Life Dog People Are Mostly Crazy
posted by on March 14 at 15:20 PM
Lindy West went to last weekend’s Seattle Kennel Club dog show:
Dog people are all white and mostly crazy. Everything about them is hysterical and/or devastating. One handler’s calf sported a giant, slobbering mastiff tattoo. Almost everyone was wearing a novelty T-shirt (“I HEART BITCHES” or “Who rescued whom?”). A pet psychic sat placidly beneath a banner: “DOGNOSTICATION.” A Saint Bernard walked by, wearing a bib, while, nearby, a man hair-sprayed his Pomeranian. Upstairs, where various breed clubs brought sample dogs, we stopped by the basenji table. The basenji is one of my favorites: a tidy, barkless African sight hound that can climb trees and smile like a human. A curious passerby asked about the dog’s uncanny silence. “Well, he can make a sound like a woman being raped,” said the owner, without emotion.
Maybe Santorum was right about bestiality...given these people it seems right around the corner
I know it's just the Stranger, but making up quotations is pretty unethical.
Dog people is far too general a category. What Lindy saw are "dog show" people. Like other kinds of "show" enthusiasts they are extremely competitive and identify deeply with their animals. Whatever the quirk in their brain synapses will probably be found in the followers of car shows, beauty pagents, body building, and so forth.
go meet flyball or agility people.
not to mention nazi high end breeders who make you fill out an application for a puppy.
go adopt an orphan, ladies.
Agree with #3. "Dog show people" and "dog people" aren't one-in-the-same.
Both, however, are likely to be crazy.
You HAVE seen "Best in Show", haven't you?
Best In Show was a documentary for those of us who grew up in dog-showing households. And on the east coast, every man I ever met who showed dogs was gay and had an antiques business on the side (unless it was their wives who forced them into it).
Um, of course I've seen Best in Show.
i move to rename this slog post "everywhere you looked, bouncing dog testicles"
“Well, he can make a sound like a woman being raped,”
Best thing I've read all day.
I didn't mean you, Ms. West. I thought your article was very funny.
I didn't mean to snark. I'm grouchy today.
“Well, he can make a sound like a woman being raped”
Yeah, right, somebody actually said that. Gee, I wonder why you didn't give his "owner's" name.
These people are dispicable as well as crazy. It makes me F-ING CRAZY when people glorify "breeds." Millions of abandoned dogs & cats are killed because people want "breeds". It is vanity, pure & simple.
Vanity, yes, but all is vanity. Dog shows are an especially kooky variety of vanity, which makes them wonderful in my book.
I wish I was funny enough to make up a quote like that.
I hope no one wielding a sword barges into that dog owner's home.
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