Via CNBC

Former French President Jacques Chirac sent his dog to a farm in the French countryside after it was unable to cope with life after the presidential palace, according to media reports.

Chirac’s dog Sumo, a Maltese Bichon terrier, started biting the former head of state after moving to a Paris apartment.

Sumo was treated for depression, but was unhappy after leaving the spacious gardens of the Palace Elysee.

The dog bit Chirac twice in past, but after jumping up and biting him on the chest, Chirac and his wife Bernadette decided the dog would be better off outside the city.

“He just never came to terms with leaving the Elysee,” Bernadette Chirac said, according to Le Parisien newspaper. “He was just little, he was a newborn and after some time, he started getting depressed in that apartment.”

The dog is now with family friends and hasn’t attacked anyone since leaving Paris.

Apparently, this has been ongoing since at least January 2009

Have you ever wanted to pretend that you’re handling uranium as you wash your pup and simultaneously weird out both your dog and every onlooker? Well now you can with this shower curtain featuring “full-arm waterproof gloves built in”. Wahoo!

Grief counselor/Nurse Practitioner: Marty Tousley gave The Examiner 5 signs that you and your pooch need some alone time. The following are the points as well as some selected life lessons from Tousley.

Sign 1: You only relate to your dog. Is it because I talk dog?

Sign 2: Your social life revolves around your dog. “You and your dog need time away from each other [...]allow your dog time with his canine friends too. ”

Sign 3: You believe you can’t live without your dog. “The very idea of him dying sends you in a tizzy.” When did not wanting to live without a dog equate to compulsive projection of hypochondria onto my canine?

Sign 4: You think about your pet to exclusion of other things. “These things include your health, hygiene and job” I always forget to shower when I’m with my dog.

Sign 5: Your relationships are damaged because of your dog. “Significant others fight with you constantly over your dog – or have left you alone over him”

Its funny though because we at OWMD would be extremely saddened if our dogs didn’t exhibit all five signs of an “unhealthy” love for us. Also, is it just us or did Marty simply replace “Dog” for “human” when she selectively attributed the signs of Dependent Personality Disorder to her article?

Yogadogs sells stuff with dogs doing yoga. While undoubtedly cool for a moment of distraction, I’m still trying to figure out why I would want a baseball tee of a Dachshund, inverted.

Exhibit 1 –  found on eBay:

Exhibit 2: Found on craigslist:

Wilco the bully mix “accidently” “jumped up on the column gear stick” and drove through the front of a café as his person left the engine running in order to buy beer. I don’t buy it, I think Wilco needed some caffeination, you can see the guilt on his face in the press photos. It turns out that this story ended in the best way, no one was hurt and there was little property damage with the owner and Wilco being let off with a warning from the Local Kiwi Police. Moral of the story is “always take the keys out of the car with you”, but I give them points for leaving the keys in the truck with Wilco as they take pictures of him, that takes guts.

Sad looking doggie mug shot and the Vid below.

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/driving-dog-let-off-warning-after-crash-2992911