Sunday, September 26, 2010

An Open Letter to my Neighbor

Dear Sir,

I know, you love your dog. That's nice. While I will profess to being a "cat person," and all that this entails, I feel a compulsive need to point out to you as I see you walking your beloved canine in my neighborhood, that your dog doesn't need a sweater.

It really doesn't.

I don't know if you're aware of this, or understand the adaptive nature of mammalian evolution, but your dog was born with a coat of fur designed for this very task. Keeping your pet warm in colder weather, that is.

So, having said that, putting a sweater on your dog is akin to putting a feathered boa on a parakeet.

I'd like to believe the best about you, and your motivations, and what you do on your own time and in your own private life. Unfortunately for you, I have to assume that your real intent of putting a sweater on your dog is that you can have a romantic moment later, when you slowly and cinematically undress your dog in an homage to the wedding night scene with Al Pacino and his Sicilian wife in the first "Godfather" movie.

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