Audi is mixing it up with the dogs this year with their Super Bowl commercial — starring a new super hybrid mutt: the Doberhuahua!
Category Archives: Dog Humor
Master Cat Photographer!
Meet Walter Chandoha, a man who has been photographing dogs and cats for the past 60 years! (NYT)
7 Things You Should NOT Say To A Dog Owner!
Carol Bryant of Pet360 has a few tips for non-dog people on what NOT to say when there’s a elephant dog owner in the room! (Yahoo)
Here’s What Dogs Really Think About Cats Taking Over the Internet…
via Paul Noth from The New Yorker…
Who Wants A Dog Book for Christmas?
If you think a dog’s life needs a purpose — or is all about the journey — then you might enjoy the timely new holiday release by W. Bruce Cameron (author of A Dog’s Purpose and A Dog’s Journey), The Dogs of Christmas — which has also recently been optioned by Hollywood for the movies!
Planes, Trains, and Great Danes!
In honor of the upcoming holiday weekend and the Twitter hashtag #dogfilmposters from The Poke, here’s a dog-themed spoof of one of my all-time favorite Thanksgiving movies…Have a great Turkey Day!
Review That Cat!
Move over, Dogshaming — because here comes a Review of My Cat!
They say that everybody’s a critic — but Jack Shepherd and Tanner Ringerud, contributors to BuzzFeed, must be some brave cats themselves for putting together this book that allows complete strangers to give honest, critical feedback (mostly humorous, of course) to an array of aloof felines.
Throw the Damn Ball Dog Poetry!
There’s a new dog poetry book that’s been unleashed in bookstores — and this one’s told from the dog’s POV. Building off the recent popular dog poem tomes of Dog Songs and I Could Chew On This, readers might want to go fetch Throw the Damn Ball: Classic Poetry by Dogs by R.D. Rosen, Harry Prichett, and Rob Battles.
The New Yorker Does Cats, too!
In case your volume of last year’s The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs is lonesome — then you can get it a companion with The Big New Yorker Book of Cats…just in time for the holidays! (Brainpickings)
Giant George Dies…
Giant George, the world’s tallest dog from 2010 to 2012, has passed away at the age of seven. The gentle, beloved Great Dane was celebrated in Dave Nasser and Lynne Barrett-Lee’s Giant George: Life with the World’s Biggest Dog.
Here’s to George. Life was way too short for this tall fella! (Dogtime)
Shake That Dog Book!
Carli Davidson has just unleashed upon the world the ultimate doggies-drying-off-video, which is accompanied by her beautiful photo book, Shake…
Shake, Rattle & Roll!
No Country For Old Man Dogs?
There has recently been a lot of dogs/dog owner-lookalike contests, but what about dogs and old guys? Tom Cohen has a new doggie humor photo book out — Dogs With Old Man Faces — which looks like a fun one! (HuffPo)
Petey Hits The Huffington Post!
My late dog, Petey, has posthumously made The Huffington Post — although I’m sure he wouldn’t be very impressed. He wasn’t much of a publicity hound!
Hear Pets Aloud…at Litquake!
Is that the dog book world shaking, or are you just excited for this weekend’s Pets Aloud Litquake event? If you don’t know, Litquake is the San Francisco Bay Area’s annual week-long literati celebration featuring scheduled readings all over the city.
And It’s Just A Dog, along with several other fine animal-loving authors, including Melissa Cistaro, Jane Vandenburgh, DB Finnegan, Meg Donohue, and Rosaleen Bertolino, will be having a pet-friendly party at Woodland Pets & Treats in Mill Valley on Saturday, October 12, at 2 pm. So come for the stories, and stay for the snacks!
To check out the full schedule of Litquake readings with such notables as Adam Mansbach, TC Boyle, and Delia Ephron, go here.
Lewis Black is Old Yeller…
Lewis Black is back with a new standup concert on InDemand called, aptly, Old Yeller. Unfortunately, I doubt this show is an homage to the tender, much-loved dying dog classic — but I’m sure Black will deliver the goods with his usual passionate comedy style.
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