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Of animals and porta-pots

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See the dogs.

See the dogs wait.

See the dogs wait patiently in front of the portable toilets.

See how the dogs are causing no harm.

See how the dogs, when they are no longer thirsty, stop drinking.

See the dogs behave.

 

See the humans.

They are at a horse race called the Preakness.

They are not watching horses.

They are throwing things.

They are running on top of toilets.

See the humans misbehave.

The dogs are wearing leashes, but they don't act like they need them.

The humans aren't wearing leashes.

But they are acting like they do.

 

(Photo: No, they're not waiting their turn -- just waiting for their indisposed masters, who were among those taking part in the Animal Humane Society's 34th Annual Walk for Animals, in Golden Valley, Minn. earlier this month. By Jim Gehrz/Associated Press)

(Video: The Running of the Urinals, Preakness 2007. By Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun)

 

Comments

If you are really lucky and it is late in the day, sometimes people pee in balloons and throw THEM at you.

Wow, I never thought of doing that leash-thing! I've been taking my very large dog INTO the porta-potty with me. Very crowded. Very. Very.

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John Woestendiek has been a features reporter at The Sun for six years. Previously he worked as a reporter, columnist, national correspondent and editor at four other newspapers, and received a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1987 for his reporting on prisons and mental institutions for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Woestendiek lives in South Baltimore with his dog, Ace.
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