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OPEN POST: The Sunday Roast featuring Two Mommy Tommy!

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Getty Happy Sundog, possums! Today we have a tale of Tommy, he of Two Mommys. STAB Rescue Awww, who's a gooboyyyyy? Tommy is! You can see it from his Petfinder profile right cheer . One thing you will notice right away is that Tommy, currently being fostered with two mommys from STAB Rescue , (Facebook here ) is too much dog for any one man.  Or any two men. Or any number of men. And possibly an indeterminate number of bears as well. Tommy, you see, has had bad experiences with men throughout his young life, and needs females as his humans; additionally, he needs two because while he's a gooboy as previously established, he's just too much dog for one single person. And so it said in his listing, quite clearly. Now, how do you get two females? You ask for lesbians, and he did. Possums, the internet lost its freaking MIND! Tommy had to stir from the sofa and take to the keyboard to smack down the BIG FEELS HAVING boychilds of the interwebs.  Tommy the pit bull seeks two moms...

OPEN POST: The Sunday Roast featuring Jack Russell Terrier Racing

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  Getty   Ah, Autumn. There's a nip in the air, and probably in the pocket of the tweed jacket belonging to the stout gentleman with the field glasses. The sun beats down, melting the frost on the turf. The women are in silk headscarves, breeches, and puffer vests for once, athleisurewear of the last century, And we're all ready for the action to begin. It could be a steeplechase, or it could be a flat race, but the excitement is always the same. The sleek, powerful beasts are in the starting gate. The crowd holds its breath. THEY'RE OFF!     Horses? Who said anything about horses? I'm all about the Jack Russells, spunky little dogs who will tear your arm off if you try and stop them (which is why the people who catch them at the end wear the same kind of gloves as people who handle eagles, no lie). They are a wee titch excitable on race day (and every other day) and that's why the racing rules include muzzles these days. Bred as rat-catchers, these pups never shy a...

OPEN POST: The Sunday Roast, featuring the Knitting, Stilted Shepherds of Landes, France

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  Getty Images Happy Sundog, y'all! Today we're doing a road trip, as is traditional on Sunday, only instead of ending up at Grandma's house for hours of boredom with your cousins and food in every shade of beige, we're going to Landes, France, a century ago. And we're gonna get some nice sweaters while we're there.  Now a surfing capital and tourism destination, a hundred years ago it was mostly marsh and forest. The hard-working sheep herders of the local marshland got tired of wet feet, as one does. The land was great for grazing sheep, but not so good for the humans who looked after them.So they decided to watch their sheep on stilts (the shepherds, not the sheep. Sheep are terribly clumsy on stilts) and as they strode, stilted and majestic across the marsh, they knitted and spun the wool from their own flocks. I tell ya, the shepherds of Landes musta been hella coordinated! Science Photos   As you can see, the stilts were of the hands-free variety, and shep...

OPEN POST: The Sunday Roast with The Shmenge Brothers!

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Hello Peckers, and welcome to the second weekly Sunday Roast. Today our esteemed guests are those globe-trotting celebrities and heartbreakers, The Shmenge Brothers ! Here's their Fan Page on Facebook ! And here they are leading a jaded NYC audience in their big hit, "Cabbage Rolls and Coffee"! I'm sure you're sophisticated enough to recognize them, and probably shared a cocktail hour or two on the Riviera with these two international men of mystique and musique. For those who are not, the Shmenge Brothers are Stan Shmenge (John Candy) and Yosh/Josh Shmenge (Eugene Levy), polka sensations from the historic and glamorous nation of Leutonia. While Canada (specifically the Kitchener/Waterloo area of Southern Ontario) may be their legal residence, where they live in their mom's split level, their hearts are in Leutonia, and in the music which brings together the sophisticated and glamorous world of polka enthusiasts around the world.  Before there was Jack Black p...