August 7, 2003
Hawks Vs. Ratdogs
Bryant Park has put the hawk program on ice after the other day's ratdog-mauling by hawk Galan. The Daily News reports that while the proogram was successful (50% reduction in park-user-harassing-pigeon), Parks spokeswoman Megan Sheekey says, "We place the safety of park users, including pets, over any minor inconveniences that may be caused by pigeons." Gothamist suggests that tiny rat dogs be given those medical collar crowns - huge ones - so hawks won't mistake them for rats. Hawks should stay at Bryant Park if not for their useful pigeon and rat killing ability, but for their inherent coolness.
Now, there are many trends that Gothamist enjoys from Japan (usually involving gadgets or Hello Kitty), but loving tiny dogs isn't going to be one of them. Currently, Japan is going gaga over Que-chan, the chihuahua. Que-chan appeared in a commercial for bank Aiful, and has sold "80,000 [copies of a photo collection], a children's picture book, and over 200 related products." Plus now Que-chan is on the Aiful credit card (in clothes) and has a CD (with "the raw voice of Que-chan") coming out this month. We'll take your panda transformers and your candy & snacks but not this. Oh, no.
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"Currently, Japan is going gaga over Que-chan, the chihuahua."
Now that Galan is looking for work, we might want to send him over to Japan.
agree on both the inherent coolness of hawks and the definite higher utility of pigeon erradication vs. rat-dogs.
not everyone in japan loves the little dogs. check out http://whyjapansucks.blogspot.com (see 8/1 through 8/3). long haired dachsunds seem to be the current rage and their owners like to purchase them in herds of at least two.
I've got it--send all the ratdogs in NY to Sharon Osbourne, the Grand Dame of All RatDogs. They can live their spoiled little lives pissing on expensive Persian rugs. (Just save one for me so he can sit in a coffee mug on my desk and keep me company at work.)
i just saw part of a seinfeld episode last night where kramer has his own "talk show" and has an animal trainer as a guest. the trainer brought a hawk, and george brought his squirrel for the trainer to look at--you can guess the rest...
Brown Hawk Down?!
That snit is funny.
If you don't like "ratdogs," don't buy them. I don't like them, so I don't have them. There's nothing wrong with people owning them if they like them. Other people owning them won't threaten your masculinity--don't worry.
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Hmm, we'll take it under consideration, marie. Maybe when J & K have a kid or when I decide to settle down, if ever. But honestly, I rather have a panda dog. That is guaranteed cute. With a kid, I'm worried that it won't be cute - I am that vain. And that I can't teach it to read. Or potty train it. So I rather deal with a panda dog.
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