Walking down mainstreet today, in my town, I walked by the little dogs in the barbershop window. While taking photos, the owner came out and gave me his card, inviting me inside to take a shot without the glass reflections. It’s Ray’s Olympic Barber Shop, with the turning barber pole outside. He specializes in military cuts!
Feel the love. They cozy up to each other in their little bed
in the barbershop window. more below…
Ooops, they are waking up. There is some excitement
outside, another dog, a scooter, a woman apologizes to
me for ‘ruining my shot.’ Her dog seems to want to get
in the picture.
The little male dog bounds outside to investigate.
Fat, old female lags behind. (Hope that is not being sexist)
Her owner says she has a bad leg, today.
Forgive me for being too worldly weary to post a diary on politics today.
Dogging, oops, blogging out.
Is this a regular feature, sybil? I’ll look forward to it. I have two miniature long-haired Dachshunds (black and tan) for dog blogging days and brother sister cats for cat blogging days. If it keeps raining I’ll have mosquitoes for mosquito blogging days.
No, but it could be. Do you want to host it? Ask BooMan.
You see, I don’t even have a dog, I have to borrow them, like these two in the barbershop and my son’s “psycho-dingo-dog” – Buster.
Can you post a photo of your Dachshunds here?
You have camera but no dogs. I have dogs but no camera. There are days when I wouldn’t mind trading! (Just kidding, little guys. I think one of them just gave me The Eyebrow that KO describes in his wonderful diary that’s up now.)
Did somebody say Dachshunds?
Two of them, one long-haired (Cleo) and one wire-haired (Figgy).
They seem tired, not mad. Maybe, so blasé at getting their
picture taken, yet again.
Click for a larger image.
She’s soooo cute!
What a cutie! The click didn’t work for me so I couldn’t tell for sure. . .is she a baby American Eskimo, a Samoyod (sp?) or a polar bear? I used to have an AE, Sasha, who was the spoiled brat love of my life.
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Polar bear. Definitely polar bear. Soooo cute.
Also known as a Pyrenean Mountain Dog.
She was about 5 months old in the photo. She’ll be a year old next Wednesday. And is about twice as big now as she was then.
We get the polar bear comment a lot. 😉
Larger image.
That’s me, in the witness protection program (just kidding – but I don’t like to put pictures of myself on the web), with Luna at about 11 months old.
BTW, the Great Pyrenees was one of the dog breeds used to develop the Newfoundlands. And it’s why Newfies have such willful temperaments. 😉
So hulooooo to BooMan, from a distant cousin.
Here’s a photo of me and Sam, also known as “Sam the Wonder Dog” (because my wife says I think he can do no wrong), “Darwin” (because he likes to chase cars, trying for a Darwin award), and “Fluff for Brains.” Click on the photo for a larget version.
He’s called Sam because he was a “good Samaritan” case for my wife while she was in 4th year of veterinary school last year – he was brought into the veterinary clinic (where she still works) as a hit-by-car with no identification. She put his leg back together and we ended up keeping him. He ended up having additional surgery and physical therapy at the Univ. of TN veterinary hospital but is as good as new now – no limp or anything.
What a wise face. He looks like a philosopher dog.
poor boy is getting old. He shook he head earlier and left a six inch line of drool on my keyboard. Now he just went into the bathroom, sighed heavily, and lied down on the cool tile.
Newfoundlands are a special breed of dog. Very complex personalities. Almost human.
As a photographer, washed out images bug me. 😉
Is there a way I could ‘clean up’ the reflections on
my dog photos? I kind of like them but they do cloud
up the image.
with your photo was to lower the brightness, increase the contrast, and adjust the tint and sharpen the image slighty. Oh, and I cropped it a bit.
You can see what that looks like here: http://img85.echo.cx/img85/4871/wakingup19tu.jpg
Obscured images are much tougher to work with than pale ones.
Thank you.
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I agree that window reflections often make for a more interesting image. A polarizing filter will help you get the right balance between inside and outside content(s).
Thanks!
Yes, I have a polarizing filter on my SLR but
here I’m using an entry level digital that
doesn’t accept filters. I promised to graduate
myself to an SLR/digital next year.
I have a Nikon D70, that is a joy to use. I’m afraid my Nikon N2020, which has served me well for two decades is a bit lonely since I got the digital.
