November 7, 2000

12:55 PM

Bye, bye Pets.comPersonally, I won't miss that damn sock puppet dog!
posted by Sal Amander (8 comments total)

I will (it was the only thing about them that I actually liked). I just saw their offices for the first time the other day. They had a huge fire hydrant in the middle of it.

I buy a lot of pet products, but I never bought anything at pets.com, because I could never find the exact kitty litter I needed (it's a long story, but there's only one brand my cats like), and the site was atrociously slow, probably due to their use of BroadVision store backend.
posted by mathowie at 1:10 PM on November 7, 2000

I love that puppet.

:(

rcb
posted by rebeccablood at 1:16 PM on November 7, 2000

That dog was okay, but there are better sock puppet dogs out there.

Besides, they are going to be selling the rights to the dog.
posted by mzanatta at 1:24 PM on November 7, 2000

I was just sure I was giving them enough business to keep them going! My final pets.com purchase: hamster/gerbil food, corn cob bedding and of course, a puppet.
posted by justlisa at 1:47 PM on November 7, 2000

>I just saw their offices for the first time the other day.
>They had a huge fire hydrant in the middle of it.

I saw that the other day too...but I thought it was Petopia's offices.
posted by jkottke at 1:57 PM on November 7, 2000

I wonder if that lawsuit against Conan had anything to do with it.
posted by john at 2:12 PM on November 7, 2000

Looks like my boycott worked. Rip-off Smiegel's hilarious dog and suffer the consequences.
posted by skallas at 7:56 PM on November 7, 2000