My mom just bought both sets. “It’s called ‘Dogtivity,’” she said, “I asked the woman who runs the place if they get a lot of complaints about it. She said ‘tons.’”
“I can imagine,” I said, “I’m thinking of phoning in a complaint myself.”
“Does it offend your religious sensibilities?”
“No, my aesthetic sensibilities. Sacreligious I can handle, but this is hideous.”
Look at this thing. It’s a velvet painting brought into three terrible dimensions. They made the baby Jesus into a yappy little lap dog! Behold your Lord and Terrier, Jesus Christ, King of the Shih Tzus. His most famous miracle was the wedding in Cana, where he made water and whined. Dammit, you shouldn’t want to punt the Christ child! That’s just not right!
Um… I liked it. I liked the polar bear one too. And the cat one was cool as hell – the little kitty angels were up on one of those carpetted scratching trees people have for their cats.
But nobody has ever accused me of having good taste.
