December 10, 2005

Panda dog. Panda dog. Panda dog? Panda dog!

posted by Chyren 19 years ago
  • The owner says that he hopes Columbo¡¯s story will tell other people to treat their pets with love and responsibility. It's great that the dog found an owner who gives a damn, but is dyeing a dog's fur really a manifestation of love and responsibility? Seems to me like it would be a stronger statement of that to love the dog as he was.
  • Yeah, it's cute, but I don't like the idea of applying nasty hair dye to a doggie. Although I do remember a funny incident where some friends gave their dog a mohawk.
  • I've seen pet stores sell dyes that are supposed to be specially formulated for dog skin. I don't know if that's true, but I'd like to think it is.
  • Thanks meredithea, I didn't know about that. Still, even though it's pretty harmless, it seems to me all for the benefit of the owner rather than the pet. Sort of like a poodle cut.
  • >Sort of like a poodle cut. You mean that's not how the fur naturally grows on poodles in the wild? (Come on, picture it- a poodle pack on the savannah, pulling down an unlucky wildebeest that strayed from the herd...)
  • You know, I think it's crueller to confuse the dog's identity by dressing it up with "human" clothes. A Panda is at least is a bigger meaner animal that might give the poor dog a self-esteem boost. Like wearing spiderweb tattoos on your elbows, Johnny-McKill-my-prison-bunkmate. Seriously though, the only shame is that dogs really don't give a shit what they look like, as long as their ass end smells like garbage. That humans take on these animals as pets and concern themselves so much with their appearances without giving a little sniff to the poop chute plaza must be intensely demoralizing for an animal. Besides, how ugly is that dog without the dye? I think it's hillarious when people say animals are "ugly". It's funny enough when we apply cultural distinctions of beauty to other cultures. How fucking vain.
  • Just wait for the space poodles to invade and they shave all our heads funny. Then who'll be laughing!
  • Hmmm. Is that some sort of postmodernist furry?
  • I submit. no one can beat middleclasstool. Although it it does sound a little like middleclassStool.
  • Sort of like a poodle cut. Poodles were bred as waterfowl retrievers and the "poodle cut" was developed to keep them bouyant and warm (the cut is close so they don't get water-logged but with strategically-placed pouffy areas to keep them warm). Really. (and when untrimmed poodle coats matt and curl into long dreadlocks)
  • Panda + Dog = PANDOG
  • That's definitely a panda dog, there.
  • Yah, well The Auditor earned his dreads!
  • The Auditor ...
  • So I guess it's not just poodles.
  • If I don't get Auditor soap for Christmas, heads are gonna roll.
  • I think this might be a natural panda dog? mj, would Auditor soap be on-a-rope?
  • Why are we grumbling about dying doggy fur when it's commonplace to lop off their tails and ears? Sheesh. And yeah, testicles and uteruses, but that's supposed to be useful.
  • it's commonplace to lop off their tails and ears I detest tail docking and ear cropping. I knew an unmodified doberman once, great dog.
  • Put down the hair dye and step away from the dog!! NOW!
  • *leaves to get flea powder for this thread