Try cutting grass with three Jack Russell Terriers and one Lily. I cut for 5 minutes, threw a ball for five minutes, cut for five minutes, threw a ball for five minutes. There were little green footsies everywhere.
Also, we have settled on the name Rosie (Rosalita).
Violet
Video, please!
Are you going to take her to the vet again to see if she’s got potential puppies?
cleek
one two three four!
Rosalita jump a little lighter
Senorita come sit by my fire
I just want to be your love, ain’t no lie
Rosalita you’re my stone desire
lawnorder
Aahhhh summer !
Romping around with dogs in recently cut grass is next to heaven IMHO
growingdaisies
Maybe if you sharpened their teeth a little?
General Egali Tarian Stuck
Love that name. And song.
John Cole
@Violet: Mom is picking dad up at the airport tomorrow, so I will be taking all four dogs to the vets to get Ginny and Guesly’s toenails clipped (you can not believe the fucking drama when we try to cut their nails- just easier to have them do it). I’ll check then.
I think she is just fat, and I’ve been calling her Miss Piggy. Although truth be told, considering the wide load I am, this is just a case of Tunch and Rosie resembling their owner.
She also has some really funny mannerisms. Sometimes, when she is sitting on my lap and I pet her, she moans/growls “Rowowowowow.” If you don’t know her, you’d think she was mean, but she is just grumping like JRT’s do. I just grumble back at her.
I’ve been really super pleased with Lily’s behavior. She has accepted the dog without so much as a problem. They share the lap ok, play well, and the only downside so far is I wake up in the morning with a stiff back because I can’t move in my sleep at all because I have a Lily on the right and a Rosie on the left cementing me in place.
ruemara
Mensch. You’re gonna cry if you have to let her go.
jibeaux
Okay, one does not name animals one is not resigned to keeping, does one?
JimPortlandOR
I can’t move in my sleep at all because I have a Lily on the right and a Rosie on the left cementing me in place.
I had the same problem with my 100 lb labradors. good for the winter though.
When you get to naming the guest dog, the dog now owns you. It’s staying for the duration.
jeffreyw
No mowing for me this morning, had a thunderstorm blow through. Bonus: A feeding frenzy.
donnah
It looks like a 50/50 here. One one hand, you’ve taken in a real sweetheart of a dog who got along almost immediately with the other pets and has a great temperament. And she’s pretty.
On the other hand, you’ve added another dog to the family and she might be a problem for Tunch. And she might be a sadly missed pet from another household.
The other stuff is not that consequential; extra dog chow, more vet bills along the way.
But it sounds like she’s already made herself a home, and two dogs and a cat is not crazy-land. We have two cats and a dog and I can still function in society. Except for the pet hair that’s always covering my clothes…
suzanne
@John Cole:
See? You are *so* keeping that dog.
John Cole
@jibeaux: You kinda have to name them anyway- they name strays at shelters and don’t keep them. What do you call them, otherwise?
Although my friend Jill wants to call her Snarls Barkley.
David
A woman I know was working in her yard one Saturday when her 50 lb bull terrier picked up a 2 x 4 and hit her in the shin. She fell to the ground and the dog swung around and hit her in the head with it requiring a trip to the emergency room and stitches.
The next Saturday she was on her knees trimming the grass with hand clippers. She opened the gate for a second and her dog jumped against it slamming her head into the jamb requiring a second trip to emergency room and some more stitches.
PTirebiter
Good for you, good for Lily and especially good for Rosie.
Economy of scale is now within your reach Mr. Cole, keep your eyes peeled and leave the the light on.
Skepticat
May we assume that this is not a Freudian slip?
mcd410x
Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend
I want to guard your dreams and visions
jibeaux
@John Cole:
I’m new to these things, but next week am picking up a puppy. A lady has been fostering him for two weeks since her BF found an abandoned litter. She is fond of him, but doesn’t want to keep him. She is religiously and steadfastly not naming him, other than “Puppy”. That would take discipline, I think I would slip in Sawyer-style nicknaming more or less immediately, but it’s a psychological barrier.
Now your new dog has not only a nickname, but a full given formal name as well. Just sayin’, I think she’s stayin’.
Rosalita
@Violet:
ditto, more video of the fun please!
PTirebiter
@John Cole: Years ago, I gave temporary shelter to a 10 yr old female lab that showed up at my door. JayneDoe was with me for another 8 years and I still miss her.
jibeaux
Waaaaaaiiiiitttt a minute, I think that’s the calling card that Charles Johnson has been in your yard!
Howlin Wolfe
Our sheltie, a little female, attacks the lawn mower when it’s in her presence. She bites the wheels, snarling all the while. It’s really funny, but I get worried her feet might slip under the housing and get cut. So, we keep her in house when the mower is running.
She’ll attack it when it isn’t running, so we get to see her do her neurotic dog thing without endangering her.
