`Cats and Dogs' Fight For Love of Humans
By Russ Lane Managing Editor | July 12`Cats and Dogs' Fight For Love of Humans By Russ Lane Managing Editor As fun as talking animals might be, it only spells trouble when they start cashing in so-hip-it-hurts pop culture references. You could call it the "Disco Duck" Theory: when DJ Rick Dees made "Disco Duck" in 1976 the Donald Duck-meets-Donna Summer song was a powerful death knell for the disco era and turned a genre begun in the underground scene into a cartoonish mess few could take seriously.