Posts Tagged ‘Dogs’

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All is Fair in Love and War

by Seraphine Khorana on May 10th, 2010
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All is Fair in Love and War

“What happened to the chocolate?”
“I ate it. It was there for three days. You had as many opportunities to eat it as I did.”

Symptoms of chocolate toxicity include: hyper-excitability and hyper-irritability; increased heart rate, restlessness and urination; muscle tension and tremors. Complications include hypothermia, seizures, cardiac arrest, even death. Death can result from intoxication… No antidote exists for chocolate poisoning in a dog.
Quotation from VetInfo.com, My Dog Ate Chocolate: How Much is Toxic?

There’s no road map on how to raise a family; it’s always an enormous negotiation.
Quotation from Meryl Streep

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In Memory of Coco

by Seraphine Khorana on March 9th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
In Memory of Coco

The photo of Coco in today’s comic was taken by Elaine, who has an awesome photo page called Elaine Remains. Coco passed away last Saturday.

Every dog carries an ID in his back pocket, so to speak. On each side of the rectum is an anal sac, which contains a strong-smelling fluid. This fluid is the equivalent of a dog’s thumb-print. With a quick sniff, dogs can tell more about each other than we could determine by rifling through one another’s wallets. Dogs can tell the sex, age, health, reproductive status, diet, and mood from those smells. They get all the information they need to decide whether they want to associate with that dog and what kind of relationship they ought to have.
Quotation from Dog Behavior: When Dogs Lick & Sniff “Private” Places (BestBetPetSupplies.com)

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Camel Assisted Therapy

by Seraphine Khorana on January 16th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Camel Assisted Therapy

Petting a dog, a camel or an elephant can reduce feelings of loneliness and stress. Assuming of course, you don’t get spat upon, peed on, bitten or squashed.

It’s not that animals have magic vibes coming out of them. It’s about giving people a sense of life beyond what they ordinarily experience.
Quotation from William Banks, Saint Louis University

Elephant Therapy and Equine Therapy Programs are used as tools for gaining self-understanding and emotional growth in adults and children, and are especially effective for children with Asperger’s and Autism.

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The Human Pet

by Seraphine Khorana on September 11th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
The Human Pet

Oatmeal soap once sounded strange to me. I mean, who thinks about putting food in bath soap? But just when you think that nothing in the world will ever surprise you again- Whoomp! There it is! Somebody proves Mankind evolved from fish, Congress passes an affordable healthcare plan and people start believing in world peace. And you realize, far stranger things have happened.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
Quotation from Edward Hoagland

Happiness is a warm puppy.
Quotation from Charles M. Schulz

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This Never Happened to Andy Warhol

by Seraphine Khorana on March 30th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
This Never Happened to Andy Warhol

Ten pounds, it was reckoned, was about the price that Mr. Taylor would ask for a cocker spaniel. Mr. Taylor was the head of the gang. As soon as a lady in Wimpole Street lost her dog she went to Mr. Taylor; he named his price, and it was paid; or if not, a brown paper parcel was delivered in Wimpole Street a few days later containing the head and paws of the dog.
Quotation from Virginia Woolf, Flush: a Biography

Each Grunting Mallard features a unique voice box that makes a realistic sound when squeezed and drives dogs wild! -Ad for Grunting Mallard Migrating Duck Dog Toy
Dog that Quacks (YouTube) I wonder if this dog swallowed his Grunting Mallard Dog Toy?

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The cost of hiding is the value of the alternative

by Seraphine Khorana on March 7th, 2009
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The cost of hiding is the value of the alternative

apropos of nothing: off the lobby is a sauna
with a crack and my face pressed to it.
the front desk girl is putting drops in the eyes of another guest.
the sauna’s yellow light is burning my shoulder
and i should slip into the courtesy robe, and close my pores.
the bed is already turned down in my room.
but a lady carrying a dog puts down an empty wine glass
and i’m sure her dog is looking at me and licking its nose.
poem i wrote, on my birthday

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