{"id":416,"date":"2005-10-03T11:41:16","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T19:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/like_shooting_fish_in_a_barrel.html"},"modified":"2005-10-03T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T19:41:16","slug":"like_shooting_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/like_shooting_f.html","title":{"rendered":"Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Magazine shows how to score chick after chick after chick, and which dogs are best for it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I’d always heard dogs are chick magnets, but I’d never gathered any direct evidence while occasionally dog-sitting Benji, a midsize mutt who doesn’t exert one gauss of magnetizing action. Then, shortly after a broken engagement left me suddenly single, a friend asked me to look after the sort of animal I have always considered useless: a quivering, rat-faced toy poodle.<\/p>\n

Well, Hugo cannot herd sheep or scare off intruders or catch a Frisbee. But, Lord, he pulls human females.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

The Hugo-Benji disparity left me with several questions: Could Hugo be topped? Would an even bigger poodle exert an even more forceful draw? Which dog is the most effective chick magnet of all?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you’re scoring at home (insert ESPN reference here<\/a>), the poodle<\/strong> is less successful (“‘If you see a guy with a poodle, you think he’s married,” said Allison, 23. “Plus, the dog is poofy.”), as is the case with golden retrievers<\/strong> and dachshunds<\/strong> (“purebred dogs offered good looks but little charm”). On the other end of the spectrum, Great Danes<\/strong> (“A few steps later I met Casey, a skinny, brown-eyed anthro major whom I wish I did not find so devastatingly attractive because she is 21 and I am barely still in my thirties”) and amputees<\/strong> serve the writer well:<\/p>\n

Please do not consider sawing off a dog’s leg — but if you did, you’d improve your luck. Rudy, a mix of German shepherd, Airedale terrier, chow chow, and Rottweiler, has pretty much every scary dog in his pedigree. But sans a leg, he’s a female sympathy sponge.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bonus Points: SportsCenter phrases<\/a> . . . Inside Baseball — did Keith Olbermann rip off WFAN’s Dave Somers? Some say “yes”<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Magazine shows how to score chick after chick after chick, and which dogs are best for it: I’d always heard dogs are chick magnets, but I’d never gathered any direct evidence while occasionally dog-sitting Benji, a midsize mutt who doesn’t exert one gauss of magnetizing action. Then, shortly after a broken engagement left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public_service_announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}