I recently reacquired the Starz movie channel package, opening up a wide range of otherwise inaccessible films that I would otherwise have to actually rent or purchase to watch. For reasons yet unknown to scientists, the first flick I sat down and actually watched was the animated, John Travolta voiced talking dog picture, Bolt.

This isn’t a movie I’d ever seek out. If, at any point during the screening, something remotely interesting had presented itself — from a housecall from a Jehovah’s Witness to a rerun of the Andy Griffith Show — I would have certainly turned away from Bolt in a heartbeat. (continue reading…)

Take that, Italians, Mexicans, and Japanese! My Swedish peeps finally has a mafia! And, apparently, it’s for the dogs.

There’s a headline you don’t see every day, Chauncey: 

Jewish court sentences dog to death by stoning

And it’s not even Cerberus!  Now, if it was that damn Marmaduke, I think we could all get onboard, but this is something a might bit different.  From the article:

A Jerusalem rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a dog it suspects is the reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court’s judges 20 years ago, Ynet website reported on Friday. (continue reading…)

Dolphins, who fans of the Simpsons know are plotting against man for dominance of the planet, apparently have a soft spot in their diabolical hides for man’s best friend.  See this story from Orlando, where two dolphins helped save a stranded dog from drowning on a sandbar. 

They really didn’t do anything themselves other than “splashing and making this big commotion.”  To be clear, the humans did the real work, getting the dog who was “too weak to bark, and . . .  could not get back onto land because of a several-foot-high canal wall.”  The assumption is the dolphins raised the ruckus Lassie style to get the pooch rescued.  But a careful reading of the story reveals “the time the nurse lowered herself into the canal to get onto the sandbar, the dutiful dolphins were gone.”  My theory is the dolphins were taunting the dog, and then realizing humans were once again there to save the day with the magic of the opposable thumb, left in disgust. (continue reading…)