Lacking defenses, the doberman depends on his natural camouflage to protect him from adversaries such as the vacuum cleaner and mops. In the event that hiding does not work the doberman carries with him at all times a brightly-colored noise-making decoy that he will use to detract his enemies while he makes his escape.
Use this thread to discuss these magnificent and fragile creatures, and whatever else comes to mind.
NotMax
Just a heads-up to any in the NYC area that Neil Patrick Harris will be starring in a limited Broadway run of Hedwig and the Angry Inch from April 22 – August 17.
Villago Delenda Est
I know that the girls have their fans (they’re both sweeties, yes, even Lily the JRT when she’s asleep) but Max is just awesome.
Carnacki
West Virginia’s legislature’s response to two major incidents of rivers and creeks being polluted by coal-mining chemicals and coal ash slurry spill is to — wait for it — cut corporate taxes and regulations.
But don’t worry, programs to help hungry and abused children had their funding cut to help make sure the budget is balanced.
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Amir Khalid
This post needs to be read aloud by Sir David Attenborough.
Joel
Hawthorne police use taser on deaf man trying to communicate with sign language. Link goes to Raw Story. The police officers are named:
Officer Salmon has quite the history:
PurpleGirl
MAX puppeh!!! Great picture of Max. I just want to hug him and skritch behind his ears. I know, like Hugo, Max is a marshmallow inside.
shortstop
@Amir Khalid: Absolutely. Hilarious.
Amir Khalid
@Villago Delenda Est:
Tsk, tsk. Rosie is the JRT. Lily is the mutt of unknown ancestry.
Cassidy
If my ass itches and I tell everyone, can I get nominated for a journalism award?
patrick II
You shouldn’t snark on your poor dog. He is your best friend you know.
NotMax
@Cassidy
No, that is not news.
Felinious Wench
I was terrified of Dobermans until Max. Now I truly believe they are more scared of me than I am of them.
Cassidy
@NotMax: When did that standard start being applied? How about if I blame Obama?
Violet
Good dog! Love Max–such a cutie.
srv
Max is all depressed over that previous Timmie Downer thread.
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid:
Yeah, I realized that AFTER the time ran out on corrections.
Lily is the good one. Rosie is the spawn of Fluffy, Hagrid’s three headed dog.
catclub
Lots of great pictures. Many familiar. Press the arrows.
? Martin
Trim painting the downstairs, so the Maginot line has been erected. Part of it is to keep the dog fur out of the paint, but really it’s because the corgi will lick the wet paint off the wall. He’ll lick off the crackshot as well. The upside is you only need about an 8″ tall barrier to keep even a motivated corgi at bay. They have roughly the same jumping skill as a top-loading washing machine.
Roger Moore
My cat Jake has apparently learned how to catch hummingbirds on my balcony. It’s not quite as amazing as it might be- there’s a feeder to attract them- but as far as I can tell, his only technique is to wait patiently near the feeder and jump up when one flies directly over him.
Violet
@Cassidy: I’m sure you could find someone to nominate you. There are probably some criteria for the various journalism awards. Do you know if ass itch reports qualify? Have you checked the criteria?
Baud
@Cassidy:
No, but if you shave your cat’s ass, you can be a Balloon Juice meme.
PurpleGirl
@Felinious Wench: I met this guy and he a lot of pets. One of them was Hugo, a Doberman pinscher. Hugo decided he liked me and began to stay around me when I visited. N had to teach me how to handle Hugo. Hugo proved to be marshmallow if he liked you. Big dogs need to be trained and socialized, then they can be great pals. Humans also need to know how to handle big dogs.
raven
If you missed My Dog: The Paradox, check it out (warning, lil sniffy at the end).
Cassidy
@Violet: @Baud: Ba dum bum.
Josie
@? Martin: I laughed out loud. Corgis will truly eat anything. I use a hand creme that has lots of cocoa butter in it and Duncan licks my hands every chance he gets. He can jump but only straight up and down. He never jumps over anything.
raven
And while you are at it give St Paul and the Broken Bones a listen!
Broken Bones and Pocket Change is all She Left Me. . .
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@? Martin: Nah, I’ve met top loading washers with a better jump.
MAXpuppeh! I’ve been missing him. And on the topic of critters, it’s antler shed season. Mr. Q said he saw a line of deer yesterday – a big doe, followed by two bucks that were smaller than the doe, followed by 3 more does. I explained the the big “doe” was a buck after shed, and he asked – surprised – “deer shed their antlers?”
raven
Anything for Betty today?
