While cruising and perusing the dark and dank corners of eBay for that perfect modern furniture find, I noticed a strange trend. In picture after picture, in addition to the Eames chair or George Nelson side table being offered up for sale, there appeared... pets. Cats, dogs, ferrets, birds, you name it. Some of the pets seem to have wandered into the photographer's frame at the moment the shutter opened and others seem to have been deliberately posed with the proffered objects. I pondered this. If the pet's appearance was an accident, why didn't the photographer just reshoot the picture sans Fluffy the Shih-Tzu? In the case of the deliberately posed pets, what purpose could they serve? Perhaps it is a sophisticated sales technique intended to entice potential bidders with a cute kitty. Perhaps the eBay seller thinks of their sales photography as a subtle art, and used their pet for compositional purposes. Whatever the reason, there's something compelling about the juxtaposition, something strange and almost touching, something intimate...

It wasn't long before I began collecting these happenstance (or otherwise) collisions between domesticated animalia and unwanted design objects. Sometimes the animal is easy to spot; sometimes they lurk on the fringes of the frame. In all cases they tell a story. I humbly present my collection of: