Thursday, March 16, 2006

Ugly Dog Contest

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The eleventh annual 'ugly dog contest' was held in San Diego this week. It must be parody of sorts, but there was video of some pretty ugly little dogs. As I watched the piece it hit me that if you had a really ugly little dog and you really wanted to win that contest and that ugly little critter was a male, then you could enhance his ugliness by circumcising him. It seemed a reasonable idea at first.

But as I thought about it for a while it dawned on me that the likely result would not so much be admiration as revulsion. Your ULD would never win such a contest. Why? Because the UDC is really a CUDC, not a RUDC.

And as I thought about it even more it seemed to me that you risked being charged with animal cruelty in such an event.

As I thought about even more I wondered whether your canine innovation would bring you appropriate infamy. Not bloody likely. How could a Circumcised American Media report such an event? It seemed to me that at the very worst you would be forced by the neighbors to put pants on the little guy.