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Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Consistently wrong since 2002

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

This blog will pay for itself.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

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I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

The willow is too close to the house.

This fight is for everything.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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Friday Night Open Thread: Puppies Make Things Better

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Remember this little thing? She turns one year old tomorrow. Her current mood: “Where are my treats!”

She is a sweet, rambunctious, awesome little girl. Well, as little as she can be at 105 lbs and almost as tall as Bixby.

Update on the CBD oil (and thanks to everyone for the input). I started Bixby and Emma on it earlier this week and the results have been dramatic.  I hope it continues to work for both of them. I feel like I have my old Bixby back.

What’s up with you?

Open thread

ETA: Pictures of Gabe here. He’s settling in and more of his personality is beginning to show. He and Bixby are so freakin’ cute together, I have to get photos of them. I think Gabe thinks Bixby is his spirit animal. LOL

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  2. 2.

    donnah

    I love puppies, but I’m currently staying with a friend who brought home a ten week old puppy just two days before I got here and while she’s adorable and wriggly and sweet, she hasn’t accepted the concept of being crated overnight.

    So she does’t bark or even howl, she screams. She screams until she falls asleep from exhastion from screaming, then she wakes up and screams some more.

    I put a fan on to help drown out the screaming, but tonight might warrant earplugs. I’m not used to that. I leave on Monday and I hope for my friends’ sake that the puppy adjusts soon.

  3. 3.

    Mary G

    This bit in your blog has me sniffling:

    Last night I put all the cat stuff back where it belongs, showed Gabe where the litterbox really is and let him roam the night. About 3 am, I woke to a heaviness on my chest – it was Gabe, all snuggled down.

    He stayed there for a while, then went to explore the sleeping dogs (he’s so amazing) and then snuggled right into the spot Jake used to sleep (in case there was any doubt Jake sent him to us).

  4. 4.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @donnah: I actually didn’t crate Bixby or Scout at night. They slept with me so I could handle their nighttime potty breaks (it was every two hours the first week). So, I’m no help there. Both of them expressed great displeasure when crated that first week or two as pups. I can’t imagine it while trying to sleep. My sympathies.

  6. 6.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    Those dogs are amazing. My 3 month old lab, Yogi, saw snow for the first time today. Snow flavored leaves, pinecones, sticks, and grass to stuff in his mouth. Hurray.

  8. 8.

    seaboogie

    @TaMara (HFG):Thank you so much for sharing pics and stories of your four-leggers…it is a balm to the soul. So sorry for your loss of Jake, and so wonderful that you gave Gabe a sweet home!

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    Yarrow

    Aww…so cute. That little puppy foot in the top pic is adorable. Look how big she is now. Glad the CBD oil is working for Bixby. Are you using actual oil or some kind of dog treat with it or what?

  12. 12.

    Ruckus

    @TaMara (HFG):
    When I first got Bud, the rescue cocker, I purchased a crate. Put the crate in the van, Bud jumped in the van, walked right in the crate. Once I couldn’t find him and finally went to where his crate was and he was in there fast asleep. Otherwise he was always within sight of me. I think that what I’ve heard is true, most of them think it’s their safe place. OTOH I’d imagine that a crate big enough for a Dane is about the size of a room, and that’s about how much area they need to sprawl out.

  13. 13.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @Yarrow: Actual full spectrum oil. As recommended by the woman who makes it (she has a hemp farm), we started with about 1/2 dose each day and I’ve been working my way up to a 10 mg dose for him (since he’s 180 lbs). Emma just gets 3 drops twice a day. Dramatic for her – there were areas on her body she couldn’t groom because of pain and yesterday when I went to brush her, all her knots and tangles were gone in those areas. She was able to groom herself completely.

  15. 15.

    sukabi

    @TaMara (HFG): is the cbd oil a local product or can you get it mail order? My daughter’s yorkie is having skin allergy problems and nothing works for more than a couple of months. CBD is the only thing we haven’t tried.

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    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    My wife sang in a recital tonight. One of the pieces they sang was Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical Songs. One of those takes its words from a George Herbert poem in which Love tells the speaker, “You must sit down and taste my meat.” And she told me that never once in any of the rehearsals did anybody laugh at that line. Not even once. And that’s just wrong.

