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Trump should be leading, not lying.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

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Life with Puppy (Open Thread)

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A puppy is almost as exhausting as a baby, and not just for the humans! Here’s the new addition lounging:

Here he is with his favorite toy:

“LOL! I’m a panda!”

Badger and Daisy are getting to know each other carefully. He retreated behind our legs for the first few encounters.

She’s so HUGE compared to him. He’s approximately the size of her head.

Then he screwed up his courage and did the play-bow thing, but she gave him a look that said, “Seriously, kid?”

They’re doing synchronized sleeping exercises now. I think they’ll be great friends by Wednesday. Thursday at the latest!

Open thread!

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  4. 4.

    Yarrow

    He’s so cute! He looks kinda of scared. Poor puppy, everything is so new and different. He’ll be fine in a few days. How old is he and what kind of dog? He’s so adorable. You’re going to have such fun with him.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    What a doll!

    It’s good to have two humans in the house when you have a new pup! Then you can enjoy the crazy and not be so exhausted.

  14. 14.

    bystander

    Are both front paws white or just his right paw? Just need an accurate image of his cuteness.

  15. 15.

    Betty Cracker

    The pup is a 9-week-old Boston terrier. So far, he’s batting 1.000 with potty training — I take him out every few hours around the clock. That’s how I’ve always trained dogs — lots of outdoor time and effusive praise when they do their business outside. I suck at training dogs to do anything else, but I can housetrain them.

  17. 17.

    Aleta

    He’s just going to get cuter and cuter isn’t he. All hope of quitting the internet abandoned once again.

  18. 18.

    Betty Cracker

    @bystander: Both front paws are white. His back feet are black, but there’s a tiny bit of white at the tip of the toes. So cute!

  23. 23.

    Mnemosyne

    I’m trying to get a good photo of our cat Annie with her lion cut, but she’s still sulking about it. She definitely feels much better without all of that matted fur and has been wandering around the apartment much more, but she has made it clear that we can’t expect her to be happy about it. G was worried that the extreme cut would reveal that she was totally emaciated and sickly, but she’s a normal weight for her petite size, so he’s very relieved.

    I made an impulse buy of a small cloth-covered dog crate so our big kitty Keaton can have his own den to hang out in, which is something he likes. So far, it’s a hit.

  25. 25.

    geg6

    OMG, that cuteness is off the charts. What a doll baby!

    Puppies are tons of work but worth it all in the end. Plus puppy bellies are the best thing ever.

  26. 26.

    Mary G

    He seems a bit shy and tentative still, but that will pass. He is adorable beyond belief. How big is he supposed to get?

  27. 27.

    O. Felix Culpa

    My rescue Maltese went on a pooping strike when we fostered a new puppy for about a week. Mr. Pippin turned his face to the wall and refused to look at us or the vile intruder. His output was tremendous once the puppy left for her forever home.

    Badger is inexpressibly cute. Reminds me of my dear departed Frenchie.

  33. 33.

    Anne Laurie

    Obviously, Badger is a great photo model — looking forward to seeing him with Daisy!

    (Who’ll be lucky if he doesn’t try humping her head, in a few weeks… Young male dogs can be ridiculously overambitious, as I’m sure you know.)

  36. 36.

    Emma

    If it weren’t because our senior citizen schnoodle would sulk for months, I’d go out and get one of those.

  39. 39.

    ixnay

    @Betty Cracker: Oh, oh, I guessed right! After all the debate last night about Boston vs Boxer, I was having doubts. Our son’s BT, Hammond, is my second favorite dog.

  40. 40.

    Gin & Tonic

    I just dog-sat my daughter and SIL’s new, not quite 4 month old more-or-less Labradoodle. No puppies for me any more, thanks. This was way too much dog for one person.

  44. 44.

    DanR2

    Good luck with the boston terrier, Betty. My former neighbor had three of them and they were fun to watch over the fence. They spent one entire afternoon pulling what appeared to be a very nice king-sized bed comforter out a doggie door.

  45. 45.

    Miss Bianca

    Oh, Betty, I feel your pain, lol! Tho’ so far, our little rescue pup has been so good, it’s almost scary. And Luna seems to be very tolerant of him, thank God.

    Little Badger is adorable! Wondered if he was a Boston Terrier!

  47. 47.

    Shelley Hunt

    Please get lots of pics when they start playing, it’s going to be adorable!
    I got a little terrier/ chi mix for my 10 year old boxer after her buddy Mooky died. It took about a week for her to accept him about 2 weeks to figure out how to play with such a little guy. They are besties now. Gabby is a surprisingly healthy 14 now. Curly was just diagnosed with SARDS – he went totally blind in about 5 days, but you’d hardly know it.

  48. 48.

    bluefish

    Badger is just beyond beyond adorable! Those great big eyes — and such a beautiful shiny coat. Kissy kiss kiss and other such moments of … squee! Too too cute.

  49. 49.

    SectionH

    Betty, he’s, yeah, the word is adorable. And a very lucky puppeh to have landed in your family. Glad to hear that Daisy’s being open-minded, and wishing all of y’all the best for manymany happy years ahead. (Bloody hell I sound soppy; it’s meant.)

    @Miss Bianca: I can’t wait to see pix of the pup. And hey, sneak in one of Luna and and maybe one of Stella if you’re up for that. Was she/is Luna a Husky? I know you’ve mentioned having one or more before. Just asking because I had 2 grandpuppies who were Huskies. I loved those dogs, but I used to puppy-sit, and omg, were they high maintenance day-to-day.

  50. 50.

    satby

    Congratulations Betty, he’s adorable. He looks like my son’s dog Bagel, they both the same white streak down the middle of their faces. The puppy cuteness overload is welcome news.

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