Trapping Jughead

December 7, 2023 1:41 PM

She spent a month trying to help stray dog whose head was stuck in a jug [CW: happy ending]
posted by chavenet (15 comments total)

chavenet, I'd call it a curveball but whatever

you're totally on brand for sprinkling random stuff into MetaFilter
posted by elkevelvet at 1:47 PM on December 7, 2023 [2 favorites]

Why the hell would you not keep the name Jughead after an ordeal like that? JUGHEAD FOREVER!
posted by goatdog at 1:58 PM on December 7, 2023 [16 favorites]

Just chiming in to say that Jughead is a fabulous name for a dog, whether or not its head is currently stuck in a jug.
posted by Atom Eyes at 1:59 PM on December 7, 2023 [12 favorites]

Just an FYI, that although the link is to MSN, the content is from the Washington Post, so if you are observing today's strike by respecting the request not to interact with the Post today, you may wish to avoid this link.
posted by jacquilynne at 2:02 PM on December 7, 2023 [7 favorites]

I'm in it for the happy ending.
posted by clavdivs at 2:03 PM on December 7, 2023 [2 favorites]

there's a special place in heaven for animal lovers
posted by entropone at 2:04 PM on December 7, 2023 [7 favorites]

Knowing he had a friend with him the whole time is about to set me bawling.
posted by mittens at 2:14 PM on December 7, 2023 [7 favorites]

Wait wait wait. They not only renamed Jughead, they then changed his buddy's name to Archie?!
posted by dazedandconfused at 2:18 PM on December 7, 2023 [13 favorites]

this is the moment you know AI is fucking with you
posted by elkevelvet at 3:02 PM on December 7, 2023 [4 favorites]

two questions for five new bucks with a free one on the house.
posted by clavdivs at 3:22 PM on December 7, 2023 [1 favorite]

1. Does anyone know why the linked words "A chicken was missing toes. People sent him over 60 pairs of tiny shoes." are in the middle of this, completely without context?
2. Bad form for them to put such a mystery link to the Washington Post, on strike day.
posted by JHarris at 3:30 PM on December 7, 2023 [3 favorites]

There's another, similar link, also to the Washington Post, further down. I think that MSN syndicated the article from there.
posted by JHarris at 3:31 PM on December 7, 2023 [1 favorite]

Wapo has a feature area for good news stories - little things like this that have happy endings - and this story and all of those embedded links are from that section.
posted by jacquilynne at 4:08 PM on December 7, 2023 [2 favorites]

Wait wait wait. They not only renamed Jughead, they then changed his buddy's name to Archie?!

TFA: Both dogs are in the same foster home

Wait, so either the foster home renamed them thusly (again, why?) or the animal shelter/vet did? What the hell, Texas?
posted by axiom at 8:25 PM on December 7, 2023 [1 favorite]

JHarris, I think this is just something MSN does. Some news sites are built with this weird idea that what a reader wants most in the world is to stop reading the current article and read something else. So some automated system sprinkles "READ THIS OTHER THING" links throughout the article. MSN is one of the worst because it doesn't try to distinguish these from the article body, so it just ends up looking incredibly confusing.
posted by Belostomatidae at 8:14 PM on December 8, 2023 [2 favorites]