The Osama Bone Laden chew toy for dogs
Here’s a new dog treat even more tasteless than the Michael Vick chew toy. A San Francisco pet boutique is selling Osama Bone Laden, a stuffed likeness of the slain terrorist that contains a rawhide...
View ArticleAnother unlikely friendship: A dog and a fox
We humans, with our vastly superior intellects, and being the far more evolved and civilized species, don’t need no stinkin’ animals to show us how to live life. Do we? You’d think not — especially...
View ArticleDrones and droids and robot dogs, oh my!
The older I get the more wary I become of technology. What I haven’t figured out is whether one necessarily follows the other: Am I just becoming more fearful as I age, or is technology proving itself...
View ArticleRun-on sentience: Are we going way overboard in attributing emotions to dogs?
Lately, it seems, hardly a month goes by without either some viral video or paper-writing scientist suggesting that — contrary to what scientists and the media think we think — dogs feel emotions much...
View ArticleThe robot dog: An idea whose time never came and (we hope) never will
Can we go ahead and bury the robot dog, once and for all? It was an inane idea from the get go — thinking that Americans or people from any other reasonable country would want a pet with batteries. The...
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