Showing 105 posts from January 2009
A Boca Raton couple took delivery of their clone this week — a yellow Lab created in South Korea from the frozen DNA of their family dog Sir Lancelot.
Ed and Nina Otto named the new pup, born in Seoul ten weeks ago, Lancelot Encore.
The Ottos paid $155,000 for the cloning, submitting a winning bid during an online auction [...]
For days the good old bitch had been dying, her back
pinched down to the spine and arched to ease the pain,
her kidneys dry, her muzzle white. At last
I took a shovel into the woods and dug her grave
in preparation for the certain. She came along,
which I had not expected. Still, the children gone,
such expeditions were [...]
‘Veggie Love’: PETA’s Banned Super Bowl Ad.
OK, sports fans, here’s the PETA ad deemed too hot for the Super Bowl.
According to a PETA blog, NBC found the pro-vegetarianism ad depicted “a level of sexuality exceeding our standards.”
The ad features a bevy of beauties showing their love for vegetables.
Specifically, NBC objected to the following depictions” “licking [...]
With our first decent snow of the season, it’s time to break out my favorite dog-in-the-snow video.
It was shot in Ward, Colorado during a blizzard in the late 1990’s — one that brought more than 50 inches of snow over two days.
Bailey, the dog featured in the video, died in a house fire on December 26, 1998.
“So [...]
A psychology professor in North Carolina has advised President Obama to look south for a first dog — they’re friendlier, more abundant and make better pets, he says.
Hal Herzog, in an opinion piece in yesterday’s Washington Post, makes a couple of good points — and a couple with which we disagree. Chief among them is [...]
