To all drunkards who want a puppy: Too Fucking Bad

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Because of a few sloshed assholes, New York City pet stores are cracking down on drunken puppy purchases! Christopher Street's Le Petit Puppy won’t even let you PLAY with pups if you’re hammered— what will I do with my Saturday nights?! — and if Chelsea's Citipups even smells booze on your breath you sure as hell won’t be walking out of there with a new furry friend.

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Park Slope Basset Hound Flashmob!

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If me talking about Oliver-n-dogs and Basset Hounds makes you wanna barf, now would be a good time to clickity clack on over to another post. Cause this Sunday was the first official meetup of the North Slope Basset Hound Association (NBA), and it was AMAZEBALLS x ten billion.

Organized by fellow Park Sloper and NYT City Room Bureau Chief Andy Newman (and his world famous Basset Hound Barnaby, who almost completed a 26.2 mile marathon around his own block in Park Slope; video here), six Bassets and their people met up in Prospect Park for some major howling, barking, drooling and general mayhem: Meet Iggy, Jett, Oliver, Barnaby, Higgins and Baxter!

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Petco Unleashed...It's Almost Here

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Any day now. Things seem to be comin along at the new Petco Unleashed location on 7th Ave between Union and Berkeley. Their facade is up and so maybe this joint is gonna open up soon?

I sincerely hope they carry our douchey organic dog food.

Dog Gets Goosed in Prospect Park

Luckily for us, an anon FIPS reader was walking by Dog Beach in Prospect Park this weekend when all hell broke loose...over a goose.

Apparently some amorous pup developed an uncontrollable crush on one of the few geese left in the park that hadn't been executed in a gas chamber. And this pup fell HARD. So hard, in fact, that he dove into the lake and took off after the Goose.

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Profiles In Courage: Linda The Dog Walker

I love Linda, the dog walker.

As I’ve previously noted, she’s in my pantheon of dwindling Park Slope characters (even though it turns out she lives in Bay Ridge). And no, it's not because she's a whack job--she has a big, singular personality. I consider her a character in only the nicest way. Although nothing would make me happier than to see her walking arm in arm with long lost Norma. 

I especially love the way Linda can be heard across the meadow bellowing. Specifically, I thrill at how she yells to Dude, one of her charges...and a girl, if you can believe that. Seems oddly fitting. 

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