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Reminder: Send Your 2014 Calendar Pet Photos Now!

by Anne Laurie|  October 29, 20139:10 pm| 57 Comments

This post is in: Pet Rescue, Readership Capture

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aji miskwaki red earth

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.

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  1. 1.

    MikeJ

    October 29, 2013 at 9:13 pm

    And if you thought gunsel was an unfortunate word choice, the pictures in the bjcalendar are not at all what the name would imply.

  2. 2.

    JPL

    October 29, 2013 at 9:20 pm

    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.

  3. 3.

    jenn

    October 29, 2013 at 9:31 pm

    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.

  4. 4.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 29, 2013 at 9:35 pm

    AL@top
    Did you get my photos, I sent them over this weekend.

  5. 5.

    Aji

    October 29, 2013 at 9:43 pm

    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 . . . .

  6. 6.

    Belafon

    October 29, 2013 at 9:52 pm

    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.

  7. 7.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 29, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    @Belafon: FF to the 21st century, they have all joined the Republican Party and some them have even managed to get elected to Congress.

  8. 8.

    gogol's wife

    October 29, 2013 at 9:58 pm

    @Aji:

    He’s beautiful!

  9. 9.

    Aji

    October 29, 2013 at 10:00 pm

    @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.

  10. 10.

    Anne Laurie

    October 29, 2013 at 10:00 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Yes I did! — sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner.

  11. 11.

    Yatsuno

    October 29, 2013 at 10:01 pm

    @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!

  12. 12.

    Anne Laurie

    October 29, 2013 at 10:02 pm

    @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!

  13. 13.

    TaMara (BHF)

    October 29, 2013 at 10:03 pm

    @Aji: I believe you wear Tunch Angel Wings.

  14. 14.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 29, 2013 at 10:04 pm

    @Anne Laurie: No problem!

  15. 15.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 29, 2013 at 10:05 pm

    Speaking of aliens, they are here and many of us have already been assimilated.

  16. 16.

    The Dangerman

    October 29, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    That’s one huge cat!

    ETA: Haven’t had a chance to use that line since Tunch left us.

  17. 17.

    TaMara (BHF)

    October 29, 2013 at 10:08 pm

    @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.

  18. 18.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 29, 2013 at 10:08 pm

    @The Dangerman Aaww I misses the mighty Tunch.

  19. 19.

    Yatsuno

    October 29, 2013 at 10:15 pm

    @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.

  20. 20.

    Aji

    October 29, 2013 at 10:16 pm

    @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. :-)

  21. 21.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 29, 2013 at 10:17 pm

    @Aji: He is pretty!

  22. 22.

    Aji

    October 29, 2013 at 10:19 pm

    @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.

  23. 23.

    Aji

    October 29, 2013 at 10:23 pm

    @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.

  24. 24.

    Yatsuno

    October 29, 2013 at 10:29 pm

    @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. :)

  25. 25.

    rikyrah

    October 29, 2013 at 10:32 pm

    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.

  26. 26.

    srv

    October 29, 2013 at 10:34 pm

    I have very high resolution pics of my jackalope, but he’s so fast they’re still fuzzy. Will that work?

  27. 27.

    Aji

    October 29, 2013 at 10:36 pm

    @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

  28. 28.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 29, 2013 at 10:37 pm

    Pro tip: Do not put brandy in chamomile tea.

  29. 29.

    Belafon

    October 29, 2013 at 10:38 pm

    @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.

  30. 30.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 29, 2013 at 10:43 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Awful taste?

  31. 31.

    Yatsuno

    October 29, 2013 at 10:44 pm

    @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?

  32. 32.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 29, 2013 at 10:44 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: The flavors have gone to war. It’s as awful as the First Ypres.

  33. 33.

    Aji

    October 29, 2013 at 10:46 pm

    @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?

  34. 34.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 29, 2013 at 10:50 pm

    @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.

  35. 35.

    Yatsuno

    October 29, 2013 at 10:51 pm

    @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.

  36. 36.

    Aji

    October 29, 2013 at 10:56 pm

    @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.

  37. 37.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 29, 2013 at 10:59 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Bet it is not more gross than the raw egg, honey and brandy concoction my mother used to make.

  38. 38.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 29, 2013 at 11:01 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: That sounds like it would have textural issues. This, now safely dumped, was merely awful in flavor and smell.

  39. 39.

    Yatsuno

    October 29, 2013 at 11:11 pm

    @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.

  40. 40.

    Amir Khalid

    October 29, 2013 at 11:14 pm

    Some ominous news reported by the BBC. Trouble between the makers of Sriracha sauce and their home city.

  41. 41.

    Yatsuno

    October 29, 2013 at 11:24 pm

    @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.

  42. 42.

    Suffern ACE

    October 29, 2013 at 11:27 pm

    @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.

  43. 43.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 29, 2013 at 11:28 pm

    @Yatsuno:

    Huy Fong moved its factory to Irwindale, 20 miles (30km) outside Los Angeles, earlier this year

    And they only roast the chillies from September to December.

  44. 44.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 29, 2013 at 11:36 pm

    @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.

  45. 45.

    Suffern ACE

    October 29, 2013 at 11:42 pm

    @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.

  46. 46.

    Anne Laurie

    October 29, 2013 at 11:56 pm

    @Yatsuno: My parents called it syllabub (remembered as something the Irish ancestors fed sick people) but Wikipedia doesn’t mention eggs as an ingredient…

  47. 47.

    Anne Laurie

    October 29, 2013 at 11:59 pm

    @Yatsuno:

    Horses are herd animals. They will develop very strong attachments to any other horses around even if that attachment is mutual emnity.

    You sure that noun shouldn’t be “bloggers”?

  48. 48.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 30, 2013 at 12:26 am

    @Suffern ACE: Next time, it’s brandy or rum and hot chocolate.

  49. 49.

    Yatsuno

    October 30, 2013 at 12:33 am

    @Anne Laurie: Bloggers are horses? I figure a few are horse’s asses anyway.

  50. 50.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 30, 2013 at 12:36 am

    @Yatsuno: Jewel’s mother is a horse.

  51. 51.

    WereBear

    October 30, 2013 at 6:58 am

    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!

  52. 52.

    Elizabelle

    October 30, 2013 at 8:15 am

    Great story about Miswaki, and beautiful photos. Is that New Mexico? Stunning.

    Also loved hearing about Yatsuno’s mom’s Peruvian horses. Who knew?

  53. 53.

    John Weiss

    October 30, 2013 at 8:16 am

    @rikyrah: People are animals, they just like to put on airs.

  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne

    October 30, 2013 at 3:08 pm

    @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!)

  55. 55.

    Aji

    October 30, 2013 at 4:25 pm

    @WereBear: LMAO – saw that coming, didja? Yeah, so did we. Thankfully, it all worked out, in multiple ways.

  56. 56.

    Aji

    October 30, 2013 at 4:27 pm

    @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.

  57. 57.

    Aji

    October 30, 2013 at 4:29 pm

    @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 . . . .

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