Class went very well- Thurston is wicked smaht. We learned sit and started on leave it and worked on recall. He loved performing for the treats and making everyone happy.
And then he puked them all up all over the car on the way home.
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Class went very well- Thurston is wicked smaht. We learned sit and started on leave it and worked on recall. He loved performing for the treats and making everyone happy.
And then he puked them all up all over the car on the way home.
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raven
Puking is not a behavior.
Baud
Soon the student will become the master.
WereBear
Just how many treats did you give him!?!??!
the Conster
A few more lessons and he’ll be wicked pissah smaht.
geg6
@WereBear:
I think it’s a family trait to get carsick. Lovey has the same problem. She puked on an empty stomach on her way to get spayed the other day.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Too many treats before a car ride for a highly stimulated pup is a recipe for puking.
Hey raven, thanks for the link to Patterson Hood’s essay. And for Muscle Shoals recommendation. We watched it last night and it was terrific. The mister learned a lot (as did I but I had a much better grasp on the area and its importance than he did).
And I’d forgotten that Keef was impossibly handsome when he was young. Of course for a man his age who’s done as many drugs as he has, plus had brain surgery, he looks terrific.
Apropos of nothing, I got ink yesterday.
shell
I think by now you should always carry a puke-towel in the car.
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): It’s very classy. #tweetliketrump
Lavocat
Well, that sure makes for an interesting car fragrance.
p.a.
@the Conster: beat me to it.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m sure you all know I’m all about class. Does it help that it’s a punctuation mark?
Elizabelle
@raven: Yeah. As fka Bella Q mentioned, thanks again for the Patterson Hood (of Drive-By Truckers) essay in NYTimes magazine, The South’s Heritage Is So Much More Than a Flag. It was excellent.
@ JCole: glad to hear Thurston is such an obedience class star. At obedience class, anyway.
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): You got a comma tattoo in honor of me? I am touched.
wasabi gasp
Not again, fuck it, and why me are fundamental.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus: I knew you would be!! It has a period over it though – I hope you don’t mind (and a very tiny set of initials I believe are not yours on the side of my wrist).
I’m so predictable, I texted a friend about aftercare and she knew what I’d gotten, along with the color. She knows me pretty well though.
dslak
I’m repeating this from the end of the last open thread, but good Christian Ana Marie Cox says that Bernie Sanders is the Donald Trump of the left.
WereBear
@geg6: We adopted a spaniel mix from Queens who was as good as gold all the way home through the city and the parkways, all until we arrived on Long Island… and backed the car into the driveway.
That he wasn’t prepared for. But he threw up neatly into the car’s trash can.
He was a gem :)
MomSense
@geg6:
Yesterday was the first time Korra didn’t puke all over the car. The drool, however, was unbelievable. Maybe it’s a Balloon-Juice family puppy problem.
Bobby B.
Ha! He thinks he’s people!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@MomSense: Clearly Korra has advanced from puke to drool. A step in the right direction! Ultimately, she may just shed as a stress response to car rides. I wish that for all the Balloon Juice pups.
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Ah good!
raven
@Elizabelle: Thanks
JoyceH
And then did he eat the treats again? Dogs think second time is the best.
Elizabelle
@dslak: I read that. Weak clickbait sauce. She’s got some hedges in there big enough to hide the National Mall in.
Bernie Sanders is not an extremist. He’s an FDR Democrat, at a time when the pretentious (like Ms. Ana Marie Cox, apparently) prefer to be Republican Lite and call themselves “moderates.”
Cox did include a sentence or two about how badly the press corpse covers it — it’s horse-race vs. what the policies mean for Americans. And then she serves up this article.
trollhattan
Programming note: Terry Gross kills it on “Wait-Wait” today.
JPL
@raven: How’s the addition coming along?
Iowa Old Lady
@trollhattan: Since we’re confession to listening to NPR programming, I heard an interesting report on teacher shortages in Kansas, produced by dwindling resources and destruction of tenure.
http://www.npr.org/2015/07/09/421528581/shrinking-kansas-budgets-push-many-teachers-across-state-lines
Re Thurston: Obedience training strengthened the bond between me and our dog. It was a nice side effect.
Suzanne
When I was a kid and I lived with my grandparents, they bought a purebred Siberian Husky who was absolutely untrainable. This dog had ADHD, if it’s possible for dogs to have it. Very sweet, but I’ve never seen a dog with that amount of energy and those sort of personality tics. Not in any of the other Huskies I’ve had, or in any dog, period. I remember once my grandfather and I went to take the dog for a walk, and we had had a snowstorm recently, and the snow was probably two feet deep. She had a regular collar with a buckle, and she managed to slip it off when we were out of our fenced yard. We tried to catch her for 45 minutes, both of us running as fast as we could in the snow with boots on. But she ran so fast and was so unpredictable that neither of us could catch her. Then one of our neighbors came home, and she ran like a bullet over to him, and we screamed for him to grab onto her and not let her go. Thus endeth the walk. She got a choke collar for walks after that, and she still managed to break leashes and collars by pulling and running so hard that she would break the hardware. Crazy dog.