MikeJake
My childhood dog got into a poop eating phase, so the vet suggested we put Tabasco on his turds to dissuade him from eating them. He came to recognize the Tabasco bottle as pain, so my stepdad bought a giant bottle from Sam’s Club and when he brandished it the dog would whine and leave the kitchen.
raven
“From” Betty.
shortstop
@? Martin: We will be done with the kitchen gut reno by Friday, about eight weeks after we started. I offer belated thanks for your faith in us — I recall you and Betty both gave me bucking-up talks. I’m feeling pretty damn spanky that we pulled it off. It looks gorgeous…shiny, sleek, modern minimalism, just what we’ve always wanted.
raven
@MikeJake: Check out My Dog:The Paradox that I posted above.
MomSense
So this has been a great couple of days here. My dear friends are visiting with their year and a half old labradoodle who is like the cutest muppet you have ever seen. My old lab isn’t up to rough housing with her so she has been lying down on his dog bed with him and cuddling with him. My boys are all home for the holiday and we have been playing music and watching the Olympics.
We are mostly veggie but one of the farmers at the farmers’ market had some roasting chickens so I made roast chicken with lemon, garlic, caramelized onions and lots of root vegetables for dinner last night and today took the leftovers and made a killer soup–potatoes, carrots, celery, parsnips, garlic, onions, fresh herbs, mushrooms, even a bit of purple cabbage. Not sure I could reproduce it as it is a bit of all the things that were in the frig but it certainly is tasty.
? Martin
@shortstop: It’s not as hard as people think. Most reno failures are failures to plan, or trying to rush a job into too short a window. 8 weeks is a reasonable period. Really glad its coming out well. You’ll be much prouder of the result than if you hired it out. Be warned, that bathroom will start looking dated – and think of how much resale value you could add…
kc
Lord, what a beautiful dog that is.
shortstop
@? Martin: Well, we did hire a good chunk of it out. We don’t trust ourselves with tiling (the backsplash we’re going with is a bit tricky) or floors, and we had help in hanging the upper cabs. But we planned and designed the whole thing, and did plenty of the work, and I’m really proud of that. Eight weeks is not bad considering we both work more than full time.
Patricia Kayden
@raven: Awwww. Although thankfully neither of my dogs eat their poop. Don’t know how I’d handle that.
JoyceH
New blog post – I’ve got a publication date for my upcoming book, and a dream about snow shovels and Hogwarts.
http://joyceharmon.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/publication-date-plus-snow-plus-dream/
Yatsuno
MAXPUPPEH!!! Needed that after a crappy morning.
@MomSense: Fridge clean-outs sometimes make the best meals. You throw away the recipe & just make everything taste good.
COB
Just a great opening set of lines, Tim. A very nice appropriation and application of the trope to the circumstance. Still smiling here.
PsiFighter37
Unhappy, tired, and having a drink. Probably not the best combo, but fuck it.
I also saw there was a huge piefight about Glenn Greenies earlier, did that ever get resolved one way or another?
WaterGirl
@PsiFighter37:
You are one of those outside agitators they warned us about in the 60s!
Amir Khalid
@PsiFighter37:
You’ve been here long enough. You should know by now that there’s only one huge piefight about Glenn Greenies. It surfaces every so often, and it never gets resolved.
jayboat
Sometimes the headlines write themselves… from TPM:
McConnell ‘Looks And Fights Like A Turtle,’ Says Texas GOP Primary Ad
PsiFighter37
@Amir Khalid: This is true. I just skimmed the comments earlier to see if anything meaningful happened, which at some point it devolved into some kind of detective mystery about which frontpagers Mr. Cole was peeved at. I kind of lost the thread a bit.
To be honest, at least it seems to be a bit of a happy balance here. GOS is all over GG like a stripper and a pole, while at LGF they hate him with the fire of a thousand suns. At least keeps it interesting.
lamh36
CNN and Chris Cuomo should be ashamed of that fuckery of an interview. I hope Chris felt the need for a damn soul bath afterwards….Fuckers!!!
Also too, This is good, cause this woman’s AG M.O. seems to be a habit of overcharging shit and then not winning her damn cases. But hey, white folk still doing good and safe in Florida, so why not keep voting for her.
PsiFighter37
@lamh36: Ratings ploy, $$$ rules the news media today. C’mon, you know this!
And from what little I caught in the airport, it was indeed shameful. But like governor, like milquetoast MSM reporter. Wonder where Mario went wrong…
Sasha
Looks less like a Dobie than a Dobie-colored lab.
Paul in KY
@Amir Khalid: That would be cool! Good idea, Amir.
Max is a beautiful animal.
Paul in KY
@MomSense: Man, I wish I was partying with you!
Paul in KY
@PsiFighter37: Glenn is the bestest that ever lived & won a Pulitzer ;-)