Of course, since I have a BFA in Fine Arts photography, I can hardly avoid keeping up with the new photographic technology — lest my “what kind of job can you get with that” degree be exposed as the self-indulgent whim that it was. 😉
When my daughter started her art school, she paid a
ton of money to the designers. She saved some by
designing her own logo, but the website, etc. Wow!
So called self-indulgence can be turned into financial
success. There are many photographers out there, but
not that many good ones. Best of luck with your degree!
My son’s baby:
Our latest addition – Henry
Full sized image here: http://img266.echo.cx/img266/4382/newbunny14zm.jpg
I love Henry. Hope the dogs don’t see him.
I think she “has his back,” so to speak. 😉
As Luna is still a puppy (a 100 pound puppy, but a puppy no less), she still likes to chase our house bunnies. But she knows better than to hurt them, and any other dog would incure her wrath if it even looked at her charges.
Yes! They live in the house. And to answer the inevitable question – they use litter trays.
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Here’s Henry and his “uncle” Albert. Warming themselves in front of the wood stove.
The larger view of Henry and Albert is here: http://img291.echo.cx/img291/5892/infrontoffiresm9qs.jpg
This is my dog Lady, and she loves to greet everyone with something in her mouth. She is a lovely girl.
Has very sweet eyes. Even without the “offering” I’d be charmed.
’cause those cigarettes’ll kill her! 🙂
In all seriousness, she’s beautiful–she’s got such a sense of serenity about her.
Sniff, Giddy, and Hopeful help me read a book.
And they say thank you for some equal time for dogs. They were feeling oppressed by all that friday cat blogging.
I posted Sparky’s picture at the Welcome Wagon on Monday, but I can’t resist doing it again. My daughter and her husband adopted Sparky in Feb. ’04 from Dalmatian Rescue. Well, he turned out to be too much of a handful for them. It’s funny, too, because in spite of the reputation that dalmatians have for being crazy, he’s actually a very average-energy dog, not really too different from a retriever-type. The kids just weren’t ready for a one-year-old dog, I think. Anyway, I was always nuts for this dog, so when it became apparent that it wasn’t working out for them, I jumped in and nabbed him a little over a year ago. He’s turned out to be my favorite dog ever!
‘Queer Eye for the Strait Guy’ would approve.
Dalmations have a proud history chasing the horses pulling the old fire engines. Their task was to tease and nip the horses to make them go faster.
Please recommend this dog blog, before the cats take over.
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The one on the bottom is Maxsie, my miniature toy poodle of 13 years. He’s my ultimate sweetheart baby 🙂 The one resting on the arm of the chair is Suki, my little brother’s shih tzu/pomeranian mix of ten years. She’s utterly and completely spoiled by my family.
Too cute! They look like kid’s toys.
I’ve shared these braw laddies on the dKos site.
They’re 13 years old but the one in the red harness is new, a rescue dog at Thanksgiving, because we lost our original 1st dog a year ago and mr. green harness missed his lifelong buddy. The red guy’s family broke up and we really didn’t want to bring in a puppy, so everything worked out for the best.
As you can see, we’re not into decorating their coats.
You can do a lot worse than a Cairn Terrier (the white West Highland Terriers are the same breed, just pure white).
Great friend-dogs, act like big dogs, love people. And as the announcer at Westminster once introduced one, “will not tolerate being ignored.”
When Bo and his sister were puppies, they lived across the street from my daughter – and were not being treated well. So first she dognapped his sister and when she heard they were moving, marched across the street and demanded that they hand over their other two dogs. They did. (My daughter suspected that they were going to abandon their pets when they moved.)
I took Bo. He is essence of dogginess. And very polite.
Sorry the pic is grainy – it’s a very small crop out of a larger pic that was of my back yard with snow covering it. Yes, snow in Austin! A rarity, but it does happens once in a while.
Can someone tell me how to post a pic?
First off, do you have your pictures on a server somewhere? If not you can upload them to some place like Image Shack. The instructions there are pretty simple.
Once you have your image hosted, you need to copy its URL and then place that URL in the middle of {img src=”URL”}. But in place of the { and } brackets, use the < and > brackets. Unfortunately, if I use the right brackets in the above example, it trys to turn the string an image, and you wouldn’t see the code.
If that’s not clear, I’ll try explaining it another way.
thats fine, thank you. I keep photos at photobucket.com – so it looks like I can just copy/paste the tag they provide. I will try it now.
You can show the tag start and tag end if you use character entities < and >
This is the way I did it. There may be better ways that someone else can describe.
