Paging Sarah, Proud & Tall… From the site:
Nathan is an entertaining, healthy, hilarious, hairless chinese crested who was adopted through Bald is Beautiful Hairless & Small Dog Rescue.He LOVES to “wiggle it” in the chair for treats. The feel-good back scratch is just an extra perk. Enjoy!…
Bald is Beautiful has some lovely pups in need of homes…
check them out on:
www.baldisbeautifuldogrescue.org
(More Nathan videos available through the YouTube link.)
One of our (papillon) rescue dogs is a puppy-mill three-time-loser who does the horizontal version of this dance on his favorite corner of the couch. Sydney’s hairier than Nathan, but even at age five he’s still got a nearly-naked pink ‘puppy tummy’ (and thumb-shaped dewclaws on his back paws, plus one ear standing up & the other drooping for the ‘sad clown dogge’ look… like I said, puppy-mill survivor).
Alison
All dogs are lovable but dang…I just don’t know if I could have one of those :P They’re just so damn odd looking. But I bet they do have less doggy smell.
J.Ty
Anybody know why a shih tzu might have a chronically smelly face? Like even one day after a careful washing? Asking for the in laws.
Omnes Omnibus
@J.Ty: My grandfather had a brittany spaniel who had death breath. They varied her diet, They did everything possible. Her breath just stank. Her whole head did. if you would pet her, your hand stank. She was so sweet though, so you couldn’t ignore her. You just tried to make sure she didn’t lay her head on your lap and you washed your hands quite often.
mikefromArlington
That vid is disturbing
Jewish Steel
I imagine I’m probably in the minority when I say that I have never had my fill of raga rock. I got Rose Windows’s album Sun Dogs last week and listened to it three times in a row. Just lovely and that singer, Rabia Shaheen Qazi, man, what a set of pipes!
Free download here
Jewish Steel
@J.Ty: If the teeth are good, ear infection.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jewish Steel: Possibly.
Been listening to a bit of ZZ Ward lately.
ETA: Her old time bluesman’s hats are pretty authentic.
Jewish Steel
@Omnes Omnibus: Not bad. Could use a sarod or a tambura.
J.Ty
I’ll tell them to get the ears checked next time she’s at the vet.
Any chance it’s just a thing that flat-faced dogs have?
Omnes Omnibus
@Jewish Steel: I don’t think she is going for that.
Omnes Omnibus
Then there is this.
ETA: Or this.
Anne Laurie
@J.Ty:
Not experienced with shih tzus, but lots of push-faced dogs have skin folds that can get nasty (‘skin fold dermatitis‘). The inlaws may want to check with their vet, but as a quick fix, using a q-tip to clean out those face-wrinkles every day can’t hurt. Maybe even use a mild antiseptic, like Betadine (generic name: povidine iodine) to keep down the bacterial growth?
hitchhiker
Open thread?
Okay, my universe is too strange, trying, and sad not to share.
Point A: old friend is dying tonight after four years of esophageal cancer.
Point B: about 3 yrs ago, said old friend was discovered by his wife of 30 years to have been banging Another Woman.
Point C: said Other Woman was ALSO playing the part of bff to said cheated-on wife.
Point D: we’re a small and tight group of friends who have raised our kids together.
Point E: dying man is, as I write, surrounded by community that uniformly despises Other Woman and also kind of wants to punch him in the face, except he’s dying, so bad, bad, bad.
Point F: Other Woman is holding court at hospice. Grown kids of dying man not present at his deathbed because can’t bear the sight of person who betrayed their mom in double-dirty fashion.
And soapy & weird as that sounds, the reality is ten times worse.
We’ll get through it.
J.Ty
@hitchhiker: Shit, that’s weird and sucks and I’m sorry.
@Anne Laurie: I’ll let them know about the dermatitis as well. Thanks.
Omnes Omnibus
@hitchhiker: Be as decent as you can be to everyone involved. People are weird. They can be both magnificent and appalling. Sometimes they do both at once.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
You haven’t really experienced excitement until you’ve sat next to someone whose daughter has just completed a hat trick in an NCAA tournament game. Kathy Terry tried to hug me but came closer to throttling me.
For the second straight year #2 seed Cornell fails to beat Mercyhurst.
Wisconsin holds serve, so we’re going to Connecticut next week for a Massachusetts-free Frozen Four.
