Deadline for sending your pics to Beth S. at [email protected] is this Thursday, October 31. All profits go to Cole’s chosen rescue group MARC (Marion Animal Resource Connection). Beth’s specifications:
I’m looking for the highest resolution images possible. The photos themselves won’t be that large, but the largest and highest resolution images people can send the better. I have photoshop and can do some remediation on images as necessary.
I haven’t gotten everything downloaded yet but I have about 100 photos (some are of the same animal) so far. Far less than last year but more manageable…
Ask them to please name the file, if they can, with the name(s) of the pet(s) in the photo. If they can’t, like they are sending from their phone, and they are sending multiple photos of multiple pets to give a brief description along with the name in the email like “yellow lab on couch is fido” or “black cat on left is spot and orange cat on right is tiffles.”
Send your pics (don’t be shy, neither your art nor your pet(s) need to be ‘show quality’) to [email protected] Any problems, you can also send them to me at [email protected] (or click on my name under ‘Contact’ in the right-hand column).
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A further note: We like all kinds of pets — previous calendars have included rabbits, horses, and at least one turtle. Here’s a note from commentor Aji about the photo at the top:
… We have a multitude of rescues (all five of our dogs, all with tearjerker stories), but also horses. One in particular that will have been with us 6 months as of October 17th. He was starved to the point that he was a few days away from dying, was completely dehydrated, had serious health issues, and had been horribly abused and neglected…
Anyway, he has a new life, and a new name, and it turns out the we are now the owners of a full-blooded, registered American Quarter Horse (in addition to our other four horses). But he’ll always just be my miracle horse.
Link to Aji’s full story about Miskwaki (Red Earth) here and here.
MikeJ
And if you thought gunsel was an unfortunate word choice, the pictures in the bjcalendar are not at all what the name would imply.
JPL
Beth has been doing an amazing job and I already sent my pictures in. Last year Beth had time to send notices that she received them, I understand that this is not always possible so my fingers are crossed that she has Mr. Finch’s and Nona’s pictures.
jenn
Thanks for sharing Aji and Miskwaki’s story. Glad to hear he’s recovering so beautifully! I had my rescue pup jump into my lap to investigate my tears, so he got a little extra scritching.
schrodinger's cat
[email protected]
Did you get my photos, I sent them over this weekend.
Aji
i heard my (nearly half-ton) baby boy hit the big time, so I hurried over to see! Thank you, Anne Laurie. :-)
And I have to dig up the hi-rez version of the photo – Beth, I promise I will do it tomorrow. Promise, promise . . . .
Belafon
OT: There’s a program on PBS about Orson Wells and his War of the Worlds broadcast. Just so you know, we really haven’t gotten dumber or smarter since then. One of the reasons they think people didn’t like the broadcast was because of what it said about society at the time: Most people were idiots.
schrodinger's cat
@Belafon: FF to the 21st century, they have all joined the Republican Party and some them have even managed to get elected to Congress.
gogol's wife
@Aji:
He’s beautiful!
Aji
@gogol’s wife: Thank you! I love him beyond all reason. His winter coat has come in now, and unlike the one he was losing when that photo was taken, this one is plush and velvety and deep red and really healthy. I am so proud of him; he’s come such a long way in six months.
Anne Laurie
@schrodinger’s cat: Yes I did! — sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner.
Yatsuno
@Aji: My mom had a gurulla quarter horse she bred from an older mother. He was the sweetest, gentlest, boy I had ever come across. And hoo boy did he love him some apples! Carrots and peppermints were fine, but he would literally go insane over apples.
My mom does Peruivan Pasos for their smooth ride, but I bet if I showed her Miskwaki she’d be falling all over herself to buy him!
Anne Laurie
@Belafon: Heh, there’s a semi-rebuttal article about this which I was gonna link to late last night, but the blog borked. Check back later!
TaMara (BHF)
@Aji: I believe you wear Tunch Angel Wings.
schrodinger's cat
@Anne Laurie: No problem!
schrodinger's cat
Speaking of aliens, they are here and many of us have already been assimilated.
The Dangerman
That’s one huge cat!
ETA: Haven’t had a chance to use that line since Tunch left us.
