PSA: #NationalPuppyDay is FRIDAY. Get those cute puppy pics ready to tweet. Bonus points if they are in Gators gear. pic.twitter.com/8vgPBDmYgl
— FLORIDA (@UF) March 20, 2018
Our three are rescues, so we don’t have puppy pics… but even at ages 16 (Zevon), 13 (Gloria), and 9 (Sydney), they’re still our puppies!
Now THAT is a good boy!
Send us your C’s #NationalPuppyDay pics and we’ll retweet some of our favorites ?☘️ pic.twitter.com/rrnWP3oQPe
— Boston Celtics (@celtics) March 23, 2018
Happy #NationalPuppyDay! We want to see photos of your doggos dressed in their best cosplay. Tweet us and we'll RT your pics throughout the day. :) pic.twitter.com/KAJVlY46uh
— Nerdist (@nerdist) March 23, 2018
Happy #NationalPuppyDay! Today we especially remember these two good boys, Jake and Scout, pictured here with their human, Leland Melvin (@Astro_Flow). This is one of the most popular astronaut portraits ever taken! You don't have to be a dog lover to know why. pic.twitter.com/83wzImsWNa
— NASA History Office (@NASAhistory) March 23, 2018
(You don’t have to join Twitter… go to twitter.com, type #nationalpuppyday into the search bar, and prepare to ‘waste’ ten minutes… )
NotMax
You had me right up until the dress-up part.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
oh you have got to be shitting me
Mnemosyne
Do sea otter pups count? Because Lincoln, Prince of Sea Otter Pups, is making me seriously contemplate a trip to Oregon just to view his magnificent aborableness in person.
(Edited to correct Lincoln’s title.)
Ruckus
I used to wonder why people would dress up their dogs as caricatures that they wouldn’t do themselves and now of course they do, and have a word for it. Maybe it’s just me but I find it a bit strange, a 8 lb dog as darth.
Mnemosyne
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
Dude, what part of “respite thread” did you not understand?
Go out and bring us back an adorable animal video instead. Go!
(Adorably earnest high schoolers preparing to march tomorrow also acceptable.)
Jager
Our German Shepherd is named Anze after Anze Kopitar of the LA Kings, his predecessor was Jager named after the Penguins great. The one before that was Straka after Martin Straka because they were both Czechs, the one before him was Onza named after the bicycle parts company. I’m an ancieant old man who has had German Shepherds since I was 7 years old. The kid shepherds had regular names like, Sam, Sonny, King, etc. I’ve had GSDs for 60 plus years
NotMax
Color me astonished. Just checked a UPS tracking number for a fairly weighty package being sent here.
Shipped out on Wednesday. Its path is shown as WA to OR to KY to Honolulu to Maui and listed as out for delivery today.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@Mnemosyne: This You Tube claims to be the 10 cutest animal videos. They are pretty sweet.
dmsilev
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
Should fit in well there.
Mary G
I follow @darth on twitter just for the dogs, although he has some good comments, too. *Trigger warning for Steeplejack: punctuation and capitalization don’t exist in his, her, or their world. Lots of cuties in the answers to this thread:
Shell
Oh man, I miss my pup so much.
debbie
I was sure that top one was a stuffed toy. Unbelievable.
O/T: I came across this piano piece earlier today. Does anyone know anything about Ending Satellites?
Mnemosyne
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
I just realized that my enthusiasm for Lincoln affected my spelling skills.
Ahem. “Adorableness.”
NotMax
Cute or not cute?
Firm as to what my answer is but shall maintain a discreet silence.
Jager
@dmsilev: Naked shooting sports?
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
Well, the underlying dog is cute.
smintheus
Am I the last person on the planet to hear about Kumbali and Kago?
Mary G
@smintheus: No, because I’ve never heard of them.
TenguPhule
@NotMax: Sounds like Fedex.
Roger Moore
@Mary G:
A great source of cute dog picks is @dog_rates.
smintheus
What is it with this moderation jazz? Do YouTube links go automatically in mods?
smintheus
@Mary G: They’re a cheeta/dog pair who grew up together as siblings in the Richmond zoo. But I can’t post a video for you for some reason.
raven
@smintheus: no
TenguPhule
Apparently anglerfish have the worst sex ever.
Thank you for broadening my nightmares, Wapo.
TenguPhule
@smintheus:
Who?
Mnemosyne
@smintheus:
Apparently cheetahs are the only big cats that are considered safe for humans to work with (relatively speaking). The ancient Egyptians used to domesticate them and use them for hunting.
FlyingToaster
@TenguPhule: Fedex is Memphis. DHL is Kentucky just outside of Cincinnati.
Edit: I stand corrected. JCJ is right.
smintheus
@TenguPhule: This pair of charmers.
JCJ
@TenguPhule:
Actually UPS. They have a big hub in Louisville. FedEx is Memphis.
NotMax
Thank you, Instant Pot.
Cranked out a potful of mushroom sauce of the gods last night. Sitting in the fridge to do its flavor melding thing in private since then, for use in coq au vin tonight.