J.Ty
College basketball players are cuuuute. (+4, caught in a gay sports bar for the moment)
Omnes Omnibus
I was going to go to bed, but I put on Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club album. I guess I am up for a while.
ETA: It is beyond my control.
Hal
Made the mistake of reading another “dems are dooommmed!!” article in the NY Times, then doubled down on the mistake and read the comments. Dems are running scared from Obama and the ACA instead of showing some back bone and oh, I don’t know, actually standing up for something in an election that’s still eight months away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/us/politics/obama-factor-adds-to-fears-of-democrats.html?hp
I want Republicans to take the Senate and the House. Give them the White House too. Let these older white Reagan loving proud Americans finally see that the GOP is not the party of Reagan anymore. Give it a couple of terms and let the carnage fall where it may.
Also this:
Seriously NY Times? Scott Brown served two years in the Senate and lost to a newbie. Why should Shaheen be shaking in her boots?
Omnes Omnibus
@Hal: Given that your whole rant began after reading drivel, shouldn’t you, maybe, take a step back and a deep breath before freaking out?
hitchhiker
@Omnes Omnibus:
I KNOW, right? All afternoon I avoided eye contact across the death bed with Other Woman, who had all of us so utterly fooled.
Who the eff is she? Definitely horribly dishonest. Definitely also capable of at least pretending great compassion . . .
Right at this moment she’s the one holding the hand of my old friend, and that’s apparently exactly what he wanted.
Blech. I wish I’d never met her.
And, yay. I think.
J.Ty
@Omnes Omnibus: @Hal: Agree with Omnes. Pick up a nice short story or video game or something. Or just fire up House of Cards, it’s probably more accurate than what you read.
karen marie
@J.Ty: mildew. I had a Cocker who had it in her lips. It was cured by wiping her lip folds with medicated pads from the vet. It’s not really mildew but similar in that it’s caused by warm dampness. Once Patty was cured it never came back.
karen marie
@Hal: And he’s a carpetbagger, he’s state shopping. Who wants to reward that?
Omnes Omnibus
@hitchhiker: You don’t know that the Other Woman doesn’t love him fiendishly. Two practical things come into play How does the one guy exit the world? How do those who know and care for him handle his exit. These two things can conflict.
Omnes Omnibus
Christ, I would look for the appropriate crossroads if the deal gave me Sam Cooke’s voice.
J.Ty
@karen marie: I’m not endorsing Brown obviously, but I don’t see what’s wrong with people who are the best candidates for the job doing some state-shopping. The senate is broken, anti-democratic, and a reflection of the permanent American political (and sometimes shooting!) war between urban and rural regions. It was a political hack to bring the country into existence in the first place; what’s wrong with hacking the hack?
J.Ty
Totally off topic, but every time Kevin Spacey looks at the camera and says something on House of Cards, I mentally preface it with “Now I may just be a Southern chicken, but…”
MikeJ
@Hal:
Because Republicans think that NH is theirs and their alone. You’re supposed to ignore the fact that they have a Democratic senator, governor, and both house members. We’re supposed to assume that if a Republican runs for something, it automatically belongs to him.
Betty Cracker
@hitchhiker: First, I’m sorry about your friend. I think it’s an awful shame his kids won’t be there to see him out.
It seems like OW could relinquish her vigil temporarily to make some time for them to spend with their dad. But if she had that level of consideration for others, she wouldn’t have stabbed her friend in the back.
To echo what Omnes said, people are maddening and complex and magnificent. I don’t understand them.
Tommy
@J.Ty: I do. I got a problem with that.
I’ve lived in my town for 20+ years and I am still an “outsider.” I came here cause of the military. Huge military base. How my family got here. I liked it and stayed. Heck moved back here on purpose. It is a nice place to live!
Even to this day I have to explain my last name is Young with a “Y.” Not Jung with a “J”.
Seems Germans came here years ago and put down roots. Like 200 years ago. They are still here.
I can only bet a town older, like on the east coast, like NE, has more of this going on. Just saying!
Tommy
@Betty Cracker:
Yes I totally get that. But these comments are hard to read. In the world I come from we can just get along. Life often sucks but we just get by. A large part of it is we love each other.