I’m going to see/heckle Trump this afternoon, as he is coming to Phoenix to blather in front of a large crowd. Next Saturday, Bernie is coming! I’m going to that one, too, but I will be cheering instead.
MazeDancer
So, Thurston may not look like his mom, but he must have gotten Poodle brain power. Poodles are, indeed, “wicked smaht”.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
She’ll never out-left Bernie, but it’ll be fun to see how this develops.
JPL
@Suzanne: What time are you going to see the Donald?
the Conster
@Suzanne:
My husky walked me. The more I pulled, the more she pulled, the more I pulled back the harder she pulled and found a lower, higher torque gear. It was exhausting so I let her off the leash. This was in the Fens in Boston back in the late 70s before it got all gentrified, and she tore around killing everything that moved – she swam out to ducks and killed them, killed squirrels, birds, etc., found dead things to roll in, and then would come back to me but stay about 6 feet away and taunt me by standing stock still until I took a step, then she’d take off again. I’d scream at people to catch her, but she was as close to a wolf as a dog could be. Walking that dog was one of the most stressful things I’ve ever had to do. Beautiful though. OMG, that dog was a magnificent specimen of animal. Now I am a cat lady.
Baud
@Iowa Old Lady:
It’s almost as if market forces actually work.
John Revolta
@MomSense: Our dog Lola used to drool like a horny teenager in the back seat of the car when we first adopted her. She was about a year old then. She grew out of it but it took a few months.
raven
@JPL: Not bad, they wrapped it yesterday so it doesn’t look all that great right now. I’m stripping some old doors right now, nasty work but that’s what the girl wants. It’s actually as, or more, expensive to put old doors in as it is to use new ones but what the hey!
WereBear
@the Conster: What people need to know about sled dogs is that the breed started with constant wolf interbreeding.
They are wild in many ways.
dslak
@Elizabelle: I agree with everything you say, but I believe Ms. Cox’s overall point was “both sides do it!” That is, one cannot simply write about what a nut the Republican frontrunner is; one must also say something critical of a Democrat, in order to be Serious.
raven
@efgoldman: Yea there are but I’m going to do all I can to move this forward. It’s hard for me to watch the work these dudes are doing even though I know I can’t do it anymore. Only one side of one door needs the stripper, the rest will do with a light sanding and a repaint. I already did a big old chest of drawers that we’ll use for the bathroom vanity. I have it primed, now if she would just pick the damn color!
canegiallo
@John Revolta: My dog drools every time she gets in the car, but only in the car. We got one of those tarp things that hangs by straps off the headrests. Maybe JC and geg6 should invest in one of those for their respective vehicles.
rikyrah
CONGRATULATIONS, SERENA…ON YOUR 6TH WIMBLEDON TITLE!!
Think Pretty Smart @Think_P_Smart
The way we see Senea being treated is very similar to how successful Blacks are treated at jobs when we excell. First, fascination. Second+
Think Pretty Smart @Think_P_Smart
Second, envy. Third, which comes in two parts, build an army then attempt to destroy. They try to turn your bosses & team against u with +
Think Pretty Smart @Think_P_Smart
hopes of knocking u off your game, getting u to get back into the humble black place where they want u to be, or fail. It’s something we+
Think Pretty Smart @Think_P_Smart
gotta prepare our kids for. Being excellent while being the only, or one of the few Blacks at the job, brings out the worst in some white+
Think Pretty Smart @Think_P_Smart
coworkers & bosses. It’s an extra level of stress especially when nobody hipped u to this reality before u went into the work world.
Think Pretty Smart @Think_P_Smart
So when we don’t go to your fug ass happy hour it may be because we see what you’re doing!
the Conster
@WereBear:
Yes, I found out the hard way. Since marrying my impulsive husband, I’ve found out (like the parrot I eventually ended up taking care of) a lot of things the hard way. Our anniversary was yesterday.
dslak
@efgoldman: You’re never going to make it on television or in a mainstream print publication with an attitude like that.
rikyrah
HUH?
HUH?
The Hill ✔ @thehill
Cuomo agrees to suspend background checks for ammo: http://hill.cm/8CAuyac pic.twitter.com/t7Mavh4GN8
rikyrah
Thurston will be a star pupil…..
John Revolta
a href=”http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-33492512″> Och, mon! I’ll no pay forty-five pound! Hold ma beer and watch this!
JPL
Suzanne, If you are still around, try to keep count on how many times, Trump says best.
