Disapproving Bunneh! Actually he’s not all that disapproving, is he? He just looks kind of tired to me. Perhaps that was because he was handled by dozens of people through the course of what was for him a very long day. I hope he was adopted by the end of it, poor guy.
Apparently bunnies are among the harder-to-place adoptable animals at the SFSPCA.
More Macy’s window kittens for your Caturday delectation. I like them all but the stripey/spotty kitten belly on the grey tiger tabby takes top spot for me. (Oh, by the way, have I mentioned yet this year that you can watch the Macy’s kitten-and-puppy windows live-streamed here? Because you can.)
Health insurance in this country is nuts. I and the head of HR (who also does a bunch of other stuff and is crazy busy) have between us probably spent at least two or three hours trying to convince my health insurance company that I exist. This right in the middle of a medical… situation. NnnrrrRRRRGH.
The one on the right is pretty great too: 1/3 on the cat bed, 2/3 off, and he has a right-angle bend. And that’s comfortable.
Apparently this lovely if wet Alaskan malamute loves to swim every bit as much as your average golden retriever does. New one on me, the only malamute I ever knew well wasn’t much happier with swimming than she was with baths.
I wanted to hug this gorgeous pup on sight, but while I love dogs unreservedly, I draw the line at going around smelling like wet dog all day. Especially when it involves covering one of my favorite shirts with wet dog hair. So I petted him a lot instead. It’s a lot easier to wash your hands when you’re out wandering than it is to launder your whole wardrobe.
Is it just me or is that tail truncated? Didn’t notice that when I took the pictures though…
A pair of English bulldogs doing what English bulldogs do best: looking happy. Those wide mouths were just designed to smile.
I prefer to think of those as Charlie Chaplin mustaches.
This is an American pit bull terrier mix — not with corgi, or at least, I don’t think so — that we ran into at CorgiCon. She was very, very chill, greeting every dog and every human who approached her with friendly equanimity.
I was feeling a little down today, but I had a chance to go visit my corgi friend Tidus and my human friend Anh this evening, and a little corgi therapy really does make a lot of difference. All you people out there with a dog to cuddle, give them an extra hug for me today, and for all those other people besides me who can’t have a furry friend.
Spread out so as to get as much tummy as possible in contact with the sand.
She looks like she’s thinking deep thoughts.
Another CorgiCon attendee, but I can’t help but feel that there’s something… different about him. I dunno. Could it be the fact that he has legs that are about as long as a corgi’s body? Or maybe that he was bred for hunting lions that outweigh him by a factor of four to one, whereas a corgi was bred to herd cows that outweigh him by a factor of… a hundred?
Huh. I’m gonna have to say that neither of these breeds were behind the door when the raw courage was handed out.
Anyway, this fine fellow is a young adult male Rhodesian ridgeback, and was very much enjoying galloping up and down the beach amongst the corgis.
Ridgebacks are always bigger in person than I remember them being.
They also ‘gallumph’ when they run, which is always good for a laugh.
A happy huskorgi, from the CorgiCon beach day. For some reason most of the corgi mixes I saw when I was there were half husky. Perhaps it’s just because huskies are ridiculously awesome happy dogs with attitude, and so they go really well with corgis (which are ridiculously happy awesome dogs with attitude).
And really… taking a Pembroke and adding a giant curly fluffy tail? Sold! The even-fluff-er-than-usual hocks are just an added bonus. I do notice, though, that his legs are rather longer than a purebred corgi, if still pretty stubular.
Look at that smile. That is one happy dog.
Okay, so it’s not caturday, but here’s a Top Cat mural anyway. I don’t know, maybe this was advertising for the movie — it’s been around a couple years now, and Top Cat was released in the US in 2013 — but it’s still pretty good.
And no, I’m not old enough to remember Top Cat in its original broadcast, but I definitely caught a fair amount of it in syndication, lo these many years ago. It had a very catchy theme song, as I recall.
This is just a few steps from Hipmunk HQ.
I dragged my brother down to the Union Square area while he was in town this week to see the Macy’s Window Kittens and Puppies (OMG there’s a live stream this year!), thus displaying that I am a bit over-fond of watching kittens in windows and that he is much more tolerant of my goofy behavior than he was when we were kids. (I was the older brother, so of course I didn’t actually care at the time, but still.)
These two were lying there semi-comatose when we walked up, and then, after maybe 10 or 15 seconds, they suddenly decided that playing was the most important thing ever.
Wait for it…
SPOTTY KITTEN BELLY!
Didn’t get a name or address of this gorgeous gal, but I ran into her right outside the puppies and kittens Macy’s display. Apparently she was a little freaked out by the kittens.
They are SO POI?NTY.
I get the feeling that if she looked straight upward, you could use her for a lawn dart.