TaMara (BHF)
@Yatsuno: Brother of a good friend had mules. Large ones, like draft horses, only mules. Sweetest, nicest animals ever. But boy, did it take courage to go out into an open pasture and wave a bucket of apple treats at them. Two thousand pound of animal x 2 would come running full out, across the pasture and just as they were feet from me, slow to a gentle walk.
Loved those mules.
schrodinger's cat
@The Dangerman Aaww I misses the mighty Tunch.
Yatsuno
@TaMara (BHF): My parents’ neigbours have donkeys. One of them foaled but it’s a boy and they only want to keep the females, so they’re trying to talk my mom into taking him. She’s willing, but Dad is in the HELL NO camp. It’ll be interesting to see how this battle shapes up.
Aji
@Yatsuno: Pasos are beautiful; love watching them. This boy will never be a show horse – his conformation suffered too much from too many years of malnutrition and neglect, for one thing – but I’m just so grateful that I’ll be able to ride him someday. Not yet; his feet are still too damaged. But someday. :-)
schrodinger's cat
@Aji: He is pretty!
Aji
@TaMara (BHF): Aw, thank you. But the four-leggeds pegged me for a sucker decades ago. :-D They know where to come, and they do – two of our dogs showed up one winter (as older puppies) at our gallery door, starving to death, and independently of each other, we were feeding them our lunches. When we finally admitted it to each other, we decided we should just bring ’em on home.
Aji
@schrodinger’s cat: Thank you! I think so, too – now, I mean. When he showed up here, you would never have called him pretty; how he looked would’ve broken your heart. Well, broke mine, anyway.
Yatsuno
@Aji: My mother just competed in the National Championships for the Peruvian Horse Association (not the name of it but I’m too lazy to look it up right now). My dad let her go because he thought she would have fun and get the idea of getting too competitive out of her system. She came home with two third place finishes, a second, and a first. Her mare’s stock just went through the roof, plus now my mom’s show bug is even stronger than before. My dad might have to kill her.
He is a pretty boy. My mom would definitely be interested in riding and possibly breeding depending upon his bloodlines. Or just spoiling him rotten. :)
rikyrah
I have no pet, but I can’t wait to get the calendar as a gift for a pet loving co-worker of mine, who freely admits that she prefers animals to people.
srv
I have very high resolution pics of my jackalope, but he’s so fast they’re still fuzzy. Will that work?
Aji
@Yatsuno: ROTFL. So your dad’s diabolical plan blew up in his face, huh? I coulda told him that. Like, for free.
Sadly (or not), Miskwaki will be doing no breeding, since one of his owners someone along the line had him gelded. [They also had him branded, which ticks me off to no end.] But he can do the “spoiling him rotten” thing really, really well. He’s a fast learner. :-D
Omnes Omnibus
Pro tip: Do not put brandy in chamomile tea.
Belafon
@Anne Laurie: It will probably be interesting to read, but as optimistic a person as I am, I consider most people to be idiots, especially in groups. My view on history is that biological organisms have been designed to deal with a whole lot of not favorable conditions. Some may be too catastrophic, but it takes a lot to wipe out a dominant species.
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Awful taste?
Yatsuno
@Aji: That might highlight my mom’s interest even more actually. Her other big show horse (who is hurt but is rehabbing beautifully) is a gelding. He’s also a really big sweetheart. I almost feel kinda bad about it, Giselda and Lujoso would have made some great foals. I wonder if I can get a few pics of them and submit them on.
(I love the tradition of giving Peruvians Spanish names, at least officially. Otherwise they’re just Jazz and LouLou.)
@Omnes Omnibus: Umm…do I get bonus points if I already knew that?
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: The flavors have gone to war. It’s as awful as the First Ypres.
Aji
@Yatsuno: Jazz and LouLou! That’s great! All of ours have multiple names, too. Including “Butthead,” at times.
So what’s wrong with the injured boy?
Omnes Omnibus
@Yatsuno: You could have warned me. Just for research purposes, I shall try it with mint tea.
ETA: How do you know that? Reason or experience?
ETAA: Adding honey to the mix doesn’t help. It doesn’t get any worse though.
