I don’t know. I’m an expert in Photoshop and I can tell from the pixels that — oooh — PUPPEH!
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SiubhanDuinne
If the General is around, a person wouldn’t mind seeing a little Charlie too. Speaking of adorable.
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Stillwater
A bit ago both my older 11 yr old and my younger 1.5 yr old came into some problems. The younger one began to itch like crazy and the older one started to horrifically stink. Like rotting from the inside type stink. We changed their diet, thinking they got a dose of bad food, which cured the yonger one. But the older one still stinks pretty bad.
@SiubhanDuinne: He and Lil Bit but he was the culprit!
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The Worst Person In the World
Max is simply a beautiful, regal looking creature.
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Exurban Mom
I love the look of that dog, and all his fabulous expressions. I want to invite him over for a playdate with my doggie, and watch them run around the yard exhausting themselves, flop on the ground for awhile, then begin it all over again. Dogs rule.
Edited to add: Sorry Tunch, your lordship. Shouldn’ta said that out loud.
PeakVT – For some reason it inordinately pisss me off that Oly still has not made it so you can deactivate the focus magnifier with a half shutter press. I’d love to upgrade for the AF alone but either I love my E-P1 to death or I don’t want to spend the money. Take your pick.
Raven – what a gorgeous pup.
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RandyH
Damn that’s a beautiful dog.
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WaterGirl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Raven WAS NOT HAPPY. Wow, that’s a lot of attitude conveyed in one still shot. Priceless. But everybody made friends, right?
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Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@WaterGirl: He saved Raven’s life. I did a headline post about how we detected Raven’s cancer because of the Bohdi. He was sent to save him.
left you a note back yonder
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Litlebritdifrnt
From the latest round of Whitehouse photos this is purely brilliant. FLOTUS with a bunch of kids….
I’ve never had a dog, and don’t see myself ever getting one, as I’m a little nervous around them, especially small ones, having been bitten in the face by one as a toddler. However, my sister loves dogs and my favorite one of hers was a big guy named Jackson, probably a German Shepherd/Chow mix, which she got when my oldest daughter was one. My kids called him Cousin Jackson.
My sister never had him fixed and he was a bit of a brute, but highly protective and highly obedient. And soooo smart. Once we were visiting and he was hanging out in the unfenced front yard as he often did. Some dog ruckus started on the street behind the house and Jackson got up to go see what the fuss was.
My sister, on the back stoop, spotted him heading off the property and said loudly, “Who is that dog? That can’t MY dog. MY dog would never take off like THAT dog.”
His head, ears and tail went down, he did a sharp U-turn and trotted back to his spot in the front yard. She went back inside to finish making dinner, never having used his name or even spoken directly to him. I laughed, but was also simply amazed at the rapport and respect between them.
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WaterGirl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): I teared up when I read that, and my hand went to my heart. Do you have the link to that story?
@Litlebritdifrnt: Great picture, I hadn’t seen that. I loves me some FLOTUS.
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WaterGirl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): How did I miss that story??? I didn’t realize it was so recent. Will read it now.
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LesGS
@Jewish Steel: Basenjis are adorable. My partner really likes them, so if we ever did get a dog, we might lean their way, although I know they tend to have a lot of “character,” and might not be the best choice for novice dog-owners.
@WaterGirl: You didn’t, you had a comment about your experience with cocker anemia near the end.
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Stillwater
I just checked back in and noticed I haven’t gotten any feedback on my earlier comment. I feel I need to clarify: these are dogs I’m talking about. My kids are lots older, and when they began to stink we didn’t change their diet, we completely cut off their food. Til the stink subsided, of course.
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): I see that you are right! You tell a great story, though, and I ended up sobbing before I got to the end, even the second time.
I am really bummed that nothing seems to be happening with the idea for a kind of a “Found Dogs” of Balloon Juice idea I proposed a few weeks ago. I thought it was a really good idea…
There is a lovely book called “Found Dogs” with photos and stories, one pet to a page. Really sweet. There were two sequels, as well.
I think we should create a version of Found Dogs at Balloon Juice. It would make a lovely holiday gift for pet lovers (or anyone with a heart) and we would likely all want one for ourselves, too.
