Hello.

I love "drop that sock." I check it every day for fun and info. It is supercute. This is my dog, the delightful and inimitable Wanda Pepper. In this picture, she is embarrassed to have been caught reading a "how to buy your first home" book. So sneaky.

She is scared of:
basketballs
laundry
manhole covers (any real deviation in sidewalks/pavement)
potential energy (if something on a table looks like it might have an inkling to at some point move
toward the edge and may eventually fall off, she is watching it every second and ready to pounce out of the room fast as lightning)

She likes:
chicken
playtime
running (especially really fast directly at you only to veer at the very last second from crashing into you)
quiet time
being in the middle

Thank you and enjoy.
Heidi

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Sadly, I'm not all that surprised that you've heard some rather lame
reasons for returning an animal. (Except maybe the not matching their
decor thing - that one threw me for a loop.)

This picture is of my boyfriend's chihuahua Earnest (named for "The
Importance of Being Earnest"). We got him from a young family who
wanted to get rid of him because they couldn't play rough with him
like they could with their pitbulls. Can you imagine trying to play
with a 6 lb dog like you would a 60 lb dog?

Their stupidity is our gain. Earnest is a wonderful companion and
very intelligent and we can't imagine our world without him. And he's
cream, so he matches any decor...

-Sarah
PS - thank you for having such a great site... it's such a fun doggie
mecca!

Thank you, lady Sarah. Thank you. Any of you out there who want to contribute to this site- here's your chiggity-chance. Email me (m@dropthatsock.com) or use the comment link to speak that pretty little mind and maybe, perhaps, possibly I might post it. If it's cute enough or stupid enough or insane enough for me to dig.

- The dog doesn't match the decor of the house.

- My daughter is an opera singer and the dog's hair is getting caught in her throat.

- My dog's 10 years old and it's no longer of any use to me.

- My kid is imitating everything the dog does, now my daugher is drinking from the dog's water bowl and eating out of his food dish.

- I took a bath with the puppy and now I have scabies all over my body.

- The blind guy in my building is allowed to have a dog, so I figured I could, too.

- My mother's afraid of it.

- The cat is the same color as a squirrel.

- The dog has too much gas.

- The kids says that the dog's not cool enough.

- My vet doesn't like my dog.

- The dog is sick.

- The dog grew bigger than my 5-year-old son, and now he can't walk it. (editor's note: please do not assign the complicated task of walking your dog to your 5-year-old kid. EVER.)

And the best one ever, in my opinion:

- You told us the dog has worms. We understand this, but the dog has a red worm that sometimes comes out of it's belly and then goes back in.
Ma'am, your dog's a male. That red worm is your dog's penis. Do you still want to return the dog?
Umm, yeah.

Send it to me at m@dropthatsock.com. And it has to also be one or more of the following;

1. Funny
2. Very, very strange
3. Of exceptional quality

Tell me something about the dog so I can give credit where credit is due, okay? Okay.

Hi,

My dog Charlie, a former student, continually scratches the same spot, the back of his elbow (do dogs have elbows???). I have checked that site many times and find nothing, but it is also hard to tell b/c he is 100% black.

Any suggestions?

Charliedog of Glendale, Queens

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