Some Macy’s window puppies for your Christmas delectation. Merry Christmas to everyone, cats, dogs, and even (ugh) humans!


Some Macy’s window puppies for your Christmas delectation. Merry Christmas to everyone, cats, dogs, and even (ugh) humans!


Sorry for the radio silence! I was traveling from 7 AM until 10 PM (my time) on Monday, and I had to recover AND work yesterday. The life of an on-call software engineer, bah humbug. I am also working today, but I can take a little time off to post a pup.
So happy Christmas Eve from Beans! I met Beans (2) on my journey, in the San Diego airport. Beans is a service dog. I made sure to ask before I took pictures, and Beans’s folks were fine with it, but I forgot to ask Beans! So he barked at me a couple of times, quite politely, to get me to back off a little from his human. Good dog!


They really do ambush your heart, don’t they?

Turns out this year there aren’t just puppies in the Macy’s windows, there’s also a little corral where people can go to play with the puppies and decide whether they want to adopt.
I’m going to be visiting that corral at lunch every work day until I leave for Christmas!

WHOA. What’s this? TWO POSTS in ONE DAY? Well, yeah! I promised to post Aisling today, because it’s her ninth birthday today!
And DOUBLE whoa! That makes two breeds we’ve never seen before on da blog, posted on the same day! After SIXTEEN YEARS! (Well, sorta. Lurchers aren’t exactly a breed, they’re what you get when you mix a sighthound like a greyhound with a herding dog or terrier. They have a long history of being associated with poachers and other ‘freedom-loving individuals’ in the UK and Ireland. But still… they’re a thing! And a thing we’ve never seen before!)

Darn it! Yesterday was Mac’s fifth birthday, and I had it set up in my calendar and everything. But the alert must’ve gone off while I was driving off to a party, and I didn’t have it set up to re-alert me. Boo! I’m a bad boy!
Mac is not a bad boy. Mac is a very good boy.

