Dog Blogging has be light of late. Here’s why.
No, not the dog, although she’s been a right royal pest this morning – getting me up at 5:30am, stealing seedlings, digging holes (and it’s only 7:30am).
Remember the dingy light blue carpet that’s usually under the dog? It’s gone. Or more accurately, it, along with all the crappy lino, has been torn-up, scrapped-off, and sanded away.
Since I’m now on the hand-sanding and sealing phase, Luna has had to stay outside more than usual. Hence the greater than usual distruct-o-puppy behavior.
and teach my dogs how to behave if they want their pictures taken.
This is pretty much standard Sniff, always a moving target.
Okay, waiting till Giddy does something she has to hold still for works.
Hopeful isn’t as much of a problem because he has two speeds: slow and slower. Now if he would just look at me.
Luna would love to come over, but it’d be a very expensive trip.
Beautiful dogs, all, even if they are bit camera shy.
she can write the whole thing off as a business expense.
But she has to have a seat on the plane because it’s way too long a flight to do it in a cargo bay. And I see people bring their little dogs on planes all the time so it’s clearly discriminatory to not let big dogs in the cabin.
Absolutely. Besides, she’s much better behaved than most kids on planes. She doesn’t chatter incessently or kick the seat in front of her.
I’m hoping to get her certified as a Delta dog (animal assisted therapy dog) soon. I’ve had Delta dogs before and some airlines let working dogs travel in the passenger area.
she’d be much more comfortable to curl against than those crappy pillows.
Exactly.
Hey Luna is part ostrich 🙂
My Black Lab, Shinobi, needs a bath…HARDCORE!!! She’s been walking with me to the bus stop and even though she LOVES the walk, she sits and cries and whines to the kids, all the kids, as they get on the bus. She sounds heartbroken.
She’s not a digger – she likes to ROLL in crap. The dirtier it smells, the better.
I’ll have to get a picture of her. She’s coming on with some grey around her muzzle now.
She’s not a digger – she likes to ROLL in crap. The dirtier it smells, the better.
Yeah, my dogs like to roll in deer guts. I think they just do it as payback for every time I’ve pissed them off.
Luna also likes to roll in crap, hence the recent sheep poo followed by dead wallaby incident.
This week it’s been bird droppings that have inspired the rolling delight. We have ducks, and the park where I walk her in Hobart is right on the estuary and has both ducks and gulls.
Remind me again why we keep such filthy creatures. 😉
General Critter…another frog for the site!
Cool. Looks like a poison frog (phylobate or maybe a dendrobate). Am I right?
It is from a French website with hundreds of pictures…and frogs just seemed cool today!
Anybody with hours to kill…. http://www.lexode.com
You need a dictionary or to speak French (thank heavens for google!)
Ah google.
I looked up posion frogs and found your friend.
It’s a dendrobates leucomelas, otherwise known as a Yellow Banded Posion Frog.
Score yet another one for the critter geek!
I just noticed the “skull and crossbones” someone has added to that frog’s back. They aren’t that posionous. Except for phylobates terriblis, the Golden Poison Frog, from which the whole group gets their posion moniker. I wouldn’t recommend touching that one.
We have Welsh Corgi puppies at the moment. What fun!
On an awww scale of 1-10 those guys are a 15!
Just the cutest things ever!! I got both of my dogs (a beagle and a springer spaniel) as adults at the humaine society. Sometimes I’m glad to have missed the house training and chewing phase. But when I see puppies like this, I’m really sorry that I didn’t know them when they were in this adorable phase.
Waaaay too cute.
Is that a Pembroke? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tri-color Cardigan.
Yes, they are Pembrokes. I have seen tri-color Cardigans, but the three colors are more commonly black, white and brindle rather than tan. Pembroke tris are always black, white and tan.
They are off the scale in cuteness!
My old boy Henry is giving me fits these days. He’s going to bankrupt me with vet bills or drive me crazy soon. At 15, we’re dealing with ear infections, siezures, heart problems, low thyroid and bladder infections. And then in the last couple of weeks, he’s eating too many plants outside and getting diarea all over my carpet!!
