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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22 Comments
Well I guess the dog date bloggers have one upped those uppity cat bloggers. ;)
I suppose so. Somehow, I always knew internet dating was meant for dogs.
Wow, now there’s something I never thought they’d come up with….
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.
This is bloody awesome. I love it. Bookmarked to be blogged about later.
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
Oooooooooh. I gotta talk to Raj…he can register Cthulhudate.com for me!
Or should that be .org???
It gets worse:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/hotdoll-the-sex-doll-for-dogs-253334.php
Oh yes, seen that. What I haven’t seen, but is only a matter of time, is the webcam for it.
This is actually NOT the first pet dating website “in the world”. Maybe in New Zealand. Here’s another one I found: catndogplay.com
Hey–don’t post that interspecies trash here! This is a family website!
Family Opisthoteuthidae to be precise.
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.
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
Can’t read that. Any volunteer translators?
My male chihuahua hopes that somewhere out there there will be a gorgeous female to mate with.
Well done with this site
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.
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
P.S.:he’s a male
What a coincidence! Most of the males I know are dogs.
arf arf
We have a male maltese 1.5 years old, looking for a maltese female for him to date. Please…..he is waiting.
Well, if you’re such a dogie lover, why don’t you handle this yourself?
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