Melissa Lanier’s pet dog, Piglet, shows her colors in support at the 7th annual Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s Race for the Cure 2006, in Tyler, Texas, Saturday, May 13, 2006. Piglet is 14 years old, and herself a canine survior of breast cancer.” (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)
Ah, the intensity of the competition has obviously heated up. So much so that someone, somewhere, is tampering with our votes. Both Victoria and PeeWee have been the victims, losing thousands of votes in a single night. Our web sleuths are on it.”
The Sonoma-Marin County Fair Ugly Dog Contest is the world standard in ugly dogs. This year the Fair added an unofficial online contest. Sounds like fun, except some idiot hacked in and deleted thousands of votes.
Among the 11 competitors currently in the competiton, eight are Chinese Cresteds. (more…)
Here we have a wonderful little video of a kitten doing everything he can to get a Golden Retriever to play with him. I know golden’s are amazingly patient with children. I’ve seen kids do everything from tail pulling to fingers in their mouths without getting so much as a nod from the dog.
You almost feel sorry for the little kitten, I mean all he wants to do is play…
Ann Smith is a recent graduate of the Rhode Island School of design in illustration. She creates robot like animal sculptures out of broken electronics and machines.
This video from Japan is simply amazing. The hosts have good reason to be excited about this dalmation riding and peddling a bike! Even with training wheels, that’s a pretty good trick. The only dog I can think of that compares is Tyson the skateboarding dog.
For more Japanese dog craziness check out the Panda Dog.
I should start by saying I don’t really think this is a useless pet product, in fact, I think it’s ingenious and rather hilarious. The useless part is that it costs $19.99 and that in this day and age you have to wait for them to deliver it by mail.
One of the skills that cats possess is the ability to quickly identify things they shouldn’t touch and immediately start meddling with it. Computer keyboards are no exception to this rule.
