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Open thread

by Tim F|  December 6, 20118:33 pm| 25 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Open Threads

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Classic Max. He has gotten somewhat bigger in the sixteen months since then.

Max 1

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25Comments

  1. 1.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 6, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    Yes, he’s older, but he’s still a chick magnet.

  2. 2.

    jharp

    December 6, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    Handsome looking dog. That must be some camera you have. It is a very nice picture.

  3. 3.

    gogol's wife

    December 6, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    God, those eyes. What a beautiful soul.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    December 6, 2011 at 8:40 pm

    That’s a professional quality photo. Very nice.

  5. 5.

    lamh35

    December 6, 2011 at 8:41 pm

    Um yeah, so I’m watching “Street Fighter” the movie from the ’90s with Jean Claude Van Damme. Now all I need is a “Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat” video game. Who can I talk to that make that happen Nintendo, Sony or X-Box!

    Man I used to love Van Damme back in the day, the man’s kick splits were a thing of beauty in his heydey.

  6. 6.

    General Stuck

    December 6, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    Yo Max! Charlie says wassup, dude?

    The little guy is still drying from a very much needed bath.

  7. 7.

    lamh35

    December 6, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    BTW, That is one beautiful dog and your photos are fantastic.

    I’m in the market for a new personal camera. Since you seem to be the resident photo-hog do you have a suggestion for a good digital camera for a relative novice?

  8. 8.

    lamh35

    December 6, 2011 at 8:50 pm

    How do you know it’s Christmas in NOLA? When you hear this song on the radio on the local urban stations…lol.

    Christmas Blues

  9. 9.

    passerby

    December 6, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    That photo of Max, just stunning. He looks…dignified…or sophisticated some how.

    The burnt orange eyebrows suggest he may well be from another planet altogether.

  10. 10.

    poicephalus

    December 6, 2011 at 9:31 pm

    I think his eyes have gotten darker

  11. 11.

    Jebediah

    December 6, 2011 at 10:04 pm

    Oh, that face! With that grass sticking out of his mouth, he looks dignified and silly and serious all at once – a feat I have seen him pull off many times in the photos you’ve posted.
    A picture of that pup makes any day better.

  12. 12.

    Arclite

    December 6, 2011 at 10:14 pm

    Goddammit. Now I want to get a dog…

  13. 13.

    Xenos

    December 6, 2011 at 10:27 pm

    I find it difficult to believe he is not actually a cartoon dog — that is how adorable Max is. What an amazing example of Gould’s Micky Mouse theory of neotany, to breed such a babe from doberman pinschers!

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    December 6, 2011 at 10:42 pm

    Except for my manager, I am literally the only one at my office right now. It is way too fucking quiet. Someone set off a bomb or something. Seriously.

  15. 15.

    Jebediah

    December 6, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    @Yutsano:
    I would love to oblige, but I am also at work and I don’t think I can reach your office from here. Maybe a firecracker under the manager’s chair would liven things up?

  16. 16.

    CaseyL

    December 6, 2011 at 11:11 pm

    “Who’s the handsomeness? Who’s the good-lookin guy? YOU ARE! YES YOU ARE!”

    I so so SO love that you left his ears (and tail,IIRC) natural. That changes the entire dobie “look.”

  17. 17.

    Mnemosyne

    December 7, 2011 at 12:45 am

    Sometimes I get wistful at the thought that we probably will never have children. And then I do things like I did today where I accidentally locked one of the cats in the closet and went to work, leaving her in there all. day. long., and I realize it’s probably for the best.

  18. 18.

    Kristine

    December 7, 2011 at 1:22 am

    Max and Charlie are both gorgeous. Though Charlie has this forlorn “you washed away all my smells” look on his face.

  19. 19.

    Jebediah

    December 7, 2011 at 1:52 am

    @CaseyL:

    I so so SO love that you left his ears (and tail,IIRC) natural. That changes the entire dobie “look.”

    Yes! We have a large-ish (90 lbs.) American Staffordshire (AKA American Pit Bull Terrier) and his ears are natural and it softens his look considerably – it better matches his personality. If a stranger just looks at him, Otto is as likely as not to sidle over and lean his shoulder against their knees to get some petting. (and if that works, his next move is to flop onto his back to get belly rubs.)
    It’s one of the things I hate about cropping ears – it can make very sweet dogs look intimidating, which I think perpetuates stereotypes about some breeds.

  20. 20.

    debbie

    December 7, 2011 at 5:47 am

    Oh, that face! With that grass sticking out of his mouth, he looks dignified and silly and serious all at once

    The photo looks like some doggy version of “American Gothic.”

  21. 21.

    Joseph Nobles

    December 7, 2011 at 8:09 am

    @debbie: Oh, I can’t say that about “American Gothic.” Once I heard that the woman in the picture is meant to be the man’s daughter, and noticed the out-turned prongs of the pitchfork, and then saw the curtained upstairs window completing the triangle, I always see the Gothic in that painting. YMMV.

  22. 22.

    pbfishtaco

    December 7, 2011 at 10:00 am

    Part dog, part cow?

  23. 23.

    Karounie

    December 7, 2011 at 11:09 am

    The grass blade made me think of Tom Sawyer. Did he get you to do the doggy equivalent of whitewashing any fences that day? (Probably involves throwing and fetching something.)

  24. 24.

    kc

    December 7, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    What a handsome pup!

  25. 25.

    Paul in KY

    December 7, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    Looks like he ate someone’s glasses.

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