Peanut Butter Kisses

It was coming up to the date for the Jafa Girls’ performance art piece, “The Kiss” and I was out trying to get couples for the 3:07 smackeroo. We (meaning Corrine Bayraktaroglu and I) had specified that any combination of kissers would do- parents and kids,.  people and pets, teddy bears and significant others

 

 I asked the owner of the local Laundromat if we could hang a mistletoe off a pipe in the ceiling and make the laundromat one of the official kissing stations. He good-naturedly agreed to it. But not to being one of the kissing couples unless we were also supplying partners for the kiss. You know I got a lot of people suggesting that.

 

As we were talking, I told him that we even had 2 dogs kissing. Gail at Epic Bookstore had offered her 2 furry pups to be the official couple at the bookstore to kiss at 3:07 under the mistletoe.

It crossed my mind that I wasn’t sure that I had ever seen dogs kiss.  But what I really couldn’t figure out was how she would get them to kiss at the right moment. He suggested, the brilliant idea that she smear peanut butter on their chops. Since, I’ve seen my dogs go after the last dab of peanut butter in a jar with lots of joyful lip licking, this sounded like a solution with merit to me. 

 I later mentioned it to Susan Gartner who was going to write a story about “The Kiss” for the Yellow Springs News.  She wanted to stage a few pictures beforehand for the story because there was no way she could take a bunch of pictures at the exact same moment. So she called Gail and mentioned the peanut butter theory.

Gail had 2 visiting pooches the day of the big photo op and decided if 2 dogs were cute 4 would be better. Plus which ones do you leave out on a snack? She gave them all peanut butter moustaches.

From what Susan tells me the photos were unusable because all you could see was a whirlwind of licking dogs orbiting all over each other in an orgiastic frenzy.

There are some other cute photos of dogs both being kissed and avoiding being kissed in the photomontage. If you haven’t seen them yet, go to www.ysarts.blogspot.com    I hope you have as much fun as the dogs did.