<img src=”http://home.earthlink.net/~fergusonaj/Graphics/dogs_reading.jpg“ >
Thank you – I have it now 🙂
This is my dog, Floozie; and my cat, Silas. They have to be here together because they are the very best of friends. If I want the cat to come in, I send the dog out – she stands in the garden and barks and the cat comes running.
Seeing them play could make you think they were mortal enemies:
but they always relax together afterwards:
“Can’t we all get along?”
Here’s my girl, Baby….well, she is the baby so why not call her that? Very spoiled, she is.
Enjoying a beautiful day at the beach. She’s a Belgian Shepherd.
What a fun thread! I’ve enjoyed seeing everybody’s fur babies.
How’d I miss this yesterday? Great dog pics here–they really brightened up my morning!
Kobie, my fiery li’l Mystery Dog from the local shelter:
People we run into have the wildest guesses about what breed she could be; she’s quite the conversation starter. And she’s more cat than dog, with all the attitude too.
And here’s Eli the Frisbee Aussie, messing around in the backyard with his discs:
He’s the best dog. Period. I love him to pieces.
Thanks for humoring me. We should definitely have a weekly or bi-monthly Dog Blog feature, to lighten up the heavy doses of depressing Bushco news we all live with!
Buster, the psycho-dingo-dog.
My grandson & Buster,
the two became pals
when Buster noticed
Caden was a good source
for food drops.
for sure! He’s a cutie. 🙂
Funny how you call him a dingo–we had a woman with an Australian accent once run up to us and demand to know how we got a dingo out of Australia! We started calling Kobie “dingo” ever since, and when Kobie snarls a friend of mine always has to exclaim, “A dingo ate my baby!” Ah, the humor dingoes elicit…
with his big chest cavity and small hips. He has a wild
streak, led by his nose. In the house, he is a perfect gentleman. If only he would stop running away to chase coyotes, racoons, whatever.
Your Kobie has the elegance of a cougar.
Kobie’s the same type of build you describe Buster having–she’s 40 pounds of muscle, with a huge neck/shoulders/chest area and then a tiny waistline, plus some rock-solid haunches and itty-bitty feet.
And “wild”, well, get this: she kills bluejays for fun. I’ve never known a dog that was quick and silent enough to sneak up on adult birds, especially ones as fierce and tough as jays, but she kills 3-4 every summer. We’ll find them just lying in the backyard, unmauled and uneaten, with hardly a feather disturbed. I don’t know how she does it, but she’s a dangerous dog! It’s like living with some undomesticated animal. Has Buster killed anything?
Shhhhh, yes. Only one thing that we know of. He sniffed out a wild rabbit and chased it out of the park at about 30 mph. He caught it, sadly. He also makes sure that there is not a crow in the park but has never caught a western crow. They are as smart as ravens.
At the leash free park, he outruns every dog. He can go up and tease the biggest rotweiller because he knows he can get away. When we call him, he runs past us because he can’t put on his brakes. At the Fraser river he will roll over in dead salmon. This is predator behaviour – masking his own scent. At home, he washes himself like a cat, more predator behaviour. So the kids have named him the psycho-dingo-dog.
Holy Guacamole!
I have found a new home; dog blogging! Rock on!
Eli looks great, but I don’ know man, Kimo is pretty cool. He’s even got fans in Austrailia: http://www.hartfieldrock.nl/frisbeeeng.htm (dog watching computer)
You can see another dog of mine, Leilani, in the logo of the European Championship Competition.
Russky, check out my sites:
http://k9disc.com
http://k9athlete.com (sorry about a few of the broken links)
Great websites: very informative, awesome pics and graphics, and your dogs (two Aussies? or an Aussie and a BC?) make me jealous! Eli’s our first frisbee dog, and although he’s got fantastic drive and loves his discs, he’s a BIG Aussie–51 pounds and 22″ at the shoulder–so we’ve never done any vaulting with him. (We’ll try to get a little 30-pound Aussie/grasshopper mix next time!)
We’re not hardcore competitors, there’s no local club for us to join, and we never travel farther than San Francisco or San Diego to be in a tourney, but still–we love the sport, the people, and the joy the dogs get from it. And we try to watch and learn as much from experts like you as we possibly can.
I’ll bookmark your sites. Thanks!
Kimo was 48 and 22.5″.
He went big too.
Here are my cousin’s dogs
These are my cousin’s dogs, Chiku and Muneca. I don’t have any. I am just practicing up for the cat diary.