9 am: Max sees me gearing up for our usual Saturday trail walk, does everything short of writing an email to show that he is ready.
11 am: the day has warmed up more than a bit (seriously, WTF Al Gore). When we run into his buddy Duke, Max has just enough juice left for the dog equivalent of thumb wrestling.
11:30 am until Sunday:
kdaug
My little one has her own couch, too.
Big boy prefers his dog bed.
Perhaps because it’s embossed with his name.
Doubt it, but if my dogs can read…
General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)
It never ceases to amaze me how well dogs can read their owners body language. Charlie seems to always know when we are about to go outside for a walk, even when I can’t pinpoint anything different in my efforts to step away from the computer to go take a whiz.
burnspbesq
Bracket for the NCAA hockey tournament just announced. Top four seeds are Boston College, Michigan, Union, and North Dakota. Best first-round matchup looks like Boston University vs. Minnesota.
Go Dutchmen!
kdaug
Oh, and for the record, my little one looks exactly like Max’s buddy Duke. (Maybe a little bigger – ~65 lbs.)
Murphy weighs in at a solid 100.
Raven
Gearing up at 9am? Sheesh, me and the pups were out the door at 6:45. It’s hat as shit already here so we need to hit it early!
abo gato
Well, our two crazy JRTs have a skunk cornered in a shed out back. They’ve been barking at it since 1 this morning. I am sure our neighbors love us about as much as we love those two crazy dogs right about now. Our other dog, a border collie mix, came back inside last night smelling faintly of skunk, but she clearly has enough sense to know that this is a foolish idea all around. I think we are nearly at the point where they will kill the skunk and we can clean them up and move on, but geesh, it’s been a huge pain the ass all night. The two JRTs have cornered and killed at least a dozen skunks over the past few years. You’d think I’d be used to it, but I just wish they wouldn’t have the marathon bark sessions. We try to lock them in at night, and last night was my fault. The collie and the smaller JRT were left outside since they wouldn’t come in when called. At about 1, they barked outside the bedroom window and I thought it was just a bark to let them in. When I opened the back door, the bigger JRT went out and as I got to the bathroom to pee, I could then smell the skunk. I knew we were all fucked at that point.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Max!! We call that last posture “Disco Dog” chez Q. Our late lovely Louise first demonstrated it, and Layla picked it up from her. Django, however, finds it unmanly, even as he recognizes it’s always an attention getter. Often with a proclamation of “disco dog!” and much rubbing of the belly.
Svensker
Does Rick Santorum know you let your dog pose like that last picture? If he’s Prez that will be outlawed!
We went for a walk in the amazing sunshine a bit ago and saw two big hairy pooches “thumb wrestling” just like Max and Duke. It was wonderful.
Elizabelle
A great dog.
With a great sense of priorities.
DanR2
Motion video really helped capture the action in that third snippet.
jimPortlandOR
I sure love seeing mostly mature dogs just playing each other, loving the company and the faux struggle. I could watch that all day with a broad smile on my face.
CaseyL
What a great way to start a Sunday! Thanks for sharing Max with us – he’s just a fantastic fellow.
I had some good news this morning: the tiny dark lumps on Oscar’s belly are not ticks, but scabs, from one of his many go-rounds with Liam, the kitty-from-down-the-block. Liam’s mommy and I commiserate on how our boys can’t seem to get along, and how often they both come home looking like they’ve been chased through puddles and hedges and up and down trees…. because they have been chasing each other through puddles and hedges and up and down trees.
abo gato – Are the skunks denning in the shed? Might be why they keep turning up. Any chance of making it so unauthorized visitors can’t get in there? Bad enough your dogs get skunked – it’s much worse on the skunk, who gets killed.
Jess
That second clip looks like a parody of an Andy Warhol film…if such a thing is even possible. No roof-shaking snores? My Remy has him beat in that area!
horse dave
We call the the doggie thumb wrestling “bitey face”.
Our two 100lb Swissy girls have enough endurance to make it to 11am on a weekend and then they’re done. Yesterday at noon there was a lot of synchronized snoring coming from the couch.
Andree-Anne Desmedt
Thanks for the post! You made my day!
Yutsano
MAXPUPPEH!!
abo gato
CaseyL, I don’t think the skunks are denning in the shed, as the skunks have usually been killed because they got themselves cornered under a deck, or under the shed. This is the first time they’ve actually been in the shed, as far as I know.
Good news on our end, the dogs are out of the shed, the shed is closed up so nobody is going in it anymore today and I have treated all the skunk smell with the greatest skunk cleaner in the world: Clean + Green De-Skunk Coat Cleaner. It is the only thing that works. Believe me, I have tried every other method. I have to keep cans of this on hand all the time.
Friday Jones
You always manage to take a photo of Max in Hero Dog pose…like you’ve photoshopped out his cape to make him appear as a regular Dog. His Clark Kent moments with Superman shining through.