From: "Happy Ness Clowns (David & Shirley Ness)" <dness@execpc.com>
To: "BalloonHQ" <balloon@balloonhq.com>
Subject: Re: Is it a cat or a dog?
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 06:39:22 -0500


-----Original Message-----


>I keep seeing this thing with a cat's head on one side & a dog's head on
the
>other. Does this thing have a name?

About a year ago we were twisting at an outing for handicapped individuals.
A boy asked me for a "catdog".  I kept asking him which one he wanted and he
just kept saying a "catdog".  No one around helped with what he wanted.  I
made him both a cat and a dog and he went away crying!  I was really
confused.  Well the next week we were traveling someplace and stopped at a
fast food restaurant and there on the wall was a poster with a picture of
"catdog".  I think it was a cartoon from Nickelodeon.  Unfortunately, we do
not get cable!  (Yeah, we are the one.)  Based on the picture, I practiced
until I could make one easily.  I have never been asked to make one again,
not even at the this years event that I was asked to make on last year.

You need to leave it fairly soft when you blow it up.  Start at the cat side
first as it has more twists than the dog side.  If you blow it up to far
then it gets to tight at the dog head end.

You really need to watch what cartoons are on TV now to be able to keep up
with all the requests.

Yours in Laughter;

David "Buster" Ness
Happy Ness Clowns
Fond du Lac, WI