Let's be clear about how all of this "standing on dogs" stuff started and who is to blame:

[FSogol]

RIP Norman Bridwell (2/15/28-12/12/14)

[msanthrope]

1. You know, the sad thing is some Palin supporter is gonna see this and start some rant about

public television......

[FSogol]

2. As a little kid, I rode around on the back of dogs (like they were horses) all the time.

The dogs never seemed to mind, but I doubt I could do that today.

[FSogol]

3. The GHW Bush/Quayle crowd considered Public TV and Teacher's Unions as our nation's greatest evil.

Remember how they campaigned against fictional tv character, Murphy Brown?

[Mike Nelson]

4. On Ms. Palin's reading list!

...for sure!

[pintobean]

5. I've read it

as a kid and as a father - the same copy. Mom never threw anything away.

[Mike Nelson]

8. Me too!

...this and several Clifford books.

[Orrex]

6. Let's not forget his inter-species deception, either.

Merton The Monkey-Mouse? What kind of a dangerous mind would conceive of such a thing?

[handmade34]

7. many happy hours

reading this to my kids!!



all the brouhaha over Palin's dog is nonsense... just keeps an unfortunate, ignorant, sad woman in the news longer than she ever should have been...

the dog is fine

[niyad]

9. the dog may be fine this time (and do we actually know this for a fact?). but what happens the

next time this child does something like this, or worse?

[livetohike]

10. Nonsense? The people I know who have had children teach them to be gentle with pets, not use them as

a step stool and think it's cute.