A New Year of Dogcentricity

The new 2009 Mutt Nutt will focus on dogcentric ideas, thoughts and vision.  Here are just a few for starter:

The newly wrapped Muttmobile now features a SUV full of dogs looking out from the windows, making sure that you are not tailgating….

A proposal for an iPhone app designed to locate missing mutts…

…and there are plenty more where it came from! Stay tuned.

Remembrance Day

Today is Remembrance Day, we honor those who served, and remember those who sacrificed.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

John McCrae

Mr. Darcy’ s Dog

I just finished reading the trilogy “Fitzwilliam Darcy, a gentleman” by Pamela Aidan.  The three novels state the events of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice from Mr. Darcy’s point of view.  As a fan of P&P, Jane and the hearthrob Colin Firth, I wouldn’t mind a look into Mr.  Darcy’s inner life and the social forces that shaped him.

And lo and behold, what did I find out?  Mr. Darcy was a mutt nutt!  Indeed?  Well, I choose to believe so.  I believe that Mr. Darcy spent many lonely moments longing for Elizabeth Bennett, and dreamed about her expressive fine eyes.  And the only creature he confided in was his dog Trafalgar.  Read an excerpt from the book.

Darcy collapsed on the sofa, and after only a moment’s hesitation, Trafalgar scrambled up beside him and laid his great head on his lap.  Darcy stared across the room, feeling everything but seeing nothing. What should he do? his inner voice asked sarcastically.

“Oh Lord, what a muddle!” He sighed deeply.  Trafalgar wormed his muzzle under his hand again, this time giving it a lick as he did so.  “No, I have not forgotten you, you great ox!”  Darcy began to stroke the hound’s soft head and shoulders.  Trafalgar sighed in deep contentment and pushed himself even closer against his master.  “Would that all my troubles could be so easily solved.”  He looked down into eyes glazed over in ecstasy.  “What would you say to a ride in the sleigh to pay calls on the local mongrels?”  The hound raised his head and gave Darcy a quizzical stare before yawning wide and dropping his head again.  “My thoughts exactly, but if I must go, so must you.” – from Duty and Desire by Pamela Aidan

Handsome, wealthy and a dog lover…perfect, is he not?

  

Is Your Dog Urinal-Trained?

Tiny urinals were spotted around Soho in London earlier this year, a closer look revealed a stunt pulled by iTV promoting its “reality” television series, WAGS Boutique.  It’s a battle of WAGS (Wives and Girlfriends of footballers), turning their passion for fashion into profit as they set up two rival fashion boutiques in Central London.  What has that got to do with doggy-urinals, you ask?  Well, that’s just a publicity exploit to provide first-class amenity for their purse-size canines while the WAGS are busy shopping.

Image the catastrophy if a Great Dane decided to give the facility a test pee?  Call Plumber 911!

       

We Are So Cooooooooool!

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