We must ban dogs because they are weapons. Weapon dogs? Seriously?

In Australia, they added the Maltese to the dangerous dog list.

Be sure of your target and what’s behind it. Police officer sees woman playing with dog. Presumes dog is attacking since it is a politically incorrect dog. Officer shoots the dog and the woman.

SPCA CEO’s dog dies after four hours in a hot car. A tad ironic. Poor dog.

I made a bowl of ice cream the other night. Putting away the ice cream, I turned around to see this:

From Pets

Then, a minute later, I saw this:

From Pets

The Doc: Any ideas for a non-allergic pet?

She brought this up a blogger lunch a bit back. I told her to check into the labradoodle. They are advertised as such.

Any suggestions?

ETA: Maybe ask your physician? Perhaps they know something or a common allergy medicine can remedy that?

I like the new cat. But they are exactly unlike dogs. A couple of examples:

If you cover a dog (head and all) in a blanket, it will fight like mad to get out. Even if it has to hit its head on the coffee table a couple of times to do that. A cat will just lay down and go to sleep.

If you point at something, the dog will look where you’re pointing. If you point at something, the cat will sniff your finger.

I will be spending part of mine at the walk-in clinic. You see, yesterday, I happened to be holding the kitty when the dog decided to introduce itself. Cat was not a fan. And, in its escape attempt, bit me. Wake up this morning and where I was bitten is swollen, red and ouchie. So, based on my Google fu, I think I have this.

Update: Yup, that’s what I got. Tetanus shot. Antibiotics and if no improvement by Monday, a potential hospital stay. Cat bites are apparently serious business.

Or Google named my cat.

So, I came home night before last and, despite my earlier concerns, that cat is still there. I say the Mrs.: Cat have a name yet?

She says it’s Abby.

I said: You Googled up cat names and that was first wasn’t it?

She said yes.

A city councilman who headed an effort to get pit bulls banned because they are so dangerous is now trying to keep his dog from being euthanized after it bit someone. It’s a Labrador. Perhaps this will illustrate to this bonehead that it’s the owners of the dogs that determine if they’re dangerous or not. Bad owners = bad dogs. And Aaron Rochester is a bad owner. Keep your dog restrained, moron.

We got a new dog a few months back. Then, a bit back, we got another one.

Junior has always wanted a cat. Neither the Mrs. nor I were ever cat people. But Junior was persistent. So, we now have a cat. Well, I think we still have it. I haven’t actually seen it since about 6:00 yesterday.

We’re up to three critters.

State to regulate large capacity dog breeders.

House passes bill allowing dogs in bars:

The measure would be limited to cities with a population of at least 100,000 and business owners would have the power to decide whether to allow dogs at their establishments.

So, restaurants in small cities still have no choice.

Conversation from the Uncle Household.

Me: You know how I always dreamed that Politically Incorrect Dog could talk and he had a deep voice with a British accent?

The Mrs: Yeah.

Me: Well, in my dreams, Flash sounds like Samuel Jackson.

The Mrs: Why do the dogs always talk in your dreams?

Me: Guess they got shit to say. That’s what Flash would say.

No, I kid. A bill to allow dogs in outdoor eateries passed in the senate.

Gene Weingarten on man’s best friend:

never expect too much from an animal that is surprised by its own farts

Our dog, Flash, is a rescue. We were told that he was neutered. But it looks like he’s still got one. Just one. We’re taking him today to see if it actually is a dude or some sort of tumor. Our vet thought it could have been an infection and ran some antibiotics to see if the lump went away. It didn’t.

Vet tells me that when a dog is neutered, they’re supposed to see if there are, well, actually two that dropped. If only one does, then the vet should not remove any and await the arrival of the other one. I guess the previous vet may have neglected to count first. Or, perhaps, Flash had an extra.

Anyway, it’s odd. And we’ll find out today.

I’m a bit bummed. See, a few weeks back, I had to get rid of my dog. I’m sad to say that Politically Incorrect Dog is no longer a part of the Uncle family. No worries about his well-being or anything like that. He’s found himself a good place and, per updates we receive, he’s doing quite well and is happy.

The reason he left was that, well, he was too much dog for two small kids. His attempts at getting affection and play were a bit on the reckless side. And he was clearly jealous of the amount of attention the kids received. I did not think for a minute that he’d intentionally harm my children but that he might do so inadvertently. He was corrected for the behavior yet it continued. And, well, with little ones around, there is no room for mistakes.

So, I delivered him to the nice lady who would be his new home. When I dropped him off, I cried. A lot. It’s a tough thing after you’ve had a dog for seven years. But leave it to Junior to add some levity to the situation. As I was leaving with him, she said So, can we get a kitty now? We’re undecided on the cat. She wants one but me and the Mrs. are not cat people.

Anyway, the Mrs. wanted a new dog. I was wanting to wait a bit. She was pretty insistent on getting a dog. And we know how that goes. We opted for a more docile animal. Meet Flash:

From Home Life

Only had him for a few days. Two and a half (ish) year old Bassett hound. A rescue, of sorts. Talk about extremes. I’m not used to having a dog that lounges around all the time. And in terms of obedience training, he has none.

Cool pic.

A bill in TN:

The sponsor of a proposal to allow dogs at restaurants’ outdoor dining areas has delayed a vote on his bill.

The measure, HB1603, sponsored by Rep. Harry Brooks, a Knoxville Republican, would allow cities with populations of at least 100,000 to allow the practice.

