Dog of the Year

What with Time naming everybody the "Person of the Year," Emmy is angling to snag Top Dog honors by uploading video of herself shredding a chew toy to YouTube:

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It's hard to blog when you don't have opposable thumbs.

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time did a good job

As 99.994% of the pets online are cats, I think she is a shoe in.

By Brad Holden (not verified) on 17 Dec 2006 #permalink

Kate, re: #1: . . . smells like spam to me.

Yeah, a bit. I deleted the URL.

Also, you couldn't use your own computer for this picture?

But the dog doesn't blog from my computer...
She finds it much easier to use the touch-pad than the mouse. It's that whole "opposable thumbs" thing again.

This reminds me of one of those irregular verbs in Yes (Prime) Minister:

I have an independent mind
You are an eccentric
He is round the twist