Is it dog week at The Toast? I love dog week!

Shame and Degradation dog looks like he is in the dog version of When Mum Isn't Home.

brb gonna go slam an oven door open and shut

I grew up with a chow, and they're great. Fluff factor much higher than wolves.

No wolf-y regrets. I'd do it again, I tell ya!

i don't know what i was expecting, but this was amazing.

My uncle has 7 (seven!!!) chow mixes and they run around his farm as a giant pack of fluff. It's so beautiful.

I thought this was gonna be a really sad article about environmental degradation so THANK YOU.

At Metafilter there is a house rule that any post or comment about one's pet(s) must include pictures of said pet(s). I think we should adopt this rule here.

This is why I'm a cat person - they have some goddamn self-respect.

PUPPIESSSSSSSSSS

I love the proud dachshund family portrait.

Is this where we can discuss the Pope saying/not saying dogs go to heaven? OBVIOUSLY DOGS GET A FREE PASS TO HEAVEN, THEY ARE BETTER THAN ALL OF US.

I'm always kinda confused that different dog breeds show any affinity for each other. Not really sure how a wolfhound and a dachshund recognize each other as the same species. I feel like that'd be like me walking up to an ostrich and being like, 'oh cool, you're bipedal and have a face of sorts, sounds pretty human to me. Do you know if there is a Chipotle around here?'

Also, during a tender moment I once leaned over to my then girlfriend and whispered, "Baby, you're like an Alaskan sled dog, cuz I'd be lost without you" and then burst into laughter.
Favorite part was she'd never seen Balto, so she didn't think I'd just dropped the world's cheesiest children's cartoon inspired joke-line, she just thought I was a lunatic.

you all laugh as if this weren't monstrous. There are three Corgis I often see out and about in my neighborhood -- I know them all by sight -- I have no idea who walks them, I never look up that far -- but I feel such shame for loving them, such shame as the Roman must feel for the dying defeated Gaul, if it had been possible that the Gaul's pride had been stamped out of him along with his life or, in the case of the corgi, his legs. this is the cost of empire, the moral degradation that comes with absolute power, the knowledge that you can do all this to a dumb beast and every physical and spiritual indignity will only make it love you more.

anyhow that's why I have a cat

This is where I get to gloat about my dogs living their best life, right?

I never want to be a dog owner/parent but I love other people's dogs. There is nothing in this world like a happy dog. This post and the comments are giving me life.

Dogs, man. DOGS.

Aaaaaaaaaaand now I'm on petfinder at work. Thanks, Toast.

Ok, but real poodles who haven't been maliciously coiffed are really normal dogs with healthy proportions and shit.