April 21st, 2008
I came across this article today courtesy of the Telegraph dealing with the age old question: do you make your dog sleep on the floor, or allow the cuddly critter up onto your bed so you can snuggle and wake up in a pool of saliva that (for once) is not your own? To be totally honest, I didn’t even read the article. I was about to, until I saw this photo:
Anything strike you as odd about that picture? Maybe the fact that it looks like that dog is getting cozy with the two dead bodies of his owners lying in bed together??? Look at those feet: they look cold, lifeless, and deceased. Even if you scrutinize their blurry faces in the background, they have that bloodless hue to them, not to mention more than a hint of “vacant, dead stare-itis.” It also may not be a coincidence that the dog kind of looks like it’s just realized it might not be getting fed any time soon. Perhaps it’s an odd choice of camera filter made by the photographer. Perhaps it’s a race of people who, unbeknownst to me, do not require circulation to survive. But whatever the reason, I took the liberty to Photoshop back in what the Telegraph so clearly airbrushed out in the first place:
