Garden statues of people scare dogs. I recently saw a frog "statue" or planter, that, much like the chia pet, uses its plant design to cleverly fill out the form of an animal. You put a green plant inside the hole in the frog's back, and you get a green frog. Only this planter was faded and now looks gray instead of green, and the plant inside of it was brown and spiny. So, naturally I assumed it was a mutated porcupine.