I think we should have a week of favorite dog pictures / favorite cat pictures in the run-up to Christmas. Are you up for it?
Send me your favorite dog and cat pictures and I’ll put up a post every day for the next 7 days. First post will go up later today after I (hopefully) receive some photos!
Here’s a little Henry for some inspiration.
Open thread.
*Tom is working on a post in the back room, so we will likely be treated to that in a little while.
Tom Levenson
Let’s give this a moment or two, and then I’ll post.
With some pet pics, even!
WaterGirl
@Tom Levenson: I peeked at your post to see if it was ready to go, and it looked like you were still working on yours, so I went ahead and put this up.
Looking forward to yours! It’s like a holiday gift to all of us that you have been posting more lately. :-)
WaterGirl
Please be sure to include your nym when you send your photos, and also list pet names from left to right.
Alison Rose
I definitely have a few old ones I can send in :)
K488
Just sent you a picture of my special boy, Paul.
Trapped Lurker
I just sent a couple of snaps of Henry Adams the cat 🐱
Dangerman
I’ve seen that face recently; oh, that was MY face yesterday after the last play of the Raiders game. What WAS he thinking? Someplace Leon Lett is smiling for no longer having the worst play in NFL history.
indycat32
Sent pics of Chloe, Henry, Ollie and the feral kittens.
Paul in KY
@Dangerman: He’s lucky he’s a starter. A scrub doing that would get cut by Darth Hoody.
zhena gogolia
Henry is so fucking cute.
MattF
OT. Turns out that the bio of one of the new House Rs is, um, sketchy. Gifted NYT link.
Joy in FL
Henry has the sweetest face.
I will send you some photos for sure. It will be hard narrowing my selection to under 500 photos in your inbox : )
Dangerman
@Paul in KY: Wouldn’t make the team bus, let alone the plane.
JPL
@MattF: OMG Even his address is false. How was it that no one vetted him? It’s doubtful that the republicans care.
Paul in KY
@Dangerman: True dat
Dagaetch
Just sent in a few of my floof!
WaterGirl
Will there be more dog pics or more cat pics?
Lay down your bets now!
Miss Bianca
@MattF: Gee, sure seems like it would have been helpful for some of this information to have come out *before* the election, huh?
eclare
Sent one of my new dog, Lucy. Kitties are adjusting, they have both lived with dogs before.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Miss Bianca: Did the D candidate’s team not do research on this guy?
Miss Bianca
@WaterGirl: judging simply by relative numbers in the BJ calendar submissions, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and predict “cats”.
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca: @MattF:
I guess they should have vetted him earlier and then put the information on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca: In spite of that observation, I”m gonna predict that more dog photos get sent in. I say that without having looked at all the messages that have come in with pics.
PAM Dirac
I just sent two dog pictures; Ennis and Doolin.
Paul in KY
@Miss Bianca: Going to be interesting to see who this person actually is.
piratedan
WG, was going to ask if you had that pic of my Eskinu Mochi still around… the one with him on the shelf on the wall.. I think everyone kind of enjoyed that one a bit…
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
Just sent photos of Iggy, Muppet, Chauncey, and the new guy, Ralphie.
prostratedragon
No pets these days …. but, Henryyyyy!
The Moar You Know
Sent. Just the one dog, but what a dog he is!
ETA: I could not say no to Henry!
FelonyGovt
Henry is such a sweetheart. Just sent you a pic of my late kitty.
kindness
Hey now. I sent in a pic, but I couldn’t figure out where I should send it to. I don’t see front pagers e-mails any more. So I sent it to On The Road submissions. Sorry about that. Please dig it out from there. Many thanks.
raven
The day we found Bohdi. Raven was not happy!
Miss Bianca
@WaterGirl: lol!
eclare
@raven: What a fluffball!
Alison Rose
I decided to go with old pics of the kitties I had growing up. One of them came up in my FB memories the other day so they have been on my mind.
Miss Bianca
@raven: I remember that photo! How did Raven and Bodhi do together, btw? Wondering if introducing a male puppy to our household and to Watson, who has acted like a douche canoe to younger male dogs before, would be an unmitigated disaster or…um…a mitigated one.
WaterGirl
@piratedan: could you send it to me again? I don’t know that I would be able to find that photo.
WaterGirl
@The Moar You Know: Henry, Mob Enforcer. He’s giving Subaru Diane a run for her money.!
raven
@Miss Bianca: They did fine, Raven got the cancer diagnosis shortly after we fiend the Bohdi and I think they were good for each other. After we lost Raven we got Lil Bit and they basically ignored each other.
WaterGirl
@kindness: Any front pager can be reached with their nym at balloon-juice.com
WaterGirl
@kindness: I will check for your picture when I get back to my computer.
Jackie
Sent one of our senior dog acting like a pup in the snow. Will send more as I sort through. Dogs and cats😊
rikyrah
Look at that cutiepie :)
Josie
@raven:
That picture is just classic–one of my all time favorites.
CaseyL
Sent you a recent one of Oscar, snoozing on fleece as it is Fiercely Cold here in Seattle.
Something interesting I noticed about Oscar’s floof:
When he is comfortably warm, he is more sleek; his ruff, in particular, kind of minimal.
When he gets cold, the floof… fluffs up. It’s very noticeable when he first goes outside – not instantaneously (which would be amazing) but over a minute or so, his ruff and bib expand. I’m sure the fur all over his body does the same thing, but it’s not as clearly visible.
I figure this is the insulating mechanism at work: fur fluffing up just enough to trap/protect body heat.
Alison Rose
@CaseyL: Like birbs do :)
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
I have always loved that picture!! 💕❤️
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
I’ve had a good run and am willing to concede the title!
Miki
@WaterGirl: You have been poodled.
StringOnAStick
@MattF: Thanks for that gift link; this Santos guy is definitely sketchy as all hell. Is he being funded by state of non-state actors as a conduit for information that House members are privy to? A mole of some kind? All, and I mean, ALL of his story/biography/funding sources make zero contact with the truth. Letting someone this sketchy into the halls of government is dangerous, so of course the R’s are cool with it.
Jess
@WaterGirl:
Nice one!
I just sent you one of Cody, my Russian street dog. He’s a “natural” land-race dog, more like a coyote or a semi-feral cat than a typical domestic dog. Extremely smart, alert, and strong willed, but has turned into such a lover!
Ruckus
@MattF:
Sketchy seems to be a bit of an understatement…
Annie
I just sent a picture of my cat Harry, who died on October 2 at age 17.
always, always happy to see Henry! He’s adorable.
Ruckus
Just sent in a pic of my last pet. Bud.
Haven’t replaced him and not sure that’s possible.
CaseyL
@Alison Rose: Exactly! Just funny to see on a cat. I’ve tended to think of them as always floofy, and just never noticed before that they respond to heat and cold that way.
karen marie
I just sent you an email with some pics, WaterGirl!
Seeing people’s pets is one of my favorite entertainments. Thanks!
JoyceH
I sent a couple pictures of Jazzy, one grinning and the classic Santa Hat Jazzy.
beckya57
Rocky and Scribbles are on their way to you.
WaterGirl
I’ve had a hectic day so I haven’t even looked at all the email messages yet, but keep ’em coming, we’ll put them up until we run out.
Holiday cheer, dog and cat style!