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No, the vet did not help him fart. He did, however, fart audibly in the exam room, then wanted to leave quickly.
I should mention that Bruce is a hypochondriac.
What Flannery said
The vet charged $400 to tell me that Bruce needed to fart.
Amy said
Martha Stewart named her pussy Empress Tang. Maybe the joke’s on us.
Cat-Library™
This would solve all my problems. All of them.
(Via Dylan, who got it from Charlie)
Kasoundi
Select your mix of chillies and slice them up. Separate the seeds from the flesh if you want a milder outcome. Kasoundi is not a macho hot-sauce contest. Avoid the temptation to construct an edible inferno, because all those subtle flavours will be lost. Look, you should just throw out the seeds.
Board Shorts
Amy said
I don’t know why dogs would want to wear an acrylic sweater.
quote out of context
Because it was found deep inside a pile of human excrement and was the characteristic orange-brown color that bone turns when it has passed through the digestive tract, the fragment provides the earliest direct evidence that dogs — besides being used for company, security and hunting — were eaten by humans and may even have been bred as a food source, he said.
Exactly Perfect
Martha Stewart’s dogs, Francesca and Sharkey, try out some snow saucers.
Country Church
I am fascinated with a tiny church that hugs the bend of a narrow country road in my hometown, in Hazel Green, AL. If you were driving too fast, under the influence, maybe, and looked away, you might drive right into the building. There are no windows. Not one single window.
When I stopped to take the photos, a man at a house nearby was wrangling leaves with a gasoline-powered leaf blower. He never looked up. I was nervous because I heard warning barks from dogs. I saw one big white dog, who seemed to be taking his cues from an invisible dog leader. The big dog never left the fence-less yard.
As I drove away, I finally saw the alpha dog. It was a dachshund, who chased my car for a bit. But again, the dog never left the yard. Maybe the surprising location of that tiny church has a taming influence on all who pass that way.
Pet Sounds
Buddha would be a good name for a bulldog.
Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving.
Packing all of your belongings into a U-Haul and then transporting them across several states is nearly as stressful and futile as trying to run away from lava in swim fins.
I know this because my boyfriend Duncan and I moved from Montana to Oregon last month. But as harrowing as the move was for us, it was nothing compared to the confusion and insecurity our two dogs had to endure.
Cretan Stowaway
We recently found this little guy in the house. He is less than an inch long and very dead. It looks like some kind of Gecko, which we don’t get in England. I can only assume he travelled back from Crete with us and just starved to death, which makes me sad.
headline of the day, II
Dallas pet certified by Guinness World Records as oldest pig passes away at 21
from the comments
When my nephew Seth was little, he had a chameleon among his many pets. I was there one night and the boy said the chameleon had escaped from the cage in his room. We looked and looked and couldn’t find it. Seth, about 3 years old, was exhausted, sitting on the edge of his bed, in his pj’s, clutching his blanket. He said, “I don’t want to sleep with no lizard.”
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My childhood never involved chameleon brooches. Just sea monkeys, which I suggested to our friends they buy as they were wondering where they could get brine to make their own olives. Anyone try using pet monkeys to get out of a pickle?
Our chameleon was named Jasper,
and sometimes we found money in there with our peanuts.
I remember getting chameleon “brooches” at the State Fair of Texas when I was a kid. The chameleon had a string around its neck, with a safety pin on the other end to anchor to your clothes. Our chameleon was named Jasper, and he lived 3 years.
That’s my Dallas friend Susan Sanders Wansbrough talking. She confirmed my memory of State Fair chameleons and told about Jasper.
I recall girls arriving at school bright and early with limp chameleons pinned to their blouses. The chameleons would grow ever more limp and finally succumb around mid-afternoon. Susan said that her father had agreed to buy her a chameleon only because he assumed it would expire the next day, but “a diet of mealworms kept it going long past the usual lifetime for chameleon brooches.”
We shared more bizarre memories of childhood in Dallas.
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A friend once found in her closet a grackle killed by her cat and placed inside a shoe.
I don’t think it was lying, apart from lying within a shoe.
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Amy said
He is the Klaus Kinski of dogs.
Christmas is comin’!
All this can be yours, for only $298.
Either come, or else refuse, refuse.
Yesterday Lucy wrote me to say that she’d stumbled upon this image of me and the wanderer.
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headline of the day, II
Ill. Woman Charged in Dog Poop-Infused Meltdown
should we assemble a posse?
Police in Santa Fe are searching for the suspect or suspects in a drive-by shooting that killed a pet goat.
bestiality
New research being released Wednesday shows steadily increasing recognition of unmarried couples — gay and straight — as families. But there’s a solid core resisting this trend who are more willing to include pets in their definition than same-sex partners.
