Oh, well, this doesn’t feel right. A band called Dead Sea Lions has just put out this sleek, fashiony music video and it features lots of model-esque ladies and gents involved in suggestive caressing and suspiciously sensual frolicking with dogs. Read more »
“Is your dog a REAL NEW YORKER?” asks NYC’s Department of Health in this new ad campaign. It reminds residents that their canines must be properly licensed or face ridicule as out-of-towners. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork)
If you’ve always wanted to know what your pup sees when he’s cruising for butt sniffs, it’s lots of downward leaning “aw” faces, foot fetishist angles of shiny shoes and underskirt crotches. Warning: It’s cut to witch house. Read more »
A Long Island woman adopted a dog from a Brooklyn animal shelter earlier this week and after bringing him in for a check-up, the vet did an X-ray and discovered what she described as a “wrench” in its body. Bella Fiano has no idea how the got there, but hopes it was the result of canine curiosity and not human evilness. Read more »
While on a Virgin Airlines flight earlier today from New York City to Los Angeles, a tipster sent in the following hilarious account concerning rapper-actor Ice-T, his wife Coco, and their gassy dog Spartacus, accompanied by equally amusing photos. Raise the terror threat level at once: Read more »
Something’s really not right about Jeremy Dower’s cute series of pet portraits. These furry, melty, stringy and sometimes dead dogs are rendered with Dower’s signature surreal touch, drawn on cotton rags and digitally adjusted until they look like tripped out Kawaii. See the wrinkled little mugs adrift in swirling distortion at his solo show: “Canis Mortuus Familiaris,” Jeremy Dower, Apr 14 – May 7, Bold Hype Gallery, NYC
Since Jeff Koons sent a cease and desist letter to SF’s Park Life gallery for selling bookends shaped like the balloon dogs which he obviously invented, the gallery lawyered up and swung back with legal zingers galore in a federal complaint starting with “As virtually any clown can attest, no one owns the idea of making a balloon dog, and the shape created by twisting a balloon into a dog-like form is part of the public domain.” Read more »
The remains of the earliest confirmed domesticated dog in the Americas were found… in fossilized human shit. Well, times were hard back in the B.C. era. Sometimes, you had to eat your best friend or die. For your information, people that eat dogs poop orange-brown (Thanks, University of Maine!).
Producer and miner of video content involving rats, NYCtheBlog, found footage that was taken a few years back, but only uploaded to Vimeo a few months ago of a dog killing rats in Washington Square Park. Read more »
The Chicago Tribune sifted through three years of data from suburban police departments and discovered that drug-sniffing dogs are wrong, a lot. K9 units found drugs or contraband in only 44% of searches triggered by the dogs. Oops. But dog handlers and K9 officers say those numbers are inaccurate, since the dog was right, just not at this juncture in time—its nose is so sensitive that it can pick up scents from substances that were there.
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