralizing not to have one. There’s a lot of armchair analysis of what your pets’ names say about you out there; in fact, Jezebel had an article on this topic just a couple days ago.
It made me think: Who are you to speculate on what pets’ names mean? Being “an unmarried lady who is heading full steam ahead toward age 30” as our intrepid Jez author is, doesn’t convince me of your bona fides. More to the point, the article itself really cemented my snap judgement of said qualifications.
June 21st is the first official day of summer, and what says “summer fun” better that sprinklers in the backyard? DOGS FIGHTING SPRINKLERS, that’s what.