Home For The Holidays
It's time to celebrate family. Togetherness. And some really strange foreign objects.

SFOIDF In The News
No politics. No death. No violence. Just the important news you're depending on.

Incredible Journeys
You think you have a tough commute? Read here to see what poor Barbie has to put up with.

Painful Yet True!
Yeeeow! It hurts just to think about it.

Not Quite SFOIDF
Not quite strange foreign objects in dog feces, but still oddly entertaining.

Cleansing and Scouring
Many dogs don't get enough fiber in their diets. Here's the ultimate in roughage.

Strings & Things
Includes the SFOIDF story that began it all.

Vet Tales
Who says veterinarians face boring days at the office?

Strange Foreign Objects in Dog Feces?

Sometime in March. A Saturday morning. 3:30 a.m. The sky is dark and stormy. Some would say "sultry". I need an inspiration. Thousands of people are putting up web sites every day. I want to do something unique. Something that would make people want to visit my site. But what? Everything that could possibly be cataloged and tracked has already been done on the Web. Or so I think...

A bolt of lightning strikes something close to the house. My dog, Ellie, sticks her cold, wet nose in my face. It's her way of saying, "Get up out of bed and let me out! I gotta go! Now, damnit!" Ellie doesn't like thunderstorms, and has been known to drop log in fear. I hurry Ellie downstairs and out the back door.

Saturday morning. 9:30 a.m. I am performing the suburban ritual practiced by millions of people around the world. Before mowing the lawn, I am picking up dog feces with a shovel, "harvesting the crop", so to speak, and depositing the load in a pile of grass clippings.

Almost finished scooping. Wait! What's that shiny thing over there? Bending down, I see a dog turd. Looking closer (but not too close), I am amazed at what I see: An entire strand of purple Mardi Gras beads that I had caught a few weeks before at the Galveston Mardi Gras celebration. And the strand is intact. Suddenly, a burst of inspiration!

And so another quality Web Site is born.

ADDENDUM: In the five years this page has been up, I've been amazed at the number of hits and awards it has generated. In just the past 6 months, over 50,000 twisted people like you have visited. I appreciate the stories that have been pouring in, and apologize for not replying to all of the story submissions. Thanks for visiting!

COMING SOON!

Strange Foreign Objects in Dog Feces - THE BOOK!

Due to overwhelming popular demand, the world will be graced by yet another tasteless book you can give to your friends.

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(Last update 5/17/02)

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