It might be able to put a couple of creative out-of-work or underemployed Balloon Juice folks to work for a little bit, too, if we were able to pay for the work with profits.
Does anyone think this is a good idea?
Three people responded positively – Libby’s Person, asiangrrlMN, and A Mom Anon. Seems like it could be a really nice product – there are some good stories to tell, and proceeds could go to Charlie’s Angels or some other rescue that a BJ person is associated with. I think there’s enough time before Christmas that we could get this done in time for holiday gifts, if we wanted. Of course, we would have to do our version of “Found Cats” too.
I think it could beat the hell out of a View from your Window, or whatever Sully’s book was called.
WaterGirl
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Anne Laurie
@Jewish Steel: My first dog trainer (a vet student whose whippet was an AKC obedience star) told me, “What you need to remember about sight hounds is, they’re half toy dog, and half cat.”
That was more than 25 years ago, but I’ve never had reason to doubt her diagnosis. :)
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Yeah, it wouldn’t just be dogs, but that’s how it happened to come up in the thread. I like Found Critters, or we could do one for cats and another for dogs.
What do you think of the idea? Maybe worth pursuing? Or not?
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SiubhanDuinne
@jeffreyw: Really nice. Great lookin pup but also a fine photo. The reflection is awesome.
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Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@WaterGirl: This seems to be fertile ground to hit people up for stuff! I wonder how many of the stories may have already been told?
@Anne Laurie: Yes, basenjis are very cat-like. Shiva is the only one in the pack who knows how to hunt properly. She puts her nose down, works a line and then stops and looks around for her quarry.
The boys are hopeless. Cisco is kind of spooked by bunnies who are too cheeky and Spencer thinks you can bark a squirrel out of a tree.
When the apocalypse hits, we’ll starve without Shiva.
@WaterGirl: I suggested that last year when we had all the rescue stories from on here. And I specifically mentioned a View From your Window as template and Charlie’s Angels as charity of choice. But I love your idea of helping fellow BJers get some extra cash and another thing on their resume.
He also quit posting the View from Your Couch thing too, that cracked me up. Folks feet, their pets and their laptops on BJ.
A bit ago both my older 11 yr old and my younger 1.5 yr old came into some problems. The younger one began to itch like crazy and the older one started to horrifically stink. Like rotting from the inside type stink. We changed their diet, thinking they got a dose of bad food, which cured the yonger one. But the older one still stinks pretty bad.
If you haven’t taken the older guy to the vet yet, you probably should. Eleven-plus is “senior” even for a small dog, and quite elderly for a big one — any big change like that might signal something you want to get ahead of ASAP. It might be something “easy” and fixable, like a new food allergy (yeah), or a case of gingivitis (which can lead to heart disease). Or something chronic (liver problems) that you can nip in the bud with the right treatment (which might be as simple as a specialized diet). On the other hand, dogs are “not supposed” to get colon cancer, but our girl Flicker put up with 18 months of treatment for what the vet thought was “non-specific gastritis” — as evidenced by horrid stenches from both ends — before losing a golf-ball-sized tumor & a chunk of intestine during what was supposed to be a routine surgery for bladder stones…
Remember, dogs are small predators, and wired to stoicly hide the fact that they’re in pain. (Some dogs are better at this than others — Flicker was a lifelong drama queen, but she fussed more about getting her nails clipped than she did about recovering from surgery.)
I’m sorry I can’t help you because I don’t have dogs, but I have to say I did think for a nanosecond that you were talking about your kids.
Everyone is making me squee over these beautiful dogs this evening — thanks. So much nicer than talking about Palin (three threads down).
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Dee Loralei
@jeffreyw: Buddy reminds me so much of my mom’s dog Boomer. He was a sweetheart.
@Stillwater: The only thing I know about really bad stink coming from an animal is only bad things. I had to put my siamese Moses the Kitten down a few weeks ago because of kidney failure. The first thing I knew something was wrong was him hiding, him smelling bad and him not grooming his fur well.
But you said yours is a dog, so maybe it’s impacted annal glands, John Cole is an expert on those.
