This from the Usenet group rec.boats.paddle in response to a question about dogs and kayaks:

I used to take my Jack Russell on my Current Designs Solstice GT. I put some indoor/outdoor carpeting under the deck rigging so he could get traction, and he would make his way up and down the front deck, and the coaming was large enough that he could sit on my lap from time to time. He started diving off the deck after dragon flies a lot, and decided he liked swimming more then riding. I got him a "Water Dog" PFD from Paw Products, the best fitting one I could find. That allowed him to put his effort into propulsion, and it had a great webbing handle so I could grab him out of the water.

I actually bought my solo canoe to better accomodate my dog.

Ki

Tucker

Letters to Get Lost Magazine

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We're hip? Wait'll I tell Mom!

Hey, Get Lost:

The double entendre of your 'zine's name always cracks a smile, even when my morning coffee can't. Without trying to be hip, it's hip. With no pretense of attitude, it has attitude. Unnatural prankstering with a flair for wise cracks, mixed with keen observation skills and an on-target nose for stories -- that's GeTLosTMaG. This month, as always, it's mix of the easy to digest with things to ponder upon. Bravo.

Hopefully people will continue to find their way to just Get LOST. In fact, thanks to you, I now freely tell people to GET LOST! All the time.

Warm regards,

Reg Harris
OMPROD
who once hung out with Leslie at NAB and still hasn't forgotten her annoying traits and knows that her nightly reading list includes "The Secret Life of Networked Storage".

Dear Reg:
Thank you for the unsoliticted kind letter. I am so glad that you now have a reason to tell people to Get Lost, since it's both gratifying and cheeky, and people like that. They also like it when you wear a thong and dance on the piano, put funny tinfoil hats on their cats, and put sugar in the salt shaker.

By the way, the Networked Storage book is really just a cover for the swimsuit issue of Popular Mechanics.

-Your Always-Wise Editor.

 

Fetching Outfits, guys.

Hey, Get Lost,

Well,  perhaps you will find a place in your great literary press for the attached picture.  I laughed myself to health when I first saw it.  Taken by Paul Fischbach a.k.a their accomplice in neferious activities.  I understand they are a howling success with a real bite to their humor. As you likely guessed: Tucker and Ki in disguise.

-Martha Jordan.

Dear Martha:
We regret your mother ever giving you a pencil. We regret Paul's mother ever giving him a camera. And of course, we at Get Lost Magazine regret we're so hard up for material, we're happy to run the pictures, shown in sidebar, left.

We have it on good authority that Tucker and Ki recently watched the movie "Lucy Gallant" and now insist on Edith Head gowns, Ungaro frocks and a selection of Chanel pillbox hats. This doesn't seem so strange, except the request was from Tucker, who's a boy. That's what happens when you expose a dog to fashion.

And, Martha? You and Paul... dressing dogs up in glasses... Jeesh. (Hey, you know... if you could teach Tucker to fetch slippers he could be a sole man. Ba-da-boom.)

-Your Fashionable Editor.