Santa Paws

Published 6:57 pm Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Santa Paws

Just more than half of the nation’s pet owners plan to buy Christmas presents for their critters, a new poll shows.

On average, we’ll be spending $46 per pet — which, in this economy, means many of us will be subsisting on cat food until payday.

Treats and toys top the gift list, but the nation’s dogs report they’re really hoping for a larger hole in the fence between them and the French poodle next door.

Who’d a-thunk it: Voters in Seattle on Tuesday rejected a tax increase that would have paid for, among other things, light-rail mass transit and more bicycle lanes.

In other news Tuesday, pigs took flight, hell froze over and Dennis Kucinich got his own show on the Fox News Channel.

TGIF: Tomorrow — that’s 11/11/11 on the calendar — will either herald the dawn of doomsday or the arrival of a new reality portal, depending on which Internet crank’s website you happen to be visiting.

The Buzz offers a prediction of our own: It’s gonna be a good day. How do we know this? Simple — it’s Friday.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff