Robert Smigel admits he was slow to focus on the Pets. com dog sock puppet of TV-ad fame. “I’d been asked about it before I ever saw it,” said the comedy writer/performer in response to a Daily News ...

There’s trouble in the world of funny dog puppets.Triumph and Sock Puppet are snarling at each other in a San Francisco courtroom. The happy hands inside them seem to be clenched into fists.Pets.com, ...

Every dog has his day. And the Web’s most celebrated canine is getting more than one. The Pets.com sock puppet–perhaps the best-known icon of the dot-com boom and bust–is coming back from the Internet ...

What's an e-tailer to do when it's one of the worst performing initial public offerings of 2000, Wall Street isn't interested and the competition is intense? If you're Pets.com, you make use of your ...

The most famous dog from the Web – the celebrated sock puppet from Pets.com – is going back to work pitching car loans to bad credit customers. The black-and-white sock pup had been the star of Super ...

Comedy writer and performer Robert Smigel has been sued by Pets. com, which claims he made disparaging remarks about the Internet retailer’s dog sock-puppet. The lawsuit, filed in a federal district ...

CineFix's Homemade Movies has unveiled its latest budget shot-for-shot remake. Quentin Tarantino's classic film Reservoir Dogs is the next film to be given the homemade treatment by the YouTube ...

SAN FRANCISCO — It wasn’t his first job choice, but at least the Pets.com sock puppet hasn’t joined the high-tech unemployment line. One of the most recognizable icons of the dot-com era has a new ...

Fools never learn. No matter how many times I repeat that there's no sock puppetry-- posting under multiple names -- allowed here on DANGER ROOM, some half-wit goes ahead and does it again. So say ...