Tag: dog

  • Mac the Dog’s visit to the vet

    Mac the Dog’s chronic itchy paw problem may have a solution. Thanks to a tip from our super doggie mommy friend, we visited Mount Pleasant Animal Medical Centre at Sunset Way, where the vet told us that almost everything Mac’s previous vet told us was bunk. Mac probably doesn’t have a thyroid imbalance causing skin…

  • Day at the vet’s

    I spent the morning at the vet’s with Mac Our Dog, and it was a particularly busy morning there, with the receptionist at sixes and sevens, and though she was trying her humanly (and doggedly and cattedly) best to cope, Mac and I had to wait about an hour before we saw the vet, and…

  • Invisible tandem bicycle

    While others might be wondering if Anwar really did sodomise his aide and whether that should be any of our own darn business, we were busy laughing at Mac the Dog, who unfortunately has had to try on a pair two pairs of boots because the vet thinks he might be allergic to grass. We…

  • Shit for brains

    Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! If this is true, then it really, really sucks. Apparently there’s an “artist” called Guillermo Vargas who took a stray dog off the street and displayed it starving to death. And called it an art piece. From The Guardian: The Costa Rican has been called an animal abuser, killer and worse…

  • Adopting happiness: some considerations

    We’ve realised that in advocating adopting cute, loving animals we have neglected to say that in doing so, you’re taking on some form of serious responsibility. Animals are not toys. You need to make sure they’re healthy, and in the event they’re not, you have to seek the best possible solution for them. They cannot…