SiubhanDuinne
“Puppies. PUPPIES will put them to sleep. SLEEEEEEP. Now they’ll sleeeep.“
Chyron HR
@smintheus:
It’s like fusion jazz, but less free-form.
smintheus
@Mnemosyne: Yes, cheetas have the flight-or-flight thing perfected.
My wife says that as a little kid she announced that she needed to have a pet cheeta. This was to block her older sister’s attempt to convince the parents to buy a horse.
WereBear
@Mnemosyne: What about ocelots? Conceivably not big enough, though.
smintheus
@Chyron HR: I think I musta had a few of their albums back in the day.
Waratah
@NotMax: I was surprised to see my package arrive in my city and then sent 300 miles out of state. Some how it arrive back the next day for delivery.
Mary G
@smintheus: I’ve been watching them. They are meeting penguins now.
TenguPhule
@Chyron HR:
So hot that it will clear the room?
WereBear
Cats are cute, too.
Sir Tristan demands equal time.
gbbalto
@NotMax: Their world hub is Louisville, KY
ETA: Too damned late
NotMax
@WereBear
Ocelot? Obligatory.
“He’s crepuscular! Get him!”
Mnemosyne
@WereBear:
Wikipedia tells me that ocelots are not considered Big Cats — those are lions, tigers, jaguars, and leopards. Cheetahs are a different genus than all other wildcats. ?
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
With genetic engineering, we’ll soon have the hyperlynx.
:)
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
Because they don’t naturally consider humans as food.
efgoldman
Jeebus. I come home from a couple of days in the hospital (no, no details forthcoming. I’m not dead yet) expecting a feast of snark and mockery and I find puppies?
Anne Laurie
@NotMax:
… And their closest relatives are North America’s mountain lions — who are still spotted, as cubs. Lucky survivors, apparently, of a mostly extinct lineage:
Anne Laurie
@efgoldman: Welcome back, dude! Snark downstairs, more snark upstairs shortly. The exercise will do you good…
Another Scott
@efgoldman: Don’t scare us like that.
Welcome back!
Cheers,
Scott.
efgoldman
@TenguPhule:
Slather yourself in beef gravy and stand in the cheetah cage to test the hypothesis.
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne:
Yes. The big cats have some anatomical differences from the little cats that show they evolved apart from them before the rest of the cats differentiated. IIRC, the most obvious is a difference in the structure of the larynx and hyoid that makes big cats able to roar but means they can only purr when exhaling, while little cats can’t roar but can purr both when exhaling and inhaling.
That said, it’s amazing how similar all the members of the cat family are. You look at a lion or tiger in the zoo, and their similarity to house cats is obvious. They have the same sitting postures, they hold their paws the same way when they roll on their backs, etc. They even respond the same way to catnip.
satby
@efgoldman: don’t really want other details than you’re back and commenting. Hoping you’re feeling better though.
raven
@efgoldman: whatup dude?
NotMax
Anyone else remember the (pathetic) TV show Manimal?
You won’t believe your eyes! A man who can change into any animal! As long as it’s a hawk or a puma.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Sorely missed.
efgoldman
@raven: I figure if I publish details we’ll get a flood of comments telling me how to deal with it, how commenter’s MIL dealt with it….
I don’t ever want to turn this (or any) thread into a let’s cure efg session.
raven
@efgoldman: I’m down
Baud
@efgoldman:
I recommend amputation.
NotMax
@efgoldman
You wisdom is exceeded only by your curmudgeontude.
satby
Not a puppy, but a very lucky dog on the road to recovery. I’m loving his sweet, calm nature.
efgoldman
@NotMax:
Is that a Hawaiian coinage?
Omnes Omnibus
@TenguPhule: They are cats, aren’t they?
Mnemosyne
@WereBear:
Did you get to hear the story of my bobcat encounter last fall? It was a little freaky.
@TenguPhule:
All cats consider humans food. It’s only a matter of logistics.
cosima
I don’t usually click on the videos that make the rounds that are ‘so adorable’ or ‘hilarious’ etc etc., but I decided to click on the video for the little weather boy, and it is very adorable. It did make me smile, as promised. Try it, you’ll smile too: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/adorable-kindergarteners-weather-report-cracks-up-the-internet/ar-BBKAXrh?li=AAmiR2Z&ocid=spartanntp
I have a calm dog sleeping, but 5 young girls being loud & noisy for Little C’s bday party upstairs. And it is 1 a.m., way past my bedtime.
NotMax
@cosima
Neglected to mention the other day that while in Scotland ~1974 was “banned fer life” from the Peterhead Inn.
Not involving anything even remotely nasty or abusive. One day, maybe, will show up there to test it out. :)
Amir Khalid
@dmsilev:
Something tells me that this was not, alas, a “make love not war” mo,ent.
WereBear
@Mnemosyne: yes! Truly wild :)
NotMax
@cosima
Birthday greetings for Little C.
cosima
@NotMax: That sounds like a good story. Come to visit & we can all head to Peterhead to see if we can test it out. I don’t think I’ve ever been to Peterhead, and somehow haven’t been missing it…
SFBayAreaGal
@Roger Moore: and boxes, don’t forget boxes
cosima
@NotMax: Ha! Thanks — will show that to her. She plays snare in a pipe band, so we listen to a LOT of pipes around here — but I have never heard happy birthday played on bagpipes.
