I wanna be your dog.

June 7, 2001 1:45 AM

I wanna be your dog. So people are flocking to the opportunity to appear in an "and finally" spot on the news. Nowt so queer as folk, as they say up north.

But just because it gets people's attention, does that mean it's going to convey any useful information? Perhaps if dog-mistreaters were sentenced to being treated like a stray...
posted by Grangousier (6 comments total)

In Chile (where stray dogs are the norm; I guess it's the same in other countries, but I've not lived elsewhere) the life of a stray dog seems pretty good. Of course, they look pretty mangy, but all they seem to do is run around with their friends, having a good time and plenty of sex...
posted by andrew cooke at 3:45 AM on June 7, 2001

Fetish clubs have been running this sort of thing for ages something similar to this for ages..

not that i know from experience - just from what i've seen on tele
posted by monkeyJuice at 3:50 AM on June 7, 2001

..sorry - that last post of mine mad no sense
posted by monkeyJuice at 3:59 AM on June 7, 2001

Made sense to me. It did occur to me that inviting people to be led around on leads and shut up in a dog run might attract a kind of clientele that the staid pillars of the community at Battersea Dogs' Home weren't exactly expecting.
posted by CatherineB at 6:42 AM on June 7, 2001

No kidding, Catherine. This project screams fetish.
posted by Ms Snit at 9:53 AM on June 7, 2001

this is a total fetish thing.

rcb
posted by rebeccablood at 10:29 AM on June 7, 2001