Holiday Mail to your Pet

Preface: I'm not deeply concerned about this. The world has greater problems, but I find it surreal and wish it wasn't filling my recycling bin.

Am I the only one whose pets get mail? I find this annoying. Obviously our pet supply joints or vet must sell mailing lists, leading to mail for Pet Name, Family Last Name. This eventually morphs into mortgage offers. I'd be happy if they took on their own expenses, but I don't see it happening soon.

But what really gets me are the catalogs. An entire catalog of Halloween costumes came this year for my dogs. I cannot wrap my mind around it. Where are they going to trick-or-treat? My dogs would get tired of begging for Necco wafers and tooth brushes pretty quickly.

But my true favorites are the upscale clothing/home catalogs for humans that have the small pet sections for the holidays. $800 for a leather ottoman that doubles as a kennel? No problem! Eventually the dogs can use their credit card offers to buy the ottoman. They can just leave me out of it and meet the UPS guy at the door. (They love delivery people!) Then they can eat the leather off of the ottoman in peace.

Sorry, it's been a while since I bothered to read some of this material, but the holiday season gets you reading the catalogs, and some of this stuff is hard to believe.

-A