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You are here: Home / Pet Blogging / Dog Blogging / I Have Only One Burning Desire

I Have Only One Burning Desire

by @heymistermix.com|  January 1, 20153:10 pm| 37 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Open Threads

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We had a NYE party at our house last night. When we were in the other room, our mutt decided that she needed to be on a table with burning candles. Here’s the result of her near-miss with immolation. This is after the black parts have been removed. Luckily, it didn’t burn down to the skin so the only other evidence of her little mishap is a lingering stink of singed hair. Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    gogol's wife

    January 1, 2015 at 3:14 pm

    I know exactly what happened. You left the TV on TCM, and she saw Elvis singing “hunka hunka burning love.”

  2. 2.

    RSA

    January 1, 2015 at 3:15 pm

    “Yeah, she used to belong to a smoker…”

  3. 3.

    srv

    January 1, 2015 at 3:17 pm

    Never seen a dog with flame highlights.

  4. 4.

    Violet

    January 1, 2015 at 3:17 pm

    Burning down the house.

  5. 5.

    Betty Cracker

    January 1, 2015 at 3:20 pm

    OMFG, that’s hilarious! But only because she wasn’t actually injured.

  6. 6.

    John Cole +0

    January 1, 2015 at 3:24 pm

    I’d probably kill myself if my owners decided to dress me up.

  7. 7.

    Citizen_X

    January 1, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    And her coat looks so nice! Well, except for the burned part.

  8. 8.

    Violet

    January 1, 2015 at 3:26 pm

    @John Cole +0: Do your piglets throw themselves out the window when you put the Steelers collars on them?

  9. 9.

    Citizen_X

    January 1, 2015 at 3:26 pm

    @John Cole +0:

    if my owners decided to dress me up.

    = “made me put on pants.”

  10. 10.

    Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)

    January 1, 2015 at 3:28 pm

    Keaton once spent a few months with whiskers on only one side of his face because he wanted to know what fire smells like. Silly kitty.

    Still watching the Rose Parade on my DVR. I feel sorry for the guys who had to go shirtless for their floats today, because it was about 35 degrees at parade start time. G saw ice during his walk this morning, but no snow like they got in the high desert.

  11. 11.

    Violet

    January 1, 2015 at 3:28 pm

    I played around with the Tom Friedman sentence generator ruemara linked in the previous thread. This is my favorite:

    There is simply appalling.

    Yes. Yes there is.

  12. 12.

    JPL

    January 1, 2015 at 3:29 pm

    There is wax that you can buy that smells like candles and there are battery operated candles. It’s time to make the switch. Of course, the wax probably is poisonous to dogs so you must consider that.
    Finch has a Christmas collar but that is due to the fact it has bells on. Since I have a wooded yard, it’s easier to find him.

    Lucky dog though.

  13. 13.

    Violet

    January 1, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPad Mini): It was a lovely parade on TV. The sky was so blue. Gorgeous. I liked the theme this year too.

  14. 14.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 1, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    Here’s the opening sentence of a news story: “A 23-year-old Florida man chopped off his mother’s head with an axe because she kept nagging him about chores, police said Thursday. ”

    I thought the idea was to build up to a climax, to get people to read to the end. With a sentence like that, your attention peters out in the first paragraph.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 1, 2015 at 3:33 pm

    Nothing worse than the aroma of burning fur or hair. I used to have a cat who was fascinated by lit candles, but he never did learn to keep his whiskers and eyebrows away from the flame. Stupid cat.

    Edit: Wrote and posted this before I saw Mnem’s comment.

  16. 16.

    Karen S.

    January 1, 2015 at 3:34 pm

    And in Florida…

    No discrimination going on here, no siree.
    Is this where I insert an obligatory “Thanks, Obama”?

  17. 17.

    Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)

    January 1, 2015 at 3:39 pm

    @Violet:

    I don’t know if it’s like this in the other parts of the country, but the first local TV broadcast in So Cal is commercial-free, so that’s the one I DVR. We’re stuck with jackass Bob Eubanks as the co-host, but you can’t have everything.

  18. 18.

    Amir Khalid

    January 1, 2015 at 3:41 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:
    Then again, maybe editors want shorter stories these days because readers’ attention spans are declining. That one-line story could be shortened even more:
    “A 23-year-old Florida man chopped off his mother’s head beheaded his mother with an axe because she kept nagging him about chores, police said Thursday. ”

    And that’s your whole story right there. It’s not like people are going to care about the guy’s name or his occupation, which is probably “unemployed”. The day is coming, mark my words, when news stories will be no more than just the headline.

  19. 19.

    LWA (Liberal With Attitude)

    January 1, 2015 at 3:43 pm

    Cool article in the New Yorker– “The Moral Work Of Gun Control”

    The majority is there, and the mental work is accomplished. This means that though the moral work—of persuasion, conviction, and shaming—needs to go on, we can be confident that it will go on and win, too, in the long run. There is nothing so irresistible as an idea that happens to be true. Piece by piece, legislation by litigation, the curse will be lifted. Time and temperament and patience will win out. This is the belief that the Victorians called “progressivism” and it is still much mocked. But the neat thing is that it happens to be true.

    We just need to be persistent- again, and again, asking-, forcing the issue to the forefront- why should there be a right to own deadly weapons? Why can’t guns be a privilege like driving?

  20. 20.

    Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)

    January 1, 2015 at 3:46 pm

    @Karen S.:

    Some counties did that here in California when gay marriage was first legalized. I’m not sure if it’s still the case or if they eventually backed down. What ended up happening out here was that there were people who volunteered to take over those courthouse weddings when the clerks refused to do them, so people weren’t inconvenienced just because some county clerks were crybabies.

  21. 21.

    Roger Moore

    January 1, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    @Amir Khalid:
    If you use “beheaded”, people will assume he’s a Muslim doing it for religious reasons.

  22. 22.

    Botsplainer

    January 1, 2015 at 3:52 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPad Mini):

    Keaton once spent a few months with whiskers on only one side of his face because he wanted to know what fire smells like. Silly kitty

    You have simply failed to have the routine discussion that I have with my old cat about what curiousity does to them – kills ’em dead.

    The little shit never listens.

  23. 23.

    Amir Khalid

    January 1, 2015 at 3:55 pm

    @Roger Moore:
    The French beheaded people as capital punishment up to late 1977. They even invented an apparatus for it. Besides, “beheaded” is a shorter word than “decapitated”.

  24. 24.

    LWA (Liberal With Attitude)

    January 1, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    @Roger Moore: I’m going to assume the young man was raised a Christian.
    So the proper headline would be “Religious extremist beheads American mom!! Obama refuses to make comment!”

  25. 25.

    gogol's wife

    January 1, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    @LWA (Liberal With Attitude):

    Good resolution for 2015.

  26. 26.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 1, 2015 at 4:06 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Look at you, assuming people know ancient history. How cute.

  27. 27.

    Karen in GA

    January 1, 2015 at 4:19 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPad Mini): My Elwood singed his tail standing on the coffee table near a lit candle. I noticed the smell before he got hurt, though, so there was no learning experience for him.

  28. 28.

    Bobby Thomson

    January 1, 2015 at 4:37 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I thought the idea was to build up to a climax, to get people to read to the end.

    That’s how novelists write. Journalists and business writers are trained to do the exact opposite and put everything up front because it’s expected that most won’t read the whole thing.

  29. 29.

    satby

    January 1, 2015 at 4:40 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Well, remember he was schooled in another country, so it’s a safe assumption for where Amir is from. Americans are also exceptionally proud to be ignorant.

    Edited to add: WAIT! 1977 is ancient history? Not to me!

  30. 30.

    Bobby Thomson

    January 1, 2015 at 4:43 pm

    @LWA (Liberal With Attitude):

    There is nothing so irresistible as an idea that happens to be true.

    Actually, there is nothing so irresistible as wanting that statement to be true. It is not, as evidenced by, among other things, the actions of the Kansas Board of Education. The arc of history doesn’t bend toward anything, despite what teleologists want to believe.

  31. 31.

    gogol's wife

    January 1, 2015 at 5:13 pm

    @Bobby Thomson:

    So you think no progress has been made in human justice over the last 300 years?

  32. 32.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 1, 2015 at 5:19 pm

    @satby: Ha. You see what I did there.

    To most Americans 2014 is now ancient history.

  33. 33.

    Violet

    January 1, 2015 at 5:37 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPad Mini): I’m not aware of that option. I guess it could be on a cable station somewhere. I watched the ABC broadcast, then flipped over via another receiver to the NBC broadcast and rewound and watched that one. The NBC one showed several different bands and floats from the ABC one. Must be nice to see it without commercial interruption!

  34. 34.

    LWA (Liberal With Attitude)

    January 1, 2015 at 5:54 pm

    @Bobby Thomson:
    The hard work of persuasion, conviction and shaming is even more important, if you believe that the moral arc of the universe doesn’t bend toward anything.

    We can’t rest assuming that some invisible universal force will bring about justice. There’s only us, with our voices and energy and courage to stand up and confront the forces that depend on fear and ignorance.
    We have only the simple logic repeated over and over- there is no such thing as a right to own a deadly weapon. We don’t need to be sucked down into the weeds of magazine size, public crime statistics or irrelevancies of armed revolution.

    We can cut this off at the root level.

    There is no moral logic that suggests that a deadly weapon upon demand is a natural right.

  35. 35.

    AdamK

    January 1, 2015 at 6:02 pm

    They say it’s good luck to start off the new year with roast doggie. Just don’t forget the sauerkraut.

  36. 36.

    Mnemosyne

    January 1, 2015 at 7:36 pm

    @Violet:

    I think it’s a So Cal only option — one of our local stations, KTLA, is the one that does it (and it’s only for the live show that starts at 8 am Pacific time). Someone might put it up on YouTube somewhere. Apparently Honda is the primary sponsor that pays for it, though other sponsors get shout-outs as well.

  37. 37.

    Elizabelle

    January 1, 2015 at 8:50 pm

    Laughing at the blogpost title.

    Glad Soonerpup will live to get into something else another day.

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