Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves: Featuring Over 150 Suicidal Pets! [Paperback]

Duncan Birmingham (Author)

Book Description

Release date: December 1, 2009

PEOPLE LOVE THEIR PETS.

SOME PEOPLE LOVE THEIR PETS
A LITTLE TOO MUCH.


Who could blame Mr. Whiskers for trying to high-dive from a penthouse window or Fluffy for crawling into a washing machine? After being dressed up for Halloween, married off in elaborate weddings, toted everywhere in baby backpacks, or just plain coddled within an inch of their sanity by obsessively doting owners, these pets are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Or worse. They’d call the suicide hotline–but they don’t have fingers.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“This book is laugh-out-loud funny…”
—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette                              
 
Isn't this a festive title for a holiday book? With tongue firmly planted in cheek, this little picture book has captions to describe what some pets are really thinking. A Multipoo in a dress, wearing chic sunglasses, notes, "She dresses me 'cause it's cheaper than having me spayed." There's a bunny dressed as a skunk with the caption, "Is this your not-so-subtle way of telling me I stink?" A cat in a graduation cap opines, "A college degree in this economy? I might as well slit my wrists."
—Hartford Courant

More than 150 photos of dogs and cats in costumes taken by "people [who] love their pets a little too much." The author, an authority on Bigfoot for Weekly World News, has captioned each. A longhair mutt dressed in red polka-dotted booties and a gingham wrap complains: "You idiot. You've got me dressed as a Charlotte when everyone knows I'm a total Carrie." A shamefaced Yorkie in a tutu demands to know: "So where is this 'Swan Lake,' and is it deep enough to drown in?" A furry-faced puppy, posed on a tricycle with a bow plastered on its forehead, says: "I can't wait to ride it. Where's the nearest busy intersection?" Really, this one is too cute for words.
—NY Daily News


Praise for the website:
The site posts pictures of domestic animals being made to do things by humans they really, really shouldn't, like getting carted around in a backpack-style contraption, being dressed up as "Woofgang Pup" complete with foofy chef hat and blinged-out shades, or nuzzling up to Kurt Russell's chest.
—NBC.com

Featuring miserable-looking pets wearing fake reindeer antlers... snapshots of bulldogs in bunny costumes and cats wearing wigs

—New York Times

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Popwatch Site Of The Day

"The captions are what really make the blog successful. I actually had to close the browser for fear that I would start laughing too loudly in my otherwise quiet office building."

—Phillyburbs.com

About the Author

DUNCAN BIRMINGHAM has worked as a teacher, a newspaper reporter, and a Big Foot expert for The Weekly World News. He writes for film and TV in Los Angeles. For the record, he loves a good cat wedding.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1 edition (December 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0307589889
• ISBN-13: 978-0307589880
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.4 x 6.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #227,186 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

hi there. please check out petswhowanttokillthemselves.com as well as duncanbirmingham.com

-- duncan

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I swore I wasn't buying any more humor books until I saw this one! January 7, 2010

By TropicalMinnesota TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback

I saw this book at a local bookstore and laughed so hard I had to buy a copy for myself. Now I am ordering copies for friends, whom I dearly hope will realize how they are humiliating their dogs with stupid sweaters. Funny pictures with really funny captions. Oh, and one poignant caption "In some countries I'd be dinner. Here I eat organic and have my own Twitter account. God Bless America". Well worth 1/2" on my overcrowded bookshelves. I love it.

17 of 23 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Could have been better.. May 20, 2010

By David K

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

I ordered this with the thought, hey, this looks like it might be cute and funny. To some degree it was, but to a fair extent it wasn't. I'd say a little more than half, perhaps 60, 65% fit into the former category; unfortunately, the rest did not. Several of the captions didn't seem to fit the photos very well, others were a little corny or cheesy. But what brought me to rate it a 2 rather than a 3 was the repetition of the f-word, or some derivative there of, on several pages. Had I realized the author used such crude language, I probably wouldn't have bothered purchasing the book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Gave the book as a gift February 4, 2010

By Mary J. Schaffold

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

I looked at the book before I gave it to a friend as a gift. I found the photos funny not only because the cats and dogs were dressed funny but, also because most of them seem to be saying "why me?". I think at first my friend was put off by the title but she did find the book funny.