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Wacky Mentality

Finding the Abominable Snowman before the end of the world

I found an article on a local website last night, noting a few … well … people I guess … were stocking up supplies for the end of the world, coming up in Wacko Land on Friday. If the world is going to come to an end, why stock up? You won’t be here. Unless [...]

Supporters of pet store puppy sales call the rest of us “anti-pets”

We have a double-winner this week. The Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) gets both a Wacky Mentality Award and a Pack of Putrid Punditry Award for calling the movement to end the sale of puppy mill puppies – an “anti-pet movement.” The reference is actually to the banning of the sale of puppies in [...]

Four troubling animal cruelty stories in one Pack News Wire report

Four news accounts of animal cruelty crossed the Pack News Wire this morning. The first thoughts that came to mind are two of our regular awards – the Wacky Mentality Award and the Haley Barbour Soft-on-Crime Award. Man charged with dragging puppy: A Chicago man has been charged with dragging a puppy down the sidewalk, [...]

New Series: Wacky Mentality

When I find stories that are over-the-top crazy – or wacky – they will henceforth fall into the new series category – Wacky Mentality. Today, we have a story of man out to shoot a raccoon trapped inside a cage. Divine intervention stepped in to protect the innocent animal. Opposing Views reports his first shot ricocheted [...]