If you're cold, I suggest a scarf.

I'm a dog person, but mostly a big dog person.  Small dogs, in my experience, are trip hazards and I'm already enough of a klutz.  Something about small dogs, though, seems to make pet owners think that the animals are either small children or accessories.  They're dressed up in leopard-print dresses, carried around in Louis Vuitton purses, and adorned with blinged-out collars and leashes.

The action that really mystifies me, however, is driving with your small dog in your lap.  Would you drive with a toddler in your lap?  How is this not dangerous?  How can you possibly rationalize this into being a good idea?  But taking those questions one step further, what I saw on my drive home from work tonight left me scratching my head and fearing what other indiginities this poor little dog might suffer.

I pulled up behind a minivan that appeared to contain a couple with the woman driving and the man in the passenger seat.  I saw a small dog's head appear to the right of the woman's head, and as I rolled closer I was stunned (STUNNED!) to realize that the dog was actually DRAPED AROUND THE WOMAN'S NECK.

I gaped at the sight as the minivan turned onto a side street, and tried to think of a rational reason for the doggie neckwarmer.  I'm still trying.

Comments

[dawnmski]

OMG! That is hilarious!

[Jennifer]

Y'know, I'm a little disappointed that you didn't follow her home to either (a) ask her WTH she was (not) thinking, or (b) get a picture.

;-)

[stylishboots]

Heh. Given my utterly unsuccessful attempts to get a photo of the crazy "BP does not buy weapons from Russia to destroy the USA" sign, I'm not so sure a picture would've worked out for me.

I probably should've followed her into Walgreens, though. ;-)