Fast Fact: A staggering 150 million Americans own pets. Dogs are the most popular, followed by cats, birds, fish, snakes, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, rabbits and, believe it or not, fancy imported bugs, such as the Madagascan Hissing Roach and Giant Australian Stick Bug, which looks like a preying mantis and grows to the size of a basset hound!
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Pets aren’t as smart as you think they are, especially when they do idiotic things like chew on live electrical cords or greedily lap vomit off the floor fearing you’ll get it before they do.
But not even those lapses in judgment can compare with the stone-cold stupidity of the critters that have just been named The World’s Dumbest Pets by Doody Treats, Inc., a Dallas, Texas-based company that makes poo-flavored snacks for, who else? – pets that like to eat that stuff.
“People like to think their animals are smart, but, in fact, pets act like pea-brained idiots most of the time,” Doody Treats spokesman Candal Myller told me exclusively.
“For every bright thing they do, like bring in the morning paper, they’ll do 10 dumb things — like shred the side of your new couch with their claws or chew the seat belts in your car because you left them alone for two minutes while you ran into a 7-11 for a candy bar.”
And that’s mere child’s play compared to the shenanigans the firm’s contest winners pulled. Here they are:
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