Who doesn't love dogs jumping rope
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) March 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Didn't realize until my second watch that the lady was using two dogs to swing the ropes lol
— Toilet Atlas (@joxyandsuch.bsky.social) March 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I’m 90% sure the darling in the pink traction boots is a ‘border pap’ — crossbred border collie / papillon, intended to produce a more compact dog who’s almost as smart and speedy as a purebred border collie, but one less driven, more amenable to foolish human whimsies.
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Raoul Paste
Well, that beats a Trump press conference.
Mathguy
@Raoul Paste: That’s a low bar to clear.
Old School
I’d love watching Trump try to jump rope. I would expect it would be hilarious.
prostratedragon
I’d forgoten what an officious little shit Harrison Ford played in The Conversation.
sab
We are having a little heat spell in Ohio. It was in the high 70s today.
Pitbull in my bed has a normal body temperature of about 101° so I am really uncomfortable. Our house is weird in that the heating system and the air conditioner are completely different systems on different thermostats.
I don’t want to open the windows because if the temperature drops the heat will come on. But it is really hot, so I turned on the air conditioner at a higher temperature than the heat.
I think the air conditioner coming on just woke up hisband. The heating system is silent.
Oops. And when he got up the dog decided she needed to go out with his help.
ArchTeryx
Those three dogs from the video are just astonishing. Two of them were helping swing the ropes! (Blink and you’ll miss it). The border pap jumping looked like she was having the time of her life. Triple-dog double-dutch!
The goodest boys and girls, living their very best life.
WaterGirl
Woke up to an alert about a tornado warning and then the siren started. Kitties are in hiding somewhere. It’s raining again which is encouraging. Is it true that tornadoes do t hit while it’s raining?
siren going again as I type.
frosty
@WaterGirl: Yikes! I’ve never heard a tornado warning and I probably won’t. I doubt they have them in the mid-Atlantic. The best my borough could do would be the Volunteer Fire Dept siren but we’d all just go, “Yeah, the siren” and put the pillow over our heads … unless it kept going and going and going?
ArchTeryx
@WaterGirl: Tornadoes absolutely can hit when it is raining. Many tornadoes, particularly violent tornadoes, can become wrapped in rain bands and the rain precedes the tornadoes.
Get to shelter right now!!
sab
@ArchTeryx: Cutest ever. Our dog would do anything for us (within reason, she is an opinionated pitbull) but those guys are doing above and beyond her skillset. Happy dogs, happy family.
WaterGirl
@frosty: still going. Actually it seems to start, go for awhile, then stops for a very short while ot even a minute then starts again. It’s making me anxious.
sab
@WaterGirl: YIKES!!!
Tornados in Chicago do happen but not in March.
WaterGirl
@ArchTeryx: I have no shelter.no basement. The best I could do is go sit in the bathroom. Good to know about the rain though. Growing up it was the eerie quiet that they said was dangerous.
NotMax
There was an act in the heyday of vaudeville part of which involved a jump rope held on one end by the trainer, on the other by the trunk of an elephant while a monkey did the jumping.
ArchTeryx
@WaterGirl: Storm chasers have a name for the core of a storm: The “Bear’s Cage.” That’s an area around the updraft surrounded by rain and hail. And in the center of that nondescript rain shaft can be a violent tornado. Eerie calm is a warning sign, but not a universal one.
Get to the interior room immediately until you get an all clear signal! Please, do not stay near the outer walls or near windows!
WaterGirl
@sab: it does feel early in the year for this, and middle of the night is unusual. Interesting times.
lgerard
This is too funny
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prostratedragon
@sab:
Oh yes they do, though March probably is not one of the more active months. I remember this one, March 4, 1961. We had a family outing that evening, a Saturday and wound up driving through part of the affected area afrerward.
sab
@WaterGirl: I am in Ohio and we share the same concerns.
Years (decades ago) we had a bunch of tornados in Ohio in late Spring. Our newspaper reporters went from up here in NE Ohio down to southern Ohio ( where Xenia used to be) and asked useful questions, like asking survivors where were you sheltering when your house collapsed.
The answers were not always what one would have expected. Our local newspaper earned a pulitzer, and the national weather people revised their suggestions. What you are doing probably is a result of those reporters’ work.
sab
@WaterGirl: Or the hooting train sound that tornados arriving make.
WaterGirl
Sirens stopped, now just a watch not a warning. Guess I will try to go ack to sleep. Good kyck with that, I am saying to myself. Good night.
mrmoshpotato
Damn. That totally slaps.
MagdaInBlack
Chicago-land all clear from the storms I slept through.
Baud
I want a job as a color commentator for a dog jump rope competition.
Baud
Via reddit, dog groupie.
eclare
@frosty:
I live in Memphis, and we have a siren test every day at 3:30. Kind of reassuring, they are there.
WereBear
@WaterGirl: It’s 2025. Tornadoes will do what they want. Be safe.
eclare
@WaterGirl:
Whew. Make sure your phone and laptop are charged.
WereBear
@sab: Got goosebumps. At 18 months my grandma took me down to the cellar and part of the house was torn off.
Adults laughed at the thought I would remember things at that age. But I think I do.
prostratedragon
@WereBear: I remember being frightened by a thunderstorm at about that age, based on my memory of where we were, so it wouldn’t surprise me if you remember something as dramatic as what the hit to the house must hsve sounded like.
Baud
@WereBear:
Was there a time in the past when tornados obeyed orders?
MagdaInBlack
@WereBear: I don’t doubt. That would make an indelible impression.
My storm memory is from when I was probably 6 years old. We lived in an OLD farmhouse on the family farm and during an exceptionally nasty storm my father took me to the cellar. It wasn’t so much the storm as seeing my father frightened that made the memory so strong
Eta: I also recall it must have been late summer, because the hail shredded/destroyed the corn standing in the fields.
Baud
Via reddit, pretty good sized protest for a random Republican event in Ohio.
Baud
Via reddit, dog tutor.
WereBear
@Baud: They now catch fire. That’s new.
Betty Cracker
The thing that amazes me most about the dog jump-rope video up top is that two dogs are swinging the rope from the left. The amount of training that must’ve taken astounds me.
I taught Badger to pirouette on his hind legs, which he now spontaneously performs when he wants something very badly or is especially happy to see me after an absence. Pete is too top-heavy for that maneuver. He gets up on his hind legs but only as part of a treat-snatching arc. Looks more like Shamu collecting a fish from a trainer than a dancer.
WereBear
It’s true that Papillions are less intense, they are clowns while herders aren’t.
TBone
On topic 🎶 from days of yore
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fK9hK82r-AM
Ohio Mom
@WaterGirl: This is too late to be useful now, but for future reference, the local television stations will probably have their weather people on front of a map, giving details.
When I do that, and see that the tornados are south of me, or to the east, my adrenaline stops pumping. Another option is a local weather site.
Our sirens also go on for heavy thunderstorms, so I like knowing which it is.
WaterGirl
@Ohio Mom:
Interesting! I don’t think I would like that. We only get the siren for actual tornado warnings. I think if they went off all the time, it would be like the boy who cried wolf.
I did realize in the night that I need to get two more pet carriers. just got a new one this week and had put the old ones out at the street.
My little escape artist Miss Willow had gotten out of hers even though I had it zipped up tight while I went out to start the car, so it was time for a new one.