John Revolta
@NotMax: If they banned you for making the “How far is the Peterhead Inn” joke, you had it coming.
Ninedragonspot
I’m jonesing to see Isle of Dogs
cosima
Cambridge Analytica offices searched. Hopefully the whistleblower snuck out copies of everything long ago, because you know they’ve been scrubbing for weeks. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/cambridge-analyticas-london-officers-searched-by-information-commission-investigators/ar-BBKCFaf?li=AAmiR2Z&ocid=spartanntp
And now for bed — the girls finally winding down (have had to threaten beatings).
FlyingToaster
@efgoldman: Welcome back!
I know you’re supposed to be a curmudgeon, but you did see the “respite” in the title, right?
Because every other thread is about how the BoltonWalrus is going to kill us all.
I’ll take puppy pictures, or astronaut videos, or people whining about the NBCBoston channel switch, over that any day.
Amir Khalid
@Mnemosyne:
Some wealthy people do that even today. Muammar Qaddafi had pet cheetahs.
Gin & Tonic
A year ago I was spending the night in the hospital, having had my arm rebuilt earlier in the day. It would be at least a month before I could touch the tip of my thumb and the tip of my pinky together. Tonight I did 3×10 bicep curls with a 20 lb barbell. I am grateful beyond words for the state of modern orthopedic surgery (and for a good health insurance plan.) There were some dark days between then and now, but things worked out OK.
raven
@Gin & Tonic: I’ve felt that way since 1974 when I fractured my T-6 and had harrington rods installed on my spine. It took 9 months in a full body cast and another 6 in a brace but I was healed.
Gin & Tonic
@cosima: I’ve been wanting to visit Islay and Jura.
cosima
@Gin & Tonic: Me too! We’ve got to some of the islands, but not those. Mr C is down for a whisky island tour — the best ones come from the islands. I think it would be much better than a trip to Peterhead, and we need a BJuice meetup in Scotland. If you want to see what we get up to around here I had photos in the on-the-road post on Wednesday. Little C’s sport takes us alllllll over Scotland (and I do mean everywhere). Tomorrow she & Mr C go to an event south of Comrie (our pet whisperer/sitter is away, so Lola and I will be staying home while they go away).
Gin & Tonic
@cosima: I’ve done some rec-level orienteering. It’s sort of popular here in New England. There’s a BJ commenter from NoCal, I think, by the handle origuy, who has traveled extensively for competition.
But, yeah, it’s the whisky that’s calling me.
TenguPhule
@efgoldman:
Your onion is shriveled.
cosima
@Gin & Tonic: It is a bit popular here in Scotland (Scottish Assoc has about 2000 members). Little C would happily run around forest all day every day, it’s the competing that she hates, even though she’s excellent. It takes us to some truly amazing places. You could brush up on your O skills and come to the Scottish 6 Day next year. It’s in Strathearn, so not terribly far from a ferry ride to Jura & Islay. I did not know that origuy was an O guy, but I guess the nym makes sense. It’s a good fit for us, as we spend most of our time out in the forests anyway. Gives Mr & Little C something to do out there, and Lola and I walk (I’ve tried it, and it really is not my thing).
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic:
You slut.
Omnes Omnibus
@cosima: My favorite part of army officer candidate school was Land Nav. It was the one time in a non-academic army course where I was as good as the Special Forces and Rangers who looked down on those candidates who came from the outside because we had degrees.
Yutsano
@Mnemosyne: You come to Oregon we are meeting up lady!
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: What’s true is true.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: I cannot argue that.
Gin & Tonic
@Gin & Tonic: That was supposed to read dumbbell, not barbell.
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
What, no smartbells that connect to the ‘net?
Eric K
The University of Washington wins National Puppy Day
http://gohuskies.com/signingday/general/general/73/
cosima
@Omnes Omnibus: Orienteering is a great leveller. Mr C has a paunch, and hates running, but he loves the navigation & mental challenge — he can occasionally beat a fitter guy now that he does the more technical courses. Little C came home from school saying she wanted to do O and we were both ‘say what?!’ She’s a whippet and has the logical engineering brain from both of us, so it’s a perfect fit for her — she was a natural from the beginning. There’s a club north of us (Moravian) that has a lot of RAF guys (there’s a base up there, so lots of retired RAF). Of the male orienteers, there’s a huge number of ex-military (we have some in our club as well, but from other branches). It’s an excellent sport to get into (can be done when/as you like it) if you can find it in your area. I’m not keen myself, but I’d be in the forest on a weekend anyway, so I go along and walk the dog while they run. Not sure what O folk are like in the US (my family who do it are truly weird sorts), but here they are almost all my sort of people — outdoorsy, smart, family-oriented (most do it as a family), great sense of humour. And we go to these great little forests all over Scotland. Much better than watching Little C play football (which she did for a few years).