Tickle a Dog Lover's Funny Bone With These Gift Ideas
Bring a smile and a chuckle to the dog lover in your life with these funny dog lover gift ideas.
Doggy Themed Door Mats
Lend some cheer to your gift receiver, and everyone who happens to visit them, with a humorous doormat. Manufactured by High Cotton, and available at many online retail outlets, some of the dog-related slogans include, "Ask Not for whom the dog barks – it barks for thee," and "Don't make me come out there -- Dog."
One of my favorites reads, 'Day 751: My captors continue to torment me with bizarre rubber squeek toys. They eat lavish meals in my presence while I am forced to subsist on dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of eventual escape ... that, and the satisfaction I get from occasionally ruining some piece of furniture. I fear I may be going insane.'
These funny welcome mats will have you and your guests giggling, while your dog looks up, wagging his tail, with that "humans are so dumb" look on his face.
Doggy Themed Puzzles
Who said puzzles are only for serious photos of waterfalls and sunsets? The Edge Jigsaw Puzzle presents the Puppy Pyramid puzzle. Every piece of an Edge Jigsaw puzzle is straight. At 1,000 pieces, where do you start when you can't create the edges first? The challenge is more than worth the trouble, as the finished result for the Puppy Pyramid is a silly photo of, well, a puppy pyramid.
If you'd rather not send your dog loving friend to the loony bin over a straight edged puzzle, but you'd still like to give the gift of togetherness (get it... togetherness... never mind), consider a Dog-spirations Jigsaw Puzzle. These 1,000 piece puzzles, made by TDC Games, come in a tin box, perfect for gift giving, and feature a silly photo of a dog, along with a tongue-in-cheek witty line. One example – a dog looks out from behind a fish in a goldfish bowel, and the bottom of the puzzle reads, "Hope -- Patience is a virtue, but stupidity lasts forever."
How about a game?
If puzzles aren't your thing, consider a dog themed game for your dog loving friend. Dog-Opoly is a dog-themed version of Monopoly. Instead of buying streets, you buy dogs. Then, you can purchase dog houses, which you can later trade in for Big Dog Bones. On the back of the cards, you can learn all about your breed.
Or, if you want to give a travel friendly game, consider Backpack Cats and Dogs Chase Game, produced by Magnetic Poetry®. In Cats and Dogs, you chase your opponents pieces around the board, sending them back to the start if you catch them. The goal is to make it back home safely.
Read any good books lately?
Perhaps a funny book would make a nice gift for your dog loving friend? How to Live with a Neurotic Dog, by Stephen Baker, published by McGraw Hill, will help your friend help his poor dog. This tongue-in-cheek self-help guide gives advice like, "Don't force your dog to play fetch just because you feel like it—keep in mind his busy schedule too," and "Give your dog a canine personality quiz—it's
the first step before starting him on full-fledged psychoanalysis."
Or, if you believe neurosis has less to do with dog personality and more to do with the stars, consider buying for your dog loving friend Dog Stars: Astrology for Dog Lovers. With this book, you'll either have a skeptic dog lover in stitches, or an astrology believer gasping in unbelief at how accurate author and astrologer Sherene Schostak describes their Aries or Pisces dog.
Of course, you could just buy a dog-themed comic book, like Snoopy. Whatever you decide, keep in mind Groucho Marx's famous words: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."