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Pets of Balloon Juice Calendar Deadline in 3 Days

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All you have to do is send an email to start the process.   That’s it.  Just one email message, telling us that you want your guys in the calendar and what their names are.  You don’t even have to send the photos yet.

Address the email to me or you can send it to pet-calendar.

Your message should include:

  1. your nym
  2. the names of all your pets that are going to be in the calendar*

When I get your email, I will send you instructions and the link to upload your photos.

As you can see, Lucky – who owns lashonharangue – is intently waiting for your information to arrive

Pets of Balloon Juice Calendar Deadline in 3 Days

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  1. 1.

    Jerzy Russian

    Lucky seems to be bipedal.  Probably makes it easier to reach the higher kitchen cabinets, get things out of the fridge, etc.  However, we know Lucky is a Good Dog, so (s)he would never do those things.

  2. 2.

    KrackenJack

    No pets here in the Kracken Lair, but I just wanted to call out the sheer amount of effort and skill it takes to produce things like the Pet Calendar. Doing it year after year is testament to the quality of jackals BJ pulls in. I’ll buy several as gifts to support the cause.

  4. 4.

    Almost Retired

    I am a pet grandparent.  Does that count?  When our oldest son travels, we are granted temporary custody of the world’s most neurotic Pit Bull mix.  A couple weeks with super-permissive and hyper-indulgent Grandpa only exacerbates her neuroses and undermines her training.   No actual grandchildren yet, so I only have the dog to fuck up.

  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    @Almost Retired:

    A couple weeks with super-permissive and hyper-indulgent Grandpa only exacerbates her neuroses and undermines her training.

    I thought that was the job of all grandparents, whether children or pets are involved?

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    @Almost Retired:  When I was 20 or 30-something and my mom was still alive, she would save steak bones and all sorts of bones (except chicken) in the freezer, which the dogs would get when we visited.

    We lived upstairs from the local tavern that we owned, and there was a long set of stairs to get to the apartment.  The dogs were so excited when we got there that they would race upstairs to see my mom, who would of course warm the bones in the oven for them.

    They adored my mom.

  12. 12.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @WaterGirl: ​
     On a visit to my grandparents in Florida back in ’69, timed perfectly to see the launch of Apollo 11 from their front yard in Altamonte Springs, we visited a toy store. Had a big sign “if you see anything you like, tell your grandmother!” I pointed this out to my mom, and she sighed, because yup, if you told my grandmother about it, she’d take action!

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    …a big sign “if you see anything you like, tell your grandmother!”

    I love that!

    My favorite sign was i a coffee shop I saw in Colorado when I spent 18 days there in 2008 working with the Obama campaign on the primaries.  (actually a caucus back then)

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  15. 15.

    lashonharangue

    @Jerzy Russian: Yes he is a very good boy.  Actually could get food off the table with all feet on the floor if he tried. But he only sniffs at it when we tell him no.  Much more motivated by plush, squeaky toys than by food.  Loves to destroy those but thankfully not furniture.

  19. 19.

    sab

    I finally figured out how to send photos through my flip phone, after three years trying. God made me a luddite: it wasn’t my choice. I’ll send you my e-mail after dinner. 4 pets in three pictures.

  20. 20.

    eclare

    @Villago Delenda Est: 

    I spent one summer living with my gram and grampy while my parents moved from PA back to TN. My mom had a strict no-sugary breakfast cereal rule. I had Cap’n Crunch Peanut Butter every day. I gained ten pounds that summer.

    I did not regret any of them.

  23. 23.

    sab

    The new homeowners across the street are a very nice couple of young gay guys . They hired a landscaper this summer who did wonderful things to the front yard. Then the sewer main broke (unrelated to the lawn work) and the city came and dug up their sidewalk, devil’s strip and dumped the dirt in their front yard.

    So they came up with brilliant lawn sculpture: zombie head coming out of the pile of dirt, wearing a burlap shirt and a hardhat on its head.

    They say the city promises to fix the sidewalk and lawn next spring.

  25. 25.

    Van Buren

    @WaterGirl: I’m leaving to go see Elvis Costello in a bit, and if he plays 2 hours, I will be up later tonight than I have been in God knows how long. In my defense, I’m up at 430 every day.

  29. 29.

    Miki

    Could you please add this pic of my little guy Sully? He’s 14 and has Chronic Kidney Disease (aka kidney failure). He gets subq fluids at the vet’s every day (he’s a monster so it takes 2 to do it and I’m a singleton). TBH, he’s got a really crappy temperament, which is why he ended up as a failed rescue. But I promised him I was in for the long haul so here we are.

    I’m not sure he’ll be around next year so please add this pic of him in the car at the vet’s office waiting for his daily appt. CKD is progressive, so it’s mostly about slowing it down through diet and fluid support at this stage. So far, so good.

    Thanks.

  30. 30.

    CaseyL

    @Jerzy Russian: Speaking of bipedal: I am seeing a fair number of photos and videos of kitties standing on their hinds legs – sometimes even walking “standing up.”

    It freaks me out a little because I have never seen cats do that before – certainly none of mine have ever done it.  Pair that with polydactyl cats; yes, polydactyls have been around quite a while, but it seems to me there are more of them than ever.

    Between the bipedalism and the polydactylism, I’ve been wondering if cats are evolving at high speed?

    It would totally serve us right if they are.

  35. 35.

    zhena gogolia

    @sab: He looks like a standard to me in the picture, but what do I know.

    OTOH, she does say “little guy.”

  36. 36.

    WaterGirl

    @Miki: Glad he’s doing as well as he is, but that sounds really hard.  He’s quite handsome, and it sounds like he is lucky to have you.

    I downloaded his pic and added you to the spreadsheet for the calendar.  We don’t typically do that through links in a thread, but I made an exception this time, so you are all set. :-)

  39. 39.

    Another Scott

    @sab: A friend of my mom’s had a little Chihuahua that she could make sit up in her hand.  Kinda freaky, and the dog didn’t like doing it, but impressive too.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  40. 40.

    Miki

    • @sab: He’s a miniature, but has a nice head. Poodle lore has toys bred from smaller poodles and something like a maltese, resulting in short tiny muzzles and apple heads. Minis were bred up – with smaller standards until they started getting too big and were bred back to toys, etc. Conformation is a weird thing to do with dogs, but it’s due, in part, to how easy and fast it is to breed dogs for form without concern for function.
    • Sully is pretty square, but kind of bow legged (and has one luxating patella). I think he’s from a backyard breeder that was trying to break into conformation, and totally ignored temperament. But, until this year, he was healthy as a healthy horse.

    I had standards  before Sully, and much prefer their temperaments. One was healthy, for the most part; the other (a rescue) was a genetic wreck: Addison’s disease, bladder stones, chronic pancreatitis, all manageable but also expensive, emotionally as well as monetarily.

    I’ve had poodles for 25 years now, and love the breed in spite of the problems. As my vet says (about standards), they’re a golden in a poodle suit with a master’s degree in smart foolishness.

  43. 43.

    Miki

    @sab: This was my life for about 15 years. Miss them both, enormously.

    Sully has a giant personality, too, but it’s stuffed with some stressful anxiety which kind of distracts from the better stuff.

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