Where is PETA when you need them?

[featherynscale]

Seriously. Dog yoga. For those of you keeping score, dogs really don't get the whole yoga positioning thing, so dog yoga seems to mostly consist of people stretching and bending their dogs into various positions. This is a great idea, and I'm sure the dogs really enjoy it. For gods' sake, people. They're dogs, not dolls. They don't want to do yoga, or wear funny hats, or go to the shrink, or any of those other things that people who have trouble differentiating dogs from children seem to want them to do. Dogs want to run around, smell things, roll in dead things, and occasionally chase a ball, a cat, or a car. Then, having done one or more things which will cause them to stink like utter doom, they want to come into your house, and sit in your lap. And fart. Those are things that dogs do. Yoga is not on the list.

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Speaking only for my own dogs, of course.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

The dingo, as well as the two dogs we had before her, loved it when I did yogo. It meant they had easy access to my nostrils...there was this squishy mat to lay on to impede my movement...several opportunities to push their butts in my face...and other unnameable sorts of fun. Plus, in certain positions, they could make faces at me when I farted.

I also think they particularly enjoyed sitting on the couch while I rolled around on the floor...well, like a dog.

Re: Speaking only for my own dogs, of course.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

The critical difference here is that at no point did you grab the dingo's back legs and lift them up like a wheelbarrow racer.

I'm all for people doing yoga, even in the presence of dogs, if need be. You are perfectly capable of consenting to yoga. It's the thing where they make the dogs do it too that bothers me.

"grab the dingo's back legs and lift them up like a wheelbarrow racer"

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

No, that's weight training.

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

AMEN SISTA!!

Oh dear

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

So, we're not even going to mention dog massage, right?

Whoopsie.

Re: Oh dear

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

Maybe a little shiatzu for a shitzu?

Re: Oh dear

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I don't know - I can at least see that massage might be beneficial to a dog. I mean, it's related to petting, and I think that we can all agree that petting is good for a dog, right? Still, ridiculous on face.

PETA and Dog Yoga

[orcjohn.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately from the few rabid PETA members I've known Dog Yoga is probably considered manditory. And OF COURSE your dog needs to see a Psychaitrist at $500/hour, he lives with YOU afterall, and how else will you understand what is motivation for going poopie on your bed/carpet/shoes etc is. Afterall, he should be able to use the toilet if he needs to "go" while you have him locked inside all day while you're at work. But what do I know.. I'm more into the Eating of Tasty Animals myself.

Seriously.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I just want to know what is wrong with that woman's hips in the teaser picture. Too much "doga"??

The article is actually pretty funny; you can almost hear the author laughing their ass off at these crazies. Too bad the dogs have to suffer for their owner's amusement.

"My little Fluffy was much less energetic after doga!" Well no shit, lady...you probably confused the poor thing, not to mention mangling its joints into positions canines were never meant to assume. Paws together for prayer? St. Francis, preserve us...

Re: Seriously.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

This was my favorite line:
"But then statistics, as Dr Johnson himself might have observed, are often used as a dog uses a lamppost - more for support than illumination."

As it turns out, I know a few things about the habits of dogs and lamp-posts. Support really isn't in it, but I'm all about the concept of pissing on statistics.