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Going to reload on coffee (press #2 of some solid Kona- for the win- I’m shaking- lots will get done!) and I saw this in the living room:
How could you just not love that face!
I know everyone thinks they have the cutest pet/kid/whatever, but in my case, I really do.
At last, a use for all those banished-to-the-back-of-the-closet exercise balls:
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I got this in a link from someone on the local papillon yahoo group. Treibball — which google-translate says means “driving-ball”, but I’m guessing “ball-herding” — is so new a dogsport that it doesn’t even have a wikipedia entry yet. From what I can glean off YouTube, it seems to be confined to Germany and its environs at the moment, but the commands (“waulk on”, “push”) are the standard English-language sheep dog signals. The serious herding enthusiasts would point out that a sheepdog barking & holding its tail high is committing two breaches of decorum, but I say there’s little enough raw joy in this world already…
Early Morning Open Thread: Urban SheepdogPost + Comments (35)
Sooo. That didn’t work out as planned.
Anything on tv tonight?
Still busy.
Busy busy busy.
But time to wish our own acerbic JSF a Happy Birthday.
My sister sends along this picture of her cat and dog (a mastiff) “playing”:
BTW- time to get some training for Lily. She is becoming very aggressive to dogs on our property, and earlier this evening shot out and tried to attack my neighbor’s mastiff and another big dog. Her rough was up and it took me about thirty seconds to get her under control, and I even hit her for the first time. I really need to get this behavior stopped.
I’m off to relax.
Via Erik Kain (someone not enough of you read or link, btw), is Radley Balko’s follow up of the SWAT raid in Missouri where the cops popped a cap into a corgi:
But despite all the anger the raid has inspired, the only thing unusual thing here is that the raid was captured on video, and that the video was subsequently released to the press. Everything else was routine. Save for the outrage coming from Columbia residents themselves, therefore, the mass anger directed at the Columbia Police Department over the last week is misdirected. Raids just like the one captured in the video happen 100-150 times every day in America. Those angered by that video should probably look to their own communities. Odds are pretty good that your local police department is doing the same thing.
Go read the whole thing.
There is so much insanity going on in this country on any given day that it is hard to keep track of it all, but surely our bizarre behavior and attitudes and laws regarding drugs has to be near the top of any list of inexplicable nonsense. Alcohol, ok! Marijuana, bad! Property taxes- tyranny! Cops raiding your house and shooting your dogs because of a plant- ehh, they had it coming!
Just completely bizarre and I hope in a few years we will look back at this and wonder just WTF we were thinking.
The Real Crime Is That It Happens Every DayPost + Comments (83)