Yatsuno
@Aji: Pulled muscle in the left back leg IIRC. It’s something that can be rehabbed with gentle exercise and topical ointments. He’s responding beautifully, my mom says she’s even gaited him lightly and he tolerated it well. She’s not pushing him, he didn’t get to go on the trip to LA with Jazz. Needless to say neither appreciated the separation.
Aji
@Yatsuno: Poor thing. Glad to hear it’s something that can be rehabbed easily, though. And I’m sure he wasn’t happy being left behind. Ours are all just . . . well, family members, not show horses, but they don’t like being separated much. He integrated with the other four remarkably fast.
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Bet it is not more gross than the raw egg, honey and brandy concoction my mother used to make.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: That sounds like it would have textural issues. This, now safely dumped, was merely awful in flavor and smell.
Yatsuno
@schrodinger’s cat: That has a name. I cannot recall it to save my life however.
@Aji: Horses are herd animals. They will develop very strong attachments to any other horses around even if that attachment is mutual emnity. But it’s amazing how fast the bond with each other, especially since I’m certain they perceived he wasn’t totally healthy. Wild horses will linger back with sicker members of the herd for protection and companionship, it’s really amazing.
Amir Khalid
Some ominous news reported by the BBC. Trouble between the makers of Sriracha sauce and their home city.
Yatsuno
@Amir Khalid: My money’s on the saucemakers. Especially since they’ve been there for quite some time and the whiners are only complaining now.
Suffern ACE
@Omnes Omnibus: you have the proportions wrong probably. I believe that if you replace 1/2 the tea with ice and the other 1/2 with Benedictine you may find a tea-brandy mix more to your liking.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yatsuno:
And they only roast the chillies from September to December.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suffern ACE: The redo with mint tea is just fine. Also, I don’t really like chamomile that much; it came in a mixed pack of flavored teas and I thought the brandy might fix it – like gin fixed quinine. Alas, ’twas not to be.
Suffern ACE
@Omnes Omnibus: the gin might have been a better choice in the tea as well. I’m trying to think of what is put in a chamomile tea cocktail. I might try milk and licor 43, or st. Germain or maybe DD Canton and lemon. The brandy was always a stretch and its probably best to just have sleepy time straight and go to bed.
Anne Laurie
@Yatsuno: My parents called it syllabub (remembered as something the Irish ancestors fed sick people) but Wikipedia doesn’t mention eggs as an ingredient…
Anne Laurie
@Yatsuno:
You sure that noun shouldn’t be “bloggers”?
Omnes Omnibus
@Suffern ACE: Next time, it’s brandy or rum and hot chocolate.
Yatsuno
@Anne Laurie: Bloggers are horses? I figure a few are horse’s asses anyway.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yatsuno: Jewel’s mother is a horse.
WereBear
Sure enough, between the first story and the second, I thought, “And the idiot responsible will show up to take “his” horse back.”
Sure enough. Glad for the happy ending!
Elizabelle
Great story about Miswaki, and beautiful photos. Is that New Mexico? Stunning.
Also loved hearing about Yatsuno’s mom’s Peruvian horses. Who knew?
John Weiss
@rikyrah: People are animals, they just like to put on airs.
Mnemosyne
@Aji:
Caballo!
(Sorry, long story about when I went to Cabo San Lucas/San Jose del Cabo with friends years ago and my Mexican-American friend was “teaching” me Spanish by telling me the Spanish word for everything I said I saw out the window of the taxi, much to the amusement of the various cab drivers. There’s a reason my husband sometimes says that being married to me is like being married to a 10-year-old — thanks, ADHD!)
Aji
@WereBear: LMAO – saw that coming, didja? Yeah, so did we. Thankfully, it all worked out, in multiple ways.
Aji
@Elizabelle: Thanks! And, yes, it’s northern NM – specifically, Taos Pueblo. We live outside the old village, obviously – on family tribal land that’s on the way up toward the mountain. That place in the background is our neighbors’ house, to the east of ours.
Aji
@Mnemosyne: Pinto Rojo! [Snorfle] see, I can do that, too.
Tell him he’s lucky that only one of you is ADHD-ish. When it’s both of us, it’s . . . interesting, as the old Chinese saying goes. Speaking of which, I bet your taxi got lots of interesting looks . . . .