Pet Monologues

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

Submissions: Beginning Wednesday 4/9/08 thru Friday—and maybe
a bit longer…

fada morange submits alice cherry blossom
under the willowtree submits bluebird
diane clancy submits emma in flowers
what works for us submits dog sausted
nanjodogz submits afghan hound green with envy (pendant & earring set)
paintalicous submits our beloved ganesa

alice cherry blossom

bluebird

emma in flowers

dog sausted

afghan hound green with envy

our beloved ganesa

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.

It’s been a week since Earth Hour 2008. So we looked around to see what happened then, and if anything since…

A student told me Google went black! Good for them. This is how my mind envisioned a black Google.

The normal Chicago skyline at bottom.

This taken from the Chicagoist…

Earth Hour officials indicate last year there were 2.2 million who participated in a one-hour effort to bring awareness to energy conservation. Yesterday, they estimated that number was around 10 million. In Chicago, the Sears Tower, the John Hancock, the Wrigley Building, and the Tribune Tower dimmed decorative lights, while 500 McDonald’s throughout Chicagoland turned off their golden arches. In the theatre district, marquees went dark, and Elphaba, the witch from “Wicked” turned out the lights with a dramatic “spell”. Navy Pier’s iconic ferris wheel went dark and nearly every store on the Magnificent Mile turned out their lights. Read the rest of this entry »

I had a month to put together a post on animal clothing. Not to write the story but to get the photos. Oddly enough it seemed easy enough. That’s because ever since our excursion to South Beach several months ago, where there are no naked animals, it’s clearly obvious that animal fashion is big.

Researched “hundreds” of photos and sadly, could only select four. Maybe you can find some that merit more exposure. Please.

If you are going to dress up, this is tasteful. This gets a thumbs up.

This is not a dog. I know this person. It’s aunty Martha. Only two years and she’s come back.

If you are going to dress up are you going to dress up like Bozo the Clown? No. This is a thumbs up.

Why aren’t there more cats dressing up? They would always do it right.
A thumbs up.

I am not sure when this phenom happened. Maybe it was always this way and I didn’t notice it. One thing for sure, the pet stores have morphed into something new. Not the big box stores, but the mom and pop’s, as smaller stores were once called. But that’s another storyline. Enter the pet boutique. They look like Filene’s Basement, Bloomingdales, Victoria Secret, or The Pleasure Chest (an adult clothing-apparatus store in our hood.)

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

Submissions: Beginning Wednesday 4/2/08 thru Friday—and maybe
a bit longer…

drawergeeks submits rabbits
diane clancy submits bambi in flowers
petmonologues submits paul robert’s red riding hood
petmonologues submits coolest toilet signs setters & pointers
dpchallenge submits doom watch

rabbits

bambi

red riding hood

setters & pointers

doom watch

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.

Caw to art! #15 alert!

Caw to art! is an effort to showcase animals and pets in an ARTFUL manner. A photograph, fine art, a scribble, sculpture. A poem, a monologue, a short story, motion. Read the rest of this entry »

What’s it mean? It means revealing a secret. Where did that
expression come from?

Image: Hans Neleman

Graham’s Random Ramblings. says, “Would appear as though in days of past one would trot off and buy a pig from your local butcher at the market. The pig would be placed in a bag for convenience. (The bag was called a “poke”). A dishonest butcher would replace the pig with a big cat. Now, if you opened the bag later, to find out that you had been taken for a ride, the cat was “let out of the bag”, the Butchers secret was exposed.

Back to the poke. If you buy a pig in a poke you have bought something worthless. From the same origin.

A number of sources say this is not true, the cat referred to is the cat ‘o nine tails, used to flog sailors in the Royal Navy. The whip was kept in a bag, and when taken out, it meant that the flogging was a certainty.”

Now Wikipedia didn’t know that!

What about “Horse Feathers”? Read the rest of this entry »

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

Submissions: Beginning Wednesday 3/26/08 thru Friday—and maybe
a bit longer…

outdoor oddities submits mountain lion on back porch
diane clancy submits violet in flowers
eric gustafson submits eric gustafson
scott stulberg submits southeast asia photography
hypnoteis submits freebird
pet monologues submits stuckincustoms.com photo top ten favorites
tilleke schwarz submits zomer

mountain lion

violet in flowers

eric gustafson

scott stulberg

freebird

top ten favorites

zomer

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.

Earth Hour 2007 was a Sydney, Australia event to fight global warming by saving energy and raising awareness. On March 29, 2008, Earth Hour
goes global.

Just a few days left before Earth Hour—March 29, 2008. 8-9pm. Between now and then send a reminder to your blogosphere connections to participate. You can continue to remind people about conserving energy for the rest of the year too! Here’s how…

1. Forward this information or create an original. (The image in this post is a photo taken from one of the many posters/signs/billboards in Chicago.)
2. Place your Earth Hour post on your blog along with these instructions…
3. Send a minimum of 5 bloggers—or your entire blogroll—to do the same. Notify them of the tag.
4. ADD your site to the list and place your blog’s name and url in a comment here to let me know you successfully forwarded this info. PM will acknowledge your success with a comment in your post. Email webmaster [at] petmonologues.com if you have questions. 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 3/19/08 thru Friday—and maybe
a bit longer…

zunafun submits cool-veggies
diane clancy submits bucky in flowers
pet monologues submits knock off
paintalicious submits father and sons
eric gustafson submits eric gustafson

cool-veggies

bucky in flowers

knock off

father and son

eric gustafson

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.

Nucaraquan’s celebrate mass for dogs.

MASAYA, Nicaragua (Reuters)—Hundreds of dogs, many dressed as babies or clowns, were taken to celebrate mass in this Nicaraguan town on Sunday, an annual ritual where the owners pray for their pets to be cured or avoid falling ill. Read the rest of this entry »