FUR & GRRR: The Funniest Things People Have Said About DOGS
Hours of laughter for dog lovers! Laugh-out-loud humor from Dave Barry • Ellen DeGeneres • Jerry Seinfeld • The New Yorker • The Onion • Paula Poundstone • Steven Wright • Jay Leno • David Letterman • George Carlin • Rita Rudner • Bill Maher • Wanda Sykes • Erma Bombeck • Jeff Foxworthy — and many more. Plus hilarious tweets from folks like you. • Ellen DeGeneres tells you about her dogs’ intelligence — "I’m smarter than my dogs. Well, smarter than one of my dogs." • Dave Barry advises you on the best dog food for your dog — for starters, be sure you get “brown dog food." • Jerry Seinfeld observes: "On my block, a lot of people walk their dogs and I always see them walking along with their little poop bags. This, to me, is the lowest activity in human life. Following a dog with a little scooper.” • The Onion advises on “Choosing the Right Dog for You” — "First, decide which type of dog hair you want to stick to everything you own for the rest of your life.” • The Onion also offers tips for training your dog — including, "Start with simple commands like 'sit' before working your way up to the more complicated ones like 'fill the gaping void in my life.'" • The New Yorker talks about “Things I Want to Ask My Dog” — such as, "That time I came home and the garbage was all over the kitchen floor, and you acted like you couldn’t remember how it happened because you 'live in the moment,' did you actually remember? Be honest.” • Humorist Jack Handey advises: "Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you’re coming home his face might burn up.” And several hundred pages more. TO ORDER: Go to tinyurl.com/fur-grrr-dogs
Hours of laughter for dog lovers!
Laugh-out-loud humor from Dave Barry • Ellen DeGeneres • Jerry Seinfeld • The New Yorker • The Onion • Paula Poundstone • Steven Wright • Jay Leno • David Letterman • George Carlin • Rita Rudner • Bill Maher • Wanda Sykes • Erma Bombeck • Jeff Foxworthy — and many more. Plus hilarious tweets from folks like you.
• Ellen DeGeneres tells you about her dogs’ intelligence — "I’m smarter than my dogs. Well, smarter than one of my dogs."
• Dave Barry advises you on the best dog food for your dog — for starters, be sure you get “brown dog food."
• Jerry Seinfeld observes: "On my block, a lot of people walk their dogs and I always see them walking along with their little poop bags. This, to me, is the lowest activity in human life. Following a dog with a little scooper.”
• The Onion advises on “Choosing the Right Dog for You” — "First, decide which type of dog hair you want to stick to everything you own for the rest of your life.”
• The Onion also offers tips for training your dog — including, "Start with simple commands like 'sit' before working your way up to the more complicated ones like 'fill the gaping void in my life.'"
• The New Yorker talks about “Things I Want to Ask My Dog” — such as, "That time I came home and the garbage was all over the kitchen floor, and you acted like you couldn’t remember how it happened because you 'live in the moment,' did you actually remember? Be honest.”
• Humorist Jack Handey advises: "Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you’re coming home his face might burn up.”
And several hundred pages more.
TO ORDER: Go to tinyurl.com/fur-grrr-dogs
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10. When your owner takes you for a walk, do you:
a. Pull like crazy on your leash so that your owner has to hang on
with all his might
b. Bite him when he tries to put a leash on you
c. Make him follow three steps behind you
d. Make him wear the leash
e. Walk (or trot) at his left side, keeping exactly abreast and in step
Count your points: a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, d = 4, and e = 5.
YOUR SCORE:
• Over 50 — You’re not as smart as you think you are — there are only 50
possible points.
• Between 40 and 50 — You are an incredibly well-behaved and
thoughtful animal and should probably be an owner, not an ownee.
• Between 30 and 40 — You are quite fastidious and genteel, and care a
great deal about the niceties of life. You will need to invoke a great deal of
discretion when choosing an owner, because there are many around who
will not understand you or appreciate your discriminating characteristics.
• Between 20 and 30 — You have a very great sense of self and like to
have things your own way. You, too, may have a problem finding the right
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