Pet Monologues

If you think the Pug can clean your monitor, wait until you see the cat clean your monitor.

The cat’s tongue…

When our cat scarfs his moist food placed on his chrome Wetnoz serving-plate, the surface looks like a mirror. There is nothing left, just a haze-free shine. You could not get the same results with sandpaper, yet that is what his tongue can feel like on your face in the middle of the night.

A Grooming Tool and More
A cat’s ability to groom itself is the result of numerous knobs called papillae on the surface of a cat’s tongue. Located at the tongue’s center, the papillae form backward-facing hooks containing large amounts of keratin, the same material found in human fingernails. These hooks provide the abrasiveness a cat needs for self-grooming. Read the rest of this entry »

Caw to art! is an effort to showcase pets and animals in an ARTFUL manner. A photograph, fine art, a scribble, sculpture. A poem, a monologue, a short story, motion.

Submissions: Beginning Wednesday 2/20/08 thru Friday—and maybe
a bit longer…

Art lovers. #10 will be moved back till next week, 2/27/08. You are invited to submit artful comments…

Still steeping…

…in the meantime. Questions? Comments? Editor’s note: please look at Comment 1 below for more C2a! details as well as look at the previous editions of Caw to art!…

and while you are curating your submissions don’t forget Friday Ark roster for this weekend. And Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday.

The HSUS offers reward in Indianapolis horse shooting.

The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward up to $2,500 for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for the shooting death of ­a 29-year-old quarter horse, who was found dead in the back yard of an Indianapolis woman’s home. Read the rest of this entry »

Cat flees fire. Ends up 240 miles away

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.(AP)—A cat that fled a house fire is back home in Albuquerque, N.M., after turning up some 240 miles away. Read the rest of this entry »

Michigan-shaped spot may save steer.

SPAULDING TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP)—One steer’s unique hide may save it from someone’s dinner table. Read the rest of this entry »

Honey, will you get that?

First there came Animals as friends and now we have animals as phones.

note: this post among many others can be seen on friday ark and do you have scott’s number?

Can this be done? Anyone?

citikitty

Are you sick of cleaning out litter boxes or wanting to show off fluffy’s party manners? Anyone feel this is a little too much information for the cat?

We are reminded that Robert DeNiro trained Jinxey. Until we know more, we are just the messenger here.

The above information assumes a new product and the following is the old fashioned way which may assume a therapist. Read the rest of this entry »

This my friends is a real moose!

Without the picture, this would be hard to believe. Unbelievable! Read under the picture…

pogo moose incident—fairbanks, alaska

‘They were laying new power cables which were strung on the ground for miles. The moose are rutting right now and very agitated. He was thrashing around and got his antlers stuck in the cables. When the men (miles away) began pulling the lines up with their big equipment, the moose went up with them. They noticed excess tension in the lines and went searching for the problem. He was still alive when they lowered him to the ground. He was a huge 60 inch bull and slightly peeved!’

editor: hours after posting we got a little suspicious of this one. see what snopes.com has to say…

USDA recalls 143,000 pounds of meat.

CALIFORNIA—The U.S. Department of Agriculture initiated the largest meat recall in U.S. history today, recalling 143 million pounds of beef from a macabre California slaughterhouse that chopped up downer cows—a rich source of mad cow disease—and sold them to school districts across the nation. Read the rest of this entry »

This post celebrates World Animal Day and Bless the Animals. Follow the links to learn more about PM’s initiative which started on October 4 07

Designers and their following have a go at animal-powered messaging.

Everybody’s Poultry Magazine, January 1952—Dairy Today, January 2008

Was problem solving different 50 years ago? In design you didn’t have the computer at your finger tips. Nor Google. Nor blogs.

Blogs offer speedy feedback whether you wish it or not. Speaking of blogs, one can’t help noticing which blogs consist of one sentence, “grunt” or “bleep” commentary and those which are a bit longer winded. Blogs that generate the most in-depth discussion are politics, religion, science, technology, art and design. Probably because of their philosophical and analytical nature. One does wonder what a pet blog would look like if political, religious, aesthetics zealots would permeate the commentary.
Think it’s possible to intellectualize poop?

The upside to the rhetoric and commentary the blog format provides: opinions, inspirations, recollections, facts, networking, and not least of all, reading pleasure. Want another opinion? Pet bloggers, are grunters.

If you wish to have a front row seat in a discussion focusing on animal imagery visit designobserver Everyone loves to observe a good conversation! BTW—we are supportive of the new cover design by D. J. Stout, Pentagram.

PM loves it because where there is conversation there is growth. We are all for raising animal awareness and continue to collect works that showcase animals in commercial messaging media via Bless the Animals.