strange bedfellows

PETS DESERVE IT ALL, YOU MONSTER BY JACK VENING

Look, let me get this out of the way early. A pet’s main deal, above all other things, is walking around in between bouts of lying down. They’re experts at it. This is 95 per cent of their day, and about as close to a job that most house pets will get. Your bed is their office.

And you want to take this away from them? Do you want your pet to be unemployed? Destitute? You want your ‘best friend’ to be on the breadline? Wearing one of those hats with the top blown out like in a cartoon from the Great Depression? Interesting.

As more friends get deep into their 20s,