Stoned Labrador rescued on Ben Nevis after eating cannabis
Tokyo has since made a full recovery.
Dogs
Seamus: The musical dog that joined Pink Floyd in 1971
Pink Floyd let a dog into the studio during a recording session.
Satire goes off-leash: How fake dog adverts in ‘Canine Quarterly’ became high art
Think Vogue—but for weird dogs.
‘Benji Takes a Dive’: Watch America’s favorite canine become the first dog to scuba dive
Dogs have done some pretty stupid shit for our entertainment. Toto, Air Bud, Beethoven, Lassie, Spuds Mackenzie–they may have been famous film and TV canines,…
David Lynch’s memorably pointless comic strip ‘The Angriest Dog in the World’
It was hiding in plain sight, and yet it was almost designed not to be noticed at all. For several years from the mid-1980s to…
‘I did one and I’ll never do it again’: Tom Waits’ dog food commercial
Tom Waits is in some sense the poster boy for the notion of willful independence from the clutches of corporations tempting musical artists with advertising…
Attention crate diggers: Next time you see a record called ‘Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog,’ BUY IT!
One-hit-wonder Norma Tanega is known only for “Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog,” her soulful, folky quasi-novelty song of 1966 that reached #22 in the pop…
Perpetually shirtless Iggy Pop annihilates an acoustic version of ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ on UK TV
About a month ago I posted about a sweet grouping of appearances by Jane’s Addiction, Sonic Youth, Screaming Trees and a few other notable 90s…
‘Dog Breath in the Year of the Plague’: A fanboy’s appreciation of Frank Zappa’s ‘Uncle Meat’
It was listening to the Dr. Demento radio show at some point in the 1970s—probably 1976—where I first heard three artists I would come to…