The Dogs of San Francisco

Dog of the Day: Irish Wolfhound And Friend

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Adam Lang

Another dog from my vacation.

Pretty sure this dog could knock this boy over with his tongue.

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Dog of the Day: Irish Red-and-White Setter

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Adam Lang

And lo, there was another new breed for our blog: our first Irish red-and-white setter. I have actually met one of these before, also at the Milwaukee Irish Fest, but this time I got a couple of usable pictures.

Very distinctive dogs. Very pretty, don’t you think?

Irish Red And White Setter Leaning Against Man's Legs

The camera’s not tilted: he’s a leaner.

Proud dad showing off his ‘Celtic Canine’.

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Triple Dog Day: Meeting of the Minds

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Adam Lang

If you think this picture doesn’t look much like Chicago, Milwaukee, OR St. Louis, you’re right… this is from my trip back in July. I plead exhaustion: it’s the day after I returned from my trip, I have a September 1 deadline for two major projects I’m working on, and I got home at 7:45 and it’s laundry day.* So you get a greeting on the beach today.

* (Okay, okay, I will own up to one thing. We all have our little luxuries. I don’t have cable, or any kind of limited-access TV. I only have an expensive cell plan because my company requires me to be on call 24/7 (which UGH UGH UGH). But one luxury I do pay for is to have someone pick up my laundry in front of my door on Thursday at 7 AM and return it, washed, pressed, and neatly packaged, by 3 or 4 PM on Friday. I’m sure doing laundry in a laundromat is good for the soul or something, but if so then my soul is just going to have to suffer for a bit. NOT trucking my laundry up and down a 25-degree-angle hill and NOT sitting there for two hours while it washes and dries is well worth the $80 or so a month I pay for the privilege.)

Three Dogs And Two Humans Greet One Another On A Beach

Wish I’d gotten a picture… I saw this golden earlier, laying against a tree the exact color that he was. I honestly thought he was a dog-shaped piece of log. And then he got up and ran over here to make some new friends.

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Dog of the Day: Ears!

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Adam Lang

Howdy from Amtrak! I’m training from St. Louis up to Chicago today, and am procrastinating from work (which is how I’ll be spending most of the train ride) by posting a picture.

I met this pup on the light rail in Chicago on Sunday. I didn’t get her name or breed, so I have decided to name her ‘Ears’.

She doesn’t like it much if you play with them. But it’s so hard to resist.

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Dog of the Day: Mushu the German Shepherd

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Adam Lang

There ARE dogs in Milwaukee! I ran into a couple just a block from where I’m staying. I got dozens of good pictures of Mushu (6 months old and named after the character from Mulan) but I am so busy being on vacation that I only have time to share one tonight. More soon!

German Shepherd Puppy Stuck Halfway Onto A Sidewalk

Mushu was apparently recovering from an illness. He seemed in fine fettle to me, although he did get stuck in a silly position for a while.

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Dog of the Day: Eebee (Isabel) the Basset Hound

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Adam Lang

I put in about four miles of walking today, and for a while I thought I was going to run into not a single, solitary pup. Finally, though, and fortunately before it got dark, I did run into Eebee, who gave me puppydog eyes and nosesmooches, so it was all good.

I also ran into some bunnies, but that was after dark, alas.

Freckles!

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Dog of the Day: Pungsan Dog

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Adam Lang

A new breed for us! I took these pictures on my trip northward for July 4th, and just remembered they were on my DSLR memory card yesterday while I was packing for another trip.* Apparently this pup is a Pungsan dog, a breed you don’t exactly see a lot of outside of Korea. (Actually, you don’t see a lot of them inside Korea, and you see nearly none outside.) I was privileged to meet one, let alone one this friendly.

* I’m on a trip! I’m in Milwaukee for Milwaukee Irish Festival, a celebration of Irish music and Irish dance and Irish setters and other Irishness. Then I’m going to head down to St. Louis by Amtrak on Sunday, and then to Washington, MO (corncob pipe capital of the world!) on Monday for the eclipse. Then back to St. Louis for the night, and then back to Chicago by Amtrak on Tuesday, followed by my flight back to San Francisco also on Tuesday. Exhausting! But out of my top ten favorite bands, about seventeen will be playing, plus I will get to take pictures of the eclipse with an amazingly nifty and weird new lens that I got. I will share any that come out good and probably many that don’t, as is my usual approach.