Reject du jour: your poor cat
Click on the cartoon for the larger version. (Image: carolita johnson)
I just heard the schmaltziest “op-ed” on NPR (about the so-called “War on Christmas “) from someone whose cred was that she does something for a site called “beliefnet.com.” If you can’t say something good about a person, it’s better to just make fun of their website’s “Why my pet is a blessing” feature with a few screengrabs and giving then the same treatment as the cartoon above:
Jude: “A saint of a dog”
Lisa-Dora: “God sent her to me.”
Sheena: “She saved my kids.”
Nevaeh: “Heaven spelled backwards.”
My other idea had been to put a health check next to each animal, a la: “Sparky: high-blood pressure, a stomach ulcer, and morbidly excessive licking of the entire living room carpet due to too much emotional responsability foisted upon her by owner, Sandy.”
BTW - this cartoon never even made it to TNY —I rejected it myself! It always made me chuckle, but it never seemed right for submission.