She hates it so much, throwing the ball would have no effect on her. Normally, she eagerly plays fetch.
jayjaybear
You know, in the clip you posted last night, Rosie seems to be fairly passive and not really doing much. But she’s been digging, digging, digging her way under the fence since she popped into your car…
Liz
@Violet:
yes video!
comrade scott's agenda of rage
Good on you John.
Believe me, as someone who’s taken in a crapload of cats in similar straits over the years, accept it.
Also accept the fact that it’s highly likely she was dumped. Then accept the fact that people are assholes.
This rights the cosmic balance. Our outdoor stray dropped dead last Friday. He was old and was heartworm positive. One goes to the Bridge, one finds a Forever Home.
stuckinred
stuckinred
@Howlin Wolfe: “I get worried her feet might slip under the housing and get cut. ”
Duh.
QuaintIrene
Oh, I believe it. Doesn’t help that I’m incredibly squeamish about it. I can manage the dew claws and that’s about it.
Violet
@John Cole:
She sounds like a total sweetheart. I hope if she does have people that they find her. She sounds like the kind of dog they’d be missing terribly. She’s lucky she jumped into your car.
We’ll all be waiting on pins and needles to hear the result of the Puppies or No Puppies visit to the vet.
Svensker
This is a weird OT that I posted in an earlier dead thread, but wondering if anyone knows anything:
This is really off the wall but have any of you run into wingers who have a secret language? I’m not kidding. A friend of a FB friend is a Beckian “Obamarxist is going to put Sharia on us all!” type and he and a couple of his similarly insane buddies are speaking in a secret code/language. They take it very seriously and are all kinda manly “USA! USA!” military and stuff. These guys are in their 50s, “normal” married joes with jobs and kids going to college. Anyone heard of this?
stuckinred
@Svensker: Proly x-Airforce!
Jay in Oregon
Dooooooomed.
You are so doomed.
Enjoy. :)
gbear
That is the best dog name EVER. In the early 70’s there was a band in St. Paul that called themselves Snarly Grumble. They never went anywhere so I’ve always wanted to recycle the name – no one would know. If I ever get a dog, that will be the name.
I had a cat that got called Rosie but it was short for Rosebud. More often than not I called her ‘Bud’.
It seems that putting up the 3″x3″ ‘Lost Dog’ posters has had the desired effect. When do we get to start referring to your little gang as a menagerie?
EDantes
Just as well Rosie is not active with the other dogs just yet. Friends of mine had an overweight little pooch and they took it to a friends and it decided to try to keep up with the in shape doggies and well . . . a grand in doggie knee surgery later . . .
bluehill
Off this topic: interesting article that reflects some of the sentiment on this blog (via Sullivan)
democracyjournal.org/article.php?ID=6760
“Our political culture affects the way we think about the past as well. Too often, when progressives think of American history, we think only of the snapshots: those glorious moments when a historic bill is signed into law, or when the great progressive leader thunderingly confronts the forces of reaction. It’s good to remember those; they are our lodestars. But they are moments. Actual history is slower, more tedious, and certainly less uplifting. It’s not for Obama’s sake, but for liberalism’s over the long haul, that we need to consider this reality and proceed in full awareness of it. It’s only by seeing this fuller picture that we can know how history actually unfolds in real time and place our present experience within that context. We don’t do nearly enough of that. Cable news and op-ed pages and websites are a kind of modern-day camera obscura, giving us an image to be sure, accurate in a way, but upside-down.”
schrodinger's cat
Thanks for the update. But what about Tunch? How is he coping with 4 dogs in his house? Pooh kitteh!
TaMara (formerly Bad Horse's Filly)
@ruemara: I suspect if there are kind owners out there who miss her and John finds them, Rosie has just paved the way for the next wayward soul to join his menagerie. I’d give it two weeks if Rosie returns to her previous home, before John succumbs to another rescue.
Linda Featheringill
Is Rosie doing a doggie version of chuffing that the big cats do instead of purring?
Anyway, you and Rosie and Lily, and Guesli and Ginny have a good time. And Tunch, too.
Kered (formerly Derek)
Rosie. Cute. I like it.
BC
About the ball throwing – you throw the ball, mow while the dogs chase the ball and bring it back, then throw it again. JRTs don’t like machines that make noise, so this is way we mowed with JRT in our yard. Of course, the ball was a regulation size basketball, our JRT’s favorite.
Butch
@gbear: Our oldest golden is named Barley and now usually goes by Shnarls, a mashup of “Snarly Barley.” There are four mutleys here, and all but one will play “sticksies” (retrieving tennis balls) until they drop. The fourth one will look at you like “you threw it. You go get it.” The sticksies mean that outdoor projects take a long time.
Poopyman
@John Cole:
At our house this is called Five-Cat Syndrome.
