In typical style of this blog I have decided to start a new section, like most of my other sections this will probably run for one or two posts and then fade into obscurity. The section is called “Pete’s Advert Watch” and the concept is I discuss product advertisements which have caught my attention recently.

My favourite advert currently is for Britain’s favourite dried dog food (I think it might be Bakers Complete). The storyline is brilliant, the voice over states that dogs would have to go along way to find a tastier dried dog food than this one. Some intrepid Dogs are then shown travelling into space, once in orbit of the earth they dock with a space station. What do they find on this space station? Only a collection of Space-faring dogs enjoying Britain’s Favourite dog food! How do they come up with these amazing ideas!

In the 1950s and 1960s the crazy Russians (USSR at the time) sent a number of dogs into space to determine if human space travel could be possible. The first animals intentionally sent into space were fruit flies, a Monkey called Albert II was the first mammal sent into space in 1949. Tragically Albert II died on return to earth due to a parachute failure.

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James Vernon Holbert Jr had been out drinking and decided he was too drunk to drive home, he decided to let his 14 year old son drive, unfortunately his son was Drunk too. Congratulations James you are this weeks Wally of the Week!

Mr Holbert faces up to 5 years in the slammer when he is sentenced in May. Unsurprisingly his intoxicated son couldn’t handle the vehicle very well and crashed it into a tree. The teen was charged with driving without a license and driving after illegal consumption of alcohol, which are both misdemeanours in Virginia.

Above is a picture of a dog driving a car because I couldn’t find a picture of a child driving one. Last weeks “Wally of the Week” was a Ginger Wally.

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Now as I have mentioned before on this blog I am a big follower of Canine Fashion, my hot dog style tip for 2007 (not to be confused with my hotdog style tip which is ketchup and onions) is to dress your dog as a giant bumble bee. I discovered this amazing style tip-off on my new favourite website in the world beedogs.com. The website contains over 75 different dogs dressed as bee’s and in my opinion is sheer comic genius!

Above is a picture of one of the dogs from the site. Now normally I know I am a bigger fan of cats than dogs which is why I would like to point all the feline fans to the very good stuffonmycat.com. As the name suggests the website is a collection of pussies with various things balanced on top of them. Now I must talk to Elliott Russell as we once managed to balance 2 N64 controllers, 4 cartridges and a rumble pack on top of his cat and I’m sure he’s got a photo of it somewhere.

To finish of here is a picture of a dog dressed as an English gentleman which I found very funny.

Pete Graham xXx

My mother and poo enthusiast Kit Graham sent me an email this lunchtime drawing to my attention to a new craze sweeping America, Dog poo art!

While we’re on the subject of dogs one website that’s definite worth checking out is Dog Judo, it’s an animated comic strip which features two dogs with a keen interest in Judo, Power Date 1 is probably my favourite but all the video’s are worth checking out.

As many of you probably already know I am a very keen follower of canine fashion, I think the Judo outfit is a good look for this season but my favourite piece of dog clothing is still the binary-bone humans are stupid t-shirt available on ThinkGeek.com.

As I know what big fans you all are of my lists here our my top 8 dog films of all time.

1. look who’s talking now
2. turner and hooch
3. k-9
4. beethoven
5. homeward bound
6. scooby doo
7. lady and the tramp
8. 1001 Dalmations

Note: Scooby Doo is CGI so only comes in at #6. Look who’s talking now has John Travolta in it so gets to be #1.

Pete Graham xXx