Speak! Good boy!

This is really cute. It's from a piece called Animal Tales in the recent New Yorker. Animals talking, that sort of humor.

Dalmatians

"Hey, look the truck's stopping."
"Did they take us to the park this time?"
"No--it's a fire. Another horrible fire."
"What the hell is wrong with these people?"

Dog Days of Summer

We are thinking about getting a dog. No more Betas, no more crickets (though the cricket really was cool - babies and all). Here are the two breeds we are looking at
for the time being. Any one have one? Benji on top, Norwich terrier on the bottom.