Welcome to the Support Group From Hell (SGFH). May I suggest another cat to even things out a bit?
bemused
@QuaintIrene:
Our granddog, a lab, just adores having his nails trimmed. He sprawls on his back, totally limp, while our son clips. Then our daughter-in-law takes over & buffs his nails (he has his own nail buffer) so he won’t scratch their legs when wearing shorts. It’s pretty hilarious to watch.
Poopyman
@John Cole:
When we first got married a stray showed up at our door that we were determined not to keep. We didn’t exactly, but we still only called him “Five”, ‘cuz the other 4 had names. Of course that was his name for the duration.
The Moar You Know
@Svensker: The Hutaree mullet militia that the ATF recently rounded up in Michigan had one.
Of course, so do Scientologists and the Catholic Church. Seems to be a hallmark of the insane.
QuaintIrene
Lord. Sounds like they never grew out of their childhood ‘boys clubhouse with the secret password’ phase.
Rosalita
@Poopyman:
I call it Three Cat Night
JD Rhoades
She’s your dog, Charlie Brown.
funluvn
Cute name, cute little lady! I hope her family finds you, but if not, Rosie could not be in a better place. Well, unless Tunch decides her fate is the same as yours, John.
jeffreyw
Better a late breakfast than none at all.
robertdsc
You’re a good man, John. First Lily, now Rosie. Blessings to you and your wonderful brood. :)
Annie
@John Cole:
And, Tunch on the head?
Face
OT:
Pretty damn brazen. At least we now know laws were broken
Linda Featheringill
Daughter found this on youtube. Very cute.
youtube.com/watch?v=rSdPRsVxlcw&feature=player_embedded#
May we all live this way.
Dog is My Copilot
I belong to DOA = Dog Owners Anonymous. Just kidding. We have four rescue dogs and it is a bit of work sometimes, but when they look at me with their happy eyes and wagging tails, and I know they are safe, warm and fed, it just gives me a happy feeling to know we gave them a good home.
asiangrrlMN
Cole, this post gives me a happy. No matter what happens to Rosalita, I know it will be the best thing for her. Though, you did call yourself her owner, so….
@jeffreyw: Hi! I’ll take two helpings, please.
schrodinger's cat
@Annie: Yes since he is the head of the family.
asiangrrlMN
@schrodinger’s cat: True dat. We need some Tunchie pics, stat!
cliff
@stuckinred:
however her humans were not left too bad of either:
The Dangerman
@gbear:
All reminds me off an emaciated kitten that showed up at my apartment door many years ago; I brought it in for milk and the little shit curled up on my chest and slept. I wasn’t supposed to have pets, but rules are meant to be broken occasionally.
Anyway, one thing it liked to do after I would inevitably fall asleep, too, was beat me around the face with her paws to wake me up. “Nice” wakeup call, dammit.
Anyway, emaciated kitten, bats about the face, and it was named Thin Lizzy Borden.
licensed to kill time
I love it.
Rosie’s to the left of me, Lily’s to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
Yes I’m stuck in the middle with you,
and I’m wondering what it is I should do.
It’s so hard to keep this smile from my face.
Losing control yeah I’m all over the place.
Trying to make some sense of it all
but I can see that it makes no sense at all.
Is it cool to go to sleep on the floor?
I don’t think that I can take anymore.
Here I am. stuck in the middle with you.
Stuck in the middle
Stuck in the middle
{{{hugs-enjoy!}}}
JenJen
@John Cole: I don’t even know you, but I kind of love you.
Viva Rosalita!!
Also, re: toenail clipping? I have one dog (Rocco the Aussie Shep) who just basks in the attention. Just rolls over on his belly as if to say “Oh, please cut my nails, bathe me, brush me, groom me!”
And then there’s Strider (the Aussie Cattle dog x mutt) who needs to be muzzled and held down with a helper just to cut his little toodle-nails. What the hell is that about??
Lesson? Next puppy, I’m touching their feet like nobody’s business. Over and over and over again. All dogs should be as groom-friendly as Rocco.
TuiMel
@licensed to kill time:
Well there’s Rosie on my left and Lily on my right
But Tunch is the one of whom I live in fear at night…
Woodrowfan
@JenJen:
We have a Fox Terrier named Rocco (a rescue who had multiple homes) and he HATES having his feet touched. We’ve started massaging them gently to get him used to it but he’s an older dog so he may be set in his ways..
Anne Laurie
@Woodrowfan:
Boy, do I hear ya. All three of our guys are rescues, and so ‘foot-shy’ that I can’t even trim the extra hair between their pads so they don’t slide around on the hardwood floors. Fortunately, they are now secure enough to behave for the groomers at the local pet supply chainstore, more or less. It’s well worth the $12 apiece to visit the ‘toy store’ and have the groomers accomplish in 10 minutes what would take me a half-hour of screaming, wrestling & blood loss (some of it mine), but my next dog is gonna learn… (yeah, right).