First off, let me just say that the song I am referencing in the title is very silly. "Stupid" would imply that I hate it, which ...

As the previous entry hinted, low temperatures means relatively poor biodiversity. This makes a good portion of North America a wasteland c...

There is no animal more polarizing than the gray wolf, Canis lupus . Either you love wolves or you hate them. It is virtually impossible to...

For whatever reason, cops have been killing a lot of puppies, lately. There have been way too many instances of cops shooting family dogs, ...

For those of you who have not been keeping up with my entries, especially during Freak Weeks, I am not a dog person. This doesn't mean ...

You may have noticed a trend for this week: Small dogs tend to be weird. Versatile as the canid genome may be, abusing it is not without it...

Humans have a very weird definition of "cute." Generally, if it has big eyes, a nearly-flat face, and a short body, it fits this ...

You're probably thinking that this entry is some sort of bad joke. I already did an entry on eating dogs, after all. This was just my c...

Domesticity aside, dogs are usually considered masculine animals. You rarely, if ever, see puppies on birthday cards intended for girls. Do...

  For those of you who have not been following this blog for very long, I am not a dog person. In fact, I think there are some example...

Remember Eduardo Kac's GFP Bunny project? The one in which Alba, the glowing green bunny, was supposed to be integrated into normal bun...

I have a little philosophy regarding any form of art involving animals or their parts: If it isn't real, don't buy it. While I am n...

For the last year or so, I've been considering getting a dog. Specifically, I have plots to breed a bully whippet to a hairless dog and...

Is there any animal more overrated than wolves? We mean this in the best and worst senses: either wolves are the meanest, nastiest, most pow...

Wolves are overrated. Yes, they are cool animals, and yes, they are the closest relatives to the domestic dog, but they aren't endangere...

Wait. Wait. You said Thursday would have a tough dog, right? That is not a big, mean, tough dog like a Rottweiler or pit bull. That is a g...

Forgive my lateness. Had to stay up at campus a little later on Wednesday, but don't worry, I would never miss a chance to show you all ...

Pitting animals against each other has been around since the dawn of man. It probably started when one man said, "dude, let's start...

Heeeey! Guess what time it is? Freak Week III time! That means we're going to be looking at vicious, strange animals made not by nature,...