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This is what you get when you send your sweet and lovely overachieving daughter to law school and she drops out against your deepest wishes to be a stay-at-home mom and then all 6 of her kids grow up and leave the house and she's left all by herself all day long and she's so beyond knitting the extended family's christmas afghans for the past 9 years so she blazes through every book in the Little Rock Public Library and the notion of a new side project comes to her in a dream;

I WILL NOW TEACH MY DOG SYNCHRONIZED DANCING.

SYNCHRONIZED WITH MY OWN DANCING.

I WILL ACCOMPLISH THIS TO THE ENTIRE IRRESISTABLE SOUNDTRACK TO MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE MOVIE, GREASE.

STARRING JOHN TRAVOLTA.

BEGINNING TODAY.

Seriously, though, this woman was a dog trainer for 15 years and had a dog, Rookie, who knew a bunch of obedience commands, but was too exuberant for official obedience trial competitions. She didn't want to squash that quality in him, so she got into dancing with him. And he's awesome at it. He's so into it the whole time, it made me shed a tear.

This catalog is definitely worth a visit to the site to request it. It's well done (layout & photos) and the products are swanky. They've got the whole William Wegman line of dog things, funny dog art and cutesy dog clothes, among other things. A little on the pricey side as far as I'm concerned (around $70 for the quilted vest below), but worth a gander. And if you feel like how I feel about catalogs, this
one's a keeper. This one gets a 4 Hank heads rating. Click on the Hank heads to find out how I rate stuff. Request a catalog here.

And, perhaps the most compelling reason to git yerself a catalog from this company is this:

Continue reading... "Catalog Review- "in the company of dogs""

www.extremefunnypictures.com

Hey, you can email me your stupid, ridiculous, or laughingly disturbing photos at m@dropthatsock.com if you want to. Maybe I'll use them on the site and maybe I won't. You will have to deal with my decision either way. I love you.
love,
me.

This is an island totally populated by dogs. Send your dog here if you no longer want it! Maybe he jumps up on people endlessly, and you just don't have the time to teach him to stop. Or maybe he bit the across-the-street neighbor's five-year-old kids' nose off. Or perhaps you just had a baby and you just can't deal with the dog you've had for 5 years anymore. Maybe you're moving and the new landlord won't allow pets in the apartment and therefore you'll need to re-home your geriatric dog.

All dogs roam free and learn to survive by hunting rodents and the like. You can only visit but three times a year to possibly see your addition on the island, if you happen to spot him. Their philosophy is that dogs were born to run free and that this island is like paradise for them. And it's free to admit your animal!

Dog Island Free Forever

Continue reading... "send your dog away to live on an island, to run free for the rest of its life..."

This guy's no joke here. He's Scott Lifshutz and besides a ridiculously great painter, he is the vice president of Wigstock.
He makes oil paintings on canvas and they are dead-on. Too real. He's out of NYC and he'll take a bunch of photos of the subject and then paint away. You can order a floating head or any other background you'd like. The smallest is 16" x 20" ($1,500). Email me if you order and receive something from him, I neeeeeed to see it...!

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