I think there's a distinct difference between functional clothing for dogs and uncomfortable, frilly excesses like the above. Sort of like the difference between not sending your kids to school naked and entering them in a beauty pageant.

Sorry, 'greys' not as a color, but a nickname for greyhounds. Greyhounds do come in blue as well, it's a very popular color — a blue-fawn brindle is a gorgeous thing to behold.

I have two sighthounds, one retired racer and one lurcher. You can't chase them if they get loose — they are already gone before you start running. Greys top out around 45 mph, humans about 25 mph. Mine are both cat-safe (pretested by the rescue), some certainly have high prey drive but my ex-racer doesn't even chase…

Greyhounds come both is brindle (striped) and spotted patterns (like Dalmatians). Mottled is usually used to describe merle or ticking patterns in dogs. Greys also have a reverse spotted pattern — dark background with light spots — but it's very rare and mostly seen in Irish bloodlines.

Greyhounds can adapt to cold weather — my retired racer was born in Wisconsin and raced mostly in West Virginia. He puts on a reasonable winter coat every year, and refuses his coat until it gets to the freezing sleet stage.

The only thing that will kill this trend is a plague

Maybe this only applies to German and Czech dogs? My greyhound aligns himself according to how far he can get his butt over or into a bush, and how well he can align himself with a chain link fence.

My neighbor planting ugly topiary shrubs doesn't invalidate my rose garden. My friend's decision to adopt a small, yappy terrier doesn't make my greyhounds any less fabulous. (And they are fabulous.) My dad goes jogging every morning and this doesn't keep me from spending my morning asleep.

I was hoping that one of the Exotic Shorthairs would turn out to be a robot, but no. I kept thinking 'That's the wrong meow for this situation!", "Is that cat kneading while playing with a toy, WTF?".

I thought a common delusion of pedophiles was that their victims love them, or come to love them, and that anything that happens is due to the kid 'wanting' it.

Maybe they should have thought out the plan to piss off both non-rednecks (with stupid statements) and actual rednecks (with stereotyping) at the same time. That just doesn't seem like an option for long term success, unless they are betting on people watching just to be outraged — like Jerry Springer or Fox news.

There are a lot of authors who have trouble writing male characters — romance genres particularly. They come across as whiny women with more muscles, or impossibly dull fluffy types with no motivation.

It's not so much the five women, it's that some of them were willing to have MORE THAN ONE child with him. Making a mistake is one thing, but these are repeat offenders.

Oversimplification for those asking:

I think if she is uncomfortable with the highly-recommended flu shot then she probably shouldn't be in the physically demanding and contagion rich environment her job requires. I would think miscarrying is more likely due to lifting someone into or out of bed, or accidental exposure to medications intended for others,…

I'm starting to wonder if that 'stuff written on her hand' scandal was just to direct attention away from the greater 'illiterate' problem.

I'm 6'1", most of it leg, so an airplane trip means bruised kneecaps and sciatica. Occasionally a bruised head if I stand up too fast and forget the ceiling isn't far enough away. I'm kinda used to not fitting in the space around me though, I've been tall a long time and aircraft are just the most extreme example.

THIS!

I don't think that's rape-specific — people in shock due to other traumas act the same way. But I've heard that before, that cops have gone after the incorrect murder suspect or didn't believe a witness because someone showed blank shock instead of the traditional crying/grief.

When I worked at a grocery store bakery, I saw quite a few folks whose kids birthdays had unfortunate holiday overlaps celebrating half-birthdays instead. Seemed like a good solution to me. None of the kids seemed to care that the celebration wasn't the "real" birthday.