But then he curls up with me on the couch or snuggles up in bed and I can’t imagine life without him.
We went through similar things with our beagle that lived to be almost 17. It’s really tough when that get that old but we didn’t do anything until it was really clear that she was ready — she almost stopped eating, did almost nothing but sleep, showed no interest in anything.
I wish we didn’t have to decide when to let our animal friends go. But it seems like we have to make that decision more and more, now that we can treat so many conditions in elderly pets.
The one thing I’ve always believed, that when their minds go – it’s time. If Henry still has his wits and enjoys life, he’s good for a bit longer.
when my husband was in Iraq. He was 13 yrs old. I knew that he had pains and I felt guilty but I had a great vet then. During a check up I asked her if it was time, she smiled so beautifully at me and said that when it is time we know. She told me that you can look in their eyes and know that they aren’t able to get any joy from staying here now and they are ready. It didn’t make it any easier, but she was right. Since both of my grandmothers have hospiced these past three years I must say that they are no different than we are and they get the same look in their eyes when they are ready to leave here.
and answer a few of the questions about him from yesterday.
Ben is 10 months old and has been chosen for training as a service dog assisting a woman who has seizures and alerting her eventually when one is brewing for her. He will work beside a dog who is already a seizure alert dog. He is from my litter of puppies last year. I bred a litter of puppies for service work and about half of the litter was of that caliber, to answer AndiF’s question about him. And AndiF….if you seriously have considered fostering a service dog until he/she is about a year old I hope that I can keep you in mind for my next litter. To answer Sallycat’s question about puppies that don’t make the cut….this last service litter was such an excellent litter. I had documented all of the puppies since birth too and they all had really good personalities. Because I have so much data on the pups and all sorts of photos, those who don’t make the cut are out of here very quickly….almost too quickly! And to Janet, I got a new Shepherd to show. He has the personality of box of rocks sometimes but boy is he beautiful. He is taken with Joshua though so I think Josh will be okay with Ben leaving.
Well, given my fears that I wouldn’t be able to bear seeing the dog leave and the distance from Alabama to Indiana, I’m not sure I’m the best candidate you could find. My local Humane Society is often looking for people to do fostering and that’s where I’ve thought about it — if I can ever convince myself that I can let them go.
for service work then those who have raised them have the option of providing them their home first. Fostering service puppies is done because nature does so much for the dog’s potential and then nurture does the rest and an intelligent dog grows up to be giving to others when he/she is given to. Either way though it is a wonderful way to affirm life and living. Some shelters have dogs that they believe can do service work and they too have dogs tested and dogs that pass the testing and enter into service work.
Hanging around with my three miscreants would probably be a great way to kill the future success of any potential service dog 😉
As for the humane society they do fostering not for service dogs but when they have have too many animals or an animal that can’t handle being in the cages or is very young.
Lucas, who just entered protection training after qualifying for it. His family purchased him from me after a drug addicted street person broke into their home and held there children and babysitter hostage when the couple was both at work. He has been part of the mom’s recovery from what happened.
Socrates works on a cattle ranch now because I didn’t have any good connections yet for service dogs darn it!
(they look fine to me)
They are so cute! Lucas looks awfully sharp.
We’ve been thinking our little Phoebe (the Shih Tzu) would make a good therapy dog.
He was kind of spoiled too by us as you can see. Good service puppies though are like human babies, they have the confidence and develope because they have love first. He just had miles of personality, and for a short time he was the runt. Now he is bigger than some of his bros.
His loads of personality really show in that picture!
She is such a sweetie. She’s Jesse’s dog, and I didn’t want a third dog when we got her (the others are Australian shepherds), but she was such a sweetheart with such a great personality and smart too…and now I can’t imagine her not being part of the mix here.
Here are “Black Dog” and “White Dog,” playing together:
Missouri ladies walking their dogs:
Cow and dog: