First Book Ever About Dogs To Be Published

Dan Gross reports today Inquirer reporter Michael Currie Schaffer has left the paper to work on a book about dog culture. (Gross also reports Jonny Lee Miller used to have sex with Angelina Jolie. They were married. Yet another good that came from Hackers.)

Schaffer says the book is about “consumerism, pet mania and the domestic-animal-industrial complex” — cute last one there. It’s due out in 2009. You may be aware of my feelings about animals (especially pugs) and how I’m not quite sure I understand why they’re awarded a better place than, oh, humans in our society. An explanation of that, at least about dogs, certainly sounds like an interesting book to me.

And then I read this:

Schaffer and wife Keltie Hawkins are the parents of a St. Bernard named Murphy and a black cat named Amelia. Murphy is on doggie anti-depressants. [If you're wondering, dogs' names get bolded in Gross' column just like peoples' do.—dmac]

Earlier today I didn’t know doggy anti-depressants existed. I think I enjoyed my life more back then.

Dan Gross | He was a Jolie good fellow [Daily News]