I have been deluged with pet pics, so I better start working through them or they will never all get posted. Here are a couple dogs and then one “alternative” pet:
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Bark louder, little dog.
Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
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Damn right I heard that as a threat.
My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.
JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?
We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.
The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.
A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.
We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.
T R E 4 5 O N
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.
A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
The revolution will be supervised.
Infrastructure week. at last.
An almost top 10,000 blog!
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.
But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.
Cat Lady
@ John Cole – your time stamps are so last week.
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Cat Lady
@John Cole:
OK, thanks. Being unemployed makes me noodgie.
Punchy
OK, if you’re game to posting hamsters, you’ve GOT to post my pet rats. They’re adorable.
Pics to be emailed shortly.
Colonel Danite
Speaking of rats, did anyone watch Jim Cramer trying to defend himself against Jon Stewart’s relentlessly funny and accurate attacks? Cramer was on the Today show this morning giving his "expert" opinion about Obama’s performance on the economy. Why does anyone listen to anything this idiot has to say?
Do the booking producers of these shows have a rolodex that is limited to the same dozen idiots? When I want to know about the economy or the stock market, I don’t want to hear from Jim Cramer or Newt Gingrich or Larry Kudlow, etc. In a sane world, these guys would have no credibility to speak on economic issues. Aarrgh. Sorry. The first dose of caffeine has not kicked in yet, so I’m unusually cranky.
schrodinger's cat
These pet pics are great, but where is Tunch?
Punchy
Yes, I saw this, and my jaw hit the floor. Cramer is a pathologically unable to take any criticism. He came off as an incredibly, insanely bitter, vengeful individual. He refused to answer Viara’s (sp?) questions, tried to deflect the absolute takedown Stewart applied last nite, and just eminated fear, spite, and irrationality.
How he keeps showing up on NBC’s morning gig is unfathomable.
Napoleon
@Punchy:
What did she ask?
jnfr
@Colonel Danite:
I can only find this clip with Cramer on Morning Joe. Is there more from the Today Show? I’ll keep looking.
Edit: Here’s the Today Show clip.
Napoleon
@jnfr:
Funny!
Cat Lady
@jnfr:
It’s amazing what happens to the bluster when the curtain gets pulled back. Cramer’s mojo is gone, baby, gone. Luvs it! Jon Stewart is truly kryptonite to hackery.
Throwin Stones
The top guy is Murph(y), our 13 year old mutt.
He’s absolutely been the best dog. He’s been having some hip issues, but I believe the addition of a younger dog a while ago gave him a new lease.
Ed in NJ
@Punchy
It’s pretty simple. NBC is trying to save their credibility. NBC/CNBC/MSNBC cannot admit that their financial experts don’t know shit.
Wile E. Quixote
Jim Cramer is a whiny little bitch. Goddamn, I just wanted to slap him after watching that. Damn, I love the Stewart slap down. I can’t wait until Stewart slaps him down again.
Gus
I assume that since the networks are related they don’t have to pay him extra for his "expertise."
Cat Lady
Cramer, Rush, Boehner, Santelli – so much dishing it out, and not being able to take it. Jeebus, Republican egos are so freaking fragile. It’s just too easy to get them to clutch their pearls and melt down, and it’s so unattractive, although highly entertaining. Getting them to do it on morning TV under regular non-ideological Americans’ noses is just icing on the cake.
Evinfuilt
@Gus:
They pay for the bluster, he gives his "expertise" for free. We the viewers got our moneys worth.
4jkb4ia
You had to get past a lot of soccer to get there, but the Italian upset is on FP of Gazzetta dello Sport! Had to tell somebody.
slimslowslider
just wanted to mention that i bought a furminator on your recommendation and it works better than i could have imagined. thanks.
Comrade Kevin
@4jkb4ia: Yes, "Italy" eliminated Canada from the WBC.
