3 posts tagged “poop”
But for the rest of you sulphurous bastards, there's this.
Really, Voiceover Guy? Nothing worse than, dog forbid, people smelling traces of the breakfast burrito you ate earlier? Cyclones and earthquakes kill tens of thousands, girls get locked away in basement caves for 20 years and are forced to bear their rapist father's incestuous spawn, dirty old perverts get to amass a collection of obedient, underage brides in the name of religious freedom, children die of easily preventable diseases every minute. But no, there is NOTHING WORSE than the smell of other people's poop.
The sweet and dignified Hector, for all his admirable greyhound qualities, has one vice: he gets into the trash. And since neither of our other greyhounds had this bad habit, we are occasionally careless with what we throw in the wastepaper baskets, or with not closing the door to the cupboard where the kitchen garbage lives. Greyhounds have notoriously sensitive digestive systems.
Today, I got home from work:
"Hi doggies! How w-- Oh god, WTF is that smell?"
I hear snarling and grumbling from upstairs. Mr. BrownA had gotten home shortly before me, and had discovered the large, goopy puddle of doggy diarrhea on the bathroom floor. Finders cleaners is the rule in our house. This is one evening I'm glad I had to work late :)
The mess is cleaned, the dog has been walked multiple times to, um, clean him out. We shoved Immodium down his throat and he will not get dinner tonight.
Candles and incense are burning away. But there's still that unmistakable whiff. Lovely.
'Noble' puffin a perfect mascot, Ignatieff says
Alana Toulin, The Ottawa Citizen; with files from CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, August 31, 2007Canadian political parties might not have official birds just yet, but deputy Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has a suggestion for his party -- the humble Atlantic puffin.
"They put their excrement in one place. They hide their excrement ... They flap their wings very hard and they work like hell," he told reporters at the annual summer caucus gathering in St. John's, Nfld.
"This seems to me a symbol for what our party should be."
Not to mention the fact that their black-and-white plumage and brightly coloured beaks are a perfect match with Liberal red.
Calling them a "noble" species, a colony of puffins caught Mr. Ignatieff's eye on a whale-watching trip for Liberal caucus members. He didn't have much choice -- there were no whales out to watch. And like a true politician, Mr. Ignatieff praised puffins for their "good family values." "They stay together for 30 years," he said.
Being the official symbol of the Liberal party would do wonders to raise the profile of the seabird. Right now, puffins are best known as the official bird of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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