if you are sticking your finger regularly in your pet's cooter, I don't want to know about it

Damn, Nutty, a girl tries to catch up here eating lunch ends up snarfing lentil soup through her sinuses. Ow!

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I dunno, I thought some of the dogs on Puppy Bowl III were definitely tailgaiting.

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Well, I have never seen a show dog tailgating, either behind the wheel or in the ring. So I have no opposition to the sticker.

And sumi, I think the lunge line thing is how the Biscuit's trainer does it. But we just haven't summoned up the cash or done it ourselves. We really, really need to, though. For safety.

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Can you EVEN believe someone is willing to date me?

I dunno, that exchange made me want you a little bit. Mmm, brains. That's hot.

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I thought some of the dogs on Puppy Bowl III were definitely tailgaiting.

Assuming that none of the dogs were controlling vehicles nor having a party from the rear of one (I don't watch the Puppy Bowl--I'm just guessing), then they were probably just sticking their noses in anuses. Which deserves its own word.

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Which deserves its own word.

Oh, I am certain there is already a word for it. And I am happy not knowing that word.

Or I was.

Now I am fucking curious and I hate when that happens because there are words I don't want to know.

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Ha.

I mean, shame.

Finished reading the dog article. I'm struck by a million things, including my naivete. Breeds that depend on assisted insemination and C-sections? Oy.

It is what is so constructive and jarring about Havens’s approach: when he looks at a dog, he sees an animal.

Yeah. Perhaps this marks me as the heathen, but why is it jarring to see an animal when you look at a dog?

I'm horrified by a lot of the attitudes towards dogs in that article, from both parties. And the pug stories are...damn, even if I didn't think they were ugly dogs, breeding dogs that can bump into stuff with their eyes is just not cricket.

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nor having a party from the rear of one

I think this is the one I'm inferring from the Puppy Bowl watch-n-post.

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why is it jarring to see an animal when you look at a dog?

I think the idea is that people tend to melt in the face of doggy grovelment, and tend to think of dogs as permanent children rather than as animals. It's all well and good to talk scientifically about breeding cattle or sheep; but when you start talking in the same manner about Fluffy and Bobo -- it gets a little weird, for most people.

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it gets a little weird, for most people.

I'm sure most here refers to most Americans--does that sentimentality extend to the rest of the First World?

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