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SiubhanDuinne
@Stillwater: LOL. I spent some time trying to formulate a response that would rival your own comment in perplexing ambiguity. But it wasn’t going anywhere so I deleted the whole thing and had another glass of wine.
@Jewish Steel: Well, I like three-year-olds quite a lot, and besides my own two kids having gone through THREE!, chose to spend a number of years with them in my UU church’s Sunday school. :) And BRAT is why I know about Basenjis at all, as my oldest friend has rescued three through them. Thank you, BRAT!
I’ve just realized that through my friends and those Basenjis (some of which were very sadly inappropriately socialized), given how uncomfortable I am around dogs, that I have actually had a lot of very practical experience with dogs and their conflicts. I’m just glad it wasn’t in my own physical home.
Cats. Now, cats I know and get and love. My kids call me the cat-whisperer.
Sinead had a pretty good run considering she was almost dead after being lost/abandoned in the Glacier NP backcountry for a couple of months before we go her 6 years ago. I had to carry her around at first as she was too weak to walk more than about 20 feet.
For a never-been-an-indoor-dog Sioux is doing very well, house trained in about 2 weeks and gets along with the existing 9 year old lab nicely. Very gentle and refined and starting to get the whole people thing down. She has already trained my wife to give her treats.
Aww fuck it, I’ve been downloading apps on my phone tonight and I can’t figure out why 2 of them tell me they are waiting, but at the app store they tell me they’ve been downloaded. And I’m almost out of space for more apps. And I have no idea how to move some of the least used ones into a folder or something, so I can make way for new apps. I don’t want to dele them, since I’ve paid for some of them, I just want to put a few of them out of sight, but accessible for a later date.
Anyone know anything? My son is no help since he doesn’t have a smart phone.
But in good news. One of my dearest friends is in town from Richmond, and we’re gonna either hit the Casinos in Tunica tomorrow or go dancing on Beale. God, I’ve missed that girl. Haven’t seen her in over a year.
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Felanius Kootea
I was just reading about the Mitt Romney – Sky Blu (of LMFAO fame) altercation early last year that got Sky Blu thrown off an Air Canada flight. I’ve always thought LMFAO were some talentless fucks; I never realized that RedFoo and Sky Blu were Berry Gordy’s son and grandson respectively. I like the Michigan connection (Berry Gordy – Motown, George Romney – governor of Michigan) even though neither party realized it at the time.
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Dee Loralei
@realbtl: I really think there is a special place in the heavens for folks like you who have saved animals.See that’s a story that should be in the BJ Book! Hell, it should be a Disney Movie!
@jeffreyw: That’s exactly what the pic looks like, as if he’s trying to catch the sunlight and taste it.
Boomer, my mom’s Brittany was the only dog I knew who actually showed appreciation and reverence for nature. He always breathed the fresh air as if he was savoring it. And then he’d sigh in contentment. In Winter he would turn his face towards the sun, close his eyes and revel in it’s warmth and glow. He smelled every flower he saw, and he actually seemed to talk to butterflies. And he’d always find two fallen leaves and decide he had to jump in them, as if they were a pile! Raking leaves was actually impossible when he was around for the same reason.
I’ve known other dogs that would get excited about changes in the seasons, or in the temperatures. But he seemed to be the only one who truly appreciated nature in all her glory and differences.
I know it sounds like I’m anthropomorphizing him, but he did seem to notice things other dogs miss. He was just the most aware. And he loved my mom best of all. And for all those reasons, I’ll never forget him.
@Dee Loralei: You were in moderation because FYWP is suspicious of the word “casino”.
Brittanys are generally sensitive, sensitive dogs — I can totally believe Boomer paid special attention to the seasons. (The downside, of course, is that they can be excessively needy and/or “bipolar”… as JeffreyW can attest… )
Kinda OT, but over the last few days a big art-theft scandal broke. This art dealer was claiming that thousands of pictures from all over the internet (mostly by amateurs on deviantART and the like) were his, and he was selling them to the tune of millions of dollars. He’s been shut down and there’s a class-action lawsuit pending, but the best part? The crook is Joe Lieberman’s nephew: http://forums.colbertnation.com/?page=ThreadView&thread_id=28276
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Jebediah
@Spaghetti Lee:
I am utterly SHOCKED that the Lieberman clan would have another self-serving asshole. Shocked.