Betty Cracker
@Tommy: I just went through an awful loss in my family. I’ll leave out the details, but the experience was not without uncomfortable moments between people who have conflicting interests and long-standing grudges. My own philosophy is: you will never regret being gracious.
cat whisperer
@hitchhiker: Things always get weird at such times. In my particular case, my baby-daddy died when my daughter was 19. He was a completely useless asshole & we openly couldn’t stand each other for approximately 19 years. However, his family are wonderful people and I always got along with them (and his various girlfriends) for the sake of my daughter.
At the funeral, all of a sudden, I was shocked to be treated as some sort of Madonna by both the family and the girlfriends. They were all crying on my shoulder and hugging me like a best friend, while I would have honestly liked to spit on his grave. Maybe they thought I was being stoic by not crying, all past history to the contrary.
I don’t know the point to this story, but I think it’s sad that his children don’t overlook the OW and go see their dad. Because fuck her.
wonkie
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Well, since this is an open thread with a rescue starter…I have been absorbed for months in the Olympic Animal Sanctuary saga which started here in Washington state Right now my role is to send out emails to rescues, hoping they will take a dog or two. It’s a long involved story, but the short version is this: OAS was a hell hole with dogs stacked up in crates in a warehouse. The website made it look like paradise for dogs, but the reality was one hundred and sixty dogs jammed into a space the size of a modest house. Lots of dogs died there. Once rescued, the dogs displayed all sorts of health problems from the confinement. Local authorities refused to act due to political pressure, I’m sad to say from a local Democratic politician. With donations drying up and facing lawsuits, the hoarder loaded up 124 of the dogs on to a semi truck and ran away with them. After several hours of driving, he called a rescue and eventually the dogs were turned over to the Guardians of Rescue in Arizona.
The Guardians had to conjour up a kennel out in the middle of no where and work with rescues nationwide to get the dogs placed. Ten or so of the dogs have come back to rescues in Washington.
About thirty dogs remain. If you are connected to a dog rescue, please consider helping! Here’s some links for those of you who are interested:
. If you haven’t heard of this dog rescue story, this link to a news broadcast gives a good summary:
http://www.jrn.com/ktnv/news/c…..88651.html
You can see the dogs on this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.609561655764322.1073741922.107867909267035&type=1
If you know of a rescue that could help please put that rescue in contact with: [email protected]
Here’s a video of April:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=564692266971120&set=vb.396180077155674&type=2&theater
There are also a number of American bulldog mixes, some pitbull mixes, some unsocialized but nonaggressive Shepard mixes, some small Jack Russell mixes and an Aussie mix. Some of the dogs will need special help, but many are just ordinary dogs with no special issues beyond what any rescue would expect.
A rescue that wants to take a dog will need to submit proof of 501c3 status, pictures, references, contact info ontheir vet and so on. The Guardians of Rescue are doing careful background checks before releasing dogs. Once accepted, the Guardians will work with the rescue to select dogs based on their temperament and needs.
There is help available for fundraising at https://www.facebook.com/groups/OASISDOGS/247039915473392/?notif_t=group_comment Ask to be a group member, and then comment. The group has info on transportation, pictures of dogs and lots more
This is a big deal to me since I live on the Olympic Peninsula and I nearly got conned into sending a dog to OAS a couple years ago..
wonkie
http://www.jrn.com/ktnv/news/contact-13/contact-13-investigates/Dog-makes-miraculous-recovery-after-escaping-Sanctuary-of-Sorrow-250461081.html?lc=Tablet
The above link is to a news broadcast that gives a very clear outline of the whole story.
Elizabelle
@Hal:
The NYTimes article was written by Jonathan Martin, who was Politico’s Republican whisperer before the Times, to its great shame, hired him as a political reporter.
Pay no mind. It’s a case of Martin making his own reality, and reporting it in a paper of record.
I didn’t read it beyond a skim, but hope its takeaway is “Republicans are scared, very scared, of the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare.”
They’re out telling a Republican sniffer how bad it’s going to be for Democrats.
Meh.
PS: I skimmed the comments too.
Note how Obamacare detractors sniff at not as many uninsured signed up as projected.
They don’t dare touch the “no more pre-existing conditions, young people on their parents’ policy until age 26, no getting dropped by your policy when you get ill or hurt and need it, insurance companies have to spend the great majority of premiums on actual healthcare provisions and not overhead.”
Those provisions are all popular with Americans.
Obamacare is going to be a game changer.
Bob In Portland
Make the world safe for Cargill and Chevron.