Chips Chat – November 2008

“How come every time a bell rings, my dog goes into the corner?”

“It’s perfectly natural,” the dog trainer replied.  “Your dog is a boxer.”

Bizarre, but Real Dog Laws

In Columbus, GA, it’s against the law for dogs to howl after 9:00 pm.

A law in Berea, KY requires dogs on the streets after dark to display a red taillight.

Florida law doesn’t allow dogs to ride in a school bus.

Owners in Zion, IL aren’t permitted to teach their dogs to smoke cigars.

In Fox Point, WI dogs can’t travel in groups larger than two.

While in Belvedere, CA “No dog shall be in a public place without its master on a leash.”

When Your Perspective Has Gone To The Dogs

When you think about spaying & neutering, your mind wanders to a list of humans that should have the procedure.

Your Christmas cards always show your dogs wearing fake reindeer antlers.

After months of searching, you finally found a place where you can order new checks with pictures of your dogs on them.

Now you’re searching for Teflon furniture.

It’s pretty normal to pat little children on the head, but most people don’t scratch them behind the ears.

Your vet knows more about your dogs’ history than your pediatrician knows about your kids.

Your children not only know what “heel” means, but they do it on command.

You know all of the characteristics of a good “stool”.

Your dogs are current on all of their shots, but you haven’t had a tetanus shot in 25 years.

You not only allow dogs on the couch, but you sit on the floor because one dog has “territorial issues”.

The Relevance of Obedience School

During break time at obedience school, one dog whispered to another, “The thing I hate about obedience school is that you learn all of this stuff that you’ll never use in the real world.”