Thanks all for all the cute pix! If anyone in the West LA area is looking for a place to board puppehs, we found one called Rover (on Lindblade in Culver City) that is pretty great. Otto and Juno will be spending a few nights there next week, and we are both very relieved and relaxed knowing they will be having happy fun time and be well looked after. They are cage-free, but if you need, they have private rooms also. (and a presidential suite…)
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JGabriel
The Cheesehead State — which sounds like it should be a state of mind rather than a geographical location — finally makes to the NY Times op-ed page, for judicial dysfunction:
Harsh state judicial campaigns financed by ever larger amounts of special interest money are eating away at public faith in judicial impartiality. There are few places where the spectacle is more shameful than Wisconsin, where over-the-top campaigning, self-interested rulings, and a complete breakdown of courthouse collegiality and ethics is destroying trust in its Supreme Court.
By the way, can I just add that no one gives a flying fuck about judicial collegiality — other than the people who have to work with them, of course.
As long as the justices are ethical, provide just rulings, and don’t physically assault each other (Yeah, I’m looking at you, David Prosser) I really don’t care whether they say “Hi, how are you?” to each other in the morning.
Edited to Add: And if collegiality has come to mean nothing more than “not assaulting each other”, then our standards as a country have sunk to the lowest levels of rudeness and violence possible. I grant that this may, in fact, be the case.
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Omnes Omnibus
@JGabriel: Collegiality can matter. The willingness of appellate level judges to enter into discussions and debates with one another can lead to better legal reasoning and better law. Collegiality is not simply willingness to have tea together. As a matter of fact, that part is vastly overrated.
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Suffern ACE
@JGabriel: I wish they’d label the problem “graft”, but that probably wouldn’t be collegial.
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Stillwater
Thanks for the comments everyone. I’ll take my older one to the vet and get her checked out.
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Galileo126
Oh man, I travel too much to have dog… Thanks for the pic, Tim.
I live vicariously through you… and Max.
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SiubhanDuinne
MAAAAAAAAAX! Scritchscritchscritch. What a gorgeous puppeh.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Like he was going to stop being adorable in, what, a week?
SiubhanDuinne
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
LOL Raven!
Comrade Mary
I don’t know. I’m an expert in Photoshop and I can tell from the pixels that — oooh — PUPPEH!
SiubhanDuinne
If the General is around, a person wouldn’t mind seeing a little Charlie too. Speaking of adorable.
Stillwater
A bit ago both my older 11 yr old and my younger 1.5 yr old came into some problems. The younger one began to itch like crazy and the older one started to horrifically stink. Like rotting from the inside type stink. We changed their diet, thinking they got a dose of bad food, which cured the yonger one. But the older one still stinks pretty bad.
Thoughts?
PeakVT
@Tim F. – a full review of the EP-3 is up at DPreview.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Bohdi the day we found him.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Bohdi full growed
SiubhanDuinne
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Awwww
::melt::
And I’m not even much of a dog person, but OMG the cute!
SiubhanDuinne
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Lovely dog.
Is Bohdi the one that had the chocolate scare a few months ago?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@SiubhanDuinne: I’ve probably posted this before but here’s the late, great Raven that day. OH NO What have you done?
Chipper with another dinger!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@SiubhanDuinne: He and Lil Bit but he was the culprit!
The Worst Person In the World
Max is simply a beautiful, regal looking creature.
Exurban Mom
I love the look of that dog, and all his fabulous expressions. I want to invite him over for a playdate with my doggie, and watch them run around the yard exhausting themselves, flop on the ground for awhile, then begin it all over again. Dogs rule.
Edited to add: Sorry Tunch, your lordship. Shouldn’ta said that out loud.
Tim F.
PeakVT – For some reason it inordinately pisss me off that Oly still has not made it so you can deactivate the focus magnifier with a half shutter press. I’d love to upgrade for the AF alone but either I love my E-P1 to death or I don’t want to spend the money. Take your pick.
Raven – what a gorgeous pup.
RandyH
Damn that’s a beautiful dog.
WaterGirl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Raven WAS NOT HAPPY. Wow, that’s a lot of attitude conveyed in one still shot. Priceless. But everybody made friends, right?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@WaterGirl: He saved Raven’s life. I did a headline post about how we detected Raven’s cancer because of the Bohdi. He was sent to save him.
left you a note back yonder
Litlebritdifrnt
From the latest round of Whitehouse photos this is purely brilliant. FLOTUS with a bunch of kids….
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/6047288405/in/set-72157627318836153/
realbtl
Some of you may remember Sinead the rare Montana spotted reindeer from one of the rescue threads or even earlier from John’s random pet postings. She passed on in late June at somewhere around 13.
Here’s the newest addition, a 4 year old Weimaraner named Sioux on our 750 mile trip back from the rescue in Eastern Montana.
She did pretty well for a dog from a breeders kennel though she hated the elevator at the hotel in Helena on the way back. She is not grey, the coloring around her muzzle is normal for blue weims.
SiubhanDuinne
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
The epitome of stoicism.
MikeJ
Before I leave, I’ll repeat the news for those just getting home and checking in: Seattle area meetup with Sobeale tomorrow, 5ish at Zig Zag.
Repeat it if you see any other Seattlites around.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@MikeJ: Did my first dose in Seattle!
LesGS
I’ve never had a dog, and don’t see myself ever getting one, as I’m a little nervous around them, especially small ones, having been bitten in the face by one as a toddler. However, my sister loves dogs and my favorite one of hers was a big guy named Jackson, probably a German Shepherd/Chow mix, which she got when my oldest daughter was one. My kids called him Cousin Jackson.
My sister never had him fixed and he was a bit of a brute, but highly protective and highly obedient. And soooo smart. Once we were visiting and he was hanging out in the unfenced front yard as he often did. Some dog ruckus started on the street behind the house and Jackson got up to go see what the fuss was.
My sister, on the back stoop, spotted him heading off the property and said loudly, “Who is that dog? That can’t MY dog. MY dog would never take off like THAT dog.”
His head, ears and tail went down, he did a sharp U-turn and trotted back to his spot in the front yard. She went back inside to finish making dinner, never having used his name or even spoken directly to him. I laughed, but was also simply amazed at the rapport and respect between them.
WaterGirl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): I teared up when I read that, and my hand went to my heart. Do you have the link to that story?
jeffreyw
I really like this one of Buddy.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@jeffreyw: Looks like he’s fishin!
Jewish Steel
You know what’s nice on a blazing hot evening? Sticking your forelegs into a basket of piping hot laundry.
Mmmmm
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@WaterGirl: Amazing, I just googled it and it came up!
SiubhanDuinne
@Litlebritdifrnt: Great picture, I hadn’t seen that. I loves me some FLOTUS.
WaterGirl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): How did I miss that story??? I didn’t realize it was so recent. Will read it now.
LesGS
@Jewish Steel: Basenjis are adorable. My partner really likes them, so if we ever did get a dog, we might lean their way, although I know they tend to have a lot of “character,” and might not be the best choice for novice dog-owners.
dopealope
MAX !!!!
Wait, is that a red dingo tag?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@WaterGirl: You didn’t, you had a comment about your experience with cocker anemia near the end.
Stillwater
I just checked back in and noticed I haven’t gotten any feedback on my earlier comment. I feel I need to clarify: these are dogs I’m talking about. My kids are lots older, and when they began to stink we didn’t change their diet, we completely cut off their food. Til the stink subsided, of course.
jeffreyw
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): He’s noodlin’.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@jeffreyw: Hey, here’s a pic of me with my coal miner grampa in Christopher.
Jewish Steel
@LesGS: Definitely not. Consider it in the class of adopting a rambunctious 3yo.
BRAT are great people to talk to about your basenji curiosity. There are some basenjis out there that are super-mellow, low impact hounds. Shiva (left) is one of these. Cisco (right) is the craziness kind.
WaterGirl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): I see that you are right! You tell a great story, though, and I ended up sobbing before I got to the end, even the second time.
I am really bummed that nothing seems to be happening with the idea for a kind of a “Found Dogs” of Balloon Juice idea I proposed a few weeks ago. I thought it was a really good idea…
Here’s what I wrote to Cole:
Cole,
I proposed an idea in the morning pet thread:
https://balloon-juice.com/2011/08/11/early-morning-open-thread-abby/#comment-2721615
Here’s the suggestion – see what you think:
There is a lovely book called “Found Dogs” with photos and stories, one pet to a page. Really sweet. There were two sequels, as well.
I think we should create a version of Found Dogs at Balloon Juice. It would make a lovely holiday gift for pet lovers (or anyone with a heart) and we would likely all want one for ourselves, too.
It might be able to put a couple of creative out-of-work or underemployed Balloon Juice folks to work for a little bit, too, if we were able to pay for the work with profits.
Does anyone think this is a good idea?
Three people responded positively – Libby’s Person, asiangrrlMN, and A Mom Anon. Seems like it could be a really nice product – there are some good stories to tell, and proceeds could go to Charlie’s Angels or some other rescue that a BJ person is associated with. I think there’s enough time before Christmas that we could get this done in time for holiday gifts, if we wanted. Of course, we would have to do our version of “Found Cats” too.
I think it could beat the hell out of a View from your Window, or whatever Sully’s book was called.
WaterGirl
Anne Laurie
@Jewish Steel: My first dog trainer (a vet student whose whippet was an AKC obedience star) told me, “What you need to remember about sight hounds is, they’re half toy dog, and half cat.”
That was more than 25 years ago, but I’ve never had reason to doubt her diagnosis. :)
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@WaterGirl: Found critters?
WaterGirl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Yeah, it wouldn’t just be dogs, but that’s how it happened to come up in the thread. I like Found Critters, or we could do one for cats and another for dogs.
What do you think of the idea? Maybe worth pursuing? Or not?
SiubhanDuinne
@jeffreyw: Really nice. Great lookin pup but also a fine photo. The reflection is awesome.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@WaterGirl: This seems to be fertile ground to hit people up for stuff! I wonder how many of the stories may have already been told?
time for beddy-bye
peas
WaterGirl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Peas back at ya!
Dee Loralei
@realbtl: Sorry to hear about Sinead, but congrats about Soiux. Both are pretty girls.
Jewish Steel
@Anne Laurie: Yes, basenjis are very cat-like. Shiva is the only one in the pack who knows how to hunt properly. She puts her nose down, works a line and then stops and looks around for her quarry.
The boys are hopeless. Cisco is kind of spooked by bunnies who are too cheeky and Spencer thinks you can bark a squirrel out of a tree.
When the apocalypse hits, we’ll starve without Shiva.
jeffreyw
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks, Ma’am.
Dee Loralei
@WaterGirl: I suggested that last year when we had all the rescue stories from on here. And I specifically mentioned a View From your Window as template and Charlie’s Angels as charity of choice. But I love your idea of helping fellow BJers get some extra cash and another thing on their resume.
He also quit posting the View from Your Couch thing too, that cracked me up. Folks feet, their pets and their laptops on BJ.
Anne Laurie
@Stillwater:
If you haven’t taken the older guy to the vet yet, you probably should. Eleven-plus is “senior” even for a small dog, and quite elderly for a big one — any big change like that might signal something you want to get ahead of ASAP. It might be something “easy” and fixable, like a new food allergy (yeah), or a case of gingivitis (which can lead to heart disease). Or something chronic (liver problems) that you can nip in the bud with the right treatment (which might be as simple as a specialized diet). On the other hand, dogs are “not supposed” to get colon cancer, but our girl Flicker put up with 18 months of treatment for what the vet thought was “non-specific gastritis” — as evidenced by horrid stenches from both ends — before losing a golf-ball-sized tumor & a chunk of intestine during what was supposed to be a routine surgery for bladder stones…
Remember, dogs are small predators, and wired to stoicly hide the fact that they’re in pain. (Some dogs are better at this than others — Flicker was a lifelong drama queen, but she fussed more about getting her nails clipped than she did about recovering from surgery.)
gogol's wife
@Stillwater:
I’m sorry I can’t help you because I don’t have dogs, but I have to say I did think for a nanosecond that you were talking about your kids.
Everyone is making me squee over these beautiful dogs this evening — thanks. So much nicer than talking about Palin (three threads down).
Dee Loralei
@jeffreyw: Buddy reminds me so much of my mom’s dog Boomer. He was a sweetheart.
@Stillwater: The only thing I know about really bad stink coming from an animal is only bad things. I had to put my siamese Moses the Kitten down a few weeks ago because of kidney failure. The first thing I knew something was wrong was him hiding, him smelling bad and him not grooming his fur well.
But you said yours is a dog, so maybe it’s impacted annal glands, John Cole is an expert on those.
SiubhanDuinne
@Stillwater: LOL. I spent some time trying to formulate a response that would rival your own comment in perplexing ambiguity. But it wasn’t going anywhere so I deleted the whole thing and had another glass of wine.
jeffreyw
Has it been 2 years already? Here’s Bud at a run alongside me on my quad. August of ’09.
Dee Loralei
@jeffreyw: hahahahahah that tongue is amazing!
LesGS
@Jewish Steel: Well, I like three-year-olds quite a lot, and besides my own two kids having gone through THREE!, chose to spend a number of years with them in my UU church’s Sunday school. :) And BRAT is why I know about Basenjis at all, as my oldest friend has rescued three through them. Thank you, BRAT!
I’ve just realized that through my friends and those Basenjis (some of which were very sadly inappropriately socialized), given how uncomfortable I am around dogs, that I have actually had a lot of very practical experience with dogs and their conflicts. I’m just glad it wasn’t in my own physical home.
Cats. Now, cats I know and get and love. My kids call me the cat-whisperer.
SiubhanDuinne
@jeffreyw:
“Ma’am”??
I was going to say, that makes me feel old. Then I realized, I am old.
You are a very polite, respectful young man, and a credit to your generation.
realbtl
@Dee Loralei:
Sinead had a pretty good run considering she was almost dead after being lost/abandoned in the Glacier NP backcountry for a couple of months before we go her 6 years ago. I had to carry her around at first as she was too weak to walk more than about 20 feet.
For a never-been-an-indoor-dog Sioux is doing very well, house trained in about 2 weeks and gets along with the existing 9 year old lab nicely. Very gentle and refined and starting to get the whole people thing down. She has already trained my wife to give her treats.
jeffreyw
@Dee Loralei:
Taste that sunshine!
jeffreyw
@SiubhanDuinne: Heh, you are old enough to be my …sister.
SiubhanDuinne
@jeffreyw:
Sister. Yeah, that’s it!
Dee Loralei
Aww fuck it, I’ve been downloading apps on my phone tonight and I can’t figure out why 2 of them tell me they are waiting, but at the app store they tell me they’ve been downloaded. And I’m almost out of space for more apps. And I have no idea how to move some of the least used ones into a folder or something, so I can make way for new apps. I don’t want to dele them, since I’ve paid for some of them, I just want to put a few of them out of sight, but accessible for a later date.
Anyone know anything? My son is no help since he doesn’t have a smart phone.
But in good news. One of my dearest friends is in town from Richmond, and we’re gonna either hit the Casinos in Tunica tomorrow or go dancing on Beale. God, I’ve missed that girl. Haven’t seen her in over a year.
Felanius Kootea
I was just reading about the Mitt Romney – Sky Blu (of LMFAO fame) altercation early last year that got Sky Blu thrown off an Air Canada flight. I’ve always thought LMFAO were some talentless fucks; I never realized that RedFoo and Sky Blu were Berry Gordy’s son and grandson respectively. I like the Michigan connection (Berry Gordy – Motown, George Romney – governor of Michigan) even though neither party realized it at the time.
Dee Loralei
@realbtl: I really think there is a special place in the heavens for folks like you who have saved animals.See that’s a story that should be in the BJ Book! Hell, it should be a Disney Movie!
@jeffreyw: That’s exactly what the pic looks like, as if he’s trying to catch the sunlight and taste it.
