THUGS4LUV

DO YOU EVER FEEL A BIT LIKE A THUG?

Or Like Someone Who Shouldn’t or Doesn’t Want to be on the Inside?

WHAT IS A THUG?

WIKI SAYS: Thuggee (or tuggee, ठग्गी) (from Hindi thag ‘thief’, from Sanskrit sthaga ‘scoundrel’, from sthagati ‘to conceal’) was an Indian network of secret fraternities engaged in murdering and robbing travelers, operating from the 17th century (possibly as early as 13th century) to the 19th century. This is the origin of the term “thug“, as many Indian words passed into common English during British Imperial rule of India.

I’M A THUG4LUV

I steel hearts and change minds. Join my secret fraternity of animal-loving animals.

BOW-WOW… IS THIS A DREAM OR IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING

Somewhere, somehow, people are finding me and they are diggin’ me. Can anyone tell me, is there something here that I tagged that has recently become popular OR are you all coming just to growl at little old me.

So, I’ve been back east for a while now, trying to figure out just what I want to do with my life… it’s so different here than it is in Arizona, especially because my owner made me move to to Jersey. Yes, we’ve got a back-yard but no fence so I can’t just run out whenever I want to.

To make matters worse there are all type of critters I see out there that I want to chase, chipmunks, wild turkey and deer. In any case, I’m not really feelin the day today so I decide to check out my long-fore-long blog effort and what should I find but, like stats that are out the roof.

BTW- check this out… a new movie by Disney… dogs with attitude “Beverly Hills Chihuahua.” I think one of the freakin’ writers read my blog and THEN had the idea, the bastards, OH WELL, I’ll take a Thuggish French Bulldog over a RACIALLY STEREOTYPICAL RAT DOG any day. What about you.

Don’t forget THUGS4LUV, stay real, don’t dress up your dog.

COSBY’S DANDIE DINMONT

LATE BREAKING NEWS
According to a couple of news outlets including CNN, Bill Cosby’s dog, a Dandie Dinmont named Ch Hobergays Fineus Fog or Harry for short, is the leader of the pack a Westminster today.

He took BEST OF BREED but was the only Dandie in the show (the only DANDIE at a dog show, impossible). Let’s see how he does with BEST IN SHOW… there are 2,628 entries at the Westminster Dog Show in Madison Square Garden today.

You know what they say about people and their dogs…

AP

Get this dog a sweater and some Jello-Pudding pops… the resemblance is remarkable.

DOG BITES WOMAN IN VAGINA??

THIS BARK GOES OUT TO: Bill BRasky!
A couple of weeks back I mentioned that I’d write bark-outs to “special” vistors… well, here is one of the first (hopefully of many) to a Mr. Bill BRasky. Not only has mr. BRasky, been a faithful follower of DogonaBlog, since it’s inception, he was kind enough, to post the following…

SHOWDOGS MOMS AND DADS: CRAZY VAGINA LADY

DOGGIE DAILIES

ALL THE BARK THAT’S FIT TO POST
So, I’ve been away for a while, my best friend was out in Orlando for the PGA Merchandising Conference and I was shipped over to a friend’s house who only has dial-up access… but has a lot of reading material I could paw through, so here’s a few things I picked up over the last couple a days.

SKYBARk

L.A., Vegas and Boston, now doggies that like to drink and best friends who like the nightlife have a place to do it all in style. SKYBARk is the brainchild of Brandon Hochman and Ralph Diaz, the inventors of PETaPOTTY, inside “mini-parks” that help best friends potty train puppies and give us some grass to roll around in when our friends are away.

SKYBARk has a fixed location on top of PETaPOTTY’s headquarters on Santa Fe Avenue in L.A. But SKYBARk parties are popping up across the country, every party is also a charitable event, in fact the inaugural event, which took place in March 2006 raised over $4,000 for “New Leash on Life.” Go to www.skybark.com to learn about events in your area or how to bring SKYBARk to your hometown.

DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW
Just about 8 million dogs wind up in shelters every year and of those about 4 million are “euthanized” (i.e. killed). One of the main reasons we end up in this perdicament is due to “behavioral issues” but whose “behavior issues” is what I ask?

So, I hope that you humans who are considering becoming a pooch’s best friend, know that it’s best to do your research before unleashing what may become one of the most rewarding relationships of your life. If not, read my story, FROM THE STREETS OF NEW YORK and see what happens when a human buys a dog without first considering the amount of time, effort and funds it takes to keep us around.

Get the facts straight before you settle down with a dog. Check out “The Everything Guide to Getting a Dog” by Rosencrans Baldwin, that appeared in the Jan. 15 issue of New York Magazine.

DIFFERENT DOGS NEED DIFFERENT CONDITIONERS
Isle of Dogs has recently launched a new line of personalized dog products— over 16 different shampoos and conditioners. Get your best friend to go to their website and create a profile for you and watch your coat go from dull to pawtastic, in two to three washes. They also have products that detangle, sooth irritated skin and reduce shedding.

TUNE IN SOON:
I will be launching my “Viscious Circle of Unconditional Love” soon… this will include my Manifesto on Unconditional Love, Pictures of pooches that have already joined (to join send your dossier and photo to stichthedog@gmail.com), and a line of THUGS4LUV t-shirts and stuff.

LABS STILL LEAD THE LIST

Who read the Times today? Which Times, the one that’s the paper of record people… if you’re in there, then you are somewhere… or so they bark… or so they lead us to believe.

(Photo provided by the American Kennel Club)

In any case, yesterday the American Kennel Club announced a change in their “10 Most Popular Dog Breeds in the Nation,” and accroding to the Times article written by Anthony Ramirez, “Across the country, the most popular dog last year, as it has been for 16 years in a row, was the Labrador retriever, with about 124,000 registrations, or 14 percent of the club’s total.”

