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She was as vulnerable as a pound puppy yet resolute and determined to find what she needed to live the life she wished for.

Both “Pet Blinders” and “Pound Puppy” center around a fictional product that prevents pets from watching their owners having sex.

First, there’s “Pound Puppy,” an instant classic of the “ridiculously impractical solution to a problem, presented as if it were normal” genre:

If “Pound Puppy” is a straightforward sales pitch for a ludicrous product, “Roach-Ex” is a ludicrous sales pitch for a straightforward product.

I can’t say what could possibly draw a little girl to such a nightmare — shouldn’t I have been playing with my Pound Puppy or something? — but I was transfixed and immediately took the magazine to my dad, who I presumed had never heard of this massive historical event.