Great! Now I have to give my dogs a talking-to about using protection before they go to the doggie park!

I wonder if they will start having puppy prophylactics in a candy dish at pet-smart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV#Cancer [wikipedia.org]

Make sure to use protection, Slashdotters!

oh wait....

"We had a chance with aids, but we blew it."

You can say that again.

The parent cell probably arose in a domesticated dog of Asian origin -- perhaps a husky -- hundreds of years ago, and perhaps more than 1,000 years ago.

Tonight, President Bush will go on TV and address the nation saying that recent research has shown that China & North Korea used biological weapons on the United States and its best friends. This will be justification for the preemptive nuclear attacks the United States has planned next week. He's got a real good feeling about this one. It's a slam dunk.

A similarly transmissible cancer has recently been discovered spreading through populations of Tasmanian devils.

Symptoms include dizziness, slurred speech, and violence toward woodland creatures... especially rabbits.

Man, am I glad I had my dog's balls chopped off. Nearly all of his humping instinct is now gone... we might have dodged a bullet!

...not to lick your dog's backside.

My two dogs are without C.A. Jones and are still at it now and then.

teach your kids the dangers of red rocket

...then I'm leaving the planet. This was all predicted in the original Planet of the Apes [imdb.com] movies...

The dogs said that it was a "Ruff" deal...

The Tasmanian Devils just spun around quickly, said something completely incomprehensible and blew a rasberry...

It's not a tumor...

Hopefully the people at PetSmart will handle the...application...of the aforementioned 'protection', because I know I'm not. Imagine the Want Ad... PetSmart, Inc is now seeking a full-time Canine Fornication Specialist. 1+ year(s) previous CFS experience preferred. Dust off your rubber glove and drop off your application today!

But who will eat all the pizza rolls?

There's nothing worse than anthropomorphizing your description of cellular mechanics.

I'll take hyperbole for $1,000, Alex.

which is single-celled, asexual and an obligate parasite of dogs.

It's closest, really, to a parasite, but it's still weirder than that, since it's genetically the same species as its host.

It's genetically almost identical, but I think we can say this is a new species. It's thus a single-cell species of dog.

Contagious cancer? As if I didn't have a million reasons to stay a pasty, game-addicted, furtive and nervous agoraphobe. If it can happen to our canine brothers, it can happen to us.

I wonder if they will start having puppy prophylactics in a candy dish at pet-smart.

Christ, it's hard enough to get them to take their vitamins. Putting one of those on 'em is gonna be a pain.

"Hold on, boy, there's an air bubble."

There's nothing worse than anthropomorphizing your description of cellular mechanics.

So true. DNA hates it when you do that.

Cancer-hawk disease? Sweet. How about "Oncoraptors"?

Yeah, I know you mean peregrine as in ambulatory. How about heterometastasizing oncocytes? Then we could call HMOs a type of cancer for real.

Christ, it's hard enough to get them to take their vitamins. Putting one of those on 'em is gonna be a pain.

"Hold on, boy, there's an air bubble."

Well, by the time you work out the air-bubble, he might just want a smoke and a cuddle. Then you won't have to worry about him humping strange dogs. :-P

Cheers

2. I'd choose bark park with a 3/4 life span vs. no fun for a long time and all the other dogs I know agree.

Sshhh! Sshh! What are you doing? On the internet, no one's supposed to know that you're a dog!