Pets.com is being put to sleep. The San Francisco-based online retailer, known for its commercials with a sock puppet dog and the slogan "Because pets can't drive" said Tuesday it is closing down ...

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 ...

Pets.com ran ads of a dog sock puppet interviewing people on the street. The mascot appeared in a Super Bowl commercial and even got its own balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in 1999.

com of stealing the idea for the sock puppet from Smigel’s creation, Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. In doing so ... He compared clips from Pets. com TV commercials to past Triumph appearances ...

There’s trouble in the world of funny dog puppets.Triumph and Sock ... the Internet store that invented Sock Puppet to star in its TV commercials, is suing writer-comedian Robert Smigel, whose ...

It was the Pets.com sock puppet, of course, that carried the brand and became a small pop culture phenomenon. But the company is winding down anyway. So what will become of the puppet? The company ...

Today’s marketing moment was chosen by Elicia Greenberg, programs director at the Ad Club of New York. Below, find out why the Pets.com sock puppet, which was created by TBWA/Chiat/Day, is her ...

Enter the dog puppet. That meant a lot of back-and-forth over ideas and a fair bit of quick work. “They weren’t even sure early on if it was going to be a sock puppet,” Smiley said ...

Also up for grabs: intellectual property including its Sock Puppet icon, a floppy-eared dog with a spot over one eye that starred in TV commercials.

I first heard about Steve Kerzner a while back when I was in Canada, as I was listening to some Canadians reminisce about their favorite bits by “Ed the Sock ... the dog puppet for Ed ...

Pets.com ran ads of a dog sock puppet interviewing people on the street. The mascot appeared in a Super Bowl commercial and even got its own balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in 1999.