Dog Posters

Since the disappearance of Sugar, the $10,000 dog, at the hands of her walker, dog walkers will need to change the way they present themselves.

Here's an example that I saw this morning, on the corner of Avenue A and East 4th Street:

Bravado dog walking.

Coincidentally enough, this was directly above the newest Sugar poster:

Ten thousand big ones.

The Sugar story put me in mind of Jack London's "The Call of the Wild". What if, when Buck was taken by the gardener, a trusted employee, and sold into servitude to prospectors, there had been a campaign to locate him? The judge certainly had the money; people would have responded to that and searched for Buck. But none of that is mentioned in the book.

These days, every story has a back-story. Better Call Saul! Maybe all we know is the back-story, and the real story is Sugar finding her true nature, not in the wilds of Alaska, but in the East Village Today!

#eastvillage #buck #callofthewild, #sugar #jacklondon

The Most Famous Lost Dog Ever

By now, only those East Villagers who live in absolute seclusion (and there are many of them!) have not see the posters in the neighborhood advertising a $5000 reward for the return of Sugar, a pit bull that went missing six days ago.

Here are the posters — a different one for every day Sugar has been missing:

A search party was organized and went out this morning, and according to the FindSugarNYC Facebook page, the reward was raised today to $10,000 today! 

#FindSugarNYC is rapidly approaching the status of "Kony 2012"!

#eastvillage #fundsugarnyc #kony2012