It was an appropriately creepy and foggy evening at Tilden Regional Park tonight on Halloween. Ginger and I ended up going for a long hike in downright Scottish conditions.
It was an appropriately creepy and foggy evening at Tilden Regional Park tonight on Halloween. Ginger and I ended up going for a long hike in downright Scottish conditions.
Technically, a morning dog:
Our current foster dog is Liz Lemon, a ‘wolf hybrid’ (my guess is Husky mixed with maybe Greyhound) rescued from Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. Liz is super-friendly with everyone, and has relatively short fur, all things considered. She’s got a pretty skinny frame, hence my suspicion that she’s part Greyhound. Liz is fostered by us for Almost Home Rescue, an organization that mostly brings dogs from high-kill Southern shelters to northern New England to be adopted. Their site is well-designed and you can view all their available dogs. If you’re interested in Liz in particular, you can go directly to her listing here.
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Concerned that, in the event of a tragic plane crash hundreds of miles up in the Sierras, or perhaps a misled jungle expedition into the deepest recesses of the Amazon, your dog won’t have a fair chance of survival? Look no further, my friend, than the new pet emergency jacket with food compartments, which premiered at a recent expo in Tokyo. The jackets, which cost between $250 and $425 dollars, means that Fido will neither go hungry nor get wet, should he become an unwilling participant in your emergency situation.
I’m inclined to agree with one blogger who argues that this stuff is a little ridiculous. After all, the same thing can be effected by adding a small packet of dog food into your emergency supplies, presumably in a Ziploc bag to keep it dry. As for the all-weather protection, consider that dogs have a rather long and mostly successful history of running around naked in all sorts of weather, before deeming it necessary to zip up the hoodie on your Schnauzer.
Of course, you could also have my dog, Bonny, who absolutely flips whenever you try to take this sweater off her. It’s not normal, but it’s undeniably cute…
The following is a sponsored review of The Bubblenator, a website that allows you to put thought or speech bubbles on any picture on the web.
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Today’s Douchebag of the Day is an entire organization, the American Kennel Club. These people have taken the wonderful idea of owning a
Essentially, the nature of the AKC is based upon the same ideals of exclusion that such fine institutions as the Ku Klux Klan, country clubs, and fitness centers have popularized in the course of our history. If a dog does not have a lineage (and a $1,500 price tag), it is an inferior ‘
In all seriousness, the AKC promotes a disgusting practice when they promote the purebred dog: that of buying a new pet with a ‘brand name’ from a pet store, when millions languish in shelters across the country waiting for