So, those of us in small towns will be discriminated against?

A rescue operation in NY called Big Apple Bullies, if you’re looking.

If you are an owner of a dog that belongs to a ‘dangerous breed’ category and you also have a small child please take this as a warning. Don’t leave your dog with the child unattended under any circumstances.

Only a little moment was enough for the following to happen.

From Stuff

From Guav.

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like nails.

Yes, in light of the dramatic increase in face-eating monkey attacks from zero to one (a near infinite increase), congress must do something. I guess a ban on feeding chimps Xanax and giving them booze is too much. It beats gibbon up.

I’m sure by now, you’ve all heard of the face-eating monkey attack. I kept waiting and waiting for PETA to issue some stupid statement but it never came. There are reports that PETArds are calling the owner of the chimp and gibbon her a hard time.

Finally, Time Magazine did a report on why the chimp attacked. Turns out, it’s because it’s a fucking chimp. Gee, domesticated wild animals some times lose it, who knew?

Update: People don’t like the puns? It is a matter of gibbon take.

Given what long time readers know of Politically Incorrect Dog’s flatulence, it should come as no surprise that the new dog food we’ve got him on is not going well. Seriously, never change a bully’s diet, if you can avoid it.

A reader asks for pitbull rescues near Knoxville. Anyone know?

Seen at Rusty’s:

Shelter Closing! Many Free dogs available to good GOOD homes. 10 are scheduled to be PTS [put to sleep - ed] Monday. Various breeds, some are fully vetted, spayed or neutered. Save a life, adopt one! You can see a list of dogs on petfinders.

All together now: Aaaawwww.

In FL, it’s the law. I wonder if it’s applicable to mice you buy to feed pet snakes? I’d like to see the check box for that.

I mentioned my Birthday Loot here. But the other present left was that Politically Incorrect Dog was locked in the house all day. With diarrhea. Been cleaning carpets for two days.

80 pound bulldogs make a lot of poo when they have the trots. I’m guessing the kennel fed him something not on the approved list while we were vacationing. He’s also been very gassy since we’ve been back. And we know all about bulldog farts.

Tam lost Mittens.

Heh.

For the record, there’s probably no way to get Politically Incorrect Dog to cooperate for that without eating the lipstick.

Good dog.

This time, in Nashville, they shot a tethered dog. Panel says officer acted appropriately. Now, the dog was tethered. I think they would have also acted appropriately if they, say, backed up to where the dog could not reach them.

A reunion. Pretty cool video.

Seems we started a trend. What kind of dog is this one?

I definitely see some bully in him.

Pics here. What kinda dog is that?

According to Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria, Obama is the “conservative” when it comes to foreign policy, and McCain is the “liberal”:

Over the course of the campaign against Hillary Clinton and now McCain, Obama has elaborated more and more the ideas that would undergird his foreign policy as president. What emerges is a world view that is far from that of a typical liberal, much closer to that of a traditional realist. It is interesting to note that, at least in terms of the historical schools of foreign policy, Obama seems to be the cool conservative and McCain the exuberant idealist.

…snip…

Obama rarely speaks in the moralistic tones of the current Bush administration. He doesn’t divide the world into good and evil even when speaking about terrorism. He sees countries and even extremist groups as complex, motivated by power, greed and fear as much as by pure ideology. His interest in diplomacy seems motivated by the sense that one can probe, learn and possibly divide and influence countries and movements precisely because they are not monoliths. When speaking to me about Islamic extremism, for example, he repeatedly emphasized the diversity within the Islamic world, speaking of Arabs, Persians, Africans, Southeast Asians, Shiites and Sunnis, all of whom have their own interests and agendas.

Obama never uses the soaring language of Bush’s freedom agenda, preferring instead to talk about enhancing people’s economic prospects, civil society and—his key word—”dignity.” He rejects Bush’s obsession with elections and political rights, and argues that people’s aspirations are broader and more basic—including food, shelter, jobs. “Once these aspirations are met,” he told The New York Times’s James Traub, “it opens up space for the kind of democratic regimes we want.” This is a view of democratic development that is slow, organic and incremental, usually held by conservatives.

Obama talks admiringly of men like Dean Acheson, George Kennan and Reinhold Niebuhr, all of whom were imbued with a sense of the limits of idealism and American power to transform the world. “In his view of history, in his respect for tradition, in his skepticism that the world can be changed any way but very, very slowly, Obama is deeply conservative,” wrote Larissa MacFarquhar in her profile of him for The New Yorker. “There are moments when he sounds almost Burkean. He distrusts abstractions, generalizations, extrapolations, projections. It’s not just that he thinks revolutions are unlikely: he values continuity and stability for their own sake, sometimes even more than he values change for the good.”

…snip…

Ironically, the Republicans now seem to be the foreign-policy idealists, labeling countries as either good or evil, refusing to deal with nasty regimes, fixating on spreading democracy throughout the world and refusing to think in more historical and complex ways. “I don’t do nuance,” George W. Bush told many visitors to the White House in the years after 9/11. John McCain has had his differences with Bush, but not on this broad thrust of policy. Indeed it is McCain, the Republican, who has put forward some fanciful plans, arguing that America should establish a “League of Democracies,” expel Russia from the Group of Eight industrialized countries and exclude China from both groups as well.

The whole thing is worth the read. Cross-posted at Lean Left and TennesseeFree.

Most aggressive breed: Wiener Dogs. Well, they were bred to hunt badgers.

Knoxville starts enforcing leash law.