3 posts tagged “funny”

• To start with the most obvious: your dog has a blog
• You decide you need to go shopping for a toy box, for the dog.
• You've had your dog's teeth cleaned, but not your own
• Your dog wears more jewelry than you do
• You go on a romantic date with your husband... and you mostly talk about the dog. Plus you bring the dog along.
• You find yourself slapping your husband's hand when he tries to steal some of the food you're cooking for the dog
• You haven't been to a hairdresser in years, but after trying to give the dog a haircut, you decide you better just take her to the groomer
• Everyone in the neighborhood knows your dog's name, but not yours
• You start shopping only at the places that let you bring your dog in; extra shopping at the places that also pet her and give her a treaty
• You start wearing only clothes with pockets so you can always have your handy-dandy plastic poop bags at the ready
• You hate the heat, and it's 100 degrees outside, but you still cuddle up on the couch with your husband - and the dog draped over both of you - to watch TV
• You used to try to catch "CSI", or "Lost", or reruns of "The X-Files"; now you never miss an episode of "It's Me or the Dog"
• All the photos on your flash card are pictures of the dog
• You spend your time writing lists of Crazy Dog Lady signs and symptoms

Okay, The Poodle (and dog) blog made me laugh today, with Jan's "Real Classified Ads from Real Papers" entry:

• For Sale -- Eight puppies from a German Shepperd and an Alaskan Hussy.
• FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER. 8 years old. Hateful little bastard. Bites!
• FREE PUPPIES: 1/2 Cocker Spaniel, 1/2 sneaky neighbor's dog.
• FREE PUPPIES.. Mother, AKC German Shepherd. Father, Super Dog...able to leap tall fences in a single bound.
• FOUND DIRTY WHITE DOG. Looks like a rat. Been out a while. Better be a big reward.
• STAR WARS JOB OF THE HUT - $15
• GERMAN SHEPHERD 85 lbs. NEUTERED. SPEAKS GERMAN. FREE.
• Great Dames for sale.
• Dog for sale: eats anything and is fond of children.
• 2 female Boston Terrier puppies, 7 wks old, Perfect markings, 555-1234. Leave mess.
• Shawawa pups for sale, from cute and intelligent parents
• Lost: small apricot Poodle. Reward. Neutered. Like one of the family.

I was initially puzzled by the "Shawawa pups for sale" - after all, pretty much every time I search for anything related to dogs, I run into new breeds I've never heard of before... But a search for "Shawawa" only turned up a city in the Congo. Finally, the coffee kicked in: Chihuahua. Chihuahua. Duh. Cute and intelligent, indeed. :)

And speaking of funny pet-related classified ads, I was forced (forced!) to look up this old one, in case anyone reading this blog was living in cave for a few years and never happened across it: