I’m only now sorting out some pics from when Max was just a wee munchkin. You can see that from day one he truly personified the rigorous, selfless work ethic that his breed is known for.
Enjoy your holiday, those of you who get one, and try not to strain something.
Elizabelle
He is just beautiful.
And his own rubber chicken.
frogspawn
“You’re not gonna do anything crazy with this bird, are ya, son?”
SteveinSC
Uh-oh, it looks like someone has choked his chicken.
Yutsano
MAXPUPPEH!!
So just out of curiosity, how long did the chicken survive?
Violet
That chicken is awesome. Still Max with Chicken. Lovely portrait.
Southern Beale
Day before yesterday, it was 100 degrees and crispy-dry here. Today the high is 66 and it’s been raining.
I find these sudden weather shifts extremely bizarre.
Southern Beale
Let me add, the dogs are going nuts after being cooped up for 2 days.
Josie
@Yutsano: I had the same question. That chicken wouldn’t have lasted a day with Miss Emma the pug.
A Mom Anon
Aww what a baybeeee. I love puppies. Dobie and German Shephard puppies are my faves,but any puppy will do. Squeee.
Also,a pet poison warning:
We’ve had an ant problem,it’s been driving me nuts this year. They keep invading the house and the husband has not been able to find time to get under the addition to the house and spread ant poison. Anyhoo,we got some ant traps to place in strategic places. Abby got ahold of one this morning,luckily the husband caught her before she chewed through the plastic. It turns out that ant traps with the chemical Indoxacarb are in a peanut butter base to attract the ants. This info is NOT on the package. I had to find it on the interwebs. I left the bathroom open for a moment,walked into the kitchen and back and she got in there and grabbed a trap.
Abby is fine,I don’t think she got to the main poison disc inside,just the edges.Had I known these traps had peanut butter inside I NEVER would have bought them.
SiubhanDuinne
@A Mom Anon:
Thanks for that heads up.
Ants have been awful this summer, haven’t they?
Tim F.
The chicken lasted about six months. Then Max started a phase where he had to chew on things and his toy chest thinned out considerably.
A Mom Anon
@SiubhanDuinne: They are everywhere,it’s never been this bad where I am. Our master bath,master bedroom expansion and my office in the kitchen are all on concrete pillars,above the ground,and I think the ants have built hills under there. The space between the ground and the bottom of the addition is covered with cement board with special fasteners so I can’t just pry it off or I’d do it myself. It’s horrible,I can’t keep them out,there is no trail on the outside of the house I could spray to keep them out. Yeek.
R-Jud
I’ve forgotten what it’s like living with a kitten. You’re constantly under attack.
“Your shoes have laces… I must KEEL THEM. Power cable? I must KEEL EET. Your fingers, typing on the keyboard? I must KEEL THEM, too!”
Yutsano
@Tim F.: Poor chickie. But Max had fun so it was all worth it.
gogol's wife
squee!
Josie
Here is Emma. She is small but fierce in the shredding of things left on the floor.
frogspawn
@A Mom Anon:
Have you tried boric acid? You’ll need to go under the under the house to find where they’re coming in, but this helps get them when they’re in the house. You can downsize the recipe so you don’t have a huge amount of mix, although it does keep for a while if you need it again.
food.com/recipe/get-rid-of-ants-ants-ants-203233
Our dogs and cat have paid no attention to these; I still try to put them where they can’t get at them.
Note: the ants will go crazy on these traps the first day or so; let them as they’re taking the boric acid mix back into the nest.
Josie
Ok – I still can’t figure out how to do a link. Computers, how do they work?
flickr.com/photos/49146863@N03/5600997829/in/set-72157626456614758
Anne Laurie
@A Mom Anon: Some of the organic purists on my toy-dog chat board swear by diatomaceous earth as a pet-safe insecticide. I haven’t personally tested it indoors, but if it’s safe for a four-pound papillon, at least you shouldn’t have to worry about Abby getting into it.
A Mom Anon
@frogspawn: @Anne Laurie: I shall take these ideas under advisement,lol. Actually,I think we have some DE in the gardening shed,but I think it’s the kind used in pool filters,I’ll have to check and see if/what is the difference. I know ants serve a purpose,but holy crap,my house and yard has turned into an ant vacation hot spot. Blech.
catclub
Where I am, dry weather drives ants inside. Is that the case for you?
Hal
@A Mom Anon:
I also had an ant problem this year. Those little tiny kitchen ants that kept coming out of the kitchen island. That raid spray got rid of them, apparently, even though part of me is sure they are just rebuilding there numbers in the island, waiting to strike.
Also, A squirrel family moved into a hole in the roof, and I set a trap in the basement, in case they got in there, and my damn dog watched me put peanut butter on a spoon, put the spoon in the trap, and bring it down in to the basement. Three days later I lifted the gate I keep to block the dog from going down in to the basement, and before I could react, he launched down in to the basement to get the peanut butter on the spoon. I still can’t believe he was thinking about that peanut butter for days. I thought dogs had short memories? But they do love peanut butter.
frogspawn
@A Mom Anon:
Tell me about it! ;-)
Just keep in mind that the BA will knock them down in the house for a while, but if they’ve set up shop they’ll be back until you find out where they are and how they’re getting in. Fortunately, you can keep reapplying it if they get bad again until you can nuke them.
Good luck!
Hal
I have to say I find it odd that labor day is celebrated almost like a continuation of the 4th of July, when it’s supposed to be a celebration of unions, workers rights etc. Odd because I’m sure Chris Christie is somewhere grilling steaks and celebrating Labor Day all while he blames unions for all of New Jerseys woes.
WaterGirl
Hey, I have that chicken, too! So I know exactly how big it is. Max was just a baby, so sweet. My chicken is part of a matched set – one boy chicken and one girl chicken. She is wearing a bikini and he is wearing a sleeveless t-shirt and a pair of boxer shorts. They even came with names – henrietta was one, I think.
I received them as a gift from my sister who was sure I would love them. (wrong)
@R-Jud: I don’t know if you saw my reply to your comment yesterday, but I got my kitties (one looks alot like your new one!) at 5-1/2 months, so I have no idea what it’s like with a baby kitty. Are they affectionate at that age, or does that come later?
Your description does sound like the baby puppies I have had, though. You can’t even get dressed in the morning, socks – impossible. Tying shoes – impossible!
Then one day, a few months down the road, you realize you are putting on your socks and no one is attacking them, and it’s kind of sad.
WaterGirl
@A Mom Anon: When I had ants in my kitchen and bathroom, I tried a bunch of things before I found something that worked. I can feel my face scrunching up in disgust as I type, remember that there were sometimes hundreds crawling on my counters at one time. I even stopped eating at home and had spotless counters, and that still didn’t help.
If you have an Shaklee Basic-H cleaner, just a little bit mixed with water in a spray bottle kills them dead in their tracks, and it’s very safe. You can clean with it, wash clothes with it, etc.
The final solution that keeps them out of my house though, are the little plastic things that come filled with a clear liquid. The trick is to put them OUTSIDE your house, not inside. They come in a package of 6. You snip a little piece of plastic off so the ants can get at the yummy killer clear liquid. I put them around the outside of my house, but not in the back yard where my dog could get at them.
I just put all 6 of them at various spots along the sides of the house. In a day or two, the ants were gone, like magic. They didn’t come back until the next spring or fall, and as soon as I started seeing them, I got a new package of 6 and did the same thing. Works like a charm.
EDIT
@catclub: Where I live, it’s a big rain that drives the ants inside.
R-Jud
Oh my, yes. Tillie wore herself out about ten minutes ago and approached me, mewing and rubbing her head against my arm. Now she’s purring herself to sleep on my chest. She curled up on Bean’s lap earlier, too.
But she seems to favor Mr Jud the most. She squeaks with delight when he enters the room, runs to him, and turns the purr up to 11 until he picks her up.
Quinn, our older cat, is NOT HAPPY. Slinking around, growling at Tillie when she encounters her, staying upstairs.
something fabulous
On noes, look at the SCNOZZ on him, even as a wee baby! No wonder you were unable to resist him!
WaterGirl
@R-Jud: What sweet stories, especially about Tillie and Mr Jud. Sounds like love to me.
So sad that Quinn is staying upstairs, hopefully she will come around soon.
P.S. I can’t believe how tall Bean is!!
The Tim Channel
My dogs zero in on removing the ‘squeaker’ from their toys immediately upon receiving them.
Lizzy has been known to target and defile (behead) toys that even LOOK like another dog, a point that she drove home by chewing the head off a bobble head doggie replica I once bought for my wife’s car.
Bandit will actually play with his toys. He likes to fling them up in the air so high they chirp when they hit the floor. The real fun begins when they turn their attention towards each other. At that point it’s just a matter of time before Lizzy forgets she’s old as crap and aggravates her arthritic hip, or Bandit, the more diminutive of the pair gets accidentally stepped on and loses interest in the melee.
Enjoy.
John Weiss
I never figured you as the sort who would own a rubber chicken. I wish that you lived down the road.