internet dating for dogs

Dog. Duds. What's to explain? Except the psychology of the owner... 

No, I’m not going to tell you the way to happiness on Lavalife is to Photoshop your picture into something approximating Beckham/Beckinsale. I’m talking about real internet dating for actual, quadruped-type dogs.

Because in this world of ours, people just don’t live vicariously enough, dammit!

From the New Zealand Press, via Fark.

A new matchmaking service for dogs – and virtually every other kind of domesticated pet from apes to zebras – promises to facilitate the arduous and heartbreaking process of hounding for the perfect mate.

Petpalio. com is the brainchild of Aaron Rodrigues, a 17-year-old self-styled “student entrepreneur” from Auckland.

Rodrigues said he came up with the concept after an agonising search for a canine companion for his two-year-old bichon frise, Lasie

The website, launched just over a week ago, has attracted 40 eligible pets, mostly from the United States and the United Kingdom.

One wonders if this wonderkind had any idea what the Palio actually was before he named his site Pet Palio.com. Will registrants saddle up wee Fifi or Bowser and gallop madly around a town square in Italy, frantically lashing at the faces of the other jockeys, all for the glory of a neighborhood of which they have never heard, and which they will never be able to pronounce?

I’d pay to see that.

Actually, there’s a sadness underlying this story, an unspoken sadness. What he’s not saying is what everyone at the dog park knows: there’s a reason his precious Lasie is still heartbreakingly single.

Lasie‘s only interested in real bitches.

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23 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. timethief
    Apr 25, 2007 @ 22:08:20

    Well I guess the dog date bloggers have one upped those uppity cat bloggers. ;)

  2. raincoaster
    Apr 25, 2007 @ 22:53:35

    I suppose so. Somehow, I always knew internet dating was meant for dogs.

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  4. Cat
    Apr 27, 2007 @ 12:25:38

    Wow, now there’s something I never thought they’d come up with….

  5. raincoaster
    Apr 28, 2007 @ 00:15:12

    I actually thought it was only a matter of time. I’ve seen personal ads from dachsunds and figured it couldn’t be long till they went online.

  6. Christopher Trottier
    Apr 28, 2007 @ 01:41:43

    This is bloody awesome. I love it. Bookmarked to be blogged about later.

  7. nursemyra
    Apr 28, 2007 @ 02:21:59

    there are way too many cats on petpalio’s front page already. what is it with cats and the internet?

    maybe there should be a petpalio site just for cthulu…. I could be persuaded to subscribe to that

  8. raincoaster
    Apr 28, 2007 @ 02:23:45

    Oooooooooh. I gotta talk to Raj…he can register Cthulhudate.com for me!

    Or should that be .org???

  9. defrostindoors
    Apr 28, 2007 @ 02:29:16

  10. raincoaster
    Apr 28, 2007 @ 04:37:54

    Oh yes, seen that. What I haven’t seen, but is only a matter of time, is the webcam for it.

  11. Sammy
    May 11, 2007 @ 17:33:03

    This is actually NOT the first pet dating website “in the world”. Maybe in New Zealand. Here’s another one I found: catndogplay.com

  12. Metro
    May 11, 2007 @ 20:00:03

    Hey–don’t post that interspecies trash here! This is a family website!

    Family Opisthoteuthidae to be precise.

  13. raincoaster
    May 12, 2007 @ 00:02:13

    Actually it IS the first pet dating website in the world. The other one was registered after I posted this!

    And very good, Metro. I see they have google where you live.

  14. mpa
    Jun 02, 2007 @ 21:45:42

    Hey!! It is not the first pet dating in the word!!! Look at GouGou520.com. In December 2005 Dr. Zhou launched GouGou520.com. Read the following news:

    http://redemptiondayobscure.blogcindario.com/2006/07/00366-abren-portal-de-citas-para-perros.html

    http://www.ynot.com/print.php?sid=11952

  15. raincoaster
    Jun 03, 2007 @ 04:02:26

    Can’t read that. Any volunteer translators?

  16. Giroux
    Jun 23, 2007 @ 06:23:39

    My male chihuahua hopes that somewhere out there there will be a gorgeous female to mate with.

    Well done with this site

  17. raincoaster
    Jun 23, 2007 @ 06:26:28

    Well, if it’s a Chihuahua it won’t be gorgeous: it will look like a fetus on a leash, just the way they all do.

  18. fobldo jankins
    Aug 25, 2007 @ 03:43:02

    we’re,
    looking for a cute 1 year old girl maltese,or maltepoo.
    its for my dog fluffy.

    P.S.: dont forget to make her cute!!!

    please & thank you.

    P.S.S.: fluffy’s waiting…
    =)
    bye-bye

  19. fobldo jankins
    Aug 25, 2007 @ 03:45:55

    P.S.:he’s a male

  20. raincoaster
    Aug 25, 2007 @ 03:51:02

    What a coincidence! Most of the males I know are dogs.

  21. Frontier Former Editor
    Aug 25, 2007 @ 10:38:45

    arf arf

  22. dogie lover 123
    Dec 17, 2007 @ 06:13:18

    We have a male maltese 1.5 years old, looking for a maltese female for him to date. Please…..he is waiting.

  23. raincoaster
    Dec 17, 2007 @ 06:45:03

    Well, if you’re such a dogie lover, why don’t you handle this yourself?

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