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  • In fourth grade someone got the bright idea of cutting lunch to an outrageous 15 minutes (as if going to a year-round school without a cafeteria wasn't enough--we ate at our desks and were served by mobile carts in the hall). To get the slow eaters (me) up to speed, our teachers implemented a charming little policy called "Shovel Time."

    The first nine minutes would pass normally. Then as the tenth approached, Miss Stauffer (a feathered-haired gal who drove a Camaro, loved Little River Band...and apparently still teaches at Hollydale Elementary) would yell, "Do you know what time it is?!" The class would manically shriek back, "SHOVEL TIME!!!" Talking was absolutely forbidden the final five minutes—it was a deathly silent scarf fest.

    I don't know if I've ever been the same since. But as a nod to this classy ritual, I've adopted the humble scooping implement as my rating system's icon. Shovel on!
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    1 Shovel=Passing Fancy
    2 Shovels=Puppy Love
    3 Shovels=Crippling Crush
    4 Shovels=Serious Stalking

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Interspecies Friends with Benefits

Mimi Sure, it reeks of a hoax but the improbable tale of Mimi and Dog, Brazilian subjects of a supposed feline-canine coupling, shows what happens when pets take it to the next level. Kitpups are born! Whether or not Mimi actually gave birth to dog babies, she does seem to be nursing them—that’s interspecies friendship at it’s finest.

Lord knows what goes on in Brazil, but I do know that a few years ago a friend told me she saw a cat humping a dog in Puerto Rico. It’s a damn free-for-all in the tropics.

November 21, 2006 in Interspecies Friends |

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I've seen some fur on fur action the other way around (dog / cat) but not what you described. I think I need therapy.

Kitpups are born!.

If she'd had a third, would it be "kitpuplets"?

Posted by: lisa | November 21, 2006 at 01:55 PM

I'm not a dog person but I'd love a litter of kitpuplets.

Posted by: Krista | November 22, 2006 at 01:18 PM

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