Emma Anne
Love the middle picture. A blond, a brunette and a redhead. :-)
fordpowers
I’m so sick today – and I can not tell you how much better I felt after seeing my 3 precious pups; Jonah Lomu (yellow and fat), Bella Ford (pretty and brown) and Ronin Wellington (black and bad).
They’re famous now. I even sent it to my mom. Hi Mom!
:)
Comrade Stuck
I love Hamsters and bought a pair at a pet store in Albuquerque in 2000. They were the Dwarf variety and cantankerous little buggers. Full of antics and hyperactive as opposed to their larger cousins. It is almost impossible to tell male from female because the male repro organs are mostly internal, but the lady at the store said she could tell and I was getting two males, because I didn’t want to be overrun with little hamsters.
She was wrong and within a month, was hip deep in baby hamsters and gave up trying to separate the sexes and had to start giving them away to anyone who would take them. Finally, I took the remainder back to the pet store, and they took and sold the extras, and I got down to 4 or 5 separated gender wise. Though there were still occasional escapes and steamy accidents.
They only live for about 2 years though and got tired of burying them. So no more hamsters.
josefina
Throwin Stones:
Do you know what Murph’s mutt-mix is? He reminds me of my mutt, who’s golden/chow/who knows and also an absolutely wonderful dog. She’s about his age too! Maybe we can set them up for some non-procreative hanky-panky.
fordpowers:
What were they focused on so intently? Were you holding up a turkey leg, or what?
passerby
That goldie is a beaut.
Those 3 in the middle look like they could romp and frolic off leash. Wonder if they’re frisbee dogs…
And if you haven’t seen the "Hamster on a Piano", video and song, YouTube is calling you.
@Colonel Danite:
Yes! HuffPo linked the video and Stewart was at his best (which means, he laid a bullshitter bare).
Oh, and I loved loved loved Stewart’s punchline.
Must watch. Stewart speaks for so many of us. It’s so gratifying.
josefina
Comrade Stuck:
You’ll enjoy ‘Pigs is Pigs’. Hell, maybe you wrote it. On the internet, no one knows if you’re 140 years old.
Comrade Stuck
@josefina:
Damn right! :-)
Throwin Stones
@josefina: Yes, I knew his parents – mom was a chow / lab and dad was a white shepard / golden.
Way back when he went everywhere with me and really enjoyed going to parks, hiking, and canoeing. I haven’t been able to take him out as much the past few years due to age. He still chases the deer out of the back yard and tries to play/wrestle with our other 2 dogs (both ~ 5 years old), but has definitely slowed down.
@passerby: Gracias
Notorious P.A.T.
Yay! Thanks for posting my hamster, Duffy. He was small, but a good friend to me in his short time on Earth. I bought him a cage with a built-in exercise wheel, but the little goofball made the wheel his bed so I had to buy a second exercise wheel, the yellow thing in the picture.
I agree about rats. They are actually clean animals, but because they can survive so many dirty environments people think they are dirty.
Comrade Stuck, that happened to me as a kid, but with gerbils. I think my mom still hasn’t gotten over it )
LuLlu and LoLLy!
Hi we’re a couple of Maltese dogs and we stumbled onto this site — Two Paws UP! for pet pix, happy dogs, and the fluffy hamster Duffy! Love, your PaLs, LuLu and LoLLy!
Notorious P.A.T.
Who’s a good poster? Who’s a good Balloon Juice reader? Wanna surf the web? Huh, wanna?
Litlebritdifrnt
@Throwin Stones:
Is he a German ShepardChow cross? Cause he looks just like my beloved Dweebe (rip) she was the most precious of precious girls (said GSChow cross), who was the Houdini of all Houdini dogs, the Animal Control guy got so used to her digging her way out of the yard he would just pick her up, say "okay young lady back in the yard" and plop her over the gate.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v641/MsNick40/Pets%20and%20miscellaneous/Dweebe2resized.jpg