Gene108
@rikyrah:
http://www.si.com/tennis/2015/07/11/serena-williams-steffi-graf-head-head-grand-slam-us-open
Comparison of Graf versus S. Williams, as Serena chases Graf’s record of 22 Grand Slam titles.
Edit: I think Graf benefited from Seles’ departure from the game, after getting stabbed by “fan”.
Baud
@Gene108: I may actually watch the U.S. Open this year.
John Revolta
Och, mon!! This time for sure!!!
MomSense
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
She took a trip with my kids to visit grandparents at the assisted living. Apparently she morphed into a mellow, gentle angel who would sleep quietly on people’s feet and wiggle adorably for treats. No crazy running and jumping spurts. No random barking or chewing on everything. She has figured out the grandpup racket and was well rewarded.
Baud
@John Revolta: This is the type of risks people take when they have access to socialized medicine.
rikyrah
Here are all 21 of Serena Williams’ Grand Slam titles, in photos
JUN 06, 2015 1:58p ET
http://www.foxsports.com/tennis/lists/serena-williams-grand-slam-titles-060615#img_0
sharl
@rikyrah: Did you see J.K. Rowling’s response on Twitter to an asshat commenting on Serena’s physique? It includes attached photos; pasting in just the text here wouldn’t do it justice.
JPL
@Baud: lol
BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL: or weak.
Zinsky
@efgoldman: probably on the way home too!
JPL
@sharl: Thanks for the link and what a great response.
Jebediah, RBG
@sharl:
Love it!
Steeplejack (tablet)
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Interrobang, I hope.
Jay C
@John Revolta:
Shouldn’t be a surprise that he passed out: I’m just wondering how he even managed to get into an airplane seat with all that clothing…..
And for £45? Only in Scotland.
MomSense
@rikyrah:
True and very painful.
Germy Shoemangler
It begins!
In his latest column at WorldNetDaily, paleoconservative commentator Pat Buchanan argued that given the Supreme Court’s ruling that legalized same-sex marriage and the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s decision to remove the Ten Commandments monument from the state capitol grounds, a “rebellion” unlike any seen since the Civil Rights Movement “is likely to arise from the right.”
BillinGlendaleCA
@Germy Shoemangler: It sounds better in the original German.(h/t to Molly Ivins)
the Conster
@rikyrah:
I’ve been tweeting out all day about her. She’s magnificent. MAGNIFICENT!
Steeplejack
Resetting the cookies.
Germy Shoemangler
What is this thing called love?
the Conster
@Germy Shoemangler:
In his old white fat assed dreams. That old white guy tough talk is such bullshit. Pat Buchanan and his buddies had their last
fuckablewhite male supremacist day two weeks ago, and everyone knows it.Germy Shoemangler
@the Conster: Dedicated to all the midnight riders:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDOMtOFaCys
GregB
@Germy Shoemangler:
He’s calling for a Million Lark Scooter March on Washington.
trollhattan
@GregB:
That’s a lot of extension cords!
“I will have the TWO-MILLION angry dudes march. It will be classy and YOOGE! and my opponents will all drop out.” #TweetLikeTrump
NotMax
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Redundant if it’s a colon.
;)
Germy Shoemangler
@GregB: a Million Lark Scooter March on Washington
And then back to the house where black home health care aides can help them into their la-z-boy recliners in time for the Mclaughlin Group.
the Conster
@Germy Shoemangler:
What???? Wonderful. You dug up a jewel and put it in my outstretched hand! This song is my new favorite thing.
Germy Shoemangler
@the Conster: I first heard the version Moby put out. Back in 1999? He took the original recording and adding thumping drums and keyboards. I just discovered this sweet original last year.
Did you ever hear the Moby remix?
Anne Laurie
@Jay C: The kid’s 19 years old. Let’s be honest, that’s almost certainly not the dumbest thing done by a 19-year-old, in Scotland, that day — just the most unusual.
trollhattan
“I have ordered up some End Times to eliminate my Vegas competitors. I think you’ll find this weather very classy and the next time you’re in town, think of Trump, ’cause there won’t be nobody else.” #TweetLikeTrump
the Conster
@Germy Shoemangler:
nope.
Everybody Is A Star
Germy Shoemangler
@the Conster: Okay then, here is the Moby version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXpmvu35Fk
Listened to it for years before I thought to dig up the original.
Germy Shoemangler
@the Conster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXpmvu35Fk
BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan: You need to have something about your opponents being weak, Trump says that all the time. ‘Jeb Bush is weak on immigration”.
J R in WV
Well, today it finally stopped raining here in West Virginia, briefly. More Monday, probably.
Neighbor and best friend is helping out by grading our driveway roads to level the gullys out. We need more gravel to spread, but when it is sodden and sold by the ton is a bad time to buy.