He went on to write that the “big news, the club said, was the No. 2 ranking in both the city and the country: the Yorkshire terrier, overtaking larger breeds like the golden retriever and the German shepherd.”

WHERE HAVE ALL THE FRENCHIES GONE?
So, I went to the American Kennel Club website and checked out their list which is broken down by “Ten Most Popular Breeds in the US:”

1. Labrador Retriever
2. Yorkshire Terrier
3. German Shepherd Dog
4. Golden Retriever
5. Beagle
6. Dachshund
7. Boxer
8. Poodle
9. Shih Tzu
10. Miniature Schnauzer

And then the lists are broken down by city… and although I saw bulldog on the list quite a few times I didn’t comes across FRENCH Bulldog, what up wit dat… French Bulldogs and English Bulldogs are not the same… viva de Resistence!!!

ENGLISH BULLDOG- He’s ruggedly good-looking but eats fish and chips and drinks pints… so I bet his breath stinks…

FRENCH BULLDOG- I’m so interesting to look at that your eyes glaze over, plus, I eat Violet Pastilles and drink Champagne so my breath smells like a spring-time breeze

BUT THEN, I went to the “Complete List of Top Dog Breed in the U.S.” only to discover that French Bulldogs RANK #36… only 36, come opn FRENCHIES, we can do better than that!

MR. WINKLE AND THE CUTENESS MACHINE

THE TEETH COME OUT WHEN MR.WINKLE COMES UP

Yo animals, what up…

So my long awaited opus on why I have, had and am having a beef with the so-called “Cutest Dog in the World,” the evil Mr. Winkle.

First off, What is he? To me he is Public Enemy Number One… and a symbol of cuteness-gone-a-rye.

BOTTOM-LINE: POSHLUST
He’s a dog… not a space alien, cafeteria worker or a fairy. Why is he trying so hard to be ANYTHING other than what he is? For those of you who aren’t familiar with this canine-in-waiting, he rose to fame a couple years ago on the Internet, why? Because he is supposed to be so darn cute… but what is cute, and what does cute mean?

Mr. Winkle is what Nabokov would call POSHLUST, “not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful (another way of saying cute), the falsely clever (what some people might think of my blog), the falsely attractive,” that sums the Winks up and a couple of other headlining grabbing entities I don’t care to name, too!

I believe that both the human and animal societies place too much emphasis on being cute and not enough on having substance. We need more calendars dedicated to Seeing Eye dogs, fire and police dogs, those of us out here in the world working our tails off everyday, in a positive way, not simply by trying to pass as a living stuffed animal.

Think of all those cute humans out there, simply slipping by on their smile or over-dugg dimples… Cute, ugly, frumpy, skinny, fat, Goth, corporate, yupster, over-extended… we shouldn’t define ourselves by what’s on the outside but by the animals we are inside.

JUST SAY “I DON’T THINK SO TO THE CUTENESS MACHINE!”
Next time you see a baby, don’t say to his mommy and daddy, “Oh, how cute.” Say, “How many languages can he speak.” Or if you see a puppy, don’t patronize him, pick him up, look him in the eye and say, “I will respect you my friend because you have a wisdom that I have yet to comprehend.”

Nuff said… however, in the spirit of unconditional love I DO have to give Mr. Winkle PROPS for supporting a lot of charities… That is a sign of substance, right? I don’t know? Maybe we should ask Angelina Jolie or better yet… Jen Aniston… (Which team are you one TEAM STITCH or TEAM WINKLE?)

Who saw Mr. Winkle on TBS’s “Sex and the City” last night? He was there, on a book tour when Carry took her crazy-train-cross-country tip to San Francisco. That cat seems to pop up everywhere… especially in my nightmares.

PROZAC FOR CATS AND DOGS ???

PILL POPPING PETS
According to an article written by Carla Hall that appears in the LATimes today, “The use of antidepressants is another example of the growing sophistication of medical care available to animals and willingly financed by owners who see pets as cherished companions.”

Yeah, sophisticated medical treatments like debarking dogs… What the hell is happening here… first themselves… then their kids… and now their pets… Who or WHAT won’t the baby-boomers prescribe PROZAZ to?

I guess they saw my article about being sad the other day…

Hall also mentions LV Carriers in her LA Times article today, and goes on to write, “Veterinarians who prescribe psychoactive drugs insist they are not Dr. Feelgoods for the animal set. They do medical work-ups on animals, they say, to rule out physical causes for destructive or neurotic actions and prefer to use behavior modification instead of — or, at least, along with — drug therapy. Sometimes they have to deflate the expectations of owners eager to place their pets on antidepressants.”

We’ve heard this story before, just different players… Chihuahuas BEWARE… They’ll be popping out the Ritalin next.

SCOOBY-DOO CARTOONIST DIES

R.I.P Iwao Takamoto R.I.P

The cartoonist who created both Scooby-Doo and Muttley the dog, has died at age 81. BBC News

Hope it wasn’t anything I said about Scooby over the past couple of days. Uht-Oh, My Bad…

WHEN I’M SAD

I DO THIS…

That’s me, sleeping in the lower left-hand side… but I only sleep for a couple of minutes…hours…days…

STAY TUNED FOR:
MS. STITCH’S VISCIOUS CIRCLE OF FREEDOM FIGHTING THUGS FOR UNCONDITIONAL LOVE: I have a lot of readers that want to join the cause. If you are one of them, please send your picture to stichthedog@gmail.com (yeah, I spelled it wron when I signed up, I’ve got paws, wanna make something of it?) I’m going to post pictures of my posse HERE: THUGS4LUV