Doggy diet pills

. . . and you thought they couldn't sink any lower. The drug companies have created a plethora of diseases and pills to treat them. Nervousness, for instance, has become various exotic-sounding diseases, and they say you need a medication to treat them. It's a pharmaceutical bonanza.

While thumbing through Parade Magazine, the chronicle of pop culture, I first came upon an item about emailing them to vote who should win the Emmy for best reality-TV host. As if anyone watches that garbage.

Then, I discovered the piece de resistance: an advert for doggy diet pills. No doubt some dogs are overweight, and it is unhealthy. So, Pfizer, in true drug company tradition, has created another medication. Nonsense.

Dog owners can simply feed Rover less to control his weight. Also, monitoring what the pooch eats, like avoiding fat and sugar, and eliminating "people" food from his diet, will return him to his fighting weight. Those owners who are too stupid or lazy to feed properly are guilty of animal abuse, and anyone who would give diet pills to a dog is a pusher.


RIP: George Carlin 1937-2008 (The eighth and ninth words we hate to hear on TV: "Goodbye, George.")