I learned that gardens appear to be doing well locally, as he brought us a bad of fresh home-grown sweet corn. Some tomatoes are suffering from blight and blossom end rot, but some seem to be making it to adulthood in spite of the rain.
Maybe the vet can recommend something like dramamine for the dog? or maybe slower and more even driving would help? Walking and sitting with the dog before starting the drive home? We have had dogs ralph up in the car, usually on the towels we lay in the seat where we hope they will ride.
Haven’t had the lap treatment yet. Yuch!
Happy weekend to all. I know Serena is happy, winning a big one is always a reward to the psyche! Congratulations on her hard work leading to success!
A Ghost To Most
@Elizabelle:
You should listen to Southern Rock Opera; Patterson lays it all out about the ‘duality of the southern thing’.
Suzanne
I am at the Trump rally, ready to raise Cain.
HOLY WHITE PEOPLE, BATMAN.
Germy Shoemangler
@Suzanne: But I thought Trump said he was popular with “the blacks”??
Iowa Old Lady
@Suzanne: Yay, Suzanne! You are our eyes and ears. And our hero.
Suzanne
@Germy Shoemangler: I’ve seen three black people total.
rikyrah
@sharl:
I did.
It was hilarious
trollhattan
@BillinGlendaleCA:
“My opponents are completely unprepared to beat The Rapture. They don’t know how, they have no imagination and frankly, they’re scared. Only I can face down The Rapture because The Rapture is afraid of me. Just ask it. #RaptureFAIL” #TweetLikeTrump
trollhattan
@Suzanne:
Still fifty-bucks per supporter?
Suzanne
@trollhattan: Nope. I got in free.
sharl
@Suzanne: Haha, sounds, um, awesome! Watch yer donkey, so ya don’t get mowed down by a Hoveround.
JPL
@Suzanne: Is he there yet? Is he the best and are you the weakest?
trollhattan
@Suzanne:
[Psst, you’re suppose to charge him, like at his announcement. Pass it on.]
Suzanne
@JPL: Nope, not here yet.
@sharl: No shit. No Hoverounds, packed standing room only. But so much gray hair. My mom and I are counting socks-sandals combos while we wait.
Karen in GA
Late to this, but yeah — Muppet’s a poodle mix and she’s scary smart. And also prone to carsickness — go figure.
Iowa Old Lady
@Suzanne: Extra points if the socks are black.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Suzanne: Sounds like what the kid said when she saw my high school yearbook, “Gee dad, everyone is white”.
MomSense
@Suzanne:
Ha!
JPL
@efgoldman: Pat Buchanan wouldn’t have three people, so Trump is the best.
Anne Laurie
Cole: Talk to Thurston’s vet. The little guy may grow out of his motion sickness, to some degree. And you’ll probably need to do some tedious behavioral conditioning (start by just sitting in the car with him, work up to round-the-block drives, extend trips slowly) if he’s already internalized the habit of puking when he’s driven anywhere. But you may be able to give him something (doggy dramamine? half a benadryl? maybe Emetrol?) to make the little guy less miserable right now, and that will help both of you while his balance system ‘matures’.
JPL
CBSNews online is carrying the speech. I see a black person and an Asian behind him.
Suzanne
The dude is just blathering about his money.
JPL
http://www.cbsnews.com/live/
raven
@Suzanne: How many guns are in evidence?
raven
@Anne Laurie: Yea, like he’s reading this.
Suzanne
He is seriously still talking about his business deals. What an egomaniac.
JPL
@Suzanne: There’s a new post.. Update us there.
NotMax
Drinking game: a shot each time he says “I” – should be plastered by five minutes in.
Friends’ weekly radio show about computers and techie stuff jest began at tip of the hour. They’ll be talking about the how and why of back-ups today (among other things). KAOI radio, for those with a favorite streaming service or app. Here, for example.
Anne Laurie
@raven: Well, he seems to read the comments on his own posts, at least sometimes.
Often enough to get pissed off at particular commentors, at least :)
NotMax
@NotMax
Oh,. forgot to mention the name of their show, which is Maui Online.
Miki
He. Of course he is – he’s half poodle and that half rules, if you’re at all lucky. The question is are you up for it? Poodles are not for the faint of heart.
Bring a towel.
P.s. to Lovey’ s folks: she can do it – and would love it!
Pawwhiskers
Hey, it’s against the law to put the word puppy in a post without a puppy picture….!
A guy
Boarded our cats this past Friday for vaca. Lady in front of me cried and turned saying it’s worse than leaving her children. Really?
Montarvillois
Why so stingy with the animal pics? They provide a great start to my day.
Montarvillois
@A guy: I see her point. Children understand that you will return, for animals there is only confusion and anxiety.
brantl
@geg6: I’d puke on an empty stomach, if you were getting me spayed, just to get even, I suppose.