Boomer, my mom’s Brittany was the only dog I knew who actually showed appreciation and reverence for nature. He always breathed the fresh air as if he was savoring it. And then he’d sigh in contentment. In Winter he would turn his face towards the sun, close his eyes and revel in it’s warmth and glow. He smelled every flower he saw, and he actually seemed to talk to butterflies. And he’d always find two fallen leaves and decide he had to jump in them, as if they were a pile! Raking leaves was actually impossible when he was around for the same reason.
I’ve known other dogs that would get excited about changes in the seasons, or in the temperatures. But he seemed to be the only one who truly appreciated nature in all her glory and differences.
I know it sounds like I’m anthropomorphizing him, but he did seem to notice things other dogs miss. He was just the most aware. And he loved my mom best of all. And for all those reasons, I’ll never forget him.
And why am I in moderation @63??
Steeplejack
@realbtl:
Is that Jerry Garcia driving in that second pic? I thought he was dead.
Lysana
@Dee Loralei: Maybe that three-letter word that’s short for application?
Steeplejack
@Stillwater:
Thanks for the clarification. I was wondering.
Anne Laurie
@Dee Loralei: You were in moderation because FYWP is suspicious of the word “casino”.
Brittanys are generally sensitive, sensitive dogs — I can totally believe Boomer paid special attention to the seasons. (The downside, of course, is that they can be excessively needy and/or “bipolar”… as JeffreyW can attest… )
Steeplejack
@Dee Loralei:
What kind of phone? That’s the first thing we need to know.
Steeplejack
@Dee Loralei:
Casino.
Dollared
Tim,
Did you buy the dog because the camera is so good with brown to gold tones? Or vice versa?
Yutsano
@Dollared: Yes.
And obligatory PUPPEH!!
Spaghetti Lee
Kinda OT, but over the last few days a big art-theft scandal broke. This art dealer was claiming that thousands of pictures from all over the internet (mostly by amateurs on deviantART and the like) were his, and he was selling them to the tune of millions of dollars. He’s been shut down and there’s a class-action lawsuit pending, but the best part? The crook is Joe Lieberman’s nephew: http://forums.colbertnation.com/?page=ThreadView&thread_id=28276
Jebediah
@Spaghetti Lee:
I am utterly SHOCKED that the Lieberman clan would have another self-serving asshole. Shocked.
Thanks all for all the cute pix! If anyone in the West LA area is looking for a place to board puppehs, we found one called Rover (on Lindblade in Culver City) that is pretty great. Otto and Juno will be spending a few nights there next week, and we are both very relieved and relaxed knowing they will be having happy fun time and be well looked after. They are cage-free, but if you need, they have private rooms also. (and a presidential suite…)
JGabriel
The Cheesehead State — which sounds like it should be a state of mind rather than a geographical location — finally makes to the NY Times op-ed page, for judicial dysfunction:
Sorry, Cheeseheads. I feel your pain. I have family in the judicial “kidz for kickbacks” county.
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Omnes Omnibus
@JGabriel: Well, there is always West Virginia.
JGabriel
By the way, can I just add that no one gives a flying fuck about judicial collegiality — other than the people who have to work with them, of course.
As long as the justices are ethical, provide just rulings, and don’t physically assault each other (Yeah, I’m looking at you, David Prosser) I really don’t care whether they say “Hi, how are you?” to each other in the morning.
Edited to Add: And if collegiality has come to mean nothing more than “not assaulting each other”, then our standards as a country have sunk to the lowest levels of rudeness and violence possible. I grant that this may, in fact, be the case.
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Omnes Omnibus
@JGabriel: Collegiality can matter. The willingness of appellate level judges to enter into discussions and debates with one another can lead to better legal reasoning and better law. Collegiality is not simply willingness to have tea together. As a matter of fact, that part is vastly overrated.
Suffern ACE
@JGabriel: I wish they’d label the problem “graft”, but that probably wouldn’t be collegial.
Stillwater
Thanks for the comments everyone. I’ll take my older one to the vet and get her checked out.
Galileo126
Oh man, I travel too much to have dog… Thanks for the pic, Tim.
I live vicariously through you… and Max.