  18. 18.

    ellie

    @donnah: We had a Scottish Terrier that we got as a pup and he would scream and scream until I woke up and let him out of his crate. I never knew a dog could scream.

  19. 19.

    trollhattan

    Just returned from a musical performed at my kid’s high school. The book, songs and lyrics all written by two of her classmates, they’re 16 and 15. Cast of fifteen, two acts, couple dozen scenes each with a set change, dozen and a half songs, choreography, three-piece ensemble, and the performers sparkled. Blown away doesn’t begin to describe my reaction.

    The kids are alright. Can we just put them in charge?

  21. 21.

    TriassicSands

    TaMara — be careful. It’s just a matter of time before all your critters will be heroin addicts. Such is the power of the “gateway drug.” Thanks to J. Beauregard Sessions for the scientific research.

    Gabe has a perfect feline head and face.

  23. 23.

    CaseyL

    TaMara, I adore your menagerie, and your stories about them. Gabe must be an Old Soul, with Jake whispering in his ear from the bardo and Bixby following him around like an acolyte. So sweet!

  24. 24.

    spudgun

    Aww, I’m totally enamored of Gabe – I love his sweet little face! Glad to see the critter nation coming together.

    Thanks for the photos, TaMara!

  25. 25.

    Ruckus

    @CaseyL:
    What’s that old story, you keep getting resurrected so many times, and your wisdom is a product of each time. Every so often you find someone who must be on one of the later journeys and while people usually don’t get it, animals do, because their wisdom is in the way they act, they don’t have words to get in the way.

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne

    I was supposed to go to a cool write-in at the Getty museum tomorrow, but it got canceled because of the fires. Sigh. It’s probably for the best, because my pleuritis/cold is still lingering and I should probably rest up tomorrow, and I have two write-ins I can go to on Sunday.

    I may try to swing by the new Daiso store in Thai Town — the drive might not even be too terrible from where I’m located. We shall see.

  28. 28.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Ruckus:
    I’m going to level with you. I haven’t. I was only deeply upset for a small amount of time that Saturday night and a few days afterwards. I got over it. I was afraid the reputation and relationships (as much as one can have relationships on a blog like this) had been irreparably destroyed. I flipped out in response because it felt like everything was falling apart and there was nothing I could do to stop it. But, it seems as if that’s not the case as many people have responded to my comments recently. I think I’ve learned my lesson on being an annoyance and plan on being a better person to be around from now on.

    It’s true I’m not as close to people IRL as I’d like to be and perhaps I’ll still talk to a professional about that among other things, but I’m in no rush at the moment. Right now, I’m taking one day at a time and focusing on school. I have friends at school that care about me and so do my parents. I just need to open up more and relax.

    Anyway, thank you so much for asking me about that! I appreciate that you care enough to do so.

  31. 31.

    zhena gogolia

    @TaMara (HFG):

    This is what I’m dreading when we finally bring ourselves to adopt after losing both our kitties within a week of each other last Jan..

  32. 32.

    zhena gogolia

    @TaMara (HFG):

    This is what I’m dreading when we finally bring ourselves to adopt after losing both our kitties within a week of each other last Jan..

  38. 38.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @kent: I put it in a bit of food, mixed with something Bixby really loves – peanut butter, pumpkin, etc. Emma is trickier – because cats won’t be fooled by food. I have a syringe (no needle) that I’ve used to administer meds – I mix the drops with a bit of water and give it to her that way. I’m the queen of pilling cats, so I’m getting there with the syringe. Takes a bit of skill and trust. You can just rub it on their skin (under the fur) and get good results for pain.

  39. 39.

    Amir Khalid

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??:
    i couldn’t post a timely reply because the site went on the fritz, but here goes:

    Judging from your posts here, these mood swings are a regular occurrence for you. The advice to go get counselling comes from jackals who wish you well and know what they’re talking about. It’s up to you whether you want to follow that advice, of course. But blowing it off, saying that you’re all better now and don’t really need counselling, sounds a bit like saying you don’t need to fix the leaky roof today because it’s not raining right now.

    I really hope you read this.

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