Last week, Mrs. B.’s oldest Boxer, Durl, got hit by a hybrid SUV. Durl is doing fine, but the cone she’s been sportin’ so she wouldn’t lick her wounds to death needed decoratin’.
See even she was embarassed by her cone.
So while I was babysitting the dogs this afternoon, I got busy and drew a flower on the cone and started decorating it.
Here’s the cone after the petals have been drawn and the I’ve started coloring in the center of the petals.
And here it is after the yellow has been added but it hasn’t been installed on Durl yet.
And here it is installed on Durl.
One of the folks who rent Mrs. B’s pasture got a good chuckle out of decorated cone and my 3 year old self is very satisfied with her art project.
You can see the rest of her pictures with her decorated cone on Flickr.
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That is utterly adorable. The size is what makes it so fantastic.
I love it! Definitely made of win.
I love it! What cracks me up, too, is how dignified the pooch looks in that final photo. Hilarious!
~Tui
p.s. I truly thing you could market these! (Just imagine if Paris Hilton’s dog ever needed to wear one of these.)
Oh – I forgot to ask if he gets better reception now?
Aww! That’s sad and delightful in one! I wish I could have done this when when my dog had to wear a cone. He wasn’t nearly as well-behaved though. (He tried to back out of it, then when that didn’t work, he started doing circles around the kitchen in reverse, then the circles got bigger, then we had a whirling black lab dervish knocking everything over.)
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