Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Today I was at S.A.I.N.T.S for one of many upcoming shoots of their wonderful and whimsical collection of special needs animals. Carol, the founder, and I are talking about collaborating on a photodocumentbookthing about this huge and amazing rescue she runs. While I was there, I overheard the most *interesting* conversation. Apparently, someone came up [...]
Mommy will kick you until you’re dead.
Say whuuut? Ha ha! I was having a conversation recently with an animal trainer friend of mine (whom I won’t “out” here in case she doesn’t want anyone to know about her personal vulgarities) and when I made a joke about Wootie’s recall being something along the lines of “Fine! I hope you drown in [...]
Wow
So, umm, lots of you folks made me cry – and I’m not a crier either. Usually you’d have to pinch me really hard or something to get me to shed a tear, and then only if you ran away really fast afterward because if you pinch me, and I can catch you, I’ll channel [...]
Camera gear for sale
Dear Readers, I find myself in financial straits and desperate times call for desperate measures. Wootube and 365puppy have been great fun for me, and hopefully for you. But all good things must come to an end. Maybe one of you wants to take up the gauntlet of providing fun posts and decent photos to [...]
Super Woo!
Actually, Wootie has nothing to do with this post, I just liked the photograph and couldn’t be bothered to think up a decent segue. The real Super Dog in today’s installment is my Bestest Boy, Tweed. Who, me? Yes, Mr. T – I am talking about you!! We trialed on Saturday and Tweed made me [...]
My Kingdom For A Decent Dog Park
Even though we have 10 acres, it gets boring wandering about all by ourselves sometimes – it’s pretty isolated out here. We often hit the park up the road, where we’ve made lots of new friends, but I make a point of trying out the various nearby parks we find on the internetz. Yesterday, we [...]
Single White Female
Srsly. Dexter is not just trying to be like Piper, he is trying to BECOME Piper. It’s real good for Piper to have a buddy she can play with. Tweed’s too scared of her to play with any regularity, and Wootie likes to torment her, but has no attention span to keep up a good [...]
Exercise Induced Collapse in Border Collies
If you have a border collie that has episodes like Piper does the University of Minnesota wants to hear from you. Check out their website for information on submitting samples. Your dog does NOT need a pedigree to be included in the study. “An exercise-induced collapse syndrome similar to the EIC syndrome in retrievers has [...]
Ode to an aging dog
It’s hard to believe that in just a few short months, Tweed will be 10 years old. To the unfamiliar eye, he looks like a young adult dog, and nobody ever guesses he’s more than 5 years old. Even I forget he’s not 5 years old. Watching him age has been both beautiful and painful. [...]
The answers you seek
EvenSong said… Inquiring minds need to know: with all of Piper’s energy focused on making mad teeth at a healthy Tweed (YEAH!), what happened when sweet little Dexter, of the half-mast ear, landed upon her?!? Nothing! He did not land on her, as he’s not allowed to do that. He tends to land beside her, [...]
Ya’ll didn’t tell me
you were magical blog followers!! All your juju and good thoughts have worked wonders. Tweed has been limp-free since Thursday. I upped his exercise a bit and even with running, jumping and some (Ru-free) hiking, he’s weight bearing on all legs, and no limping at all. He gets to go back to class next week. [...]
I could blog about this dog
all day, and I don’t even know his name! He’s a border collie X Aussie, like Tweed, and he shares Tweed’s passion for making funny shaking faces. But he is much, much funnier than Tweed can ever hope to be. ha ha! Tweed is not speaking to me at the moment. F*ck off. You may [...]
