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April 5, 2010
The New Children of America
Satisfying a mutual desire for companionship, this high chair permits your dog or cat to accompany you at the dinner table. The high chair clips securely to tables up to 2" thick and its height adjusts without tools to elevate your pet to near eye level. It has a frame of powder-coated 5/8" steel tubing and its arms are rubber-coated so they will not mar table surfaces. By providing an alternative to sitting on your lap, running disruptively underfoot, or outright banishment, the chair assuages a pet (and its owner's) frustration, and promotes more refined behavior. The chair's 600-denier tan/brown nylon fabric cleans easily. Two tethers on the chair protect your dinner guests against any lapses in etiquette.
Posted by Vanderleun at April 5, 2010 8:25 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
The image brought this passage to mind:
Matthew 15:24-28
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
I can almost imagine, in the new, hippest version of Christinsanity, that there are Communion services for the new 'children', dare I say it? Yes, I dare, damn me straight to hellfire for doing so:
A Eukanubarist.
Forgive me....and Happy Easter, Gerard.
Posted by: Jewel at April 4, 2010 10:33 AM
I like the idea that it "promotes more refined behavior."
Posted by: Gloria at April 4, 2010 11:18 AM
Hand me the channel locks, that beast's head is loose!
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at April 4, 2010 11:39 AM
That'll be 2,326 "Hail Mary's" for you, Jewel. Then .... go and sin no more.
Posted by: vanderleun at April 4, 2010 12:31 PM
Can I do them with a football, Gerard?
Posted by: Jewel at April 4, 2010 5:01 PM
Yes you may but only from the position of center.
Posted by: vanderleun at April 4, 2010 6:12 PM
Maybe dogs will put up with that contraption but no self-respecting cat will sit in such a thing. I know mine wouldn't.
Communion for kittehs? Well, Jesus DID multiply the loaves and fishes (John 6:1-14), and it may be there were hungry cats in the crowd who took advantage of the leftover fish, but this meal was not the Eucharist. And as much as Benedict XVI loves cats and has been photographed touching and holding them at the annual blessing of pets on St. Francis of Assisi's day, I can't see him putting a cat in the (high) Chair of Peter.
Posted by: Connecticut Yankee at April 4, 2010 8:52 PM
And ixnay on making me use a little green football, too.
Posted by: Jewel at April 5, 2010 12:03 AM
"By providing an alternative to sitting on your lap, running disruptively underfoot, or outright banishment..."
Or the option my dogs always preferred, sitting quietly beside your chair and staring at you with laser-like intensity.
Posted by: B Moe at April 5, 2010 3:51 AM
Or, the option that some in Korea prefer; sitting quietly on your plate, smothered in an intense and peppery garlic sauce.
Posted by: Jewel at April 5, 2010 7:32 AM
You don't suppose this is the (psycho)logical end-result of a social/cultural paradigm shift that rendered contraceptive sex the norm and caused children to be looked upon by many as an impediment to a "fulfilling" career... do you?
Posted by: ELC at April 5, 2010 9:05 AM