A small pet business from Vermont is selling huge numbers of Donald Trump chew toys (WaPo)

[eppur_se_muova]

(not LBN by a long shot ... )

By Philip Bump July 14, 2016 Email the author

Upon entering the pet store near my house Tuesday (which I enter regularly because of its clever customer-retention strategy of giving my dog a treat each time we go in), I noticed some new toys by the door.

Yes, those are Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders chew toys, stylized but recognizable. A smirking Clinton wearing a button that says, "Pro Whatever" and with a switch on her back labeled, "Smile: On/Off." Under her right foot, a shattered Blackberry. A wild-haired Sanders with a "Bern the 1%" button and a button on his back reading "Push to activate the revolution."

But then that gap in the middle, those two empty hooks. I asked the guy who worked there whether that meant what I thought it did.

Yep. That's where the Donald Trump dolls used to be — but they kept selling out.

They still had one in the window, which they handed to me.



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[spooky3]

1. I would not want to give my beloved pet nausea. n/t

[Throck]

2. My dog says

This too shall pass.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Remember the Poo Pets?

These were sculptures of animals made from shit that you were supposed to use to fertilize your garden.

Maybe someone could make Trump shit sculptures.

[musette_sf]

4. bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay

[Pope George Ringo II]

5. Woof.

[scarletwoman]

6. Ha! My sister bought one of those online for her dog!

I was just visiting her earlier today, and she started telling her dog, "Go get trump! Go get trump!" And sure enough, her clever dog (an Australian Sheep Dog mix) fetched his trump chew toy from his doggie toybox and ran over with it in his mouth.

It totally cracked me up!

[highplainsdem]

7. I wouldn't give anything that ugly to a dog, but it would be okay as a pin cushion.

[RockCreek]

8. The cats have been beating up a catnip one

for a year. A catnip Putin, too.