Firstdogonthemoon presents the Animal of the Day

The truth about Doglet

 

What manner of beast is this?

What manner of beast is this?

Who or what is Doglet? Doglet arrived this morning in this so called “envelope”.

So called "envelope"

So called "envelope"

We have constructed this re-enactment.

Objects in Mirror may be closer than they appear

Objects in Mirror may be closer than they appear

It appears this possibly mythical animal is constructed entirely of crochet! It also comes with a number of useful features, including:

Ears Relaxed                                                       Ears Alert

Ears Relaxed/Ears Alert

Tail of extreme marvelousness!

How useful!

How useful!

Rear view of useful handy ears.

Rear view - Ears Relaxed/Ears Alert

Rear view - Ears Relaxed/Ears Alert

Best. Ears. Ever!

@liedra from the so called “twitterverse” sent me Doglet because she is a person of considerable taste and refinement. Why not?

What’s that you say? Doglet has no back legs? Don’t be ridiculous, Doglet is sitting down. Although in the image below, Doglet is having a rest.

Asleep? No, I hover angrily above you!

No, not having a rest. Instantly alert, I hover angrily above you!

Apparently Doglet is from outer space and I have written a poem:

Oh Doglet, Little Doglet

Oh nothing rhymes with Doglet

Except perhaps for Goglet

(a long-necked container, esp. for water, usually of porous earthenware so that its contents are cooled by evaporation.)

The End

11 Comments

  1. Catherine Flick
    Posted January 27, 2009 at 4:16 pm | Permalink

    It’s not that he has no back legs, but that he has no front legs!

    He does look rather coy peeking out of that satchel :)

    Here’s Doglet while he was still innocent. I can’t believe the mischief he’s been up to since I put him in the post! Look at those little innocent puppy dog eyes!

    (hope that worked, otherwise visit him at http://liedra.net/misc/IMG_0151.JPG )

  2. Trubbell at Mill
    Posted January 27, 2009 at 7:29 pm | Permalink

    OOOOeeeerrr!!

    Looks like Mr Hanky has enjoyed un’natchel ‘lations with Sooty!!

  3. Rachel Davies
    Posted January 28, 2009 at 12:23 am | Permalink

    Froglet, Mr Onthemoon, as a nature lover such as your good lunar self should well know. And you can always bung Doglet in the middle of the line:

    Oh Doglet, Doglet Onthemoon
    Your arrival made our First Dog swoon
    With transports of delight
    But by whose act of spite
    Were you left front-legless
    And incapable of egress?
    Perhaps dear little two-legged Doglet
    You’d rather be a four-legged Froglet.

  4. Firstdog
    Posted January 28, 2009 at 7:05 am | Permalink

    Listen you people. The dog is sitting down and so you cannot see the back legs. Otherwise it would be a front legless MUTATION and never could have made it into the envelope without help and WHAT SORT OF MONSTER would mail someone a mutated dog? And my poem was supposed to be crap so no fair doing an actual good poem. And Trubbell at Mill you both funny and disturbed.

  5. Rachel Davies
    Posted January 28, 2009 at 10:50 am | Permalink

    Hope to see much more from Trubbell at Mill – FOMCLABMKTGUAWAPP. Hope also to see evidence of front legs.

  6. Rachel Davies
    Posted January 28, 2009 at 11:17 pm | Permalink

    You could always use your goglet to water your Leafless Goglet Flower…

    http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Leafless%20Goglet%20Flower.html

  7. Leigh Josey
    Posted January 30, 2009 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

    Does Doglet support Freo? Coz then he’d be sorta cool.

  8. Venise Alstergren
    Posted January 30, 2009 at 9:30 pm | Permalink

    FD: May I be bold enough to attempt to correct your assumptions about this object? Only the devious oriental mind could have thought of it. It may look like a dog, but it is primarily a sacred, mystical, double-gourd warmer. Evidence of the esteem by the Chinese for the reverence of this exotic fruit goes back to the Warring States, which was yonks ago.
    So good to see you back again, FD.

    Cheers

    V.
    PS: How much would you charge for one of your icons, avatars, whatever?

  9. Venise Alstergren
    Posted January 30, 2009 at 9:36 pm | Permalink

    My own avatar looked great until it was published.

    Cheers again. :).(-:).

    Venise

  10. richie ben
    Posted February 7, 2009 at 7:29 pm | Permalink

    This is ridiculous. There are many rhymes with doglet. For example

    “while I am in the bog let the horses out of the yard”

    “Anne can’t loosen that cog let her use your spanner”

    and so one

    So a rhyming poem with doglet might begin

    ‘be careful in the mist, little doglet,

    i know its not a fog but just a foglet

    but as every baby foglet knows

    mist can rot your foglet toes

    …….’

  11. Venise Alstergren
    Posted March 6, 2009 at 6:49 pm | Permalink

    Like it, or hate it, this is my own avatar. I actually drew it. It’s Mandarin for good luck.

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